Final Cut Studio Workflow Discussion

Question

I'm trying to find out how many Final Cut users out there use the "Final Cut Studio Workflow" meaning; do you guys use Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Livetype and the other programs for your work? And how often do you use them? I think it'd be really cool to get a discussion going about who is using these programs in their editing workflow and how often and what they use it for.
Most of my work comes out of FCP but I use a lot of Adobe products such as After Effects, Photoshop and Illustrator. I DVD author with DVDSP and use Compressor when I go to DVD or web.
I find it interesting that I mostly use the FCP studio for just FCP. I hardly ever touch Livetype; I've used Soundtrack Pro twice and I've never used Motion.
The reason I post this in the Final Cut Pro user forum is because I'm interested in knowing how many 'editors' are doing this extra stuff outside of traditional editing.

Answer 1

I use the tools I know. I know photoshop and aftereffects (sortof) and haven't gotten a handle on motion. I use soundtrack pro occasionally to normalize, and eq, but not for much else (just remembered that I did a cool little music piece using the loops in soundtrack pro. really blew my client away). I find I can do almost everything I need to do audio wise in fcp. Subframe audio editing is a little cumbersome but doable. But... I do realize that I'll need to bite the bullet and explore motion eventually.
I've used cinematools a number of times to remove pulldown from film to tape transfers and to change the frame rate of pal qts (25fps) to 24 fps (very handly when my english animators gave me qt's with the wrong frame rate.
I started out as a film editor, when all I did was make edits on a flatbed with a rivas splicer. Those days are gone forever. Every year I find I'm doing more things than I ever did before. Maybe not always with a professional skill set, but I'm getting there.
Message was edited by: Michael Grenadier