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 Recent Reviews
-
Final Cut Studio
It's phenomenal, simply amazing.
Written by RO from London
Jul 30, 2009
YEah apple have really come up with something special here, Final cut pro 7, I can remember when HD just came out, wow have we com…Read moree a long way, Finalcut pro is astonishing, truly amazing!!
(0 of 2 people found this review useful)
Was this useful?
-
Final Cut Studio
Very Nice Upgrade
Written by JR from Brownsville
Jul 30, 2009
The new features added to the suite are definitely worthwhile. Personally I believe Motion 4 alone is worth the upgrade price. F…Read moreCP 7 is also much improved. Both of these received improvements to save time and improve productivity. Sure DVDSP is starting to receive less attention but overall it is a very solid package. And the price drop is great news too. Been on the boat since FCP1.2!
(7 of 10 people found this review useful)
Was this useful?
-
Final Cut Studio
Lame
Written by NH from newark
Jul 29, 2009
Wow there is virtually nothing this new version offers over Final Cut Studio 2.
This really should have been a free software upda…Read morete.
Next time I hope Apple releases another paid update to FCS they include DVD Studio Pro with Blu-Ray support! Or how about Color with a Apple UI? Wheres the Shake update phenomenon?
HOW ABOUT LETTING YOU USE A QUICK CLUSTER IN COMPRESSOR STRAIGHT FROM FCP WITHOUT MAKING A REFERENCE QUCIKTIME FILE AND NOT CRASHING QMASTER.
What they really need is to do some under the hood updates like making it 64-bit so you can use more RAM, including Grand Central and Open CL features, and use Core Image and Core Video more.
Seems like the only thing they did in this update was to remove PPC support, which is dumb because FCS2 ran fine on G5's and even on G4's.
The only reason to get this is if you are a first time buyer, or if you have dragged your feet forever to update a really old copy of Final Cut.
Bottom line for Final Cut Studio 2 owners this should have been free!(11 of 17 people found this review useful)
Was this useful?
Most Useful Reviews
-
Final Cut Studio
Amazing peice of software
Written by CC from Ottawa
Jul 24, 2009
Final cut has been refined to the very edge. Compressor used to cause many compatibility problems in the past but these issues are…Read more now gone. I tested it with a large uncompressed HD file. I have to say that I am very impressed, and apple keeps selling studio products are very affordable prices. The last comment that I would like to make is that Final cut now better uses the resources of my 8 core mac pro and runs a lot faster than the previous version. Probably because it now only runs on intel macs. Thanks Apple.
(266 of 310 people found this review useful)
Was this useful?
-
Final Cut Studio
Great Upgrade! And Blu Ray authoring, too!
Written by AB from Gonzales
Jul 28, 2009
The other reviewers saying there's no Blu Ray authoring have not installed this yet. I just authored and burned a Blu Ray video D…Read moreVD inside Compressor. No, it's not in DVDSP, it's inside Compressor, and works great.
All the new tools rock. It's a fantastic upgrade.
My one big disappointment are reviews by people who've not installed and used this new version 3 yet.(123 of 142 people found this review useful)
Was this useful?
-
Final Cut Studio
quit crying about blue ray!
Written by LM from Haslett
Jul 28, 2009
I don't want to start a comment or review war, but I see all these reviews with 1 star because apple doesn't give them blue ray. B…Read moreig whoop. Don't give a product a 1 star because it costs 1,000 dollars and doesn't burn dvd's for players that cost 500-2,000 dollars.
Final Cut Studio is simply amazing.(38 of 60 people found this review useful)
Was this useful?
