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    Final Cut Pro 1.0: Description
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4/21/99
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    Final Cut Pro
    The all-in-one solution for professional digital video editing, compositing, and special effects.

DISCUSSION

    Now you can create high-quality video without hassle or high costs. Final Cut Pro is the only affordable software that combines professional editing, compositing, and special effects capa-bilities in one flexible and highly productive program. By giving you the best features of other products-and more-in a single application, Final Cut Pro lets you work faster at a lower cost. In fact, a Power Macintosh G3 computer with Final Cut Pro costs less than a tenth of the price of some competing systems. No wonder it's the ideal choice for professionals in video, marketing communications, graphic design, multimedia, and web creation.

    Plug-and-play digital video is finally a reality with Final Cut Pro. Just connect your computer to one of the hot new cameras that have DV and FireWire (IEEE 1394) connections, and you've got a complete personal video workstation. Final Cut Pro transfers the digital video and audio to your hard disk, where you can edit and manipulate them, then play the results almost instantaneously on a computer, TV, or VCR. If you don't have a DV camera, you can capture traditional analog media using any of the QuickTime-compatible video capture cards and devices certified to work with Final Cut Pro. (Final Cut Pro works with the Pinnacle Systems TARGA series of video capture cards. See www.apple.com/finalcutpro for information on other certified cards).

    Once the video and audio are in your system, Final Cut Pro gives you a comprehensive set of tools to turn them into a well-polished production. Fast, interactive tools streamline the editing and compositing processes. Choose from numerous built-in special effects, bring in third-party Adobe After Effects filters, or design your own effects. While you're creating video, you can view it on a TV and your computer monitor simultaneously-with fast, smooth playback so you can tell exactly how the finished product will look.

    You can output your final video to any professional format. Print straight to videotape, or create a QuickTime file for a CD-ROM or the World Wide Web.

    Final Cut Pro: Professional digital video production at a cost you would never have thought possible.

    Key Features

    Comprehensive professional tools
    • Provides professional editing, compositing, and effects programs in one product
    • Work quickly with a complete set of interactive editing tools
    • Build composites using a direct, proxy-free interface
    • Create and animate unlimited layers of elements
    • Use Bézier curves or graphs to apply and control effects and animations with keyframes
    • Manage your media assets with 34 columns of data and unlimited bins and sub-bins

    Plug-and-play digital video
    • Works instantly with most FireWire-equipped Power Macintosh G3 computers
    • Gets video directly from most DV devices
    • Works with certified QuickTime-compatible video capture and output cards for all professional formats and connections. (Final Cut Pro works with the Pinnacle Systems TARGA series of video capture cards. See www.apple.com/finalcutpro for information on other certified cards).
    • Simultaneously outputs to a computer monitor and a TV monitor, VCR, or camera

    Enhanced workflow and productivity
    • Do all your work through four multifunction windows
    • Edit using a source/record, timeline, or keyboard interface
    • Print to tape without a "make movie" command
    • Use the four work-mode qualities with separate caches for high-speed previewing and rendering
    • Protect your work with autosave and 99 levels of "undo"
    • Log and capture video directly into bins
    • Organize and find media with sorts, sifts, and Boolean searches

    Outstanding support for QuickTime
    • View large windows with stutter-free playback
    • Get fast playback even of long productions
    • Enjoy guaranteed audio/video synchronization
    • Use superlarge files (more than 2 gigabytes)
    • Add eye-catching QuickTime transitions and effects
    • Export video to all QuickTime formats, including Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) and streaming video

Document Information
Product Area: Apple Software
Category: Final Cut Pro
Sub Category: General Topics

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