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Is Final Cut Studio O.K. for HD work?
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[Bret Williams] “Read the post. He obviously thinks there is final cut pro and final cut studio.”
Exactly Bret. Because there were standalone versions of FCP before the suite existed. The original post clearly stakes that Zeno only has FCP, not the full suite. That’s why I asked which version he had and even told him how to check. If you had simply allowed him to answer my original question regarding his version we could have saved eight or nine useless messages.
David Roth Weiss
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[Zeno Pierre] “I bought Final Cut Studio a while back. When I open Final Cut it says that I have Final Cut Pro not Studio. I wanted to do some work on HD footage. Do I need Final Cut Pro HD?”
Final Cut Studio is a suite of applications, we are now up to Final Cut Studio 3. Final Cut Pro is the editing software and it’s up to Version 7.
Yes, Final Cut Pro is perfectly fine for editing HD, especially any version that was included with the Studio suites. Now the type of HD editing you can do is wholly dependant on your system configuration and the version of Final Cut Pro you actually own.
DVCPro HD and HDV for example can be cut on pretty much any Mac. ProRes, which was first included with Final Cut Pro 6, can be cut on most Intel Macs. Uncompressed HD requires a desktop machine and an extremely fast hard drive array.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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I read it quite differently. When someone says they bought Final Cut Studio, I assume they bought Final Cut Studio. Then when they are obviously confused by the fact that it calls itself Final Cut Pro when they open the program (instead of Studio) then I first address the fact that they don’t understand that the program is part of a larger package called “fc studio” and that there is only one version of final cut pro (within the realm of studio I suppose). There is no version of fc studio with FCP HD included. He does not need to purchase FCP HD. Perhaps I could have expanded further and dug deeper into version numbers etc but it was obviously a newbie question simply wondering if they had a hd capable version of FC Studio and wondered if they needed FC HD instead.
I’m sorry if my interpretion of his question and my legitamate , but possibly unclear, answer bothered you so much but I don’t think it prevented him from answering you. There weren’t any replies when I started replying to the post. And your answer was certainly sufficient. I wouldn’t have butted in if it had been there already. Just figured Id help since it’s a little slow in here over the holiday. Of which I hope everyone is having a good one!
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[Bret Williams] “Of which I hope everyone is having a good one!”
I’m having a great holiday Bret, thanks for asking! Hope you’re having a great one too!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” now in Post.
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Can of worms.
You could do us a huge favor by telling us what you mean by “HD” and where you think your production output is headed. The various workflows for FCP and the many different and incompatible version of “HD” require much patience and research before you will know if “FCP is O.K. for HD.”
bogiesan
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Yawn. HD is SO yesterday. I’m already editing Super Hi Vision on my 16.384 processor IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer.
RED? Please. 7K is here, baby!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_hi_vision
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Maybe he needs Final Cut Server.
[Ducking…]
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oy, rabbi bob…had you had a bad Christmas? (or Hanukkah?) did you forget your pills?
: )
just sounded a little harsh, and it looks like the guy hasn’t posted since – i would assume he figured it out…
have a great day everybody!
Thanks again!
J. Tad Newberry
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[In my best cop voice]
OK folks. Nothing to see here. Let’s move along.
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