
Late on Thursday, Apple quietly updated its Mac App Store listings for Final Cut Pro X and its subsidiary programs — Motion and Compressor — to add support for 4K exporting to Apple’s own devices that can display UHD files, such as the iMac line. The update also introduces new sharing options along the same […]

Final Cut Pro X users who rely on Sony XAVC media will have a reason to smile at today’s minor update to FCPX. The new version, 10.0.9, corrects issues resulting in green artifacts with that particular media, and also fixes several issues related to interlaced media and re-timed segments that could cause exports to fail. […]

Apple has posted new maintenance updates its line of professional video editing software. Above all is Final Cut Pro X 10.0.7, which among others fixes problems with creating single-layer DVDs, third-party transitions using black instead of source media, and third-party effects causing Final Cut to freeze during background rendering. It also restores the Offset slider […]

Tiffen has introduced a new series of Digital Film Tools software. Using their understanding of photography, film and video editing, and in particular visual effects, Digital Film Tools software titles aim to be useful as well as easy to use for still and moving image editing. Designed to stand up to the rigors of production, […]

Apple has released Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3, an update to its professional video editing suite. The code makes the long-delayed addition of multicam editing, something editors complained was missing when the software first shipped in June 2011. The last major update of Pro X happened in September. The multicam component automatically syncs up to […]

Late Wednesday night, Apple updated its pro video-editing software Final Cut Pro X to version 10.0.2, fixing three issues related to fonts, playback and stability. The update fixes an issue where fonts in a title will revert back to the default font after restarting the program, and is in addition to the significant updates made […]

Developer Digital Heaven has released two new freeware plugins usable with Final Cut Pro X as well as Motion 5. DH_GridX generates a grid with up to 30 horizontal and vertical divisions, intended for aligning visual elements. Grids support different line colors and widths, custom area sizes, and independently-set divisions. The second plugin, DH_WideSafeX, creates […]

Apple has quietly posted an FAQ for Final Cut Pro X to tackle the complaints and concerns in the wake of a controversial release. The answers more formally address questions to the media and make multiple promises of updates. Multicam editing is coming to a future Final Cut Pro update, something which Apple says it […]

Late-night comedy show Conan has taken the unusual step of satirizing Final Cut Pro X. A skit from the latest episode (see below) features members of the show’s production team supposedly praising the new video editing suite. The clip itself is badly edited though, with sudden cuts, missing titles, out-of-sync audio and shifting color and […]
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Apple hasĀ launched Final Cut Pro X, an updated version of its professional video editing suite. The release brings Final Cut into the modern era, most significantly giving support for multi-core processing and GPU acceleration. The change allows the software to handle background rendering, as well as 4K resolution. The central component of Pro X […]