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With Support from Apple(Page 1 of 3 pages for this article 1 2 3 >) Filed under: 3D •Editing •Interactive •Motion Graphics •Post Production •Pre-Production •Training •Visual Effects • Ten Reasons To Switch To Final Cut Studio
With all the editing programs and packages on the market today, deciding on which one is right for you can be difficult and confusing. I thought I would take a look and list my top ten reasons why you should either switch to Final Cut Studio 2 or make it your first choice when buying for the first time! 10. SMOOTHCAM AND THE INTRODUCTION OF BACKGROUND PROCESSING Anyone who has used Shake will be familiar with SmoothCam. It was designed to, as the name says, smooth out camera bumps and shakes in your footage. Most people might look at this and think that it is not really that big a deal, but believe me, it is. Why you ask? SmoothCam not only lets you smooth your footage out, but it introduces a new feature to Final Cut Pro that let’s you process the effect “live” in the background. The way the effect works is that once you add it to your timeline, FCP immediately starts analyzing the original clip to see what is happening inside the frame. Keep in mind, if the shot you captured was an hour long, it will process the whole hour long clip. In most cases, with anything that needs processing or analyzing, you would need to stop and wait for it to finish. Not anymore! Now, Final Cut Pro will analyze while you are working. Once you hit play on your timeline to see what you are working on, the analyzing will pause, and once you stop playing to do effects work, titles, etc, it will keep processing until it is done.
To be perfectly honest, once you apply the effect, you almost don’t even notice that it’s processing while you are working. This is exciting because not only does it let you keep working while your SmoothCam effect is being processed, but it opens the door to immense possibilities with other effects being able to do this same method of processing in future versions of Final Cut Pro. 9. A REAL THIRD DIMENSION IN MOTION 3 Other than with very specific plug-ins, you cannot do “true” 3D work in a motion graphics program, not even in After Effects. You can do a “fake” 3D where you can put flat 2D elements into 3D space, but that’s not real 3D. With Motion 3, that has all changed. Don’t get me wrong, you still can’t extrude text to make it true 3D, but what you can now do is make particles generate in three dimensions to get a truly realistic look to them. How does it work? Simple. Take a Particle Emitter (we’ll use Corona as our example), and apply it to your timeline. Add a new camera, and then add a simple “Camera Sweep” behavior so the camera arc’s around our burning ring of fire. Here’s what our end result would look like.
Wow, that’s boring! We’re stuck with the same flat 3D image....or are we? Navigate to your emitters properties, and you will notice that there is a little, tiny checkbox called “3D”.
Click on it to activate it, and now look at your particles. They move in not only the X and Y direction, but the Z direction as well. Look at what our burning ring of fire looks like now!
By the way, did I mention that I could preview this in real time as well? Totally awesome! 8. SURROUND SOUND MIXING IN SOUNDTRACK PRO 2 Now not only can we work with beautiful high definition images in Final Cut Pro, but we can compliment them by mixing our audio in surround sound in Soundtrack Pro 2. Take your FCP mix and “Send To” Soundtrack Pro, and surround sound is as simple as a click on your audio panner.
Depending on the capture card you are using (Kona, Blackmagic, etc), you can monitor your mix in true surround sound. Even Macbook Pro editors can buy a third party device to monitor their mixes in 5.1. Once you are done, you can either send it back to Final Cut as six discreet channels to be output to a deck like an SRW-5500 that supports up to 12 channels of audio, or you can export directly from Soundtrack Pro as a 5.1 AC-3 file to import into DVD Studio Pro, so your DVD can give viewers a true surround experience. (Page 1 of 3 pages for this article 1 2 3 >) 
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