Final Cut Studio

Final Cut Studio is a continuation of professional software intended for the video design produced by Apple

This continuation contains four principal applications like some other utilities. The 4 principal applications are:

Final Cut Pro 6, video assembly out of FD, SD and HD
Soundtrack Pro 2, audio post-production
Motion 3, graphic animation in real-time
DVD Studio Pro 4, creation of DVD
Color, calibration of the colors
Compressor 3, utility of encoding to export the projects in several formats

The other utilities are:

LiveType 2, creation of animated titrations
Cinema Tools 3, tools advances for film and it video 24p HD.
QuickTime Pro, a professional version of QuickTime giving access to more advanced tools and some tools of export
Apple Qmaster 2, a tool for treatment distributed

History

Final Cut Studio was presented for the first time to NAB in April 2005. This continuation of software replaces Production Continuation with new versions of all the applications of the old continuation, like with a new tool, “Soundtrack Pro”, which are in fact a new version of “Soundtrack”, a tool which was delivered with Final Cut Pro. In January 2006, it became impossible individually to get the applications contained in Final Cut Studio. In March 2006, Apple presented a version Universal of its professional continuation, Final Cut Studio 5.1.

History of the versions

Sale

Final Cut Studio is described like a complete continuation of post-production, because it allows at the same time the video assembly, graphic animation and the audio post-production. It is the big brother of the continuation ILife, which is intended to the amateurs. IMovie is the simplified version of Final Cut Pro; GarageBand 3 is a version general public of Soudtrack Pro (with its capacity of integration with iMovie); and IDVD is the simplified version of DVD Studio Pro. Just like Motion, iMovie includes effects Core image which can be applied in real-time.

High-definition

With the Macworld Conference and Expo 2005, Steve Jobs (president and cofounder of Apple) declared that 2005 would be “the year of the High-definition”. For this purpose, the assumption of responsibility of the high-definition in Final Cut Pro was highlighted, inter alia, while placing a logo “HD” on the box of the continuation.

Final Cut Studio accepts almost all formats HD: (HDV, DVCPRO HD and the not-compressed HD) and Soundtrack Pro and Motion can import all these formats. DVD Studio Pro 4 allows the engraving of contents HD on the standard DVD, HD DVD and the Blu-Ray discs, although the engravers HD DVD and Blu-Ray are not yet available to the general public.

Integration

The applications of Final Cut Studio are conceived so as to form a whole. As example:

the sequences Final Cut Pro can be exported towards Soundtrack Pro to carry out their soundtrack
the sequences Final Cut Pro can be encodées in other formats thanks to Compressor
the sequences Final Cut Pro can be exported towards Motion to add effects to them, or towards LiveType for the effects of titration
the LiveType projects can be directly open in Final Cut Pro without to be beforehand exported
the Motion projects can be built-in DVD Studio without to be beforehand exported
the “LiveFonts” of LiveType can be used in Motion

Final Cut Pro and Motion are integrated with Shake, a software of compositing of Apple.

See too

Internal bond

non-linear Assembly vidéo#Le assembly

External bonds

official Web site of Final Cut Studio
Piridion: Discussion forum on the video professional on Mac
: User group of Final Cut Studio, in Los Angeles
: Final Cut Studio Planet

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