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The first choice for professional editors everywhere, Final Cut Pro 5 delivers powerful and precise editing tools that work with virtually any format, from DV and native HDV to fully uncompressed HD. With a real-time multistream effects architecture, multicam editing tools, advanced color correction, and intuitive integration with other Apple professional video and audio applications, Final Cut Pro gives you more creative options and technical control than ever before.
 With its much-loved interface, Final Cut Pro 5 keeps you working the way you want to work. |
Full Format Support
With native support for virtually any video format all in one application, Final Cut Pro 5 lets you edit everything from DV and SD to to DVCPRO HD and uncompressed high-definition video. Work with new formats like native HDV (long-GOP MPEG-2) and 50-Mbps IMX. Capture and output video frame accurately using professional decks, or go tapeless with new Panasonic P2 media support. Tight integration with the included Cinema Tools 3 lets you manage and cut film projects with incredible ease.
 Final Cut Pro 5 supports an unprecedented array of formats in both SD and HD resolutions. |
Tapeless Workflow
Embrace the latest industry trends toward tapeless workflows. Final Cut Pro 5 support for high-speed acquisition lets you transfer files from Panasonic P2 devices faster than real time. A file transfer from MXF to QuickTime provides Final Cut Pro 5 with the necessary camera-native DVCPRO, DVCPRO50 or DVCPRO HD files for editing.
Log and Capture from Tape
Final Cut Pro 5 includes a professional log and capture interface that provides full deck control, logging fields and access to capture and media settings. Set reel, clip, scene and shot name information to increment automatically, streamlining your log and capture workflow.
Real-time Multicam Editing
 Multicam editing in real-time? Yes, indeed! |
Multiclips--a new type of clip that allows you to group together multiple sources as separate angles and cut between them--give you up to 128 angles, of which 16 can be played back at a time. An intuitive synchronization window provides graphical feedback to show where clips overlap so you can accurately create Multiclips. Add, delete or change the order of angles in a Multiclip at any time.
The Multiclip Viewer displays and plays back Multiclips in 1-, 4-, 9- and 16-up layouts. Timecode, clip name and angle number information can also be displayed over each angle.
RT Extreme with Dynamic RT
Built on a scalable software architecture, RT Extreme with Dynamic RT automatically provides better performance and more real-time effects as CPU speeds increase. Real-time effects play back both onscreen and on external video output devices at the best available quality, so you see basic cuts and effects at the highest quality, while effects-heavy sections play at reduced quality or frame rates. Lock quality and frame rate to low, medium or high for an entire sequence or use Dynamic RT to change quality and frame rate on the fly.
RT Extreme processes multiple streams of video effects in real time for OfflineRT, DV, DVCPRO50, IMX, native HDV, DVCPRO HD and uncompressed SD and HD. The number of streams is limited only by your system configuration: The faster the system and disks, the more simultaneous video streams you can work with in real time.
Real-time Speed Changes and Time Remapping
Final Cut Pro 5 applies speed changes in real time with frame blending. In addition to constant speed changes, the Time Remap tool lets you speed up, slow down, reverse or ramp playback speed over time.
 Need to see more? Final Cut Pro 5's Digital Cinema Desktop feature takes you there. |
Don't have an extra broadcast monitor handy? Use Digital Cinema Desktop to preview SD and HD video with real-time effects on an Apple Cinema Display. On a portable computer, switch to presentation mode for full-screen playback with JKL keyboard control.
Editing and Trimming
Final Cut Pro 5 includes the precision editing and trimming tools you need to bring your story to life. The staples for professional editors--ripple, roll, slip, and slide--are all there, along with advanced tools that let you trim asymmetrically, extend edits and create J- and L-cuts.
The Final Cut Pro Workspace
Visual controls in Final Cut Pro, including buttons and shortcut menu commands give you total control of the editing process. This unique editing environment also includes the tools you need to cut video with speed and precision.
Customization
You can customize the way you work in Final Cut Pro 5 by creating your own keyboard shortcuts and user interface buttons for over 600 tools and commands.
 The onscreen mixer makes audio tasks more intuitive. |
Multichannel Audio
Use Final Cut Pro 5 audio editing tools to capture up to 24 channels of high-resolution 24-bit/96kHz audio in a single pass. Use the onscreen mixer with an external MCP (Mackie Control Protocol) audio control surface to edit and manipulate audio more efficiently. Or take your audio editing to the next level with Soundtrack Pro.
 Manage all those media files with the helpful Media Manager. |
The improved Media Manager helps consolidate media and projects on your system. New options let you manage multiclips effectively and even rename media files to match clip names or changes you've made in the Browser. Use the new "Reveal in Finder" option to quickly locate media files from your project on the hard drive. Comprehensive search, sort and sift commands in the Browser easily identify assets. And new reconnect functionality enables you to specify locations to search for media, saving time when opening projects after media has moved.
Output and Finishing
Final Cut Pro 5 gives you unparalleled output and finishing capabilities at an affordable price, especially when compared to the cost of using proprietary systems. With advanced 8-, 10- and 32-bit float image processing, you can rest assured your output will always look stunning. New high-quality scale and rotate algorithms along with advanced color correction tools give you everything you need to finish your story and output it to tape, DVD or the web.
Seamless Workflow
Final Cut Pro 5 has deep cross-application integration with Apple's family of professional audio and video applications. Roundtrip content between Final Cut Pro 5, Motion 2, Soundtrack Pro and DVD Studio Pro 5 with automatic asset updating as items change in your project.
Final Cut Pro 5 also offers new integration with Apple's Shake 4, the premier application for digital effects compositing. Your production team can share data seamlessly between editing and effects tasks, thanks to Final Cut Pro/Shake integration.
Xsan
Capture once, save time and share media with multiple editors using a consolidated storage pool powered by Xsan. Give multiple editors simultaneous access to media files, reconnect and manage files across a large Xsan environment and budget your real-time effects based on available Xsan bandwidth.
XML Interchange
Final Cut Pro 5 supports XML interchange format, which describes every aspect of a program from edits and transitions to effects, color correction settings and keyframe data. Using XML interchange format, you can seamlessly share project, bin, sequence, clip and media data generated by Final Cut Pro with any other application or system that supports XML, including other nonlinear editors, asset management databases and custom post-production pipelines.
OMF and AAF
Final Cut Pro 5 supports exporting audio via OMF, which moves all of the audio in your edited sequence into a self-contained file, with all In and Out points preserved in relation to the total duration of the project. And because OMF export preserves all of your edit points, the editor at your audio facility get to work immediately after the OMF file has been imported and resynchronized to your video. An AAF plug-in from Automatic Duck provides AAF I/O functionality.
The scalability, performance, and Emmy Award-winning workflow of Final Cut Pro 5 make it the first choice of professional editors everywhere. Work natively in any format, from DV and HDV to DVCPRO HD and uncompressed 10-bit HD. Final Cut Pro 5 is built for speed with precision editing tools , RT Extreme with Dynamic RT, powerful new Multicam editing tools, advanced real-time color correction and image manipulation filters, and audio control surface support. Deep integration with Apple’s professional applications lets editors seamlessly move from one creative task to the next. Interoperability with Xsan, and support for open standards like XML, let Final Cut Pro 5 fit into virtually any production.