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| Final Cut Studio | |
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| Developer | Apple Inc. |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Non-linear editing system |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | Final Cut Studio |
Final Cut Studio is a discontinuedsuite of professionalvideo production andpost-production made byApple for theMac. The suite competed withAvid Media Composer for the high-end movie production market. It first went on sale in 2005.
In 2011, after the release of Final Cut Pro X, Apple discontinued Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Express, andFinal Cut Server.[1] Upon its discontinuation, Final Cut Studio was no longer on sale in Apple Stores or on Apple's website, but was still available through Apple's phone sales. Its three primary applicationsFinal Cut Pro,Motion, andCompressor, are still actively developed, and available on theMac App Store. As of 2017, Final Cut Pro 7 no longer runs on macOS High Sierra or later;[2] it can be patched to run on recent versions of macOS, though this is not supported by Apple.[3]
Final Cut Studio version 3 was released on July 23, 2009. It was the final release upon discontinuation of the suite and contains six main applications and several smaller applications used in content creation.
The applications are designed to integrate as a suite, to form a workflow. In particular:
Final Cut Pro and Motion also integrate directly with Apple's discontinuedShake, a digitalcompositing package.
Production Suite is asoftware compilation by Apple used fordigital video editing. Production Suite containsFinal Cut Pro HD,DVD Studio Pro 3, andApple Motion. The compilation's component applications were announced at theNational Association of Broadcasters in April 2004, and the compilation was released in August 2004.
Final Cut Studio was introduced at theNational Association of Broadcasters in April 2005, as the successor to Production Suite. It added new versions of all the Production Suite applications:Final Cut Pro,DVD Studio Pro and Motion. It also introduces a new application,Soundtrack Pro, which is 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 theUniversal Binary version as Final Cut Studio 1.1.
| Date | Releases |
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| NAB 1999 | Final Cut Pro |
| MWSF 2001 | DVD Studio Pro |
| March 2001 | Final Cut Pro 2[4] |
| December 2001 | Final Cut Pro 3[5] |
| April 2002 | Cinema Tools[6] |
| NAB 2002 | DVD Studio Pro 1.5[7] |
| NAB 2003 | Final Cut Pro 4,[8] DVD Studio Pro 2,[9] LiveType, Soundtrack, Compressor |
| NAB 2004 | Final Cut Pro HD,[10] DVD Studio Pro 3,[11] Motion,[12] LiveType 1.2, Soundtrack 1.2, Compressor 1.2 |
| August 2004 | Production Suite[13] |
| NAB 2005 | Final Cut Studio:[14] Final Cut Pro 5, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 2, LiveType 2, Soundtrack Pro,[15] Compressor 2 |
| March 2006 | Final Cut Studio released as aUniversal application.[16] |
| NAB 2007 | Final Cut Studio 2:[17] Final Cut Pro 6, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 3, LiveType 2, Soundtrack Pro 2, Color, Compressor 3 |
| July 2009 | Final Cut Studio (2009):[18] Final Cut Pro 7, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 4, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, Compressor 3.5 |
| July 2011 | Final Cut Pro X,Motion 5,Compressor 4 |
Final Cut Studio has been positioned as an all-in-one production workflow system because of its integration of film, motion graphics and audio post-production tools in one suite. It is analogous to theiLife suite, which is aimed at consumers, insomuch asiMovie is the consumer counterpart of Final Cut Pro;GarageBand 3 is a consumer version of Logic Pro and Soundtrack Pro; andiDVD is the cut-down version of DVD Studio Pro. Like Motion, iMovie includesCore Image effects that can be applied in real time.
In theMacworld Conference and Expo 2005,Steve Jobs, formerCEO of Apple, declared 2005 to be the "Year ofHD". To this end, the HD features of Final Cut Studio were emphasized, 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 supports the HD DVD 1.0 specification. SeeDVD Studio Pro.
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 toShake 4 – a high-end digital compositing application that integrates with Final Cut Pro but is not included in Final Cut Studio.
To market the Studio components, Apple compiled a set ofcase studies of real-world users of the applications. For Final Cut Pro, they usedBunim-Murray Productions' uses of the program in theirThe Real Worldreality television show. For Soundtrack Pro,Walter Murch became their advocate – a film editor and sound designer who worked onCold Mountain andThe Godfather. For Motion, Apple used the example ofMekanism and their creation of a TV spot designed to persuadeyoung people tovote. And for DVD Studio Pro, the example of Relevant was used, who used the application in a unique, interactive movie calledBackwoods to Brooklyn.
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