Final Cut Studio 2: Color - Technical Specifications

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

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

• 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