Final Cut Studio 2
Final Cut Studio 2 is the must-have upgrade to Apple's award-winning video and audio production suite. With six powerful applications, each designed specifically for editors, Final Cut Studio 2 puts everything you need in a single box:
- Final Cut Pro 6 for video and film editing
- Motion 3 for graphics and animation in 3D
- Soundtrack Pro 2 for professional audio post-production
- Color for professional color grading and finishing
- Compressor 3 and DVD Studio Pro 4 for digital delivery virtually anywhere — a disc, the web, Apple TV, iPod, or cell phone
Overview
Top features in Final Cut Studio 2
- Open format Timeline for flexible video editing
- Apple ProRes 422 for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes
- Color, the breakthrough color grading application
- 3D graphics and animation with Motion
- Image stabilization and SmoothCam
- Intuitive 5.1 surround tools
- Multiformat delivery made easy
Final Cut Pro 6
One timeline. Infinite possibilities.
Final Cut Pro 6 is the hub of your production workflow, offering a complete set of precision video editing tools and incredible real-time effects.
Motion 3
Now playing in 3D.
The only motion graphics application designed specifically for video editors, Motion 3 extends its award-winning toolset seamlessly into 3D. Create stunning animations in 3D — all in real time.
Soundtrack Pro 2
The next wave in audio post.
Bridging the worlds of picture and sound, Soundtrack Pro 2 offers a complete set of tools for audio post-production.
Color
Color grading is in the house.
Now Final Cut Pro editors can get exactly the look they want with Color, a new application that delivers professional color grading and finishing tools.
Compressor 3
Create once. Deliver everywhere.
With a new, streamlined interface and simplified workflow, Compressor 3 makes encoding and delivering in multiple formats easier and more efficient than ever.
DVD Studio Pro 4
Professional DVD authoring.
Whether you produce demo reels, complex commercial titles, or anything in between, DVD Studio Pro 4 offers simple, powerful tools for authoring DVDs.
Most Recent Reviews
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Final Cut Studio 2
Lost its ability to innovate
Written by MG from Venice
Jun 20, 2009
I have been quite disappointed with Apple's video editing products. 2-3 years ago, there was progress and innovation on a constant…Read more basis. Now - except for some minor "bugfixes", nothing seems to progress. The popular AVCHD cameras still have no native support, the software "transcodes" their efficient codec into some monster files that eliminate the advantages of the codec in the first place ...
We are now replacing FCP workstations with "Sony Vegas" - if 2 years ago somebody would have suggested, I would have laughed -- but with Apple's new reality of not adapting to important industry developments, obviously a sad consequence.
(18 of 27 people found this review useful)
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Final Cut Studio 2
Why use AVID???
Written by TH from Orem
May 20, 2009
Don't get me wrong, I was trained by Avid and used it professionally for years, but the Final Cut Suite hands down is the way of t…Read morehe future. There are plenty of old schoolers that I know that won't touch FCP, but there is so much proprietary stuff and equipment involved in getting an AVID machine that can compete I don't see why the thought would be to go the other way.
I've now cut over 20 documentaries on FCP, along with numerous Advertisements that have been done with ease on FCP. And for the Avid user, just buy a keyboard with the same color scheme as the AVID system and you'll be up to speed in 2 weeks max. You can shortcut your way through a full edit, or drag and drop your heart away (for you Adobe Premiere users... of which I was a trainer for years).
The addition of Color has taken my projects to a whole new level of professionality and all together WOW factor. I've since gone through training and been Apple Certified, and now use almost the full suite daily from FCP to Motion, to Color, to Soundtrack (easy transition for Pro-Tools users... of which I'm also an engineer) and Compressor. This is the beefiest system you can imagine, and all the tools to make you a serious pro.(124 of 133 people found this review useful)
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Final Cut Studio 2
Learn how to use it before bashing it.
Written by SS from Oceanside
May 9, 2009
I'm in the military and we use Avid. In my civilian life I use Final Cut Pro. Anyone saying they would "seriously consider switc…Read morehing their company over to Avid" is NOT a real FCP user. If they are, they have obviously never used an Avid machine. They are huge, unnecessarily expensive, difficult to understand, and even more difficult to use machines. No one, in my professional career, has ever enjoyed working with the Avid.
I just finished a four day training course for Final Cut Studio, and learned many tools that prove most of the comments on this review section are unwarranted. Most of the complaints are from people who have yet to take the time to learn the software.
Compressor is an amazing program. Avid's desperate clutch to Sorrenson comes no where close to the power of Compressor. If you want proof, watch a trailer on Apple's website. All done with Compressor. Anywhere else and you're seeing the results of something inferior.(134 of 161 people found this review useful)
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Most Useful Reviews
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Final Cut Studio 2
Product needs work... but has lovely packaging
Written by DB from Astoria
Dec 7, 2007
Dear Apple,
I am a loyal Mac user and a big fan of Final Cut. I've used it since version 1.5 and you would have to foul it up e…Read moregregiously for me to switch editing applications.
In the future, however, perhaps it would be more prudent to spend less time and money preparing a box and manuals that make me feel like I'm buying a diamond necklace, and more time making sure that Motion doesn't crash my (very new/fast/RAM loaded) laptop every hour. If time allows after that, please fix the horrific experience that is the Compressor interface.
Be well. Looking forward to the holiday fruit cake, as always.
Hugs and Kisses,
D.(2622 of 4471 people found this review useful)
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Final Cut Studio 2
Amazing
Written by GA
Jun 5, 2007
I baught Final Cut Studio 2 a week ago and its simply amazing, the ability to use several video formats in a single timeline is sp…Read moreectacular specially because I edit in HDV and use both PAL and NTSC formats as well as DVCAM archive in both formats for documentaries, the conversion is great. The new 3D featres in Motion are amazing too, I'm no longer going to use After Effects for 3D effects because the seemless integration of Motion and Final Cut Pro 6 is terrific and the particles converted to 3d are incredible, the integration of SmoothCam and other features of Shake in this all new Motion are great, tracking and camara stabilization work prefectly well. Soundtrack Pro is bettet than ever too. I strongly suggest editors to get Final Cut Studio 2.
(2631 of 4503 people found this review useful)
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Final Cut Studio 2
Wow, I didn't think they could make Compressor worse!
Written by KB from San Francisco
Jul 21, 2007
I was really looking forward to this version of Studio, but I have been very disappointed.
Our company edits and compresses lo…Read morets of videos every week, and while the Compressor interface sure looks pretty, it is a complete nightmare to use. Every export to Compressor from Final Cut opens a new batch window which isn't very useful when you want to have many files within a batch. The batches and then the files within batches execute in a pretty random order making naming conventions impossible to track. Also, when closing or switching between windows the other windows in Compressor hide and are show blinking like a tacky Christmas tree.
The latest update has furthermore broken some chapter/compression marker calculation in H.264 such that whole sequences export fine but subsequences won't export without errors. Tech support has had me do a whole series of experiments so they can figure out what is going on, and the conclusion is that they messed up in engineering.
The only good thing I can say about this version is that I am finally able to use Soundtrack for multifile editing. In the last version, the application would crash every time I tried to open such a file. $500 seems pretty steep to pay for this type of an update.
I never thought I would feel this way, but I am seriously considering moving the company over to Avid.(3071 of 5429 people found this review useful)
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