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Apple Computer's many consumer and professional digital imagery tools include iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, and GarageBand), Quartz (Aqua and X11), Keynote, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, and Shake. Steve Jobs has said that the number of digital images that consumers have on their computers is substantially higher than had been predicted. Apple iPhoto, therefore, is optimized to retrieve images immediately from as many as 25,000 digital photos. Kodak, having accepted that digital cameras dominate, has also announced that it will halt sales of traditional film cameras in the U.S. Topics covered include the features and quality of the Quartz graphics foundation of Macintosh OS X; Fink, a free program available at SourceForge.Net; the strong popularity of Apple's QuickTime 6.0 movie technology, and QuickTime 6.5, which adds support for authoring audio and video content; Apple QuickTime products (Player, QuickTime Pro upgrade, MPEG-2 Playback Component, QuickTime Broadcaster, QuickTime Streaming Server, and Darwin Streaming Server; the features of the prosumer Final Cut Express version of Final Cut Pro, including capture and editing of digital video over Firewire and application of transitions, filters, and effects in time; Shake, the most widely used compositing package in the movie industry, which runs on Linux, IRIX, and Mac' OS X; Pixar RenderMan Pro Server, with RenderMan animation rendering; Irma re-renderer for speeding shading and lighting; and Alfserver remote execution server.
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