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 natively with a broad range of formats including RED, 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 quality monitoring lets you route video and audio through third-party PCIe and Thunderbolt I/O devices (Requires OS X v10.7.2)
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
• Expand and edit multichannel audio files directly in the timeline
• 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
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. OS X v10.6.8 or OS X v10.7.5 or OS X v10.8.2 or later. Broadcast quality monitoring requires OS X v10.7.5 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 10.0.7
This update improves overall stability, performance and compatibility including:
• The Letterbox effect "Offset" slider has been restored
• Fixes an issue when creating a single layer DVD
• Fixes an issue where some third-party effects could cause Final Cut Pro to hang during background rendering
• Fixes an issue where some third-party transitions would incorrectly use black instead of source media
• Adds support for editing MXF files that are still ingesting
• Fixes an issue rendering Motion Templates containing Image Units
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Customer Reviews
Glaring bug in 10.0.6 still not fixed in 10.0.7
Version 10.0.6 of FCP X introduced a bug that caused certain 3rd party plug-ins, like from NeatVideo and Pomfort, to corrupt frames of video when rendering, making these plug-ins unusable. They had the opportunity to fix this with 10.0.7, but evidently they did not. Now who knows when this will be fixed. As someone who relies on these plug-ins, this pretty much shelves any personal projects from being completed till this gets addressed. Introducing bugs that are then not fixed with the next version is unconscionable. What was once a 5 star app is now barely a 2 star app to me now. Please fix this for 10.0.8.
10.0.7 "Modified File" error… and other bugs… Not reliable.
Upgraded to 10.0.7 and suddenly none of my media plays in the application. It's all listed as "modified." When I attempt to re-link (control-clicking to go to "reveal in finder" takes me directly to the source file) - the re-links don't "stick". I didn't move anything - and all the files reside in the FCP event.
I'm also experiencing the render errors with 3rd-party plugins that another reviewer mentioned.
Combine this with the useless export of the proprietary "FCPXML" flavor of XML - not even readable by Logic - Apple's own - and this is a pretty compelling argument for Adobe Creative Suite.
I delayed the FCP7 to FCPX switch as long as possible, because of the initial negative reaction. I love the new workflow. I love the reliance on metadata and the way it lets me navigate material. BUT - the one thing you need from professional editing software is reliability. This is not reliable software. When the bugs go from quirky to catastrophic, it's time to switch to something else.
Crashes on Mac Book Pro
Definately try the free download of the software before buying it. I think there are so many problems with compatibility that Apple finally offered a free trial to eliminate the amount of complaints from people that have issues with this product. Do youself a favor and download and try the free version before shelling out your cash. I'm stuck with a $300 piece of software that keeps crashing right now. It seems that I've sacrificed for others. UPDATE: It still crashes. Check the compatibility of your graphics card before purchasing. This program should work like iMovie or at least allow to adjust software settings to fit the graphics card installed on your computer. $300 dollars MIA. :( Just stick with iMovie. If that's not powerful enough to Adobe's suite for movie editing.
- $299.99
- Category: Video
- Updated: Dec 06, 2012
- Version: 10.0.7
- Size: 1.53 GB
- Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2011-2012
Requirements: OS X 10.6.8 or later, 64-bit processor
