User manual APPLE FINAL CUT PRO 6 NEW FEATURES

[. . . ] You can immediately update the look of all your titles simply by changing the original Motion template file. You can create your own master templates in Motion and then use the installed master templates in Final Cut Pro. Master templates are accessible from the following locations:  Master Template Browser (choose Sequence > Add Master Template)  Generator pop-up menu in the Viewer  Effects menu  Effects tab of the Browser You can use the Master Template Browser to perform insert, overwrite, and superimpose edits directly to the Timeline, or you can drag master templates from the Browser or Viewer just as you would with any other clip. As with generator clips, you can adjust master template parameters, such as text and video within a master template, in the Controls tab of the Viewer. SmoothCam Filter The new SmoothCam filter steadies handheld shots and stabilizes jitter in shots created with a dolly or jib arm. [. . . ] The graticule (or scale) brightness can be adjusted independently of the scope readout brightness. Improved Gamma Handling Final Cut Pro now allows you to specify how gamma is handled for video media files using RGB-based codecs (such as Animation and None). Many still-image formats are also supported, including JPEG and TIFF. You can assign a default gamma level for all imported clips, and you can also adjust an individual clip's Gamma Level property in the Browser or the Item Properties window. Effects Final Cut Pro includes the following new effect features. Improved FxPlug Plug-in Support Final Cut Pro 6 supports the FxPlug 1. 1 plug-in specification and a wide range of FxPlug plug-ins included with Final Cut Studio. The following new filters are available in Final Cut Pro 6:  Bad TV           Bevel Bloom Channel Blur Channel Mixer Circles Color Emboss Custom Gradient Defocus Displace Earthquake 4                    Grid Indent Lens Flare Generator Light Rays Noise Filter Offset One Color Ray Overdrive Slit Scan Slit Tunnel Soft Focus Stripes Two Color Ray Vectorize Color Vignette Widetime YIQ Adjust YUV Adjust Zoom Blur Applying Speed to Generator Clips You can now apply constant and variable speed changes to generator clips. Opening the Controls Tab Automatically When Opening a Generator Clip in the Viewer When you hold down the Command and Option keys while dragging a generator clip or master template into a sequence, the resulting edited clip is opened automatically in the Viewer and the Controls tab becomes active. This allows you to immediately customize the generator clip parameters. 5 Audio Final Cut Pro includes the following new audio features. Enhanced Integration with Soundtrack Pro Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro include new integration features, allowing you to do the following:  Send single or multiple audio clips from Final Cut Pro to Soundtrack Pro, keeping media files in their native format or converting them to Soundtrack Pro audio file projects.  Send only the media defined by a clip's In and Out points instead of the entire length of a clip's media file. To limit the media sent to Soundtrack Pro, select the "Send referenced media only" option in the dialog that appears when sending clips to Soundtrack Pro.  Send clips with multichannel audio media files to Soundtrack Pro.  Apply a Soundtrack Pro script to multiple audio clips in Final Cut Pro, choosing whether files are processed natively (destructive) or first converted to Soundtrack Pro audio file projects (nondestructive).  Create a Soundtrack Pro multitrack project from multiple clips or a sequence in Final Cut Pro.  Send a completed multitrack mixdown from Soundtrack Pro to a new sequence in Final Cut Pro.  Automatically conform changes made in a Final Cut Pro sequence to a corresponding Soundtrack Pro multitrack project. This feature streamlines the tedious process of manually conforming a sound mix when the video changes. For more information about working with Soundtrack Pro and Final Cut Pro, see the documentation included with each application. Audio Normalization and Gain Filter You can now apply nondestructive audio normalization to your clips by using the Apply Normalization Gain command. This command analyzes a clip's media between In and Out points and then applies a Gain filter so that the highest sample plays at 0 dBFS (or the level you specify). [. . . ] For more information, go to http://developer. apple. com/appleapplications. When you export XML in Final Cut Pro 6, the internal identities of clips in your project may be updated, so there is now an option in the Export XML dialog to save your Final Cut Pro project as part of the export process. Saving a Project and an XML File Simultaneously The new Save Project With XML command saves your current project and simultaneously exports the project to the Final Cut Pro XML Interchange Format. Any necessary clip and sequence metadata, such as internal identifier numbers, is updated just prior to saving and exporting. [. . . ]