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Enhanced text support is just part of the toolset available in the new Final Cut Studio package. The new Final Cut Studio (not version 3 or the 2009 edition) contains Final Cut Pro, Motion, Soundtrack Pro, Color, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro, Cinema Tools and Qmaster. Noticeably absent is LiveType, which didn’t make the cut, because Apple is shifting its text animation efforts totally to Motion.

If you prefer LiveType, upgrading a previous version of Final Cut Studio won’t overwrite LiveType and you can continue to use it. The big highlights of this release are Blu-ray support and expansion of the ProRes codec family. Black butler characters. Blu-ray support is handled through a new Share function in Final Cut Pro 7 or the Job Action window in Compressor 3.5. These are both essentially the same thing. Blu-ray is just one of the choices, along with DVD, MobileMe, YouTube and others. If you have a Blu-ray burner, then you can use a simple template in Share or Job Action to create a Blu-ray disc consisting of a single track with chapters.

Apple took the bare minimum approach—enough for one-offs to show the client, but not enough to author a disc with several tracks and menus. Adobe Encore is still a better tool for that. In fact, DVD Studio Pro, which would have been the logical choice, was hardly touched and still doesn’t support Blu-ray, even at this small level. It’s received so little attention that I have to question its future. The ProRes family gained three new codecs: ProRes 422 (Proxy), a lightweight offline editing resolution; ProRes 422 (LT), a broadcast-quality, reduced bandwidth codec; and ProRes 4444, a high-end codec for compositing, which also supports an alpha channel. By rounding out these options, Apple has clearly made ProRes their editing codec of choice in much the same way as Avid has with DNxHD. This gives the Pro Apps team a codec they can control independent of the rest of the myriad QuickTime codecs.

Final Cut Pro 7 received the most new features and, by itself, makes the upgrade worthwhile. It is Intel-only, but you’ll see very little initial difference between it and the previous version. Stability is worth a lot, so it’s also important to note that this version is ready for Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6). Initial anecdotal information—from others who have made that jump—is that it’s fine, but with a few issues, such as XDCAM SxS card support.

It’s also important to note, however, that FCP7 doesn’t appear to be specifically optimized for Snow Leopard. That will happen down the road. It’s best to check out the Ripple and Lynda tutorials for more in-depth details of the new features, but the best one for me is the new speed change tools. This finally makes variable speed ramps functional within FCP.