Final Cut Studio 2: Color - Technical Specifications

Final Cut Studio 2 - Part Numbers

Retail

MA886Z/A

Upgrade from Final Cut Pro

MA887Z/A

Academic

MA886Z/A

Additional Information

Minimum Requirements to Install All Final Cut Studio Applications

  • A Macintosh computer with a 1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, Intel Core Duo, or Intel Xeon processor

  • 1GB of RAM

  • An AGP or PCI Express Quartz Extreme graphics card (Final Cut Studio is not compatible with integrated Intel graphics processors)

  • A display with 1024-by-768 resolution or higher

  • Mac OS X v10.4.9 or Mac OS X v10.5.5 or later

  • QuickTime 7.1.6 or later

  • A DVD drive for installation

Available Disk Space

  • 4GB of disk space required to install all applications (Final Cut Pro, Color, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Cinema Tools, LiveType, Compressor, and Apple Qmaster)

  • Additional 55GB required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate disks):

  • 9GB for DVD Studio Pro content

  • 8GB for Motion templates and tutorial media

  • 24GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content

  • 12GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates

  • 2GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media

Recommended Configurations

The following are recommended for all applications:

  • 2GB of RAM when working with compressed HD and uncompressed SD sources

  • 4GB of RAM when working with uncompressed HD sources

  • A display with 1280 x 1024 resolution or higher

  • 4 GB of hard disc space is required to install all of the Final Cut Studio 2 applications

  • An additional 55 GB of hard disc space is required to install all optional templates, content, and tutorials (may be installed on separate discs):

    • 9 GB for DVD Studio Pro content

    • 8 GB for Motion templates and tutorial media

    • 24 GB for Soundtrack Pro audio content

    • 12 GB for LiveFonts and LiveType animated elements and templates

    • 2 GB for Apple Pro Training Final Cut Studio Tutorials media

Color-Specific Requirements

  • The standard graphics card in any Mac Pro, 17-inch MacBook Pro, 24-inch iMac, or 2.5GHZ or faster Power Mac G5 Quad:

    • ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

    • ATI Radeon X1600

    • NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT, 7600 GT, 7300 GT, 6800 Ultra DDL, 6800 GT DDL, 660, or Quadro FX 4500.

  • For 32-bit rendering: a graphics card with at least 256MB of VRAM.

  • A display with 1680-by-1050 resolution or higher (excluding 20" iMac); dual displays are highly recommended.

  • A three-button mouse for full functionality

Color-Configuration Recommendations

  • ATI Radeon C1900 XT graphics card

  • Dual Displays with 1920 x 1200 or higher resolution

*Some features require additional hardware. Capturing HD resolution video using the ProRes 422 format requires a Mac Pro with an Intel Xeon processor or a G5 Quad computer and a qualified third-party capture card. DV, DVCPRO 50, and DVCPRO HD output requires a FireWire-enabled camera or deck. SD output via FireWire requires an AJA Io. Please contact your Apple Authorized Reseller for information.

Color

Color Grading

  • Real-time grading controls for SD, HD, and 2K without proxies

  • Workflow-oriented interface divides controls into eight separate "rooms"

  • Primary, Secondary, and Primary Out grading functions

  • Color wheels with hue, saturation, and luminance controls for highlights, midtones, and shadows

  • Curves for individual adjustment to R,G,B and luma with B-spline control points

  • Advanced RGB and Printer Points controls for precise film printing

  • Switch between four live grades per shot

  • Autobalance correction available in Primary room

  • ASC-style Lift, Gamma, Gain controls

  • Eight secondaries per shot with custom mattes, key blur, and motion tracking

  • Animated circle, rectangle, and user shape Vignettes with inner and outer softness

  • Keyframing with interpolation for most controls

  • Color FX with node trees for compositing control

  • Still Store for saving and comparing reference images

  • Pan and Scan with preset aspect ratios

  • Real-time waveform monitor, vectorscopes, and histograms

  • 3D Color Space scopes for RGB, HSL, Y’CbCr, and IPT display

  • Broadcast-safe limiting

  • Support for 3D LUTs for display calibration and output simulation

  • Multiple video tracks

  • Support for third-party control surfaces with trackballs and knobs

  • EDL support for DPX and Cineon files

  • Can render directly to DPX or Cineon file formats for film out

  • Use EDLs for "notching" programs without XML metadata

Effects

  • Over 50 Color FX and premade looks

  • Renders at 8-bit, 10-bit, and 32-bit floating point (dependent on GPU)

  • Customizable node tree for effects creation

  • Save and reuse favorite effects

  • Support for third-party plug-ins

  • Preview playback of SD, HD and, 2K on an attached Apple Cinema Display or third-party video card

Supported Formats

  • Support for 4:4:4 2K as DPX or Cineon files

  • Apple Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2

  • Apple Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2

  • TIFF, JPEG, and JPEG 2000 image sequences

  • Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 (HQ), an 8- or 10- bit, full-resolution VBR format with target bit rates of 145 Mbps and 220 Mbps

  • Ability to render all formats at uncompressed HD or ProRes 422 and ProRes 422 (HQ)

  • Optional proxy creation for DPX and Cineon files

  • Third-party codecs from AJA and Blackmagic Design

  • IMX, HDV, XDCAM HD and XDCAM HD 422 can be graded but must be rendered at ProRes 422 or uncompressed resolution

Integration with Final Cut Pro 6

  • Round-trip projects between Color and Final Cut Pro 6 with Send to Color and Send to Final Cut Pro

  • Color projects configured automatically to match Final Cut Pro sequence settings

  • 2K Digital Intermediate workflow with Final Cut Pro

  • Support for all standard frame rates and frame sizes

  • Displays dissolves and fades in the Timeline and renders for 2K projects

  • Constant speed change displayed in Color for playback in real time

  • Pan and Scan metadata sent to Final Cut Pro as Motion effect

Trimming for 2K Output

  • Trimming controls when rendering directly to DPX or Cineon files

  • Ripple

  • Roll

  • Slip

  • Splice

  • Merge edits

  1. Copy protection requires that you output your project to a replicator. Macrovision requires that users work with a Macrovision-certified replication facility or execute a Macrovision usage agreement. Check with your replicator for costs and minimum quantities