source materials to a wide range of industry formats. Create professional-quality DVDs right away, developing more sophisticated commercial projects as your expertise grows.

• Author in SD or HD: Showcase your HD content with integrated, scalable H.264 encoding that allows you to fit HD content on DVDs using existing drives and existing media. Create HD on DVD versions from existing SD projects. Go from native HDV to HD on DVD with no recompression from Final Cut Pro and save time by encoding HD and SD in one Compressor batch.

• Distributed Encoding: Dramatically increase your HD and SD encoding speed by sharing the encoding workload over multiple computers. Offload encoding tasks to another machine and add encoding notes at no extra cost.

• Integrated Dolby Encoder: Encode Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3) surround sound audio, reduce uncompressed PCM audio file size without compromising quality--and display the Dolby logo on your final DVD.

• VTS Allocation: Increase playback performance with VTS editing by allocating menus throughout VTS folders to overcome 1GB menu limitations.

• GPRM Partitioning: GPRM partitioning gives you advanced scripting control options for highly interactive DVDs. And improved script commands allow jumps to motion menu loops so you avoid repeating introduction transitions.

• Real-Time HD Preview: Preview color and surround sound on a second Digital Cinema Desktop while you work. Audition surround sound using S/PDIF (digital audio) out to an external DTS or Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder.

Product Description
Final Cut Studio puts everything professional editors need to elevate production values in a single box. These products are fully integrated into a powerful, all-purpose production suite. Among its many features: Powerful new multicamera editing, native HDV support, precision editing tools, scalable real-time effects processing, advanced real-time color correction, image manipulation filters and audio control surface support. Includes Final Cut Pro 5, Soundtrack Pro, Motion 2 and DVD Studio Pro 4.

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Product Reviews:

        
User-friendly, efficient editing software, October 18, 2005
Reviewer: Bat Jelly
After working in Adobe Premiere for a couple of years, I switched to Sony Vegas Video for a while and worked with Avid for a few years also. I liked Vegas and Avid much better than Premiere, but once I learned Final Cut Pro, I haven't gone back. It's easily my favorite of the non-linear editing software I've used.

Of the 2 negative comments I've seen so far, one had to do with the fact that he had mistakenly been sent only the handbooks and no software. I'm sure that's quite frustrating, but I don't see how he can rate the software 1-star when he DOESN'T EVEN HAVE IT! And the other guy apparently doesn't know too much about Final Cut Pro either. For example, he says that when you place a clip in the timeline it WRITES OVER other clips automatically. In actuality, there is a horizontal line passing through each track in the timeline - if you drag the clip into the timeline and release the mouse when the pointer is UNDER the line (and looks like a DOWN arrow), then the clip will be edited to the timeline as an OVERWRITE edit; if you release the mouse when the pointer is ABOVE the line (and looks like a RIGHT arrow), then the clip will be edited as an INSERT edit, and the clips after it remain intact. It's as simple as that.

If that is what is meant by "THINKing HARD" to use this software... either I'm good at "thinking hard" (doubtful), or someone's in for a long and difficult life, full of "puzzles". I honestly think that Final Cut Pro has the lowest learning curve of any of the editing programs that I've used, and nearly everyone I know that's learned it identifies with my experience.

Plus, the additional software in this Studio package is worth the money many times over - Motion, with its real-time previews of effects and incredibly simple interface, beats After Effects hands-down; LiveType is incredibly easy to work with and produces quality titles, Soundtrack is pretty good at reducing noise and touching up audio, and DVD Studio Pro is great as well. Plus, the ability to communicate between the programs (without re-rendering or re-exporting) better than, say, the Adobe programs is what is the best selling-point of this package.

Again, that's what this listing is for - a "package" of SEVERAL incredible software applications and extras, for a reasonable price. You're definitely free to be swayed by the one valid (meaning the gentleman definitely has every right to dissent) negative review that, incidentally, was for Final Cut Pro - NOT Final Cut Studio... notice the lack of a review of any of the other programs. While Amazon also sells Final Cut Pro separately, I guess writing a review for the proper product may also fall under the category "thinking hard".

Overall, this is an INCREDIBLE package, and well worth the money!________________________________________________________________

          
Best there is!, June 6, 2005
Reviewer: David

Whoever rated this editing system badly is trying to fill others with misinformation! This total editing system is simply the best editor out there. The end...put it in the can. To say otherwise is just plain wrong.

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