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 color 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 color grading tools let you create signature looks in resolutions up to 4K.
- Seamless integration means you can now send long, complex sequences directly to Color 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 color 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 customizable 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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Great Upgrade! And Blu Ray authoring, too!
- Written by AB from Gonzales
- Jul 27, 2009
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- Written by NH from newark
- Jul 28, 2009
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Amazing peice of software
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- Jul 23, 2009
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Job Well Done
- Written by JB
- Jul 25, 2010
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Great Product...Ignore the haters!!!
- Written by JK from Dallas
- Jun 19, 2010
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- Jun 5, 2010
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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
- Oct 7, 2009
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I work at a University Bookstore and we sell the non upgradable version academic for 299$. Worth it if you ask me …More
- Answered by PG from Columbia
- Nov 8, 2009
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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
- Oct 15, 2009
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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
- Dec 7, 2009
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Will Final Cut Studio run on the new Macbook Pro 13"?
- Asked by MF from Tarzana
- Oct 10, 2009
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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
- Oct 10, 2009
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The upgrade version of FCP 7 allows upgrades for users of both FCP 5 and 6. The cost is the same regardless if you are going from 5 or 6. I know that Adobe offers different price points depending on what you're upgrading from, but Apple does not. …More
- Answered by JY from Burlington
- Jul 25, 2010
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Can Final Cut Studio be used effectively on an iMac?
- Asked by MH from Sulphur
- Oct 12, 2009
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Depends on what you edit.
The iMac cannot be expanded (for all intents and purposes), so no hardware RAID, no GPU upgrades, limited RAM...
If you are doing wedding videos, get an iMac.
If you are doing single camera shoots, get an iMac.
If you are taking on graphics intensive projects (using Motion and Color a lot), then get the Mac Pro with the upgraded graphics card. You'll see an advantage.
If you are doing projects where you have multiple HD cameras shooting at the same time, you'll need a RAID to utilize multi-cam editing, so get the Mac Pro.
Simple projects, get an iMac. Sophisticated projects, get a Mac Pro. …More- Answered by GG from Murrieta
- Oct 16, 2009
