Unexpectedly (to me and a lot of others it seems) a whole new upgraded FinalCut Studio’s been released. Top 4 things I’m excited about in it:
- Color supports native 4K Red R3D files.
- Color support Tangent Wave.
- FinalCut supports better editing Red (not sure if it handles R3Ds, but there’s a new flavour of ProRes that handles 4K ProRes4444)
- Can burn Blu-Ray from Compressor.
There’s a page talking about improved digital cinema workflow, with a suggested workflow for working with Red in the new FC Studio is:
Final Cut Studio is ideal for digital cinema workflows. Edit in Final Cut Pro using ProRes, then send your project to Color for color grading using the original 2K or 4K DPX media or RED RAW files. When you’re done, use Color to render DPX files for film outs or for mastering to digital cinema — all with full 4:4:4 2K or 4K quality. For broadcast or video release, you can output ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 4444, or uncompressed HD. (This text from the Color page.)
Here’s a video on coloring R3D files native in Color.
And here’s the low-down on everything new in FinalCut Studio.
There’s a nice little video of Walter Murch and Francis Ford Coppola talking about the new FC and their new film Tetro.
Yeah seriously! Although most of the suite stays pretty much the same in functionality, I was really happy to read about the support of the file formats and codecs as well as…. get this… “Easily send an entire sequence from Final Cut Pro to Color without converting speed effects “. You have no idea how that would save 80% of my entire time spent on putting something through color! Wooooo! Fyi you could burn blu-ray with the previous compressor but it was hidden in the mpeg 2 encoder when if double clicked, in the inspector, you could choose from a series of options, one of them including blu-ray… but it is very nice they decided to finally anounce it to the world in the new version!!! How you been?