Apple Final Cut Studio 2

Description

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.

Features

• 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, a new application 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

Craft your perfect story. Create stunning animated graphics. Intuitively produce audio. And deliver your project digitally in just about any format. It's all possible with Final Cut Studio 2, a major upgrade that now includes six powerful, integrated applications.

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.

Top new features

• Mix and match different video formats and frame rates in the same timeline - all without rendering.
• Take advantage of ProRes 422, a new post-production format from Apple that delivers uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes.
• Work with Motion templates without ever leaving Final Cut Pro - edit text, replace video, and swap out still images.
• Smooth out shaky shots while preserving standard camera moves using integrated SmoothCam technology.

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.

Top new features

• Animate in 3D using drag-and-drop behaviors, 3D particles, and replicators, then adjust settings on the fly - while your video continues to play.
• Match movement and track objects with simple tools that take the guesswork out of compositing tasks.
• Design painterly elements using customizable brushes and strokes.

Soundtrack Pro 2: The next wave in audio post.

Completing the bridge between picture and sound, Soundtrack Pro 2 offers a complete audio post-production workflow.

Top new features

• Work faster than ever with a streamlined interface and new professional tools designed for audio post.
• Create cinematic soundtracks using 5.1 surround tools and effects.
• Enjoy the industry's first sound-and-picture change management tools.

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.

Top features

• Work with comprehensive tools for primary and secondary adjustments, color effects, and geometry changes.
• Combine settings to create signature looks that you can save and reuse later.
• Start with the built-in library or create your own looks from scratch.
• Choose from more than 35 built-in color effects to add visual interest and special color transformations.

Compressor 3: Create once. Debut everywhere.

With a new, streamlined interface and simplified workflow, Compressor 3 makes encoding and delivering in multiple formats easier and more efficient than ever.

Top new features

• Work with H.264 encoding presets optimized for iPod and Apple TV.
• Output high-bit-rate video for HD DVD and Blu-ray media preparation.
• Enjoy greater creative control over your audio with filters and support for AC-3 and MP3 files.

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.

Top features

• Create SD and HD projects easily using the flexible, intuitive interface.
• Author discs with interactive elements and useful navigation controls.
• Create animated menus with Motion.

What's in the Box

• DVDs with Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Color, Compressor 3, DVD Studio Pro 4, Cinema Tools 3, LiveType 2, and Apple Qmaster 2
• Printed and electronic documentation and tutorials

Minimum system requirements to install all Final Cut Studio applications

• A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor.
• 1GB of RAM
• An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)
• A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
• Mac OS X v10.4.9 or later
• QuickTime 7.1.6 or later
• A DVD drive for installation

Recommended system requirements

• 2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources
• 4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources
• 4GB of disk space required to install all applications
• Additional 62GB required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate disks)
• 9GB for DVD Studio Pro content
• 8GB for Motion templates and tutorial media
• 24GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content
• 12GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates
• 2GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media