Apple Product Overview

Apple offers a range of professional software titles.

Micromail can provide the full range of Apple software and can offer discounted pricing for Commercial and Educational customers for Mac OS X Leopard and Final Cut Studio software.

Micromail can supply the following products from the Apple Software range:

1. Mac OS X Leopard
2. Final Cut Studio 2
3. iWork '08
4. iLife '08

Mac OS X Leopard

Add a new Mac to your Mac. Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard is packed with over 300 new features, installs easily, and works with the software and accessories you already have.

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Licensing Options

Commercial and Educational customers can avail of discounted pricing when purchasing 10 or more Mac OS X Leopard licences.

New Features in OS X v10.5 Leopard include:

Desktop - A neat place to work. Leopard brings a stunning new look to the desktop, and stacks provides a great new way to keep it clean.
	Finder - Give your files the rock star treatment See your files right in the Finder and browse through them with Cover Flow. And make distant machines look like they're nearby with the new sidebar and Back to My Mac.
Quick Look - Look before you launch Instantly view full-size previews of your files without opening an application.
	Time Machine - A giant leap backward. Automatic backup is now built right into your Mac. With a simple one-click setup, Time Machine keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your computer — and if you ever need to recover a lost file, Time Machine will virtually take you back in time to find it.

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Final Cut Studio 2

Final Cut Studio 2 is the must-have upgrade to Apple's award-winning video and audio production suite.

Licensing Options:

Commercial and Educational discounts for Final Cut Studio 2 start at just 5 licences.
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With six powerful applications, each designed specifically for editors, Final Cut Studio 2 puts everything you need in a single box:

• Final Cut Pro 6 for video and film editing
• Motion 3 for graphics and animation in 3D
• Soundtrack Pro 2 for professional audio post-production
• Color, a new application for professional color grading and finishing
• Compressor 3 and DVD Studio Pro 4 for digital delivery virtually anywhere — a disc, the web, Apple TV, iPod, or cell phone

Final Cut Pro 6

One timeline. Infinite possibilities.

Final Cut Pro 6 is the hub of your production workflow, offering a complete set of precision video editing tools and incredible real-time effects.

Top new features:

• Mix and match different video formats and frame rates in the same timeline — all without rendering.
• Take advantage of ProRes 422, a new post-production format from Apple that delivers uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes.
• Work with Motion templates without ever leaving Final Cut Pro — edit text, replace video, and swap out still images.
• Smooth out shaky shots while preserving standard camera moves using integrated SmoothCam technology.

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Motion 3

Now playing in 3D.

The only motion graphics application designed specifically for video editors, Motion 3 extends its award-winning toolset seamlessly into 3D. Create stunning animations in 3D — all in real time.

Top new features:

• Animate in 3D using drag-and-drop behaviors, 3D particles, and replicators, then adjust settings on the fly — while your video continues to play.
• Match movement and track objects with simple tools that take the guesswork out of compositing tasks.
• Design painterly elements using customizable brushes and strokes.

Soundtrack Pro 2

The next wave in audio post.

Completing the bridge between picture and sound, Soundtrack Pro 2 offers a complete audio post-production workflow.

Top new features:

• Work faster than ever with a streamlined interface and new professional tools designed for audio post.
• Create cinematic soundtracks using 5.1 surround tools and effects.
• Enjoy the industry’s first sound-and-picture change management tools.

Color

Color grading is in the house.

Now Final Cut Pro editors can get exactly the look they want with Color, a new application that delivers professional color grading and finishing tools.

Top features:

• Work with comprehensive tools for primary and secondary adjustments, color effects, and geometry changes.
• Combine settings to create signature looks that you can save and reuse later.
• Start with the built-in library or create your own looks from scratch.
• Choose from more than 35 built-in color effects to add visual interest and special color transformations.

Compressor

Create once. Debut everywhere.

With a new, streamlined interface and simplified workflow, Compressor 3 makes encoding and delivering in multiple formats easier and more efficient than ever.

Top new features:

• Work with H.264 encoding presets optimized for iPod and Apple TV.
• Output high-bit-rate video for HD DVD and Blu-ray media preparation.
• Enjoy greater creative control over your audio with filters and support for AC-3 and MP3 files.

DVD Studio Pro 4

Professional DVD authoring.

Whether you produce demo reels, complex commercial titles, or anything in between, DVD Studio Pro 4 offers simple, powerful tools for authoring DVDs.

Top features:

• Create SD and HD projects easily using the flexible, intuitive interface.
• Author discs with interactive elements and useful navigation controls.
• Create animated menus with Motion.

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iWork '08

Apple's amazing productivity suite for the Mac, iWork ’08 includes three applications: Pages ’08 for word processing with an incredible sense of style; Numbers ’08 for powerful, compelling spreadsheets made easy; and Keynote ’08 for cinema-quality presentations for everyone.

Numbers ’08

Introducing Numbers ’08, an innovative spreadsheet application that lets you organize your data to fit the way you think. Do everything from setting up the family budget to completing a lab report to creating complex financial documents.

Highlights:

• More than 150 functions
• Intelligent tables
• 2D and 3D charts
• Interactive print view
• Apple-designed templates for home, education, and business
• Import from and export to Microsoft Excel and other formats

Pages ’08

Writing comes naturally when you’re using Pages ’08. Start with one of over 140 templates to write beautiful letters, resumes, reports, business plans, and more.

And create media-rich newsletters, brochures, and flyers with point-and-click ease.

Highlights:

• Streamlined word processing
• Powerful page layout
• Change tracking
• Advanced image tools
• More than 140 Apple-designed templates, including 80 new templates
• Import from and export to Microsoft Word and other formats

Keynote ’08

Create stunning, cinema-quality presentations more easily than ever with Keynote ’08. Use new animation tools to move and scale images along a path.

Or rotate them on the face of a cube or on a turntable.

Add dazzling text effects and slide transitions. Even record and deliver narrated presentations.

Highlights:

• More than 35 Apple-designed themes
• Smart Builds with drop zones
• Powerful graphics tools, including Instant Alpha
• Built-in voiceover recording
• Export to YouTube™, iPhone, and iPod
• Import from and export to Microsoft PowerPoint and other formats

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iWork '08 Family Pack

Install iWork ’08 Family Pack on up to five Mac computers in your household.

The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By “household” we mean a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium. This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users.

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iLife '08

iLife ’08, a major update to Apple's award-winning suite of digital lifestyle applications, delivers significant upgrades to iPhoto, iWeb, GarageBand and iDVD, plus a completely reinvented iMovie that offers a revolutionary new way to enjoy, edit and share your video.

iPhoto ’08

Organize. Enhance. Share. Turn pictures into a photo book, calendar, and personal Web Gallery.

New Features:

• Organize your photos in an intuitive new way using Events.
• Hide photos without deleting them to get rid of clutter.
• Quickly find the photos you're looking for with new unified search.
• Use advanced editing tools to make your photos look great.
• Delight your friends and family with new photo books, cards, and calendars
• Showcase your photos in a .Mac Web Gallery where visitors can view and download images.

iMovie ’08

Easily create amazing movies and share them with the world.

New Features:

• Store all your video in one central library, organized by Events.
• Import from popular video devices including AVCHD.
• Click an Event to see your clips and quickly skim to preview.
• Create movies by dragging clips to the project window.
• View your video on your Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone.
• Publish directly to your .Mac Web Gallery or YouTube.

GarageBand ’08

Create and record music, make podcasts, and play with your own virtual band.

New Features:

• Create and play with a virtual band using Magic GarageBand.
• Organize sections of your songs with Arrangements.
• Capture the perfect performance with multiple-take recording.
• Use Visual EQ to graphically shape your sound.
• Create high-fidelity recordings with 24-bit audio support.
• Print sheet music with simple notation printing.

iWeb ’08

Quickly create a stunning website, complete with photos, movies, and live web widgets.

New Features:

• Add live web content to your website with widgets.
• Place an interactive Google Map on your site with a few clicks.
• Put Google AdSense ads on your site and get credit for visitors' clicks.
• Organize photos and videos on an elegant "My Album" index page.
• Choose from eight new themes and change them at any time.
• Publish to your personal domain name hosted on .Mac.

iDVD ’08

Turn your home movies and slideshows into gorgeous Hollywood-style DVDs.

New Features:

• Choose from 10 new Apple-designed themes.
• Author and preview your project with faster performance.
• Use new menu customization tools for more design control.
• Mix photos and video in your slideshows.
• Select pro-level encoding for higher-quality DVDs.

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iLife '08 Family Pack

Install the iLife ’08 Family Pack on up to five Mac computers in your household.

The Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By “household” we mean a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium. This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users.

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