What
defines the hottest software of the moment is a unity of functionality and
accessibility. Right now commercial
technology is bringing what was conventionally only available in the
professional realm right to the consumer. Independent film and audio production has
many of the resources that were only available to the largest studios fifteen
years ago, and the average home videographer can afford complex software that can transform
their editing projects. There are many
great editing software applications available, like Adobe Premiere, but only
one has integrated so many elements into the most successful of all available
consumer editing software.
Final Cut
Pro was originally intended as a standard home digital video editing system,
similar to that of the early Adobe Premiere software. The quality of the program, combined with its accessibility, attracted the attention of the commercial production realm as
well, encouraging further upgrades of the software to be developed with professional expectations in mind. In 2002 Rodger
Avary’s The Rules of Attraction was released in theaters, and proved that a
feature film with complex editing could be produced using this software.
The
software stands apart from other programs because with each new
version, more and more features are added. With Final Cut Studio 2 you get Final Cut 6 along with programs like
Soundtrack Pro 2 and Compressor 3. You
are even given professional picture correction software like Color, which was
originally a multi-thousand dollar professional program which was bought by
Apple and added to the Final Cut suite for free. It is just that type of artistic empowerment
that makes Final Cut Pro the best choice for all types of editing software. It accepts most types of formats including Digital
Video to IMAX, allowing you to have standard software for most of the formats you
would like to work with. At a new purchase
price of less than $1,300 it should now become the standard for the serious home
digital video producer.