Instruction manual

Third Party Applications / Mac

Apple Final Cut Pro

™

is a powerful real-time video and audio non-linear editing application. In

conjunction with your new Intensity, Final Cut Pro will allow you to work in every video standard from DV

up to uncompressed 4:2:2 high deﬁnition video.

“Easy Setups” for Final Cut Pro will have been added automatically during the Intensity installation

process if Final Cut Pro is previously installed. It’s important to install Final Cut Pro before installing the

Intensity software.

Note: If necessary, reinstall the Intensity software after installing Final Cut Pro.

Setting Up

1. Launch Final Cut Pro.

2. The Easy Setup window will appear.

3. Click on the popup menu named

Setup for and select a relevant Intensity Easy Setup.

For each TV format (NTSC, PAL and HDTV) you will ﬁnd a range of compressed and uncompressed

ﬁle formats you can choose. For example, if you are working in NTSC format, you could choose one

of the following “Easy Setups”:

 Blackmagic NTSC Uncompressed

 Blackmagic NTSC - DV

The “Easy Setup” you choose will be dictated partly by the speed of your disk array and partly by

whether you already have movie clips in a particular format. If you have a fast disk array, you can

choose uncompressed video for the highest quality video. If you only have a single disk for storage,

you could choose either DV, DV50, DVCPRO HD or JPEG for professional quality compression.

JPEG often looks better but unfortunately Apple have not yet implemented RT Effects with JPEG.

If you need to add RT Effects, then DV, DV50 or DVCPRO HD would be a better choice.

4. Click on the popup menu named

Primary Scratch Disk and select your disk array from the

popup menu. Then click

OK.

5. Final Cut Pro will ﬁnish launching.

Final Cut Pro

“Easy Setup” options