Apple Final Cut Studio 2 at DVinfo.net

Peter Robert · January 25th, 2008, 11:02 PM

I am in the PC world for years. I shoot many many DV in past 10 years. Of course in sd 4:3 format. Just come across Final Cut Studio 2 which has a function to convert sd (4:3) movie to HD (16:9) format. Seems that it is very powerful.

Do you try this? How is the video quality?

Mathieu Ghekiere · January 26th, 2008, 01:47 AM

Final Cut Studio is a very extensive package of programs. It contains:
*Final Cut Pro (professional editing system with support for many codecs)
*Motion (making animations)
*Color (professional color grading system that costed 25k, to 5k, to free in the studio package, although it has some bugs)
*Soundtrack Pro (editing the soundtrack, making a 5.1 surround track, etcetera)
*DVD Studio Pro (to design and make complete dvd's with menu's etcetera)
*COMPRESSOR (what you are talking about, for encoding from one format to another, you have very much options).

I think the package as a whole is very powerful, gives you a lot for you money, but compressor is only one of them. I wouldn't think it would be worth it to buy a complete Mac system for only the compressor program, but if you are looking for the complete studio package, then it's maybe worth upgrading to a mac.
You can set different quality settings, and I think quality is pretty good, although someone (if I remember correctly) made a thread about the differences in quality when encoding from HD to SD in an NLE. I don't know if Final Cut was mentioned too...

Thread is here:
http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...+sd+conversion
EDIT: the thread only is about PC solutions.

Final Cut is becoming a pretty much used package, there are already 800.000 registred users out there, and we have our own board for it (Non-Lineair Editing on the Mac).

Best regards,

January 25th, 2008, 11:02 PM	#1
Peter Robert Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 70	Apple Final Cut Studio 2 I am in the PC world for years. I shoot many many DV in past 10 years. Of course in sd 4:3 format. Just come across Final Cut Studio 2 which has a function to convert sd (4:3) movie to HD (16:9) format. Seems that it is very powerful. Do you try this? How is the video quality?

January 26th, 2008, 01:47 AM	#2
Mathieu Ghekiere Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Belgium Posts: 2,195	Final Cut Studio is a very extensive package of programs. It contains: Final Cut Pro (professional editing system with support for many codecs) Motion (making animations) Color (professional color grading system that costed 25k, to 5k, to free in the studio package, although it has some bugs) Soundtrack Pro (editing the soundtrack, making a 5.1 surround track, etcetera) DVD Studio Pro (to design and make complete dvd's with menu's etcetera) COMPRESSOR (what you are talking about, for encoding from one format to another, you have very much options). I think the package as a whole is very powerful, gives you a lot for you money, but compressor is only one of them. I wouldn't think it would be worth it to buy a complete Mac system for only the compressor program, but if you are looking for the complete studio package, then it's maybe worth upgrading to a mac. You can set different quality settings, and I think quality is pretty good, although someone (if I remember correctly) made a thread about the differences in quality when encoding from HD to SD in an NLE. I don't know if Final Cut was mentioned too... Thread is here: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...+sd+conversion EDIT: the thread only is about PC solutions. Final Cut is becoming a pretty much used package, there are already 800.000 registred users out there, and we have our own board for it (Non-Lineair Editing on the Mac). Best regards, __________________ http://productionsofthe3rdkind.com http://pr3k.com Last edited by Mathieu Ghekiere; January 26th, 2008 at 02:44 AM.