Final Cut Studio Upgrade
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 Upgrade
Excellent
Written by SC from LEEDS
09-Oct-2009
I have to disagree with the previous review, I have several book shelves full of previous FCS and FCP manuals with never a page turned, It may add to the sense of value to have these weighty tomes included but for the vast majority they are rarely referenced, with masses of online content I feel Apple has made a good call on this occasion.
And an excellent upgrade to boot. …More10 of 11 people found this useful
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Final Cut Studio Upgrade
Upgrade surprise
Written by DO from Tuam
31-Jul-2009
The fact that both the base price of the full product had dropped and that the upgrade price looked very attractive means that the folks at Apple seem to appreciate that market share, particularly in these difficult times, means that movement is necessary.
The upgrade (from Final Cut Studio 2) worked flawlessly on a Summer 2008 17" MacBook Pro, 2.6 Intel Duo, 4GB RAM, 500GB 7200 rpm HDD non OEM and native HD 1920 Apple upgrade option graphics display. Total upgrade install time was more than 2.5 hrs and forgivingly the machine was busy doing plenty of other simultaneous processing.
For me the changes with compressor are very useful, being able to set a job running from within FCP without then stopping me doing more editing. Sure there were ways around this, but I didn't understand why it was slightly onerous. Well done Apple for providing a useful alternative work flow for single compression jobs.
I do however wish that Apple had stuck with their previous excellent PRO product boxed documentation. Whilst acknowledging that docs were also provided as PDFs, it was great to purchase a product that had got really great printed manuals in the box. Unfortunately not so with this release. The tiniest of manuals which only referenced one of the product suite - Final Cut Pro.
For those who don't know, Final Cut Studio 3 comprises of a suite of applications (many), one of which is the actual editing package, Final Cut Pro 7. The printed manual is only for the editing program and there is no printed documentation for the hugely important additional packages. This is unfortunate and thus I do not rate the 5 stars which this product should enjoy.
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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
- 20 of 22 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
- 18 of 20 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
Most Recent
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not sure if my imac will handle this - I need to ask some question please
- Asked by RC from Paradise Point
- 05-Dec-2009
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what version of final cut pro do I need to install version 7 HD upgrade on?
- Asked by JW from London
- 04-Dec-2009
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Can I upgrade from Final Cut Pro 3 even if it's no longer installed, and how can I locate the software serial number w/o having to re-install FCP3?
- Asked by DK from Montclair
- 02-Dec-2009
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can I install an studio 2 upgrade without studio installed?
- Asked by GH from Lakewood
- 02-Dec-2009
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do i need the serial number for all portions of Final Cut Studio software or just FCP for the upgrade to work?
- Asked by DM from Sparta
- 02-Dec-2009
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Does the new version of DVD Studio offer anything substantial?
- Asked by CD from Lawrence
- 30-Nov-2009
