Final Cut Studio 2: Soundtrack Pro 2.0 - Technical Specifications

Minimum Requirements to Install All Final Cut Pro 6

• 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 2.0, 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

Soundtrack Pro 2.0-Specific Requirements

• For 51. surround monitoring of multichannel audio content: an audio interface with a minimum of six outputs

• for multitrack recording: an audio interface with multiple inputs

Precise Audio Control

• Nondestructive, sample-accurate editing of audio files

• Support for up to 24-channel files, including mono, stereo, and surround

• Action-based editing to modify, reorder, suspend, or delete any audio edit, plug-in, or process

• Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as Actions

• Audio Effects and Audio Units plug-ins can be applied to supported audio files as real-time effect chains

• Real-time effects applied to audio files can be rendered to Actions

• Intelligent analysis, repair, and restoration functions for:

  • Clicks and pops

  • Power line hum

  • DC offset

  • Phase

  • Clipped signal

• Integrated multichannel file editor

• Audio time stretching without affecting pitch

• Ambient Noise Print to quickly replace unwanted noises from location recordings

• Background Noise Removal including noise print

• Sample ruler units in sample value, normalized, percent, and decibel view

• Snapping to ruler ticks, zero crossings, markers, and adjacent clips

• Support for bit depths up to 32-bit float

• Support for sample rates from 2kHz to 192kHz

• Support for AIFF, WAV, MP3, CAF, BWF, SDII, NeXT, QuickTime, and STAP (Soundtrack Audio Project) file playback

• Saves files nondestructively as STAP files or destructively as AIFF, WAV, SDII, QuickTime, CAF, or NeXT

• Export mixes as AIFF, WAV, NeXT, SDII, MP3, AAC/Podcast, Dolby Digital Professional (AC-3), or use Compressor for additional file support

• Selection history

• Waveform and customizable frequency spectrum views with linear and logarithmic display

• Frequency selection and editing in frequency spectrum view

• Animated waveform feedback

• Mini-waveform view

Advanced Sound Design

• Processes including:

  • Fade in/Fade out

  • Normalize

  • Amplitude adjust

  • Silence

  • Invert

  • Swap channels

  • Mono conversion

  • Channel reordering

  • Resample

  • Generate silence, white noise, pink noise, sine wave, sawtooth wave, square wave, or triangle wave

• Support for Audio Units plug-ins

• Audio Units presets available to all Audio Units-compatible applications

• More than 6000 sound effects, music beds, and music loops, including over 1000 in surround

• Powerful media search engine

• Support for Apple Loops, AIFF, WAV, MP3, AAC, CAF, and ACID sound and music libraries

Advanced Take Management

• Multitake recording with take editing in Multitake Editor

• Multitake Editor allows comps of multitake recordings and other audio files

• Combine individual phrases from different takes

• Automatic customizable crossfade between phrases

• Single-click take selection

• Adjustable transition boundaries for multitake comps

• Final comp functions as stand-alone clip while retaining access to all takes

• Slide phrases within edit boundaries

Professional Multitrack Audio Editing

• Single window with customizable tab panes

• Customizable window layouts

• Dynamic tab panes with quick show/hide functionality

• Resizable video window tab

• Multitrack Timeline with tracks, busses, submixes, and master in mono, stereo, or surround

• Multiple multitrack and audio file projects open at once

• Mixed sample rates supported in multitrack projects

• Time- or beat-based tracks

• Ruler in HH:MM:SS, seconds, samples, frames, drop frame, non-drop frame, beats

• Loop clip transposition

• Loop clip speed adjustments (quadruple, double, normal, half, quarter)

• Adjustable automatic and manual crossfades

• Fade selector for customizing fade in, fade out, and crossfades

• Tape style and sample repeat scrubbing

• Rolling edit tool

• Native and custom timecode spotting

• Multitrack recording of mono, stereo, and multichannel files

• Lift and stamp tool to selectively copy plug-in sets from one clip to another

• Lift and stamp effect sets can be saved as presets

• Lift and stamp EQ matches the EQ characteristics of one clip to another

• Automation parameters can move with clips or lock to absolute time

• Pull up/pull down of audio and video to all common standards

• Customizable clip and track colors

• Clip locking in multitrack

• Clip disabling in multitrack

• Momentary mono switch

• Automatable master tempo, master volume, master effects, and key

• Automation of most mix and effect parameters with read, touch, and latch modes

• Pre- and post-fader send busses for application of common effect plug-ins to multiple tracks

• Output bussing for single fader control of multiple tracks

• Support for multichannel audio output devices

• Time, duration, podcast, beat, and end-of-project markers

• Powerful browser for locating content quickly

• Multipoint Video HUD

• Tool HUD

• Timecode HUD

• Numeric Clip offset

• Bin with access to multiple projects, media files, markers, and clips

• Spotlight-style searching in Bin

Surround and Stereo Mixing

• Discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing, and routing

• Console-style Mixer with full stereo and surround meters on every track, buss, submix, and master

• Surround panning of mono, stereo, and surround audio files

• Mono, stereo, and surround files can be combined on same track

• Support for multichannel surround files

• Surround Panner HUD with automatable controls for rotation, width, collapse, center bias, LFE balance, and individual speaker disabling

• Surround and stereo panner automation data simultaneously available on each track

• Automatic surround to stereo Dolby-standard downmix

• Support for true surround and multi-mono effects

• Over 1000 royalty-free surround sound effects and music tracks

• Control surface support (Mackie Control Protocol)

Surround and Stereo Mixing

• Discrete 5.1 mixing, bussing, and routing

• Console-style Mixer with full stereo and surround meters on every track, buss, submix, and master

• Surround panning of mono, stereo, and surround audio files

• Mono, stereo, and surround files can be combined on same track

• Support for multichannel surround files

• Surround Panner HUD with automatable controls for rotation, width, collapse, center bias, LFE balance, and individual speaker disabling

• Surround and stereo panner automation data simultaneously available on each track

• Automatic surround to stereo Dolby-standard downmix

• Support for true surround and multi-mono effects

• Over 1000 royalty-free surround sound effects and music tracks

• Control surface support (Mackie Control Protocol)

Integrated Workflow

• AppleScript scriptable (executable from Soundtrack Pro, Final Cut Pro 6, or as AppleScript droplets for batch processing)

• Automator actions for creation of complex multiapplication workflows in Mac OS X v10.4 or later

• Support for video formats up to HD resolutions

• Integrated video tab

• Output to SD and HD¹ video monitors (via FireWire or PCI card)

• HD¹ or SD output using Digital Cinema Desktop² to second Apple Cinema Display

• Send and receive MIDI timecode and beat clock for synchronization with hardware and software

• Integration with Final Cut Pro 6, DVD Studio Pro 4, and Motion 3

• Round-trip audio file editing with Final Cut Pro 6 and Motion 3

• Support for Final Cut Pro 6 scoring markers

• Conform tab to conform audio edit to new Final Cut Pro 6 edits

• Conform visual interface for highlighting changed areas

• Accept or reject changes across entire project or selectively on a change-by-change basis

• Podcast track to create audio-only, enhanced audio, or video podcasts

• Support for chapter, artwork, and URL markers in video and audio podcasts

• Export presets and customizable post-export scripts

• OMF import

• AAF import and export

Included Effects