Today I had a look at the new Final Çut Studio as it now simply called, not version 3 as expected. I was invited courtesy of MacVideo to have a look at the new features demonstrated by Apple Staff, specialising in Video market.

Whilst it boasts over a 100 new features native transfer support in Final Cut Pro 7, one of them is log and transfers for XDcam Ex,you still have to use Sony’s own Log and Transfer Utility. But if you are using Panasonic P2, AVCintra or RED no problem and can be set to locate and ingest a mounted card.

We had a brief overview of the new Pro Res Codecs of which there are three including
Pro Res 4444 that carries an alpha channel as well another for multicam use and proxy version of suitable for offline laptop editing.

New speed change or time remapping features, plus i Chat theatre integration, background transcoding with ability to cluster or network distributed encoding in the background whilst you still edit.

Motion 3 supports shadows, multiple light reflections as well plus loads of other stuff already featured online or commented about. But a reminder this version is only Intel compatible and will not run on a G5 or G4 processor.

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