Thursday, July 21, 2005

Final Cut 5

http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/

Apple bought Final Cut, DVD Pro, Spruce Tech, Shake, SoundTrack from eMagic and so on to support great work flow. In the pro space everything is about workflow and not being held up.

Motion and After Effects work well together.

Could have 20 or 30 projects open at any one time. Tools also work with 2 button mouse. Have 5 or 6 different ways to do everything.

Can customize keyboard layout to a file and then place on USB drive to make fast move to a new computer system.

Is a book, Final Cut for Avid editors.

Cool feature - button list. If want to do color correction, can drag different window views to timeline window so can jump to different views.

So, highly flexible setup.

Can have 99 layers of video and 99 layers of audio. Is a 2d compositer, bring in multilayer photoshop file and Final cut can see all layers in that file and edit within them as well. All photoshop effects work in FCP.

No render bars; playing in real time.

Easy to work with and powerful, open, extensible. Hmm, those are too often in conflict. Test before committing.

Native Editing. DV, HDV, DVCPro HD native), capture, export natively without any transcoding. If add effects in creates those effects as new frames; does not transcode.

Panasonic p2 cards, 8 gb gets you 32 min of DVC pro, 16 min of DVCpro 50
8 min of DVCpro hd. As of July 2005, about $1000 a card.

Uncompressed HD is 4:4:4 space. Color space is depth of color universe with an image and is highest quality, film resolution. HDV is lower quality, good, but will fall apart on higher end compositing.

Goal is film look with video. New starwars movie shot with uncompressed HD, all digital, as footage is all going to get enhanced with special effects.

Cinema Tools 3 (film Cold Mt. all done in final cut), handles transition between 24 fps film for final cut editing.

FCP is rendering in RT (real time) for editing but will still be render at the end for final version. This is about fast work flow.

Once a multicam view is set up; can play all at once, and click between video streams and have it automatically make cuts to timeline.

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