Is Final Cut Studio O.K. for HD work?

Hi,
I bought Final Cut Studio a while back. When I open Final Cut it says that I have Final Cut Pro not Studio. I wanted to do some work on HD footage. Do I need Final Cut Pro HD?
Thanks

Which version of Final Cut Pro do you have? They don't need to say HD to work with HD. Only FCP 4.5 was dubbed "FCP HD" as it was the first version of FCP that captured HD (DVCPRO HD) via firewire. FCP 5.0 and above worked with HDV...you need 6.0.2 to work with AVCHD and XDCAM...and RED.
All depends on what version of FCP you have, and what format of HD you are working with. There are only a dozen HD formats or so.
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