[MovieFone]

Pixar, of course, remains the most visible way that Jobs changed the way movies are made. …

Also visible is the impact of Final Cut Pro, Apple’s suite of editing software, which has become the standard for editing Hollywood movies over the last 10 years. Its consumer-friendliness makes it accessible to the skilled low-budget indie filmmaker as well as the Hollywood studio-backed director. Such editors as Walter Murch (‘Cold Mountain’), the Coen brothers, and Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall (who cut David Fincher’s movies) have been nominated for Oscars for movies they’ve edited using Final Cut Pro.

Less clear is Apple’s impact on streaming films and mobile movie-watching. When Apple introduced the video iPod several years ago, it also had deals to make available movies (primarily from Disney) at the iTunes music store for purchase and download on the tiny screen.  …

Other Apple innovations may further change the way we view movies, but in ways that haven’t panned out yet. The iPad seems to solve the problem of matching portability with a screen that’s not as small as a business card.  …

Another Apple innovation on the too-soon-to-tell list is glasses-free 3D technology. …

Finally, while the iPhone isn’t about to replace the traditional movie camera, it is possible, as some innovative filmmakers have shown, to make a decent movie using just an iPhone. …

…it’s not far fetched to imagine yourself in the near future watching a movie on your 3D iPad, a film made by Pixar, edited on Final Cut Pro, and sold to you via iTunes, a film in which the characters casually demonstrate their cool by watching video on their own iPads — and so on, in an infinite mirrored loop.

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