Apple Final Cut Studio 2 Software Suite and Matrox MXO Hardware Bundle

Final Cut Studio

• Universal Binary

Final Cut Studio is a Universal Binary application. This means that it will run natively at full speed on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers. You can be sure that FCS will run as fast as possible on your Mac, regardless of what type of CPU you have.

Final Cut Pro

• Industry Standard

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.

• Edit Anything

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 DVCPRO HD and uncompressed high-definition video. You can work with new formats like native HDV (long-GOP MPEG-2) and 50-Mbps IMX.

• Native HDV Support

Unlike other solutions, Final Cut Pro 5 acquires HDV media via FireWire and keeps it in the original format, transferring it into the system without any generation loss. You can output via FireWire back to an HDV tape or transfer your native HDV to DVD Studio Pro 4 for an end-to-end native HDV workflow.

• Tapeless Workflow

You can capture and output video frames accurately using professional decks, or go tapeless with built-in Panasonic P2 media support. This allows you to view and browse P2 devices, then transfer the files you need directly into the Final Cut Pro 5 Browser.

• Multicam Editing

Simultaneously view and cut from multiple sources in real time, thanks to new multicam editing for DV, SD and HD. You can group up to 128 sources together into multi-clips, then add or subtract cameras at any time for maximum flexibility. This allows you to switch from shot to shot, with or without effects, and auto-assemble sequences based on time-of-day timecode.

• RT Extreme with Dynamic RT

You can save time with real-time effects processing on everything from DV to fully uncompressed HD. New Dynamic RT adjusts image quality and frame rate on the fly for optimal playback and scales performance as CPU power increases. You can even define Dynamic RT preferences for total control.

• Multichannel Audio

You can capture and output up to 24 channels of high resolution 24-bit, 96 kHz audio in a single pass. Final Cut Pro 5 is fully compatible with MCP (Mackie Control Protocol) devices, allowing you to use external audio control surfaces to mix and record multiple fader automations simultaneously, all while enjoying 2-way communication between your system and the control surface.

• Improved Xsan Support

Capture once, save time and share media with multiple editors using a consolidated storage pool powered by Xsan. Improved Media Management Tools provide support for reconnecting and managing file across large Xsan environments, budgeting your real-time effects according to available Xsan bandwidth.

Soundtrack Pro

• Professional Audio Editing

Soundtrack Pro features more than 50 effects from Logic Pro and over 5000 Apple Loops. The software provides sample-accurate and nondestructive editing in an intuitive interface. making it a must-have tool for pro audio engineers and sound designers alike.

• Precise Audio Control

You can manipulate audio in a breakthrough nondestructive, sample-accurate, action-based waveform editor. The software lets you reorder, suspend, modify and delete any edit, effect or process. You can quickly identify, preview and fix common audio problems such as background noise, pops, clicks and hum. The software even stretches audio without affecting pitch.

• Advanced Sound Design

You can use more than 50 professional effect plug-ins from Logic Pro to enhance a dialog track, recreate the reverberant ambiance of any space, create sound effects or design new music sounds and samples. The software lets you select the perfect audio bed for your project from more than 5000 sound effects and music files using the intuitive Apple Loops browser.

• Comprehensive Toolset

The software delivers all the features you would expect from an advanced audio application including multitrack arranging and a console-style mixer with control surface support. What's more, you can use AppleScript to create batch processes for tasks you perform frequently, such as format conversions, noise reduction and normalization.

• Integrated Workflow

You can Move back and forth between other Final Cut Studio applications for quick and easy audio touch-up or creation. You can send entire sequences from Final Cut Pro 5 directly into the Soundtrack Pro multitrack editor or round-trip individual clips between Final Cut Pro and the Soundtrack Pro Waveform Editor. This lets you record director's commentary for a DVD Studio Pro project or add a sound effect or transition audio to a Motion project. You can even use Soundtrack Pro as a powerful waveform editor and sound design tool with Logic Pro, Logic Express or other digital audio workstation.

Motion

• Graphics Creation

Nothing like your old-school motion graphics system, Motion 2 ushers in a new paradigm, offering true film-quality output, GPU accelerated real-time performance and an astounding tool set that lets you create advanced motion graphics with drag-and-drop ease, startling clarity and unprecedented color fidelity.

• GPU Accelerated 32-Bit Rendering

Motion is the world's first motion graphics software with GPU accelerated 32-bit float rendering for true film quality. 32-bit float rendering produces extremely fine color accuracy, eliminates banding artifacts and even improves quality when rendering to 8-bit formats. You get great detail, quality and range of color that automatically scales with new generations of GPUs and CPUs.

• Replicator

An amazing new design tool, Replicator allows you to generate multiple copies of a single graphic, shape or movie and animate them in mesmerizing patterns. Just drag and drop the Sequence behavior to produce wave-like animations along grids, swirls, burst shapes or any user-defined layout.

• New Filters and Effects

Motion 2 offers more than 500 filters, effects and particle presets, each and every one designed to take advantage of the stunning quality produced by 16 and 32-bit float rendering. You can apply filters such as 3D Rotate, Extrude and Vignette that are fundamental to almost every project, explore unique Caustics and Membrane Generators or apply and modify dozens of new particle presets to produce animations that will stand out.

• MIDI Behavior

Motion allows you to move beyond a single hand on a mouse or pen to enjoy the flexibility of multiple fingers on a MIDI control surface. With Motion 2, you can assign any number of filters or transform parameters to a MIDI knob, fader or pad with "Learn" mode. Because you get real-time, dynamic response to simultaneous inputs, you can even "play" Motion like a musical instrument for spontaneous live performances.

• Integrated Workflow

You can now use Motion in conjunction with Adobe After Effects. All of the particle effects, Replicator designs and animations in Motion can be added to an After Effects "comp" without rendering. Making a change is as simple as selecting "Open in Editor" from the After Effects edit menu.

DVD Studio Pro

• DVD Authoring

Showcase your HD content in HD resolution with DVD Studio Pro 4. Distributed network encoding allows you to quickly convert your source materials to a wide range of industry formats. The software lets you create professional-quality DVDs right away, developing more sophisticated commercial projects as your expertise grows.

• Author in SD or HD

The software lets you showcase your HD content with integrated, scalable H.264 encoding that allows you to fit HD content on DVDs using existing drives and existing media. You can even create HD on DVD versions from existing SD projects. You'll be able to go from native HDV to HD on DVD with no recompression from Final Cut Pro and save time by encoding HD and SD in one Compressor batch.

• Distributed Encoding

You can dramatically increase your HD and SD encoding speed by sharing the encoding workload over multiple computers. The software lets you offload encoding tasks to another machine and add encoding nodes at no extra cost.

• Integrated Dolby Encoder

DVD Studio Pro encodes Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3) surround sound audio, reduce uncompressed PCM audio file size without compromising quality and display the Dolby logo on your final DVD.

• VTS Allocation

You can increase playback performance with VTS editing by allocating menus throughout VTS folders to overcome 1 GB menu limitations.

• GPRM Partitioning

GPRM partitioning gives you advanced scripting control options for highly interactive DVDs. Improved script commands allow jumps to motion menu loops so you avoid repeating introduction transitions.

• Real-Time HD Preview

You can preview color and surround sound on a second Digital Cinema Desktop while you work. You'll even be able to audition surround sound using S/PDIF (digital audio) out to an external DTS or Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder.

Matrox MXO

• DVI to Broadcast

The MXO lets you output video through your Mac's digital DVI connection and convert to HD or SD SDI video suitable for broadcast. The flicker free video can feature up to 8 channels of embedded SDI audio. The MXO features connections for HD/SD SDI, HD/SD analog component, Y/C and composite video connections.

• Portable and Hot Swappable

The MXO is easily portable and hot swappable. This allows you to move it from one computer to another without having to power the computers down, making it easy to move it from one computer to another.

• Final Cut Pro Workflow Enhancements

The MXO features several workflow enhancements for Final Cut Pro and other QuickTime-based applications. These include DVI output frame to broadcast-quality conversion, artifact elimination and gamma correction, hardware accelerated video output and realtime downscaling of HD video to SD.