Final Cut Studio
As the next major release of the leading video post-production suite, the new Final Cut Studio offers powerful new features, dramatically improved performance, and tighter integration. Its six applications give video editors all the tools they need to edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver - at a price that's more affordable than ever.
Applications included in Final Cut Studio- Final Cut Pro 7 for video and film editing
- Motion 4 for motion graphics and animation
- Soundtrack Pro 3 for audio post-production
- Color 1.5 for colour grading and finishing
- Compressor 3.5 and DVD Studio Pro 4 for digital delivery virtually anywhere - Apple devices, the web, and disc
Overview
Final Cut Pro 7 
Precision editing tools let you work in real time with virtually any format, including the revolutionary ProRes.
- Edit faster and at higher quality across a wide range of workflows with new additions to the Apple ProRes family.
- Share your projects in one click to your Apple devices, the web, Blu-ray Disc, and DVD.
- Collaborate in real time from anywhere in the world with support for iChat Theater.
- Change clip speeds with ease using redesigned speed tools.
- Enjoy dozens of additional enhancements, including native support for AVC-Intra, streamlined alpha transition creation, improved markers, large timecode window, and more.
Motion 4
Powerful text and compositing tools make it easy to design stunning motion graphics in 2D and 3D.
- Add realism to 3D compositions with dramatic shadows and realistic reflections.
- Create selective focus effects in 3D space with new depth-of-field controls.
- Create and edit credit rolls with ease.
- Camera Framing enables one-click object framing in 3D.
- The new Adjust Glyph tool provides total control for manipulating characters in text objects.
Soundtrack Pro 3
Easy-to-use tools for sound design, editing, and mixing bring professional audio post-production to Final Cut editors.
- Voice-level match lets you seamlessly match dialogue volume across your project.
- The enhanced File Editor makes it even easier to work with multichannel files and edit selections in the Frequency Spectrum view.
- Advanced time stretch lets you stretch and compress audio with unprecedented precision.
- New multitrack editing tools include Waveform Zoom, RMS Normalize, and time-saving shortcuts for adding fades and trimming and extending clips.
- You can work efficiently with new options for playhead scrolling, snapping, nudging, and more.
Color 1.5
Sophisticated colour grading tools let you create signature looks in resolutions up to 4K.
- Seamless integration means you can now send most long, complex sequences directly to Colour from Final Cut Pro without any preparation.
- Grade and render at 4K resolution for maximum quality.
- Work natively in high-end formats such as Sony XDCAM HD 422 (50 Mbps) and Panasonic AVC-Intra, or use the new ProRes 4444 format for grading with maximum colour information.
Compressor 3.5
Simplified digital delivery lets you easily export to Apple devices, publish to the web, and burn to disc.
- The new Job Action feature makes it easy to automate a variety of post-transcoding tasks, including web publishing and disc burning.
- Automate end-to-end encoding workflows with customisable batch templates.
- Save time with enhanced droplets, which are like miniature encoding applications that you can use on the desktop without having to open Final Cut Studio.
- Create a setting from an existing file by simply dragging a QuickTime movie into the Settings pane.
DVD Studio Pro 4
The industry standard in DVD authoring brings drag-and-drop ease to the production of fully interactive, studio-quality titles.- Drag and drop to design menus, choose transitions, and build engaging slideshows with ease.
- Easily develop everything from simple DVDs to sophisticated commercial titles.
- Burn discs using the SuperDrive in your Mac. DVD Studio Pro 4 even lets you create masters for commercial DVD replication.
Most Useful Reviews
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Final Cut Studio
nowhere near enough done.
Written by AO from Dublin
21-Aug-2009
the improvements to FCP are particularly shallow. exporting. some more pro res. colour coded markers (I think). its about two years since the last release. pro apps are apparently a very long way down apple's priorities list. From anyone else, this qualifies as a dot release. I'm actually beginning to suspect that this might be the last final cut release we see from apple. as in, they off-load them. I am, I should add, a loyal professional user. …More
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Final Cut Studio
Very happy
Written by SF from LOUGHBOROUGH
10-Sep-2009
I am really happy with the updates in the new Final Cut Studio 3. Some great tweaks and some nice enhancements. Very happy that you can now send output to compressor and continue editing in Final Cut Pro whilst videos are outputting. I always had to output in the evenings or overnight so not to lose any valuable editing time. Also some great enhancements for Multicam edits and just getting into some of the changes for other programs.
The only think I am not happy with so far is that you can no longer right click between video clips in the timeline and close gap. This was a vital function that I am having to use other work arounds such as setting up a key on the keyboard to do this. You can now left click to highlight the space and then press delete but this is slower. Hopefully this will be sorted in an update.
Other than that well done apple!!! …More17 of 23 people found this useful
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Final Cut Studio
It is pretty amazing
Written by MW from Beckenham
08-Sep-2009
Apart from a new tiny things i'd like to see added or changed (and they are tiny) this is the best editing suite we humans have, and the closest to perfection we have.
As long as Apple continue to keep making it better - and they seem to be - perhaps we will strike pure perfection soon! But until then, if your an editor - this is THE best there is. …More17 of 23 people found this useful
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Most Recent Reviews
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Final Cut Studio
Very happy
Written by SF from LOUGHBOROUGH
10-Sep-2009
I am really happy with the updates in the new Final Cut Studio 3. Some great tweaks and some nice enhancements. Very happy that you can now send output to compressor and continue editing in Final Cut Pro whilst videos are outputting. I always had to output in the evenings or overnight so not to lose any valuable editing time. Also some great enhancements for Multicam edits and just getting into some of the changes for other programs.
The only think I am not happy with so far is that you can no longer right click between video clips in the timeline and close gap. This was a vital function that I am having to use other work arounds such as setting up a key on the keyboard to do this. You can now left click to highlight the space and then press delete but this is slower. Hopefully this will be sorted in an update.
Other than that well done apple!!! …More17 of 23 people found this useful
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Final Cut Studio
It is pretty amazing
Written by MW from Beckenham
08-Sep-2009
Apart from a new tiny things i'd like to see added or changed (and they are tiny) this is the best editing suite we humans have, and the closest to perfection we have.
As long as Apple continue to keep making it better - and they seem to be - perhaps we will strike pure perfection soon! But until then, if your an editor - this is THE best there is. …More17 of 23 people found this useful
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Final Cut Studio
nowhere near enough done.
Written by AO from Dublin
21-Aug-2009
the improvements to FCP are particularly shallow. exporting. some more pro res. colour coded markers (I think). its about two years since the last release. pro apps are apparently a very long way down apple's priorities list. From anyone else, this qualifies as a dot release. I'm actually beginning to suspect that this might be the last final cut release we see from apple. as in, they off-load them. I am, I should add, a loyal professional user. …More
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Questions & Answers
Most Interesting
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Is there a student discount for Final Cut Studio?
- Asked by RD from Winston-Salem
- 08-Oct-2009
Best Answer
Yes, BUT, it isn't worth it anymore.
You pay $899 for the academic version or $999 for the full version. On the surface it appears that the $100 would make it worth it to buy the academic version except for the "deal-breaker": You CANNOT upgrade from the academic version.
If you ever plan on buying another version of Final Cut Studio, you'll have to pay full price for the retail version when you aren't a student anymore. If you are still a student when the next version comes out, you can't upgrade from academic to academic either. You would have to pay another $899 to get the next version.
If you buy retail, it is $999 and you can upgrade the next time around for only $299.
I think the extra $100 will be money well spent in the long run. …More- Answered by GG from Murrieta
- 16-Oct-2009
- 21 of 23 people found this useful
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How difficult is Final Cut Studio to use and learn for someone who is stepping up from iMovie? Am I better off starting with 3rd party software?
- Asked by RB from CENTRAL FALLS
- 16-Oct-2009
Best Answer
iMovie to Final Cut Studio is a pretty big leap. The approach to editing, the interface, and the robustness of the two are on completely different ends of the spectrum. Final Cut Studio is much more of an investment and a program you have to learn, while iMovie is a non-editors editing program.
Is it impossible to make the jump? Of course not. If you are quick with learning new applications and not opposed to reading a manual for guidance, then I think it is perfectly reasonable to move onto Final Cut, especially if editing is what you want to do as a profession.
I'd suggest testing out Final Cut Express, a much cheaper alternative that you could master the basics of Final Cut editing and then decide if the 1000 dollar investment in studio is worth it. My progression, with taking no classes and having no help, was iMove (older version) for about a year or so, then final cut express for about 2 years, and then Final Cut Studio. I am now an editor by profession …More- Answered by ZB from Hampstead
- 07-Dec-2009
- 6 of 6 people found this useful
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Will Final Cut Studio run on the new Macbook Pro 13"?
- Asked by MF from Tarzana
- 10-Oct-2009
Best Answer
Final Cut Pro will likely run with nearly all features on a Macbook Pro 13". Motion and Color require a discreet graphics card to support some features, which means you won't be getting everything that $999 pays for if you're running on a 13" MacBook Pro with the integrated graphics chipset. But if all you need to do is edit video, you should be fine! …More
- Answered by EM from Carbondale
- 10-Oct-2009
- 21 of 23 people found this useful
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Most Recent
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does Final Cut Studio allow you to import VHS tape and make a digital transfer and then edit ?
- Asked by TG from Emeryville
- 14-Dec-2009
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can I upgrade from final cut 4.5 hd to final cut 7? Or do I need to purchase the full Final Cut 7 software?
- Asked by HL from Little Rock
- 13-Dec-2009
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Does the new Final Cut Studio integrate with Episode Pro?
- Asked by PP from Uckfield
- 09-Dec-2009
