Final Cut Pro

Description

Final Cut Pro combines revolutionary video editing with powerful media organization and incredible performance to let you create at the speed of thought. Revolutionary Video Editing • The Magnetic Timeline uses advanced metadata and Clip Connections for faster, easier editing • Enhanced Timeline Index lets you drag and drop audio roles to rearrange the layout of your timeline • Powerful drag-and-drop Object Tracker automatically matches titles and effects to the movement of faces or objects • Change focus points or the depth effect effect for video shot in Cinematic mode on iPhone 13 (requires macOS Monterey) • Edit multicamera projects with automatic syncing and support for up to 64 camera angles • Automatically transform projects for square or vertical delivery with Smart Conform • Import and edit 360° equirectangular video in a wide range of formats and frame sizes • Create, edit, and deliver closed captions from within Final Cut Pro • Extend the capabilities of Final Cut Pro with third-party workflow extensions Powerful Media Organization • Organize your work within libraries for efficient media management and collaboration • Create proxy copies of your media for portability and performance • Apply custom keywords or favorites on the fly as you select clip ranges • Smart Collections dynamically organize content for you to quickly find any shot in a few clicks • Locate duplicate media in the timeline using highlighted clip ranges or the Timeline Index Incredible Performance • Improved speed and efficiency on Mac computers with Apple silicon • Unrivaled performance with optimizations for the M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra chips on the new Mac Studio and MacBook Pro • Work with a broad range of formats including ProRes, RED, XAVC, AVCHD, Avid DNxHR®, Avid DNxHD®, H.264, HEVC, and more Compelling, Customizable Effects • Beautifully animated, easily customizable 2D and 3D titles • Change the look of titles, transitions, and effects using intuitive controls • Choose from an ecosystem of third-party FxPlug plug-ins with custom interfaces Integrated Audio Editing • Assign roles during import to easily track and organize your project • Expand and edit multichannel audio files directly in the timeline • Apply intuitive Logic-based effects and reduce background noise to isolate voices • Sync video with separate audio in a single step with instant audio waveform matching Intuitive Color Grading • Import, edit, and deliver video in standard color spaces, or in Rec. 2020 and HLG color spaces • Powerful color wheels and curves for precise adjustments with keying and masks • Accurately view HDR on the MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR One-Step, Optimized Output • Incredibly fast export for playback on Apple devices and upload to websites such as Vimeo and YouTube • Export audio stems and multiple versions of a finished video using roles metadata • Import and export XML for third-party workflows like color grading and sound mixing System Requirements: macOS 11.5.1 or later, 4GB of RAM (8GB recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360° video editing), Metal-capable graphics card, 1GB of VRAM recommended for 4K editing, 3D titles, and 360° video editing, 4.5GB of available disk space. Some features require Internet access; fees may apply. Blu-ray recorder required for burning Blu-ray discs.

Reviews

Best Editing System

I love it. Been using it 10 years without have to pay more and more money each month. Very happy with it and love where its at now with all the new improvements.

By Jared Michael Leon

Super Slow after updates

DO NOT UPDATE - I will have to stop using Final Cut after Years as I can't process videos the same way I did before. It's taking several extra hours for each video and no one can help find out why. apple support is a joke. Save yourself the aggravation and hours of wasted time and use something else like adobe or davinci

By Auadrf

Needs Some Work Not User Friendly

Don't get me wrong, this program has a lot to offer and comes with a huge amount of tools for editing and mixing videos. And with the choices on the market, I don't know if any other video editing software would be that much better. But why does everything have to be so challenging to do? There are just way too many hidden tools that you have to go out of your way to find. Nothing is just right there ready to use. Compared to Logic Pro, which is extremely user friendly and everything is easy to figure out, almost every task that you need to do is super cryptic, lick they are trying to make some kind of science out of the program, and you find yourself constantly searching on Youtube how to do things and fix issues. If they just put the tools that people use right there above the timeline where there is a ton of space, it would be better. And then there is there is the issue where of lacking freedom in where things can be saved and working on multiple projects at once just ends up being a chore and confusing. Lastly, there is a serious problem with audio and clips turning red and not unsuable at times is a headache and lame. I really hope Apple comes up with something better and smarter than this in the future.

By Jrhd00d84

Super Laggy and Slow

I downloaded this app because I thought iMovie was pretty slow thinking this app was a upgrade but now I am starting to think iMovie is better and faster that FCP. I actually am just going to stick with iMovie and hopefully get a refund from this garbage app. Don't waste your time and money on this app.

By Gtrobby

Hurry up and wait

Now I remember why I lost interest in video editing when Final Cut Pro X was first released all those years ago. The performance leaves a lot to be desired. Working on a family project, I'm spending more time staring at a spinning beach ball than I am actually editing. Certainly it shouldn't be this hard.

By NeonScribe

Final Cut Pro X is the best!

I started with the orignial Final Cut Pro in the early 2010s, it was good but nothing compaired to Pro X. I've been using Pro X since 2014 and never looked back. Pro X got a bad rap because it looked simple like imovie but the truth is, you can make Pro X look exactly like the original program, all of the same features are there. They just default to a simple layout for beginners. The main feature I like the most is that the timeline is fluid, meaning you can place audio and video layers anywhere on the timeline, which makes complex editing extremely easy and the rendering is fast, even on older computers.

By Ya racer

Normally good but...

I like FCPX normally however the past few months I have been experiencing frequent crashes and project folders filling up with "A Document Being Saved By Final Cut Pro" folders. My most frequent crashes come from duplicating or snapshotting projects or while color correcting. Normally the autosave is good with FCPX and in the past when crashes were rare I would only loose seconds of work but these crashes send me back 5 or 10 minutes. Fix bugs with this version please :)

By Hohgb

The Tesla of editing software

Editing in Final Cut is like driving a Tesla. If the Tesla breaks down the average mechanic can’t fix it. And if you go to a Tesla dealership and ask an official technician to fix your car, even they often can’t because most of the time it is a software problem created by some unapproachable software team in some office in CA. A Tesla when it works is great, but it has terrible reliability issues. Same with Final Cut. I love it to death, until it doesn’t love me back and it drives me to death. I'm going to start driving a Toyota Corolla now (aka I'm switching to Adobe PP).

By ms727287

Stabliziation Issues

Most recent update has completely ruined stablization option, used to be much better. Please fix this issue.

By TheHappiestFace

Fastest NLE on the market, without sacrificing any quality

The less you know about editing, the easier to learn this software is. Those who have edited in track-based software for years and years will find this jarring. Some will outright dislike it at first. But they really need to power through the paradigm shift to reach the point where the speed is really felt. One month after switching from a track-based workflow to FCPX, I was shocked to find myself going home on-time for a change. I quickly noticed a 40% speed increase over track-based editors where everything you want to do is a deep dive down a rabbithole of sliders and checkboxes and dials. Most don't really matter to what you're doing. FCPX is intuitive. It does so much for you in the background, and, typical Apple, they've removed unnecessary options by doing them for you automatically, and exclusing ones that are irrelevant. In the early days, editors scorned FCPX because it wasn't fully-featured. Then they added all the features pros wanted over the next 2 years, and not only did they add them, they RE-IMAGINED them to work better and faster. Other NLEs have since copied many of them. If control is your ultimate goal, choose something else, like Premiere. If speed without any sacrifice in quality means anything to you, though, FCPX is your best bet. I don't mean to make it sound perfect. It isn't. But using it is like driving a sports car — way faster and more fun.

By F-Stop Fitzgerald