Apple's Final Cut Pro 3 is the only professional nonlinear editor available that lets you work in the entire range of professional editing formats — from DV to SD and HD — within the same affordable application. Optimized for the G4, it delivers powerful movie editing. Also see DVD Studio Pro for DVD authoring

Overview:

Final Cut Pro 3 gives you the benefits of the industry’s first out-of-the-box, realtime effects architecture — without the obvious drawbacks of rigid proprietary systems that can cost tens of thousands of dollars more. With Final Cut Pro 3, wipes, dissolves and color correction happen in G4 realtime when using DV and OfflineRT — Apple’s revolutionary new offline format that lets your Power Mac G4 or Titanium PowerBook G4 hold up to five times as much footage as it can with DV — with no PCI card required. This video editing powerhouse harnesses the G4 Velocity Engine to deliver breakthrough new capabilities — including the ability to preview effects and transitions in realtime without additional PCI hardware. And it’s now available for the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X. You can capture and transcode DV footage to OfflineRT using a simple FireWire connection. The first native offline format available for DV, (it can also be used by editors working with standard definition or high definition formats) OfflineRT is perfect for editing on the run, providing over 40 minutes of video per gigabyte of hard disk space. This means you can carry around massive amounts of timecode-accurate video — storing more than 24 hours worth of footage on a PowerBook G4’s 48GB internal hard drive — that you can reconnect to the original source material whenever you’re ready, without having to resort to special external storage solutions. Final Cut Pro 3 leverages the power of the G4 Velocity Engine to deliver dual-stream, realtime effects such as cross-dissolves, titles and color correction. The number and complexity of G4 realtime effects scale as processing power increases — install the software on a 800MHz dual processor Power Mac G4, for instance, and you’ll be ready for almost anything — but because Final Cut Pro 3 has no add-in hardware requirements, even editors using it on a PowerBook G4 have access to true realtime effects playback. And whether you’re working on a Power Mac G4 system at a dedicated edit bay or on a PowerBook G4 out on the road, the combination of Apple’s G4 firepower, Mac OS ease-of-use and the astonishing depth and sheer versatility of the Final Cut Pro 3 toolset makes this a compelling value proposition.

Features

Capture audio directly to your timeline

Final Cut Pro 3 features a new Voice Over tool that works with the microphone built into your PowerBook G4, so you can capture audio directly to the timeline for quick scratch tracks and voice-over work right in the field. And Final Cut Pro can export to Open Media Framework (OMF) audio which means that you can use the best audio mixing tools and talents in the business.

All the tools you need

You also get a new set of prescription-strength color correction tools — including primary and secondary color correctors, range checking, zebra-stripe overlays, and waveform and vectorscope monitors — as well as precise controls to ensure broadcast-legal video levels. Final Cut Pro 3 also includes the new Autosave Vault, which saves and time-stamps projects at intervals you specify—allowing you to easily return to previous stages of your project. Plus productive editing tools in a mode-free interface that provides three-point editing, JKL keyboard navigation, match frame, extend and split edit functions, multiple and nested timeline project support, and timecode overlays.

Offline RT

Until the revolutionary OfflineRT format came along, a real-time dual-stream editing system totally contained in a sleek laptop computer was, strictly speaking, a wishful fantasy. Now this coveted capability is available out of the box with Final Cut Pro 3.

No matter what type of videos you create, you’ve probably encountered an immutable law of editing: digital footage expands to fill the storage space available for it. That’s why the 667MHz PowerBook G4 comes with a 48GB hard disk drive. And now with the powerful new OfflineRT format in Final Cut Pro 3 you can expand that capacity even more, to store over 24 hours worth of timecode-accurate footage for real-time editing on the run.

The secret? It’s the hot new QuickTime Photo-JPEG codec upon which Final Cut Pro 3’s OfflineRT format is based. Capturing digital video at 320 x 240 and running at a data rate of 660Kbps, the QuickTime Photo-JPEG codec yields approximately 40 minutes of footage per 1GB of hard drive space.

There are two reasons why you need such greatly expanded storage capacity: First, a minute’s worth of DV footage equals over half a gigabyte’s worth of ones and zeros. So hard disks can fill up fast. Second, video editing in its purest form is an obsessive pursuit of perfection. It may run counter to the stated purpose of editing, but if you’re like most serious digital video professionals, chances are your first impulse when studying your footage is to throw nothing out. You value the freedom to change your mind — and reverse your decisions — constantly. After all, that’s how you put your own distinctive stamp on a movie. So you instinctively hoard several takes of a scene — some with subtle tonal distinctions visible to no eyes but your own — until you’re ready to make your final cut.

Effects

Engineered to harness the awesome supercomputing power of the PowerPC G4 with Velocity Engine, Final Cut Pro 3 turns your Mac into a video editing powerhouse that pumps out render-free playback of effects in real time.

Final Cut Pro 3 delivers the industry’s first out-of-the-box, real-time effects architecture: wipes, dissolves, and color correction happen in real time when using DV and OfflineRT material with a Power Mac G4.

The saying “if you can dream it, you can do it,” has rarely been more true. In fact, it has never been easier to use your imagination to great effect. Because Final Cut Pro 3 comes packed with a suite of cutting edge power tools — many of them new — for compositing, titling and enhancing your clips with filters and motion effects.

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