Adobe briefly abandoned development of Premiere for the Mac and released Adobe Premiere Pro 1.0 in August 2003 for Windows only. It was later bundled with other production apps in a suite called Final Cut Studio.įinal Cut Pro won a 2002 Primetime Emmy Engineering Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Augfor its impact on the television industry. It was released as Final Cut Pro in April 1999. However, Jobs made a case that Final Cut was different than Premiere and would be beneficial to the overall desktop computer market. Adobe then met with Apple's management, seeking to shut down the Final Cut project.
In response, Apple acquired Final Cut's source code and its development team in May 1998. However, as Apple had been financially struggling at the time, Adobe declined and focused Premiere on the Windows platform. Jobs had also asked Adobe Systems to provide a consumer version of Premiere that could be bundled with the upcoming iMac DV, code named Kihei.
Acquisition by Apple ComputerĪpple's interim CEO Steve Jobs expressed interest in the Final Cut project after it had been shown at the 1998 NAB Show. The original 18-month plan took about 3 years before Final Cut was demonstrated at the NAB Show in April 1998. In 1995, a Macromedia board member approached Adobe Premiere engineer Randy Ubillos with a plan to develop a new video program, code named Key Grip, for faster computers.