Final Cut Studio

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Binding: DVD-ROM Brand: Apple EAN: 0885909245246 Feature: Edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver on a Mac with Final Cut Studio--includes more than 100 powerful new features Format: DVD-ROM Is Autographed: 0 Is Memorabilia: 0 Label: Apple Manufacturer: Apple Model: MB642Z/A Platform: Mac Publisher: Apple Release Date: 2009-07-30 Studio: Apple Warranty: 30 Days
Features Edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver on a Mac with Final Cut Studio--includes more than 100 powerful new features Use new versions of the ProRes codec to edit at high quality with reduced file sizes in a wide variety of workflows Work with clients or colleagues in real time from anywhere in the world using iChat Theater Add dramatic 3D graphics, repair common audio problems, and automate delivery in just a few clicks Includes significant upgrades to Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Soundtrack Pro and updated versions of Color and Compressor
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Editorial Reviews: Edit, animate, mix, grade, and deliver on a Mac with Final Cut Studio. It includes more than 100 powerful new features. Use new versions of the ProRes codec to edit at high quality with reduced file sizes in a wide variety of workflows. Work with clients or colleagues in real time from anywhere in the world using iChat Theater. Add dramatic 3D graphics, repair common audio problems, and automate delivery in just a few clicks. The leading post-production suite now includes significant upgrades to Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Soundtrack Pro and updated versions of Color and Compressor. It also includes DVD Studio Pro, the industry standard for DVD authoring.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Final Cut - A No-Brainer Comment: Final Cut is a no-brainer! It is the #1 editing suite for feature films. I worked in visual effects for over ten years and I saw Avid replaced by Final Cut. I also recommend it on my website and blogs. Keep reading the reviews and I think you will agree. Customer Rating: Summary: Great and getting better each new release... Comment: Complete video editing suite. Editing, Motion Graphics, Color Correction, Compression, Sound Recording and editing DVD authoring. Some of these are simple to learn. I found Final Cut editing to be easy to use. Most of this is difficult to learn, but powerful to implement. Buy the PeachTree Apple Certification books. I am not an expert at this. Here is what I found. The Color suite is more Unix based and does not use the Apple file system, so if you have multiple hard drives and don't know UNIX well, you might have a hard time finding your files. I have 18 drives hooked up to my machine. I gave up and tabled further study until later. Next time I'll move the files over to my scratch disk with Finder and work on project entirely there. I was disappointed the new version did not fix this. It looks like a Unix program, not a clean looking Apple interface. Truthfully, I did not put much time into Color. I've seen professional demonstrations, and wish I recorded them. Those guys make it look so easy. I found the sound editing package worked well, shifting between time and frequency domains made it easy to edit out pops of sound, mic thuds, etc. However, I could not re-import into Final Cut. More study needed. The shear number of video formats will melt your brain. I might have to take a course on that. I wish it was more simple. Frankly I don't understand much of that. Pro Res 422 is a common format, but there are also iPod formats, SD formats, ok the number of formats is around 30 or so. That is a lot of different formats. Someone explain what they all are used for, and give me a way to blank out the non-US formats. Motion graphics seemed somewhat easy to use, with a book for a study guide. I produced some cool special effects for titles in a short period of time. I could really get into that. Some people do this for a living. Very impressive. DVD authoring was a snap. I found that marking chapters needed to be done in advance in Final Cut. Aside from that one issue, it was easy to produce a DVD that would play with chapter heading, slide shows, or anything else you might like. What a great way to back up still picture archives? Some people like Avid. I can't comment on that. I think FCP is a great program, despite it's flaws. It is worth learning and mastering. Do not expect to master each book or application individually. Try instead to produce a small video using all of these elements and then build on your expertise in the individual elements once you understand the basics of each application. Also, be advised if you are serious about learning this application, you want the most powerful Mac you can afford. The rendering times for Final Cut can take a while. Faster CPU's mean less of your time is spent waiting for such actions to complete. If you can afford a new MAC PRO you are on the right track, although newer MacBook Pro or iMac will do the job, albeit, it will take longer. RAID is your friend so a Mac Pro is really the way to go. I'd put a SSD drive in the second optical bay and four RAID 0, 2 TB drives in the four drive bays. This would be a good minimal configuration. Customer Rating: Summary: Better Than Avid! Comment: I am amazed that there are only four reviews for FCS on Amazon. This is by far the best video editing suit available, especially for the price. Its only competitor is Avid which costs double and both programs are very similar but each one excelling in different areas. Final Cut Studio is the best money you can spend on editing software, besides a class to learn how to use it. Customer Rating: Summary: Great product! Comment: The seller was courteous and prompt in his responses. I am thankful he had this to sell. Thank you so much! I use this frequently. Customer Rating: Summary: What else is there to say Comment: Everyone that know what Final Cut Studio is usually loves what i can do. I do love the new feature where you can send a file to render with Compressor and then still work on a project. More Reviews