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Final Cut Studio is a professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X from Apple Inc.

Components

Final Cut Studio 2 contains six main applications and several smaller applications used in editing video. The major applications it includes are: Additional applications included are:
  • LiveType 2 - a text animation program.
  • Cinema Tools 3 - tools specific to film processing.
  • Apple Qmaster 2 - a distributed processing tool.
  • QuickTime Pro - an enhanced version of QuickTime featuring more advanced tools and some export tools.

History

Final Cut Studio was introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters in April 2005. It is the successor to Production Suite, and added new versions of all the Production Suite applications, as well as a 'new' program, Soundtrack Pro, which is really a new version of Soundtrack, formerly included with Final Cut Pro. In January 2006, Final Cut Studio became the only way to purchase any of the individual major applications. In March 2006, Apple released the Universal Binary version, transferring the version number from Final Cut Pro to the entire suite, so that it became Final Cut Studio 5.1.

Release history

DateReleases
NAB 1999Final Cut Pro
MWSF 2001DVD Studio Pro
March 2001Final Cut Pro 2 [1]
December 2001Final Cut Pro 3 [2]
April 2002Cinema Tools [3]
NAB 2002DVD Studio Pro 1.5 [4]
NAB 2003Final Cut Pro 4 [5], DVD Studio Pro 2 [6], LiveType, Soundtrack, Compressor
NAB 2004Final Cut Pro HD [7], DVD Studio Pro 3 [8], Motion [9], LiveType 1.2, Soundtrack 1.2, Compressor 1.2
August 2004Production Suite [10]
NAB 2005Final Cut Studio [11]: Final Cut Pro 5, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 2, LiveType 2, Soundtrack Pro [12], Compressor 2
March 2006Final Cut Studio released as a Universal application [13].
NAB 2007Final Cut Studio 2 [14]: Final Cut Pro 6, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 3, LiveType 2, Soundtrack Pro 2, Color, Compressor 3

Marketing

Final Cut Studio has been placed as an all-in-one production workflow because of its integration of film, motion graphics and audio post-production tools in one suite. It is analogous to the iLife suite, which is aimed at consumers, insomuch as iMovie is the consumer counterpart of Final Cut Pro; GarageBand 3 is a consumer version of Logic; and iDVD is the cut-down version of DVD Studio Pro. Like Motion, iMovie includes Core Image effects that can be applied in real time.

High Definition

In the Macworld Conference and Expo 2005, Steve Jobs - CEO of Apple - declared 2005 to be the "Year of HD". To this end, the HD features of Final Cut Studio were emphasised, such that a little HD logo was placed on the box for each individual Studio application, as well as the Final Cut Studio box.

Final Cut Pro supports nearly all High Definition formats (HDV, DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and uncompressed HD) and Soundtrack Pro and Motion can import these formats too, where they can be played back on an external monitor. DVD Studio Pro 4 can burn HD content onto standard, HD-DVD, or Blu-Ray discs, although no HD-DVD/Blu-Ray burners are commercially available yet. See DVD Studio Pro#High Definition.

Packaging

The design for the packaging and websites for each application are consistent to a demonstration video shown at the product's introduction at NAB 2005. This video also includes reference to Shake 4 - a high-end digital compositing application that integrates with Final Cut Pro but is not included in Final Cut Studio.

Case studies

To market the Studio components, Apple compiled a set of case studies of real-world users of the applications. For Final Cut Pro, they used Bunim-Murray Productions' uses of the program in their Real World reality television show. For Soundtrack Pro, Walter Murch became their advocate – a film editor and sound designer who worked on Cold Mountain and The Godfather. For Motion, Apple used the example of Mekanism and their creation of a TV spot designed to persuade young people to vote. And for DVD Studio Pro, the example of Relevant was used, who used the application in a unique, interactive movie called Backwoods to Brooklyn.

Integration

The applications are designed to integrate as a suite, to form a workflow. In particular:
  • Final Cut Pro sequences can be exported to Soundtrack Pro for audio tweaking or music scoring
  • Final Cut Pro sequences can be sent to Compressor, for encoding in an external format
  • Final Cut Pro sequences can be exported for Motion, for motion graphics overlays, or LiveType, specifically for title overlays
  • LiveType projects can be opened in Final Cut Pro without needing to be exported first
  • Motion projects can be incorporated into DVD Studio Pro menus without needing to be exported first
  • LiveFonts from LiveType can be used in Motion.
Final Cut Pro and Motion also integrate directly with Shake, a digital compositing package, also from Apple.

See also

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Final Cut Pro is a professional non-linear editing system developed by Apple Inc. that has found popularity amongst independent filmmakers and Hollywood film editors alike.
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Soundtrack Pro is a music composing and audio editing application made by Apple Inc., which includes a collection of just over 5000 royalty free professional instrument loops and sound effects.
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Compressor is a video and audio media compression and encoding application for use with Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio on Mac OS X. It can be used with Qmaster for clustering.
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LiveType is a software program developed by Apple to create animated title sequences for video projects.

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LiveType had its origins in a product called India Titler Pro, by the Oregon based company, Prismo Graphics.
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Cinema Tools is a software program for filmmakers, to use in conjunction with Final Cut Pro. It facilitates the creation of an integrated film database, allowing the management of film material through telecine.
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