Film, TV, and Video Post
Whether you’re working on a 100-million-dollar studio feature film, editing reality television, or color grading a national advertising campaign, you can find a rich array of tools in Final Cut Studio 2 to meet the needs of the most demanding productions. Collaboration with other users, management of large media files, and seamless multipoint delivery are key to the workflow. By using open standards such as XML and QuickTime, partner manufacturers can tap into the power and performance of Final Cut Studio 2 to provide solutions never before seen in the marketplace.
Autodesk
Discreet Fire and Discreet Smoke support Apple’s Final Cut Pro XML interchange. This integration improves workflows for creative professionals using both Final Cut Pro and Discreet systems, allowing them to realize their ideas with greater ease. Editorial decisions made in Final Cut Pro are directly transferable to Discreet systems, simplifying the post-production process.
Automatic Duck
Automatic Duck creates workflow-enabling plug-ins for Final Cut Studio 2. Its import and export plug-ins help Final Cut Pro editors to collaborate efficiently with users of audio and video applications from manufacturers such as Avid, Quantel, and Digidesign.
Glue Tools
Glue Tools develops utilities and plug-in technology for the high-definition production and motion picture industries. Its Cineon/DPX Pro QuickTime component allows for direct import of Cineon or DPX sequences in Final Cut Pro and in QuickTime Player.
Quantel
Quantel offers a single-step transfer option for users who offline in Final Cut Pro and require an online workflow using Quantel’s generationQ range of products. Quantel systems integrate via Final Cut Pro XML and AAF through a third-party solution and allow projects to be finished on Quantel systems via a multilayer AAF exchange. The multilayer timeline enables online projects to be confirmed with exactly the same structure as in the offline. Enhanced AAF metadata support allows automatic rebuild of transitions, DVE effects, layer opacity, and text. The offline interchange uses the open and nonproprietary AAF format compatible with Final Cut Pro.
Rising Sun Research
Rising Sun Research focuses on improving collaboration and flexibility during television and film review and approval cycles. Its QuickTime-based remote review and approval tool, cineSync, allows users to play, scrub, draw onscreen, write, and point to synchronized content. All of these interactions can be transferred to Final Cut Pro via XML.
Tangent Devices
Tangent Devices designs, manufactures, and distributes professional-grade control panels built specifically for today’s modern digital color grading applications. The CP200 product set has been configured from the ground up to seamlessly integrate with Apple’s Color software. Colorists will find the mapping of hardware and software elegantly designed and highly optimized.
