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# 2024

# April

# 10th April 2024

Frame.‍io Version 4 is now in beta!

Every aspect of Frame.‍io has been redesigned with new features that give you all the power, flexibility, and control you need to manage your team's creative work.

You can watch the Keynote video here.

You can learn more and join the beta here.

You can read more about the new version over at fxguide.

MASSIVE Congratulations to Emery & the Frame.io team for the massive re-write! We can't wait to test it out!

timeinpixels is currently offering 20% off OmniScope.

You can use the discount code: NAB2024.

You can learn more here.

FilmConvert is having a birthday sale!

You can read more about their last 12 years on their blog here.

You can get 33% off FilmConvert Nitrate and CineMatch plugins.

Sale lasts until 22nd of April and excludes add-on’s and upgrades.

You can learn more here.

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# 8th April 2024

DAWBridge v1.0.5 is out now with minor user interface improvements.

You can download on the Mac App Store here.

MotionVFX has pushed out a range of updates to their products.

Notably, they've removed the BorisFX Mocha planar tracking engine from their products, and have replaced it with their own proprietary tracking engine.

  • mCallouts Simple 3.0: Replaced Mocha with a proprietary tracking engine, various improvements and bug fixes
  • mMessage 3.0: Replaced Mocha with a proprietary tracking engine, various improvements and bug fixes
  • mCallouts Simple 2 3.0: Replaced Mocha with a proprietary tracking engine, various improvements and bug fixes
  • mPointer 3.0: Replaced Mocha with a proprietary tracking engine, various improvements and bug fixes
  • mFlare 2 3.1.1: Fixed a rare crash when refreshing the inspector interface
  • mFilmLook 2.1.2: Support for diacritics in preset names, fixed a rare crash that might prevent the plugin from launching
  • mMockup 1.2: Fixed display of 3D models on macOS Sonoma, various improvements and minor fixes
  • mMessage 2 3.0: Replaced Mocha with a proprietary tracking engine, various improvements and bug fixes
  • mHUD 2 3.0: Replaced Mocha with a proprietary tracking engine, various improvements and bug fixes
  • mHUD 3 3.0: Replaced Mocha with a proprietary tracking engine, various improvements and bug fixes
  • mTracker Surface 1.1: Improved planar tracking speed and accuracy

You can learn more here.

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# 5th April 2024

Arctic Whiteness' Final Cut Library Manager now has a new home at Hedge!

After a decade of hard work and lots of updates (amazingly, they were up to version v3.98!) Vincent Zorzi & Timothy Arms have decided to step away from their epic creation, and hand over development to Hedge to keep the application alive for the Final Cut Pro community.

Hedge have renamed the application to Arctic, and it has an awesome new icon.

You can read more about this in great detail on the Hedge blog.

If you already own Final Cut Library Manager, the application will continue to work indefinitely, but it will no longer be updated or supported.

Final Cut Library Manager customers will have already received a discounted upgrade for Arctic in their email inbox. Please contact Hedge if you didn't get it.

Arctic and Final Cut Library Manager are completely seperate applications - each with their own unique licensing and updating systems - which means you can still run them side-by-side, or run Final Cut Pro Library Manager on your old machine, and Arctic on your new machine, etc.

You can learn more, and download a free 10-day trial on the Hedge website.

Iain Anderson has released a new set of Motion Templates for Final Cut Pro called Emojisplosion on FxFactory.

Emojisplosion is the easiest way to add hundreds of emoji-based particles to your videos. You can make them sit behind a title, enhance a background or make a magic wand sparkle.

Emojisplosion gives you all the flexibility you need, without the complexity of a full particle system. It's perfect for educational, social media and sports videos, and ready for portrait or landscape videos. Most of the particles here are packaged as titles, but emoji-based transitions are included too.

It's currently on sale for USD$39 for a limited time (before increasing to USD$59). There is also a free trial.

You can learn more on FxFactory here.

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# March

# 27th March 2024

Sidus TC Sync is now available as a public beta!

Sidus TC Sync works with all footage and files. It doesn’t matter if you’re camera supports external timecode or if you’ve had to record it as an audio track. Sidus TC Sync’s automation feature detects and decodes the timecode signal.

  • Supports SMPTE saved to the file’s metadata
  • Supports Audio LTC records on a camera’s audio track
  • Supports High Frame TC
  • Supports Audio LTC recorded in WAV file or PolyWave file

Sidus TC Sync can export an XML for:

  • Premiere Pro CC
  • DaVinci Resolve 17 & Newer
  • Final Cut Pro 7
  • Final Cut Pro X 10.4.x
  • Final Cut Pro X 10.3.x
  • Final Cut Pro X 10.2.x

You can download the beta and learn more here.

Builder NLE v4.2.3 is out now with the following bug fixes:

  • Bug fix for drag-and-drop of clips from Final Cut Pro to Builder NLE
  • Bug fix for text block highlighting in the Clip Logging view after merging text blocks

You can download via the Mac App Store here.

Pictures This... v1.0.5 is out now with the following changes:

  • New feature: Total progress is now shown in the Dock icon
  • Revamp of the app's Help menu

You can download via the Mac App Store here.

Alteon.io for Final Cut Pro v4.2 is out now with the following changes:

  • Select one or multiple clips or ranges and drag directly to an event in FCP
  • Download an entire Project to FCP
  • Addresses issues that could cause the workflow extension to crash
  • Improved error handling while navigating files and media

You can download via the Mac App Store here.

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# 18th March 2024

Iain Anderson has written a new case study here at FCP Cafe, talking about how Knut Hake & Sam Pluemacher use Final Cut Pro and CommandPost on Netflix Feature Films!

You can read it here.

iZotope is currently warning against it's users upgrading to macOS Sonoma 14.4.

They write:

Apple has recently released the macOS 14.4 Sonoma update, which has resulted in compatibility issues for plug-ins protected by PACE / iLok with Audio Units host DAWs, such as Logic Pro, on Apple silicon Macs. Users have reported encountering problems with these plug-ins following the installation of the update, including DAW crashes.

If you are using Audio Units on an Apple silicon computer, it is advisable to postpone the macOS update until further information becomes available. We will keep you informed as soon as a resolution is found.

You can learn more here.

RED Apple Workflow Installer v22.0.0 was updated earlier in the month with the following changes:

  • Extended Highlight clips always decode in IPP2
  • Improved IPP2 out of gamut color mapping
  • Improved IPP2 high ISO black level consistency
  • Fixed: Monochrome decodes
  • Fixed: early firmware KOMODO footage being green
  • Fixed: Metal Texture + Legacy decodes

You can learn more and download here.

Sync-N-Link X v1.1.9 is out now with the following fix:

  • Bug fix for missing colorSpace attribute when using the "Alternate frame size" option for Synchronised or Multicam clips.

You can download via the Mac App Store here.

Creator's Best Friend v1.2.4 is out now with the following changes:

  • New feature: Help button to access the online help
  • Bug fix for markers on transitions in some cases
  • Bug fix for calculating marker positions in cases where the clip's frame rate differs from the timeline's frame rate

You can download via the Mac App Store here.

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# 12th March 2024

Intelligent Assistance (aka Philip Hodgetts and Dr Gregory Clarke) have released their latest app, Embiggen on the Mac App Store!

Until 31st March it's USD$29.99 (before it increases to USD$34.99).

The official App Store description explains:

Embiggen automatically uprezes still images from Final Cut Pro Events or Projects and returns them back to your Event or Project.

The new higher resolution images will have the same scale, position and rotation animations as the originals and appear the same size in Final Cut Pro.

Using AI to make higher resolution images, Embiggen creates in-between detail you can zoom right into.

Simply drag your Event or Project from Final Cut Pro to Embiggen's floating interface and click Go!

Original and Embiggened images will returned to Final Cut Pro in Auditions.

Works with Apple silicon Macs running Final Cut Pro 10.5 or later.

Supports a wide range of images including: TIFF, PNG, JPEG, flattened PSD, GIF, BMP.

It does not support layered PSD files.

For images with alpha channels the alpha channel is removed.

You can read the official support documentation here.

They're already released v1.0.2 which adds an additional AI model, to ensure an optimal choice in upscaled image, taking advantage of different optimisations in each model.

It's a standalone application, not a Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension, however it has a handy Keep on Top toggle, to keep it above the Final Cut Pro interface.

You could use CommandPost to trigger the opening of the application via a shortcut key or control surface panel.

After you drag a Event or Project to Embiggen, it will prompt you for confirmation:

...and then ask you where you want to save the high resolution images:

It will then process the images:

...and you will be prompted as to which library you want to import the generated FCPXML file into.

I would love to personally see a few of these steps removed - however it's tricky to do in a sandboxed App Store environment, because when drag an Project from the Browser, the FCPXML that gets dragged has no metadata about the Library it came from (time for another Final Cut Pro feature request!).

If you dragged in a Project, you'll get a new Event back with a new project, which contains a Audition for every image that was Embiggen'd - so you can easily compare the new version to the original.

Screenshot from Intelligent Assistance
Screenshot from Intelligent Assistance

Under the hood it uses Core ML to do it's magic - so it's all on device.

Overall, it's a simple app that does one thing really well - it's certainly a very handy tool to have in your toolkit!

You can find the official website here.

You can purchase on the Mac App Store here.

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# February

# 26th February 2024

Capacitor v1.0.0 is out now on the Mac App Store for USD$19.99.

Capacitor allows you to easily convert between FCPXML versions.

For example, if you're working on Final Cut Pro 10.7, but you have an online artist on an older Autodesk Flame, you can convert from FCPXML v1.11 to v1.9.

Or if you have an old FCPXML in your archives, you can upgrade from v1.8 to v1.10.

If there are differences between FCPXML versions, Capacitor will offer a list of warnings that you can also export.

Because Capacitor ensures it outputs FCPXML following Apple's strict DTD rules, you can also use Capacitor to "clean" FCPXMLs - for example, it corrects this bug in Final Cut Pro's output.

It support both .fcpxml files and FCPXML Bundles (.fcpxmld).

Capacitor was coded and created by David Peterson.

The Capacitor icon was designed by the amazing Matthew Skiles.

The Capacitor icon animation was animated by Mike Greaney.

You can learn more and download here.

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# 25th February 2024

X2Pro5 v5.0.34 is out now with the following fix:

  • Removed issue causing audio sync problems.

You can download on the Mac App Store here.

Producer's Best Friend v1.4.69 is out now!

It includes the following changes:

  • New feature: Preferences checkbox to keep thumbnail images (instead of having them automatically deleted)
  • Bug fix to alert for fcpxmld bundles exported incorrectly as a "Final Cut Pro Document" instead of "Final Cut Pro XML Bundle"

You can find on the Mac App Store here.

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# 24th February 2024

Antonio Marogna from EVRapp has released a new version of ChronoX 2.

What's New in ChronoX 2:

  • Enhanced Time Precision: Experience unparalleled accuracy with ChronoX's ability to measure export times down to hundredths of seconds.
  • Expanded File Format Support: With support for a variety of file formats including .mov, .m4v, .mp4, and .mxf, ChronoX empowers users to master, publish, and broadcast their content with ease.
  • Flexible Export Options: Set the Action: Open With... to your preferred video player, whether it be QuickTime Player or another compatible application.
  • Simplified Installation: ChronoX now offers a streamlined installation process, eliminating the need for external dependencies like Python 3.

You can learn more here.

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# 22nd February 2024

Color Intelligence has just announced that Colourlab Ai 3 Final Cut Pro integration is now out in beta!

The developers write:

Unlock unparalleled speed and efficiency in your color grading workflow with the latest Colourlab Ai 3 integration for Final Cut Pro! This breakthrough update introduces the fastest grading capabilities yet, seamlessly blending Colourlab Ai’s powerful features with FCP’s intuitive interface.

Eager to see it in action? Watch our quick tutorial video to learn how this integration can transform your editing process, and then download Beta 21 to experience the future of color grading for yourself.

The future of fast, intuitive grading is here. Test it out now and make your projects shine like never before!

You can watch a demo video on YouTube here:

You can learn more here.

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# 6th February 2024

George Edmondson from Seed Creative (and the guy from all the MotionVFX tutorials!) has discounted his Seed De-Flicker plugin to USD$10 for a limited time only.

Here's a YouTube video which explains the product:

You can learn more and buy here.

Producers Best Friend v1.4.68 is out now with the following fix:

  • Critical bug fix for a potential crash caused by decoding media security-scoped bookmarks when making thumbnails on macOS Sonoma

You can find on the Mac App Store here.

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# 5th February 2024

For those following Apple's Vision Pro, here's some videos and articles we found interesting:

X2Pro5 v5.0.31 is out now with the following improvements:

  • 32-bit floating point audio is converted to 32-bit linear audio to allow Pro Tools to import generated AAFs
  • Fixed missing audio data in AAF
  • Correctly using proxy audio rather than try to find the original audio
  • Corrected display of channel names within certain versions of ProTools

You can download on the Mac App Store here.

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# 2nd February 2024

You can watch Strada's Private Beta Launch on YouTube here:

This is of relevance to Final Cut Pro users, because Michael Cioni is a long-time hardcore Final Cut Pro user, with a huge amount of knowledge and experience.

He's also the king of Apple's Keynote - and creates beautiful videos seamlessly mixing Keynote and Final Cut Pro.

No doubt, Strada will be highly integrated with Final Cut Pro, as that's what Michael uses to edit all of Strada's video.

Apple Insider reports:

Cook 'incredibly excited' about generative AI coming to Apple gear later in 2024

You can read the full article here.

Hopefully at WWDC we see lots of AI announcements, and we'll see some of those technologies added to Final Cut Pro towards October/November in the next major Final Cut Pro update!

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# 1st February 2024

EDL-X v2.12 is out now with support for FCPXML v1.11.

You can find on the Mac App Store here.

Producers Best Friend v1.4.67 is out now with the following bug fixes:

  • Critical bug fix for a crash caused by making thumbnails on macOS Sonoma
  • Bug fix for chapter markers on a transition

You can find on the Mac App Store here.

Random-X v1.5 is out now with support for FCPXML v1.11.

You can find on the Mac App Store here.

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