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Components

Final Cut Studio 2 contains six main applications and several smaller applications used in editing video. The major applications it includes are:

• Final Cut Pro 6 - "real-time editing for DV, SD, HD and film"
• Motion 3 - "real-time motion graphics design"
• Soundtrack Pro 2 - "advanced audio editing and sound design"
• DVD Studio Pro 4 - encoding, authoring and burning.
• Color - a new color grading application adapted from Silicon Color's FinalTouch.
• Compressor 3 - a video encoding tool for outputting projects in different formats.

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• LiveType 2 - a text animation program.
• Cinema Tools 3 - tools specific to film processing.
• Apple Qmaster 2 - a distributed processing tool.
• QuickTime Pro - an enhanced version of QuickTime featuring more advanced tools and some export tools.

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History

Final Cut Studio was introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters in April 2005. It is the successor to Production Suite, and added new versions of all the Production Suite applications, as well as a 'new' program, Soundtrack Pro, which is really a new version of Soundtrack, formerly included with Final Cut Pro. In January 2006, Final Cut Studio became the only way to purchase any of the individual major applications. In March 2006, Apple released the Universal Binary version, transferring the version number from Final Cut Pro to the entire suite, so that it became Final Cut Studio 5.1. The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a US trade association that advocates on behalf of over 8,300 radio and television stations and networks before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and various judicial bodies. ... April 2005 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → Hamas and Islamic Jihad have declared, in principle, their intention to join the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). ... Production Suite is a software collection by Apple for the editing of video files containing Final Cut Pro HD, DVD Studio Pro 3 and Apple Motion. ... January 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accuses European nations of trying to complete the Holocaust by creating a Jewish camp Israel in the Middle East. ... March 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announces that the 2006 Fiji general elections will be held in the second week of May 2006 from the 6th to the 13th. ... Universal Binary Logo A Universal binary is — in Apple Computers parlance — an application bundle that runs natively on both PowerPC- and x86 (Intel)-based Macintosh computers. ...

Release history

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Marketing

Final Cut Studio has been placed as an all-in-one production workflow because of its integration of film, motion graphics and audio post-production tools in one suite. It is analogous to the iLife suite, which is aimed at consumers, insomuch as iMovie is the consumer counterpart of Final Cut Pro; GarageBand 3 is a consumer version of Logic; and iDVD is the cut-down version of DVD Studio Pro. Like Motion, iMovie includes Core Image effects that can be applied in real time. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... iMovie is a video editing software application which allows users to edit their own home movies. ... GarageBand is a software application that allows users to create music or podcasts. ... iDVD is a DVD creation software application made by Apple Computer for Mac OS X. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. ... Core Image is a technology in Mac OS X that heavily leverages the machines GPU for image related effects. ...

High Definition

In the Macworld Conference and Expo 2005, Steve Jobs - CEO of Apple - declared 2005 to be the "Year of HD". To this end, the HD features of Final Cut Studio were emphasised, such that a little HD logo was placed on the box for each individual Studio application, as well as the Final Cut Studio box (pictured). Produced by Boston-based IDG World Expo, Macworld Conference & Expo is a trade show dedicated to the Apple Macintosh platform with conference tracks occurring twice a year in the United States. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ... Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ... High-definition (HD) video generally refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD), i. ...

Final Cut Pro supports nearly all High Definition formats (HDV, DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and uncompressed HD) and Soundtrack Pro and Motion can import these formats too, where they can be played back on an external monitor. DVD Studio Pro 4 can burn HD content onto standard, HD-DVD, or Blu-Ray discs, although no HD-DVD/Blu-Ray burners are commercially available yet. See DVD Studio Pro#High Definition. High Definition Video (HDV) is a video format designed to record compressed HDTV video on standard DV media (DV or MiniDV cassette tape). ... A MiniDV tape Digital Video (DV) is a video format launched in 1996, and, in its smaller tape form factor MiniDV, has since become one of the standards for consumer and semiprofessional video production. ... AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) is a new high definition recording format introduced by Sony and Panasonic. ... Apples DVD Studio Pro allow users to create DVD Masters to send out to production houses. ...

Packaging

The design for the packaging and websites for each application are consistent to a demonstration video shown at the product's introduction at NAB 2005. This video also includes reference to Shake 4 - a high-end digital compositing application that integrates with Final Cut Pro but is not included in Final Cut Studio. Shake is an image compositing package used in the post-production industry. ...

Case studies

To market the Studio components, Apple compiled a set of case studies of real-world users of the applications. For Final Cut Pro, they used Bunim-Murray Productions' uses of the program in their Real World reality television show. For Soundtrack Pro, Walter Murch became their advocate – a film editor and sound designer who worked on Cold Mountain and The Godfather. For Motion, Apple used the example of Mekanism and their creation of a TV spot designed to persuade young people to vote. And for DVD Studio Pro, the example of Relevant was used, who used the application in a unique, interactive movie called Backwoods to Brooklyn. Case studies involve a particular method of research. ... Bunim/Murray Productions is an entertainment production company based out of Van Nuys, California, and is considered a pioneer in the reality television genre. ... The term Real World or real world may mean: the stage of life that one enters after completing ones schooling, as in the sentence, After students enter the real world, they may not be able to sleep late as often as they did while in school. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. ... Walter Murch speaking 13 March 2005 Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an Academy Award–winning film editor/sound mixer. ... This article is about the film. ... The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. ... For other uses, see Youth (disambiguation) Youth is defined by Websters New World Dictionary as, The time of life when one is young; especially: a: the period between childhood and maturity b: the early period of existence, growth, or development. ... Voting is a method of decision making wherein a group such as a meeting or an electorate attempts to gauge its opinion—usually as a final step following discussions or debates. ...

Integration

The applications are designed to integrate as a suite, to form a workflow. In particular:

• Final Cut Pro sequences can be exported to Soundtrack Pro for audio tweaking or music scoring
• Final Cut Pro sequences can be sent to Compressor, for encoding in an external format
• Final Cut Pro sequences can be exported for Motion, for motion graphics overlays, or LiveType, specifically for title overlays
• LiveType projects can be opened in Final Cut Pro without needing to be exported first
• Motion projects can be incorporated into DVD Studio Pro menus without needing to be exported first
• LiveFonts from LiveType can be used in Motion.

Final Cut Pro and Motion also integrate directly with Shake, a digital compositing package, also from Apple. Shake is an image compositing package used in the post-production industry. ... In visual effects post-production, compositing refers to creating new images or moving images by combining images from different sources – such as real-world digital video, film, synthetic 3-D imagery, 2-D animations, painted backdrops, digital still photographs, and text. ...

See also

• Non-linear video editing
• List of video editing software
• Comparison of video editing software
• Shake (software)
• Final Cut Server

A non-linear editing system is a video editing or audio editing system that can perform random access on the source material. ... The following is a list of video editing software. ... This is a comparison of non-linear video editing software applications. ... Shake is an image compositing package used in the post-production industry. ... Final Cut Server is Apples server-based backend for managing Final Cut Pro files and workflow automation, based off of Proxmitys artbox[1] package. ...

External links

• Official Final Cut Studio home page
• Final Cut Studio Planet
• Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group
• SydneyFCP - Sydney (Australia) Based Final Cut Pro Support and User Group

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