Apple's movie-editing software, iMovie, is one of the most popular applications, Kent adds. Apple put a stake in the ground and said that desktop movies are hot. Companies are coming forward with a host of products to bolster that stake. Among the new products on view this week is Global Village VideoFX, a video-capture suite for Macintosh computers from Boca Research. The product is bundled hardware and software that integrates digital video with Universal Serial Bus-compatible Macintosh computers, including the Power Mac G3 and G4, iMac, iBook, and PowerBook computers running Mac OS 8.6 or higher.
Users can capture, edit, catalog, print, and share still photos or video snapshots.
FireWire's Hot FireWire, the fast connectivity standard developed by Apple, is also popular at the show, as several companies unveil FireWire technologies and products. SANcube is designed for Mac-based digital content creators who work with graphic files on Apple Power Mac G4, Power Mac G3, and iMac digital video systems with FireWire. SANcube is a compact, centralized data cube using as many as six IBM hard drives. LaCie unveiled another FireWire storage device, its 37GB FireWire hard drive. The desktop hard drive provides up to 37.5GB of capacity to store more than 120 minutes of digital video.