Final Cut Pro
By Apple
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Description
Completely redesigned from the ground up, Final Cut Pro adds extraordinary speed, quality, and flexibility to every part of the post-production workflow.
Revolutionary Video Editing
• Assemble clips in the Magnetic Timeline without clip collisions or sync problems
• Use Clip Connections to attach B-roll, sound effects, and music to the timeline
• Reduce clutter by grouping clips into a Compound Clip. Easily expand it back to single clips
• Perfect your pacing right in the timeline with the Inline Precision Editor
• Cycle through different shots, graphics, or effects at one place in the timeline with Auditions
• Edit multi-camera projects with automatic sync and support for up to 64 camera angles
Powerful Media Organization
• Work with a broad range of formats including native AVCHD, H.264 from DSLRs, and more
• Content Auto-Analysis captures camera metadata and analyzes shots in the background
• Choose analysis options for stabilization, rolling shutter correction, and audio enhancement
• Create and apply custom keywords on the fly as you select ranges in clips
• Smart Collections let you dynamically organize content and find any shot in a few clicks
Incredible Performance
• New 64-bit architecture uses all the RAM in your system for larger projects and richer effects
• Final Cut Pro taps the GPU on the graphics card and all the cores in your Mac for speed
• Background processing lets you keep working without interruption
• A ColorSync-managed color pipeline produces accurate, consistent color across applications
• Broadcast monitoring lets you route video and audio through third-party PCIe and Thunderbolt I/O devices
Compelling, Customizable Effects
• Preview effects to see how they look with your footage before applying them
• Change the look of titles, transitions, and effects using intuitive controls
• Control effects with precision using a keyframe editor that appears directly in the timeline
• Adjust the Ken Burns effect with simple onscreen arrows for start and end points
Integrated Audio Editing
• Let Final Cut Pro repair significant audio problems such as hum, excessive noise, and more
• Sync DSLR video with separate audio in a single step, with instant audio waveform matching
• Enrich your soundtrack with a library of royalty-free sound effects and audio effect plug-ins
• Create immersive audio experiences in 5.1 surround
Intuitive Color Grading
• Improve the look of any clip with the single-click Balance Color feature
• Apply the Match Color feature to match the looks of two clips shot under different conditions
• Manipulate color, saturation, and exposure with the Color Board
• Fine tune color for a specific color range or area of the screen using keying and masks
One-Step, Optimized Output
• Deliver projects for playback on Apple devices and websites such as Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook
• Use themed menus to quickly author and burn a DVD or Blu-ray disc
• Export customized audio and video stems using Roles metadata
• Import and export XML to support third-party workflows
System Requirements: 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended), OpenCL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later, 256MB of VRAM (512MB of VRAM recommended), display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher, 2.4GB of disk space. Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or OS X Lion v10.7.2 or later. Broadcast monitoring is available in beta and requires OS X 10.7.2 or later and compatible third-party device.
Some features require Internet access; additional fees may apply. Blu-ray recorder required for burning Blu-ray discs.
What's New in Version 10.0.3
This update improves overall stability and performance and adds the following features:
• Multicam editing with automatic sync and support for mixed formats, mixed frame rates, and up to 64 camera angles
• Advanced chroma keying with controls for color sampling and edge quality
• Media relink for manual reconnect of projects and Events to new media
• Ability to import and edit layered Photoshop graphics
• XML 1.1 with support for primary color grades, effect parameters, and audio keyframes
• Beta version of broadcast monitoring with third-party PCIe and Thunderbolt I/O devices
This update is recommended for all users of Final Cut Pro X
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Customer Reviews
MULTICAM!!!! Finally!!!
Apple has implemented multicam into this lateast release and has done quite a good job with it.
This new multicam editing allows for multiple codecs/framerates/formats, which is much more flexible than FCP 7. The automatic syncing of multi cam clips based off of the audio of a clip is also very nice. I wish this had been there from the start, but I'll take it now that it is finally here.
I literally haven't been able to use FCP X because of the lack of Multicam support, but I'm all in now that it has shown up.
Five stars from me for the speed increases over FCP 7, the ability now to relink clips, output to a broadcast monitor… We're finally at a point where this app is what we expected when Apple first released it.
Apple has also allowed for Final Cut Pro 7 project imports via a $10 plugin called 7toX. Look it up in the App Store. It's a "must have" for anyone coming from FCP 7.
Getting better
From a professional editor, here is a little advice to all of the less than happy people when it comes to Final Cut Pro X. To all the people out there that have done nothing but bash Final Cut Pro X, it is now time to take another look. Apple has made good on their promises and they have proven to the professional community that Final Cut Pro X is not just another consumer based editing program. Multi-cam editing, layered PSD files, media relink, advanced chroma keying, import and editing of photoshop graphics? There is a lot to be exited about.
Now for one of the top feature that I love, multi-cam. The new Final Cut Pro X multi-cam feature is a trailblazer in the world of multi-cam editing. I have to say that since I downloaded the update I have been experimenting with this feature and it is great, very well implemented. I have to say that to date, this is my favorite multi-cam editing experience.
For those of you who are familiar with other non-linear editing programs such as Avid Media Composer, Lightworks (good and free but PC only), and Adobe Premier you know that they are not without their faults and limitations in specific areas. This is the nature of software production; you will not find one program that pleases everyone. I really don’t like the notion of comparing editing programs because there really isn’t “a best” per say, there is a best that works best for each individual person based on their strengths and specific needs. From the very first day Final Cut Pro X has gotten so much better with just a few updates. If this pace keeps up I can only imagine where the application will be in a year from now, and a year from then on. Apple did makes some mistakes, it wasn’t always smooth sailing.
Initially, there were a lot of complaints about the direction in which Apple took with this application. Editors from all over complained and for a good reason. Upon its release Final Cut Pro X was missing some very important and essential features that are on par with a professional editing application, but they were missing from X when it was launched. Constructive criticism is always good because it allows for positive feedback and ultimately will allow for the necessary changes to be made that will benefit the application.
What was frustrating was the fact that Final Cut Pro X was deemed, as one of the worst editing platform released and that definitely was not the case, there were a lot of new strengths. A lot of editors where also saying that it was nothing more than IMovie X which also wasn’t the case. Yes the two programs had similar interfaces but it stopped there. I’m convinced half of the people making these outrageous claims never even used the program and were just jumping on the bandwagon of what was already being said. What people failed to focus on was how Final Cut Pro X changed the game when it came to editing and very few people actually focused on its strengths and it did have several. Now, embrace the change, it's okay to learn a new way to do things. I think when something is changed and altered where the editing experience within the application is foreign to the point that you have to retrain and relearn things people are going to have a negative reaction until they allow themselves to except the change and realize at least in this case, the change was good. There were and still are a lot of old editors who are stuck in their old ways that didn’t welcome this alternative to editing.
Final Cut Pro is an impressive application that was in need for some pertinent and serious updates, at least if it was still going to be a contender in the world of professional video editing. We are getting the updates as requested and I’m certain Apple will keep rolling them in as time goes by. I still use Avid Media Composer and although it is a good program it is more complicated than it needs to be and the interface has pretty much stayed the same for the past 10 years (minor changes). What I like about Final Cut Pro X is the user-friendly interface. Let’s face it, just because another non-linear editing platform may be more difficult to use and more time consuming to learn doesn’t mean that it is more professional, sometimes just the opposite. I’m all about working smarter and faster, not slower and harder. Regardless of the interface there will always be an art to editing. The interface doesn’t change that aspect.
As for Apple, keep listening to the professionals and keep adding the updates. There are still some very important things to add and allowing more freedom and less control with certain portions of this application would be very much welcome too.
No more BEACH BALLS!!!!!
After the last update to FCPX the program seemed to take a backstep on my system and things were running very slow, taking loger to load and whenever I tried doing effects and or sounds and music I would get the dreaded beach ball. Sometimes it would stay so long I was forced to quit the program. Out of frustration I was on the adobe site, looking into purchasing PP CS5. Which I did not want to do. Ironically, Apple released this update today. Must say it's a big improvement. Yes, multicam is a nice addition as well as the other features added to this update, but the main thing for me is stability and speed is greatly improved with this .dot update. I just tried dumping 3 lines of P2 AVC-i media on the time line and going out to well over 17 minutes, then I was adding effects like crazy and going into the problem areas I had before, like my music beds browser. I could not make it chug, stutter or slow down, it's now fully using all my processing power. I think I can stay off moving to Adobe PP for a while now. Love it!!!!
- $299.99
- Category: Video
- Updated: Jan 31, 2012
- Version: 10.0.3
- Size: 1.37 GB
- Languages: English, French, German, Japanese
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2011
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later, 64-bit processor
