Apple took the stage at Tuesday night’s NAB SuperMeet in Las Vegas to introduce the next-generation Final Cut Pro X, rewritten from the ground up as a 64-bit application — but details on the fate of the Final Cut Studio bundle are a bit scarce. The Loop is reporting that Apple isn’t quite done after wowing video professionals with Tuesday night’s introduction to Final Cut Pro X, the first 64-bit version of the company’s video editing software. For the last several years, Final Cut Pro has only been available as part of a suite called Final Cut Studio, but the new Final Cut Pro X will debut in the Mac App Store this June for a mind-numbingly low price of only $299. What does that mean for the rest of the suite? “Today was just a sneak peek of Final Cut Pro, stay tuned,” an Apple representative told The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple. News that Apple will use the Mac App Store to debut Final Cut Pro X appears to signal a possible shift away from the Final Cut Studio shift, with the assumption that the other components — which include Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, Compressor and the long-ignored DVD Studio Pro — may also be sold in the same manner. The real question now is, will there even be a boxed copy of these professional apps?
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