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Table Of Contents
- Final Cut Studio Workflows
- Contents
- Introduction
- Developing a Post-Production Strategy
- Ingesting and Organizing Your Media
- Integration During Editorial Development
- Client Review
- Finishing
- What Is Finishing?
- Finishing Using Compressed Versus Uncompressed Media
- Format Conversion When Finishing Mixed-Format Sequences
- Reconforming Media to Online Quality
- Creating Final Broadcast Design Elements and Effects
- Color Correction
- Final Sound Editing, Design, and Mixing
- Mastering
- Output and Delivery
This chapter covers the following:
• How to Output? (p. 109)
• Doing a Negative Conform (p. 115)
• Long-Term Archiving of the Finished Project and Media (p. 115)
This chapter discusses how to manage the final output and delivery of your program,
including the eventual long-term archiving of your program’s assets once the project has
been concluded.
How to Output?
You’re almost finished with the post-production of your program. After finishing and
mastering, all that remains is to output the final master to a format that you can deliver
to the client. Final Cut Studio is able to accommodate just about any professional or
consumer, video- or film-based format and workflow. For more information, see:
• “Outputting to Tape”
• “Creating Standard Definition DVDs”
• “Creating Blu-ray Discs”
• “Exporting Movies for the Web”
• “Printing to Film”
• “Digital Cinema Mastering”
Outputting to Tape
Tape output is a requirement for nearly all programs that are going to be broadcast. It’s
also highly recommended as a safe means of archiving your program in its final, finished
state. Distributors and broadcasters typically have specific requirements about which
formats they’ll accept. These usually include:
• Betacam SP and Digital Betacam for standard definition (SD) programs
• HDCAM, HDCAM SR, and D-5 for high definition (HD) programs
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