Final Cut Pro

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Final Cut Pro is Apple's current high end video editing solution. The current version is 6. It competes primarily with Avid editing solutions and Adobe's Premiere.

1 Use
2 System Requirements
3 Versions
4 Final Cut Pro 5 US Pricing
5 Final Cut Studio US Pricing
6 External Links

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Use

Final Cut Pro has been used for many feature films such as Cold Mountian and Napolean Dynamite.

Final Cut Pro 6 delivers powerful and precise editing tools that work with virtually any format, from DV and native HDV to fully uncompressed HD - as well as Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM HD, AVCHD and AVC-Intra tapeless formats. The new open format Timeline in Final Cut Pro 6 allows for muli-format source material to be edited in the same timeline without render. Apple also introduced a new post-production format called ProRes 422 that significantly decreased uncompressed HD file sizes.

Final Cut Pro is available exclusively for Mac OS X, and is widely considered the leading application of its kind.

It is one of the six main components of Final Cut Studio 2, along with DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Color and Compressor 3.

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System Requirements

Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor
1GB of RAM, 2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources or 4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources.
AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)
Display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.5 or later
QuickTime 7.5.5 or later
4GB of disk space required to install all applications; additional 55GB required to install all optional templates, loops, content and tutorials (may be installed on separate disks)
DVD drive for installation; SuperDrive required for DVD burning.

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Versions

Final Cut Pro 1
Final Cut Pro 2
Final Cut Pro 3
Final Cut Pro 4
Final Cut Pro 4.5 - The first version to include HD support, also known as Final Cut Pro HD
Final Cut Pro 5 - Upgrade via Apple to 5.04 available 12/29/05
Final Cut Pro 6 - The current version. This version introduced the open format Timeline,

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