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Usually ships in 2 business days | | | | | | Final Cut Studio 2 takes you beyond editing. This powerful new version of Final Cut Pro is at the center of six integrated tools. Work is fast, fluid, and flexible, no matter what you're doing: Motion graphics, audio editing and mixing, color grading, and delivery. Whether you're cutting commercials, editing feature films, or pushing out the nightly news, Final Cut Server helps you work faster whenever you're working together. DVD Studio Pro 4 is professional DVD authoring. Create SD and HD projects, author discs with interactive elements and create animated menus. Whether you produce demo reels, complex commercial titles, or anything in between, it has simple, powerful tools for authoring DVDs. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Weight: | 13.29 pounds | | Package Length: | 10.1 inches | | Package Width: | 8.4 inches | | Package Height: | 5.7 inches | | Package Weight: | 11.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Mac OS X / Mac OS X Intel | | Media: | DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | Craft the perfect story using a tightly integrated and innovative suite of products created specifically for video editors.Mix and match source material--both formats and frame rates--in real time using the new open format Timeline in Final Cut Pro 6.Easily create sophisticated 3-D environments with depth and realism using the real-time 3-D multiplane compositing tools in Motion 3.Fly through audio editing and mixing, create immersive soundtracks, and easily conform audio to video edits using the new, streamlined interface in Soundtrack Pro 2.Produce sophisticated, fully interactive, studio-quality DVD titles with drag-and-drop ease using DVD Studio Pro 4.
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 Final Cut Pro Studio 2 Dec 30, 2008
I have no previous experience with editing, so I really can't compare it with another product. The user manuals that came with the series were overwhelming and practically useless to me. However, I have managed to learn to use the suite with the help of the Apple Pro training series and Lynda.com. I think it is a great product for those who have the patience and determination to learn it.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Expected More quality Sep 03, 2007
Updated Feb 2008
Final Cut Studio 2 is an inigma. On th one hand it has MASSIVE strengths and on the other it has MASSIVE weaknessess. If you are eperianced on other pro editing applications like Pro Tools or Avid you could experiance frustration ... as I do.
STRENGTHS
Final Cut Studio 2 has everthing you need to produce a great program
Final Cut Studio 2 ships with awsome content to get you up & running ... templates, presets, royalty free music and sound effects (lots!)
Intergration with the other programs in the suite makes Final Cut Pro do amazing stuff. Some great codecs too.
Apple listen to feedback (note the change in this review ... you CAN now zoom in on the cursor ... thanks Apple.)
WEAKNESSESS
No manuals for applications that have had a major overhaul!! (Except FCP6) There are 4 manuals for Final cut Pro 6 containing far too much detail about a program that really doesn't have a lot of functionality. (there is about a quarter of an inch thick section on the audio mixer ... a mixer that has inputs, levels and pans AND NOTHING ELSE!!!! no inserts - nix!)
and yet there is not even a piece of paper for Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Live Type, Compressor and DVD Studio Pro. The brand new program - Color gets a "setup guide" but no user manual. There are pdf files woopie doo. (Oh and you can't buy them either!)
Final Cut Pro is not a user friendly cutting platform. As others have said, the User Interface is cumbersome ... You often need to move the mouse / Trackball by fractional amounts to grab minute "hot spots / Lines" ... not so easy when you have your mouse set up to cover 2 screens with one sweep. If you want to Export from Motion or STP (and many other MAC based Programs) you use Cmd E right? NOT on Final Cut Pro! Luckily you can assign it if it bugs you (i did) So the suite integration isn't all it could be.
File Management (as with other NLEs is tricky. With FCP your files get stored on a "scratch disk" It seems to have more in comon with Avid Liquids FM system (which is terifiying!) than with good 'ol Adobe Prmier Pro.
Soundtrack Pro 2 now seems to be less Buggy than it's first (2.0.0) release. It offers so much and is enjoyable to work with (better in some ways than Adobe Audition)
Put asside 12 hours if you are installing OS and FCS2 from scratch.
All in all Final Cut Studio is OK ... getting better ... but still just Ok. I expected more quality and less initial bugs from Apple ... (There was the OS 10.4.10 bug that prevented the use of the Alesis iO2 Audio interface ... now fixed I am glad to say) ... after all there are only about 10 Intel based MACs on the market as opposed to a quadzillian number of PC hardware / software combinations. Motion rocks but is still not as good as After Effects (I run AE CS3) You can do better. Avid Liquid (PC only unfortunatly ... but does run well on boot camp) Pro Tools and After Effects is often a better (but far more costly) solution.
With all that said ... I do use FCS2 a lot.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
Little difference--should have been a "point release" upgrade Aug 27, 2007
I like Final Cut Pro, I like Motion, and I like LiveType. But it is as if they were written by 3 different companies who didn't expect them to work together. And sadly, this version is no different. Still if you are doing editing on Apple hardware Final Cut Studio 2 is your best choice.
This program is for the every-day editor/user, not for casual users as the learning curve is way out there. Add to that the inconsistencies between the "Studio" products and you have more learning curve issues. Sadly, the video editor which bares the studio name Final Cut Pro, is the one tool that could have used a contemporary face lift and yet it had only what I would call "point release" quality updates. Whereas Motion (which was the most user-friend and modern interface) got huge new features that are outstanding.
It seems to ne that Final Cut may be at the end of what software engineers can do with the Final Cut Pro editor itself without a complete rewrite from the grown up. But then they stand the chance of alienating their current legacy users; and as we've seen with iMovie 2008, Apple isn't too smart when it comes to cleverly updating video editing workflows.
Unfortunately, I still have to resort to using iMovie from time to time to capture video since it always captures anything from any camera, and then import it into Final Cut Pro. Whereas Final Cut Pro often imports without a problem 60 to 80 percent of the time. The other times you can spend an entire day trying to select the right "Easy Setup" to capture video. Why or why Apple does it not capture as easily as iMovie ('06)?
Is it worth an upgrade fee? Well sure if you're in the business it isn't that much of an expense. If you're counting your pennies, however (if you only do wedding videos for example and don't need the latest and greatest) you are really not missing anything by staying with the previous version. If you are considering this vs Adobe, well I'd go with Final Cut Studio and get a copy of Adobe After Effects (the CS3 version is very cool) and you'll have the best tools available for the Apple platform.
9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Finally! Jul 25, 2007
Using v1 for years, I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of v2. I can now confirm that FCS2 has matured to the point of being called industry ready. v1 had issue no doubt. But with so much effort directed towards Motion and DVD studio Pro, v2 has all the elements in place for serious mission critical use. Though FC itself seems to have been ignored. To date, we still rely heavily on third party plug-ins to get most of our intensive work done in FC. Soundtrack lacks. But we do very little sound. But it does have unparalleled integration and ease of use. Though the app seems a bit unstable. Certainly not as bad as mentioned above. Having used After effects CS3, I can reasonably claim that it simply does not compare. We haven't launched AE since we became familiar with the newest Motion. Now that the entire suite has been optimized to run on the 8 Core Mac Pro, we have officially listed all of our remaining Avid hardware for sale on ebay. Avid can't hold a candle. With the Pro HDVC from Apple and broadcast H.264, color correction was all that was keeping Avid alive in our studio. Now that Color is finally here along with support from Red industries, goodbye to Avid and their lackluster and unjustifiably high priced hardware. We get better results in less time for $100,000 less. Color is a bit raw, but has been the biggest difference maker. It is beyond words. Apple made the purchase for $25,000,000 and still kept the price-point the same. This is a sign of great things to come. We are no longer at the mercy of over priced hardware and overly difficult software from Avid. To top it all off, FCS2-Server was the reason why we made the hardware switch all together to Mac Pro 8 cores. It has full support for X-grid and SAN solutions. Now, if any station is unmanned, we run our own scripts to jump start the rendering on 24 cores with 48 Gigs of ram. We get final color and rendering done with a 30 minutes to 1 hour of content time ratio. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable! If the expected fixes come to Soundtrack and Color, we will be ready to move our entire Dubai fleet over within 6 months. Thanks Apple for your hard work and impeccable business ethics. You have finally done it!
UPDATE 2009
My goodness! After several Pro App updates, I love this thing even more. We have long since rid ourselves of our Avid set up. Compared to 3 years ago, we have saved countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars because of FCS. Color is the most amazing thing I have ever used. And it was free! Color is what gives us the edge. Color is what gives us power! Color is what puts us over the top! I LUV IT LUV IT LUV IT! Motion is still a bit buggy but it is most likely the plug ins. (I tried with/without) Final Cut has been greatly improved ad now that a full 64 bit architecture is coming with many FCS improvements, it seems as though we never used anything else to begin with. The rest of my crew ditched Premier when witnessing what FInal Cut can do. We purchased Noise Industries plug-ins and now can do Key Screening right inside FInal Cut without ever having to go to Motion for it. Apple Q-Master is elementary and Live Type is beyond simple. For any Post Production artist, be you amateur, intermediate or pro, I recommend this suite with every breath in my lungs. The price, the capabilities and extensibility... There is simply nothing like it. Avid's equivalent is still $20,000 more! What our lives would be like without this suite is something I don't want to imagine.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
A mixed bag Jul 13, 2007
Final Cut Pro 6 is a fantastic tool; a mature app with great features and rock-solid implementation.
Soundtrack Pro 2 (specifically 2.0.1), on the other hand, may be the worst piece of commercial, non-beta software (based on the severity and frequency of fatal/non-recoverable errors) I have ever had the misfortune to use. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I would advise anyone to think twice or three times about using Soundtrack Pro 2 for any sort of serious and/or mission critical application. Check the various boards/forums dedicated to Soundtrack Pro 2 and you will see that I am not alone in this estimation. Hopefully, Apple will soon see fit to patch this inexcusably buggy piece of software.
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