Final Cut Studio goes Universal Binary

As promissed in January by Steve Jobs at MacWorld Expo 2006 opening keynote, Final Cut Studio in version 5.1, which includes Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2 and DVD Studio Pro 4, is now available as universal binary.

The suite for audio-video profesionnals can now run natively on Apple's Intel-based Macs but will still run on PowerPC based ones. Final Cut Express has not yet been released as an universal binary, but a new version that will run on Intel-based Macs will come later this year.

Apple offers a "crossgrade" with a different price for owners of each version of Final Cut Studio. The upgrade and full lisenses pricing are detailed in this page.