page_title: Final Cut Studio
section_title: Components
hierarchical_section_title: Final Cut Studio / Components
caption_attribution_description: This box has been sitting here a while, patiently waiting to get installed. the cube is the entire Final Cut Studio, needed to do a stretch of video editing. The box sitting on the right is only half of the documentation. It's been a few years since I did FCP, and am hoping the rust shakes off.
context_page_description: Final Cut Studio is a discontinued professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X from Apple Inc., and a direct competitor to Avid Media Composer in the high-end movie production industry. It was developed from 2005 to 2011. Three of its primary applications - Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor - continue to be developed and are published as separate applications on the Mac App Store. The legacy boxed version of Final Cut Studio was last made available only through Apple's phone sales, and therefore not online or in Apple Stores. As of 2017, Final Cut Pro 7 no longer runs on macOS High Sierra or later.
context_section_description: Final Cut Studio version 3, the final release upon discontinuation of the suite, contains six main applications and several smaller applications used in content creation.
  Final Cut Pro 7 – "real-time editing for DV, SD and HD"
  Motion 4 – "real-time motion graphics design"
  Soundtrack Pro 3 – "advanced audio editing and sound design"
  DVD Studio Pro 4 – encoding, authoring and burning.
  Color 1.5 – a new color grading application adapted from Silicon Color's FinalTouch.
  Compressor 3.5 –  a video encoding tool for outputting projects in different formats.
  Cinema Tools 4.5 – tools specific to film processing.
  Qmaster 3 – a distributed processing tool.
  The applications are designed to integrate as a suite, to form a workflow. In particular:
  Final Cut Pro sequences can be exported to Soundtrack Pro for audio tweaking or music scoring
  Final Cut Pro sequences can be sent to Compressor, for encoding in an external format
  Final Cut Pro sequences can be exported to Motion, for motion graphics overlays, or LiveType, specifically for title overlays
  LiveType projects can be opened in Final Cut Pro without needing to be exported first
  Motion projects can be incorporated into DVD Studio Pro menus without needing to be exported first
  LiveFonts from LiveType can be used in Motion.
  Final Cut Pro and Motion also integrate directly with Apple's discontinued Shake, a digital compositing package.
caption: Final Cut Studio
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