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Apple assumes no responsibility with regard to the performance or use of these products. 1 Contents 5 6 10 11 12 14 14 17 17 18 21 23 23 24 26 27 27 27 28 29 29 30 30 31 32 33 34 34 35 35 An Introduction to the Apple Post-Production Applications Overview of the Apple Post-Production Applications Using This Document Sample Final Cut Studio Workflow Editing the Movie Encoding the Movie Authoring the DVD Using Apple Applications for Your Final Cut Pro Projects Using Soundtrack Pro With Final Cut Pro Working With a Single Clip From Final Cut Pro Working With Multiple Audio Tracks From Final Cut Pro Exporting a Clip or Sequence From Final Cut Pro to Soundtrack Pro Using Motion With Final Cut Pro Exporting a Clip or Sequence From Final Cut Pro to Motion Importing a Motion Project Into a Final Cut Pro Project Making Changes to a Motion Project Already in Final Cut Pro Using Compressor With Final Cut Pro Exporting Your Movie Using Compressor Converting a Video Clip to a Different Video Standard Using LiveType With Final Cut Pro Importing a LiveType Project Into a Final Cut Pro Project Making Changes to a LiveType Project Already in Final Cut Pro Exporting a Partial Sequence for LiveType Using Shake With Final Cut Pro How Imported Clips Are Arranged in Shake Sending Clips From Final Cut Pro Sending Media Back to Final Cut Pro Using Logic Pro With Final Cut Pro Importing Final Cut Pro XML Files Into Logic Pro Exporting a Final Cut Pro XML File From Logic Pro 3 37 37 38 38 39 40 40 41 45 45 46 47 48 49 50 50 51 53 53 54 Using Apple Applications for Your DVD Studio Pro Projects Turning Your Final Cut Pro Project Into a DVD Importing Your Final Cut Pro Project Into DVD Studio Pro Making an HD-Based DVD From Your Final Cut Pro Project Using Motion in Your DVD Studio Pro Project Importing a Motion Project for a Motion Menu Making Changes to a Motion Project Already in DVD Studio Pro Creating and Importing a Motion Project as an Alpha Transition Using Soundtrack Pro in Your DVD Studio Pro Project Saving Soundtrack Pro Projects for DVD Studio Pro Using Soundtrack Pro With Motion Projects Exporting AIFF Audio From Soundtrack Pro Exporting From Soundtrack Pro Using Compressor Using Compressor in Your DVD Studio Pro Project About the Compressor Workflow Methods Why Make AC-3 Files? Making AC-3 Files With Compressor Using LiveType in Your DVD Studio Pro Project Importing a LiveType Project Into DVD Studio Pro Making Changes to a LiveType Project Already in DVD Studio Pro 4 1 An Introduction to the Apple Post-Production Applications Apple has created a family of professional audio and video applications that work together seamlessly in even the most demanding post-production workflows. The Apple post-production applications deliver powerful editing tools, revolutionary sound design, real-time motion graphics, next-generation DVD authoring, and award-winning compositing tools. This document describes the roles of each application in the Final Cut Pro movie production process and the DVD Studio Pro DVD authoring process. Post-production function Editing Application Final Cut Pro Cinema Tools Audio Soundtrack Pro Logic Pro Compositing and motion graphics Motion LiveType Shake Distribution DVD Studio Pro Compressor Description  Real-time editing for DV, SD, HD, and film  Advanced tools for film and 24p HD  Professional-quality audio post-production  Advanced music creation and audio production  Real-time motion graphics design  Dynamic animated titling effect creation  Advanced digital effects compositing  Comprehensive DVD authoring for SD and HD movies  Versatile, high-quality SD and HD encoding All of these applications, with the exception of Shake and Logic Pro, are included with Final Cut Studio--a comprehensive and integrated post-production package. 5 Overview of the Apple Post-Production Applications Each of the Apple post-production applications provides industry-leading postproduction tools that give you all the power you need to complete even the most challenging projects. Final Cut Pro The scalability and performance of Final Cut Pro make it the ultimate movie editing application. You can work with virtually any format, from DV and HDV to DVCPRO HD to uncompressed 10-bit HD video. Final Cut Pro includes many professional features, including multicamera editing tools, advanced real-time color-correction and imagemanipulation filters, and audio control surface support. Final Cut Pro is the central application that ties all the elements of your movie together. You can use Final Cut Pro to:  Capture video and audio from tape  Import QuickTime media files  Natively edit HDV video  Edit both single and multicamera projects  Edit film using Cinema Tools  Natively incorporate motion graphics projects from Motion and titles from LiveType  Mix, edit, and fix audio using Soundtrack Pro integration When you have finished your movie, the entire project can be:  Output to a wide variety of standard definition (SD) and high definition (HD) tape formats  Exported to a QuickTime movie file  Converted to an H.264, MPEG-2, or MPEG-1 file using Compressor, for DVD distribution using DVD Studio Pro  Converted to MPEG-1 or MPEG-4 formats using Compressor, for online web distribution 6 Soundtrack Pro It is critical that your movie's audio deliver a polished and complete experience that complements the video. Soundtrack Pro gives you the tools to handle every aspect of creating your soundtrack:  A powerful Waveform Editor for graphically editing your audio files and processing them using destructive or nondestructive actions. The Waveform Editor is also able to analyze and repair your audio files, and supports AppleScript to automate common tasks.  A Timeline that provides full multitrack editing and arranging capabilities  A console-style Mixer for mixing your multitrack projects  Roundtrip integration with Final Cut Pro and Motion that makes it easy to work on a project's audio  A set of professional audio effects plug-ins you can use to manipulate your audio, including EQ, compression, reverb, and others  An extensive library of Apple Loops you can use to build the soundtrack for your project, including both sound effects and music cues  An integrated video display as well as support for an external video display, making it easy to view the video as you work on the audio Motion Motion is real-time motion graphics software that makes it easy for artists and editors to animate text, movies, and graphics for film, video, or DVD motion menus. Use Motion to easily create compelling motion graphics, animations, and title sequences for your Final Cut Pro movies. Additionally, the integration between DVD Studio Pro and Motion, along with the integration between Soundtrack Pro and Motion, makes it easy to create motion menus and transitions for your DVD projects. Among the features of Motion are:  Real-time design capabilities that allow you to create stunning effects using multiple streams of video, filters, text, and particles without rendering  Behaviors that you can use to create natural, fluid animations without keyframes  Powerful, customized particle effects like smoke and dust and animated motion that you can apply to your project elements  Layering and compositing capabilities that allow you to arrange your project's elements in an unlimited number of layers  Native HDV support that preserves the quality of HDV format video without requiring transcoding to a different format 7 DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is software for authoring DVD-Video titles. Video from Final Cut Pro and Motion, music and other audio from Soundtrack Pro, and still images from applications like Adobe Photoshop can be easily orchestrated into a DVD that can be played on a DVD player or a suitably equipped computer. DVDs can be authored to your exact specifications:  Feature films with subtitles and multiple camera angle selection  Special events, such as wedding, concert, and trade show videos  Interactive kiosks with extensive menu navigation and web URL links  Film dailies and video transfers  Art installations with automatic looping and random scene selection You can use the templates, styles, and transition features included with DVD Studio Pro to quickly author your DVD project, or you can choose to manually author your DVD, maintaining precise control over every aspect of the project. Some of the included features are:  Support for authoring both standard DVDs and DVDs containing HD content, allowing you to choose the type of DVD that best fits your distribution needs  A scalable user interface that can be configured to match your needs, allowing you to decide which tools and displays you need  Support for sophisticated, high-end features, including multiple video angles and audio streams, subtitles, and the ability to create DVDs in multiple languages  Advanced authoring tools such as a VTS Editor that allows you to precisely define your DVD's structure, as well as support for sophisticated scripting, including the ability to partition GPRMs into as many registers as your scripts require  Integration with Motion and LiveType that makes authoring your project seamless, allowing you to try several variations of a motion menu or an animated text effect Compressor Compressor provides an essential part of the video compression process (transcoding) by making compression fast, efficient, and convenient and giving you more options in your choices of compression presets, settings, and output formats. Compressor also includes a high-quality standards conversion feature that can be used to:  Create a high-quality transcode of a video clip from its native format to the format of the project's sequence. For example, you might have a PAL clip that you need to use in an NTSC project--Compressor can create a high-quality NTSC version of the PAL clip.  Create two versions of a project. For example, you could edit your movie using HD video sources, and then use Compressor to export both HD and SD versions of the movie so you can create both an SD-resolution and an HD-resolution DVD. 8 When used on computers with either DVD Studio Pro or Final Cut Studio installed, Compressor also includes AC-3 and distributed encoding capabilities.  The AC-3 encoder is used for encoding a variety of audio channel configurations, such as stereo or 5.1 surround sound, into Dolby Digital audio streams suitable for use with DVD Studio Pro.  Distributed encoding, which divides your encoding tasks between multiple systems, reduces the amount of time required for your encoding tasks. LiveType LiveType makes it easy to create sophisticated, professional-quality titles that you can use in your Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro projects. It includes project templates and royalty-free, broadcast-quality animated content you can customize to create dynamic text effects quickly and easily. You can import a LiveType project directly into both Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Once a LiveType project has been imported into Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro, you can reopen the project in LiveType to make changes, and Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro automatically update to include the changes you made. Cinema Tools Cinema Tools provides tools for editing film and 24p projects in Final Cut Pro. Cinema Tools extends the functionality of Final Cut Pro, providing features previously found only on high-end or very specialized editing systems. See the Cinema Tools documentation for details on working with telecine logs, removing 3:2 pulldown while capturi ...