The first choice of professional editors worldwide, Final Cut Pro Studio 3 delivers high-performance digital nonlinear editing, native support for virtually any video format, and facility-class extensibility and interoperability. Now with more than 100 new features, your workflow extends through the other Final Cut Studio applications and Final Cut Server for even more power, expansive sharing capabilities, and brilliant finishing. Whether you’re working solo or collaborating with a team, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before. you want. 

Motion 4:

Now you can add variety and excitement to your video projects with even more dynamic 3D effects for shadows, text, reflections, and depth-of-field. Scrolling credits and glyph tools are now available for presenting long production credits and manipulating shapes and text. Take your visual realm a step further with text generators and sequencing behaviors, camera framing, and shape, spiral filters, generators and effects. See how the optical flow and speed of Motion 4 has been improved to give you better control over every tool.

Compressor 3.5:

Enhanced and new batch templates, job actions, and droplets allow you to export and manage multi-format projects with speed and ease. Blu-ray disc (H.264 encoding) and DVD burning options are now integrated directly into Compressor 3.5, with open XML-based formats, and frame controls will render faster with optical flow processing. If you’re sharing and managing video projects between multiple computers, cluster-based reference file encoding, and network distributed encoding will support and speed up your exporting process.

Benchmark Features of Final Cut Studio 3 

Open format Timeline:

The open format Timeline in Final Cut Pro Studio lets you mix and match source material in a wide range of formats and even different frame rates. Just drag your footage into the Timeline. Freely edit a combination of HD and SD, including NTSC and PAL, all in real time. Final Cut Pro 7 offers real-time scaling and playback for video in various camera-native formats as well as Apple ProRes 422.  

Apple ProRes 422:

Support for ProRes 422, the new post-production format from Apple that offers uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes. Use ProRes 422 when collaborating on an Xsan storage network, when working with non-native camera formats, or to preserve maximum quality for composites and demanding color grading work. Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder is a QuickTime component that allows both Mac and Windows users to play Apple ProRes files. Cross-platform playback makes Apple ProRes an excellent choice for mastering and for review and approval of Final Cut Studio sequences.   

Camera-native editing:

Final Cut Pro 6 lets you edit virtually anything natively. That means you’ll get pristine quality from the first cut to the final output. Final Cut Pro doesn’t need to transcode video from camera-native formats — no matter whether it’s coming from a DV, HDV, or DVCPRO HD camera. Your output will always be as stunning as your original source. Final Cut Pro 6 supports a wide range of standard- and high-definition formats. 

Tapeless formats:

It’s easy to work with the latest high-speed, tapeless devices from Panasonic and Sony. Use the Log and Transfer function in Final Cut Pro for ingesting AVCHD, AVC-Intra, or Panasonic P2 files, or use Sony’s free XDCAM Transfer software for ingesting 18-, 25-, and 35-Mbps XDCAM HD footage. Preview shots before you bring them in, add In and Out points, and incorporate metadata before you transfer files to save time when you get to the edit. Ingest tapeless files in the background at high speeds while you continue to edit or preview other material. 

RT Extreme with Dynamic RT:

Delivers industry-leading real-time performance for DV, SD, HDV, DVCPRO HD, and fully uncompressed HD video. RT Extreme delivers real-time playback of more than 150 effects — as well as multiple streams of video used for picture-in-picture effects and multi-camera editing. Enjoy maximum performance on systems ranging from a MacBook Pro to powerful desktop systems. Dynamic RT analyzes your system’s capabilities and adjusts video playback quality and frame rate on the fly. If you prefer, set preferences to favor playback quality or frame rate as the video plays back. 

Dramatic filters and effects:

Make your project memorable by choosing from more than 150 real-time capable filters and effects, many of which use high-resolution 32-bit float image processing to produce stunning film-quality results. Then extend your repertoire even further by bringing in third-party filters based on the FxPlug standard — the same format used to produce the extraordinary real-time effects in Motion 4. Dozens of leading developers support the FxPlug standard for real-time GPU-accelerated plug-ins at 32-bit float quality. 

SmoothCam:

Smooth out shaky scenes without altering zooms, pans, dollies, and other standard camera movements. The new SmoothCam feature in Final Cut Pro Studio 3 uses sophisticated optical flow technology to analyze and adjust your problem shots. Because SmoothCam works in the background, you can edit other material while it analyzes the shaky footage. 

Real-time color correction

Final Cut Pro Studio 3 includes a comprehensive set of real-time color correction tools, including primary and secondary color correctors; image control filters; broadcast-safe filters; tools for matte and key operations as well as luma and chroma range checking; real-time scopes and monitors; and a frame viewer for comparing your shots. 

Digital Cinema Desktop

Preview a digital cut of your HD video full screen — complete with real-time effects — using Digital Cinema Desktop. Evaluate your edit full screen on a single display. Or use a second display, such as an Apple Cinema HD Display or any DVI-based device, for video output. Even if you’re working on a MacBook Pro, you can view your video full screen or create an impressive screening for your clients with a second high-resolution display or projector. 

Precision editing and trimming:

Final Cut Pro Studio 3 provides a full set of industry-leading editing and trimming tools. Edit in the Timeline or with the innovative Edit Overlay tool. Choose from a comprehensive set of edits, including Insert, Overwrite, Replace, Fit-to-fill, Superimpose, Add Edit, or Swap Edit. Then fine-tune your choices with Ripple, Roll, Slip, Slide, Extend, and Shorten, either in the Timeline or a dedicated Trim window. You’ll find all the tools that professional editors expect — including three-point editing, JKL keyboard navigation, match frame, multitrack and asymmetric trimming, extend and split edit functions, and more. It’s all there, it’s all frame accurate, and it’s all fast.

Real-time multi-cam editing:

Cut multi-camera footage as quickly as if you were switching a live show. Simultaneously view and cut from multi-camera sources using the intuitive 1-, 4-, 9-, or 16-up display. For even more speed and convenience, group up to 128 sources into multi-clips, adding and subtracting cameras at any time. 

Fully customizable interface:

Final Cut Pro 7 speeds your edit even more by letting you work the way you want. Easily customize window layouts and Timeline track sizes; customize Browser column order, width, and layout; and adjust font size in the Browser and Timeline. Then zoom through your work with customizable access to more than 600 commands; create keyboard shortcuts — or add buttons to the user interface — for the commands you use most. 

24-channel audio mixing:

Final Cut Pro Studio 3 lets you work with 24 channels of audio input and output at up to 24-bit, 96kHz resolution. Freely adjust your mix without altering the original audio files. You can adjust your levels using the onscreen mixer or ride multiple faders at the same time on any Mackie Control Protocol (MCP) device. The new Soft Normalize and Gain feature analyzes and automatically raises the level of any clip to its maximum without distortion. You can apply high-quality Audio Units filters — such as Reverb and EQ — without leaving Final Cut Pro 7. Audio Units filters are also used in Soundtrack Pro 3, which means that you can continue to adjust your effects if you send your project to Soundtrack Pro for additional mixing.

Pristine finishing and frame-accurate output:

Final Cut Pro 7 has complete Edit to Tape and Print to Video tools for creating professional output. High-quality scale and rotate algorithms ensure that picture-in-picture effects or effects with rotation will look crisp and beautiful. Other features include enhanced gamma processing for high-definition video; 32-bit floating-point filters; and frame-accurate precision for editing to tape. 

Built-in media management:

Use the Final Cut Pro Studio 3 Media Manager for project-, sequence-, or clip-level operations. Quickly and accurately copy, move, and consolidate projects. Search, sort, and sift right in the Browser to rapidly find the assets you need for your project.

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