Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro is a professional non-linear editing system created by Apple Inc. that allows both professional and home users to edit both video and film. The latest releases are for Mac OS X only. From the early 2000s, Final Cut has developed a large and ever expanding user base. Used on Apple Macintosh computers, it is a resolution-independent software editing front-end to a user-configurable hardware architecture. Final Cut Pro has found acceptance among professionals and a number of broadcast facilities, but is also used by independent and semi-professional film-makers. As such, it can be used to edit material ranging from FireWire-attached MiniDV video from a consumer digital video camera in the home environment to High-Definition (HD) material in a studio environment. The software logs and digitizes video onto the computer's hard drive, where it can be edited and processed.