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Apple has just released updates to Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro for iPad, Final Cut Camera, Compressor, Motion and FxPlug.

As always, please make sure you backup your current version of Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor before updating.

Iain Anderson has written up a detailed post over at ProVideo Coalition.

As usual Ripple Training is straight out of the gate with a great summary video, which you can watch on YouTube below:

The amazing Jenn Jager has also released a video:

...as has Dylan Bates (aka The Final Cut Bro):

Final Cut Pro for Mac has a database update (1133 in v11.0.1, and now 1150 in v11.1) - which means existing Libraries will need to be updated. We recommend manually making backups of your Final Cut Pro Libraries before updating.

There was no update to FCPXML in this release - it's still on FCPXML v1.13.

Interestingly, new Adjustment Clips in FCPXML are just standard video items with a new special effect applied - so existing FCPXML-based tools should continue to work without any updates:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fcpxml>

<fcpxml version="1.13">
    <resources>
        <format id="r1" name="FFVideoFormat1080p25" frameDuration="100/2500s" width="1920" height="1080" colorSpace="1-1-1 (Rec. 709)"/>
        <effect id="r2" name="Adjustment Clip" uid="FFAdjustmentEffect"/>
    </resources>
    <library location="file:///Example.fcpbundle/">
        <event name=" 🎬 EDITS" uid="917D28EF-04EA-4A6B-A8B4-FAB14E5AA649">
            <project name="Adjustment Clip" uid="23781BD2-0E2A-4BF9-9ED0-6E1DA0844336" modDate="2025-03-28 12:24:17 +1100">
                <sequence format="r1" duration="86400s" tcStart="0s" tcFormat="NDF" audioLayout="stereo" audioRate="48k">
                    <spine>
                        <video ref="r2" offset="0s" name="Adjustment Clip" start="3600s" duration="86400s" role="adjustments"/>
                    </spine>
                </sequence>
            </project>
        </event>
    </library>
</fcpxml>

Whilst this isn't a major update (compared to what Blackmagic will most likely announce next week before NAB), it does have a lot a very useful additions for professional editors.

Adjustment Clips is something the Final Cut Pro community has been asking for a very long time, so it's awesome to see that Apple's finally built this in.

Whilst we've always been able to build empty Motion Titles to basically act as adjustment layers (I personally always used Alex4D's free adjustment layer) - it became a bit annoying with collaboration, because different people would use different adjustment layer Motion Templates. I have about 10 different Adjustment Layers on my system for example.

As you'll see in the above videos, Adjustments Clips are also an improvement upon the legacy Adjustment Layers, because they can be applied from the Effects Browser, and they also support transitions.

The addition of the Quantec QRS (Quantec Room Simulator) is awesome too - although not really unexpected, given it was featured so heavily at last years FCP Creative Summit when talking about Logic Pro. I would GUESS that they originally wanted this in FCP 11, but ran out of time.

Renaming audio effects in the Inspector is another super useful quality of life improvement, that was basically low-hanging fruit for the FCP team. Interestingly, this just uses the nameOverride parameter in FCPXML, which already was in FCPXML v1.13 for audio effects.

Revealing the source of a multicam angle or synced clip in the Browser is also another great quality of life improvement for professional editors. Previously, editors would have to use CommandPost to achieve similar functionality.

Moveable Markers have also finally been officially enabled! This has been a secret/hidden feature in Final Cut Pro for years - it was first discovered by Alex Goldner back in June 2014, and added to CommandPost.

Image Playground is a bit of unsurprisingly, but "meh" feature, however if you don't enable Apple Intelligence at the macOS level, you won't even see the option anyway (so your Import button will just open the Import window)!

There's also lots of documented (and some undocumented) bug fixes, which is always welcome. The improvements to FxPlug will hopefully mean third party plugins will become more stable and reliable.

We'll continue to explore and test it in more detail over the coming weeks.

In the meantime, here's the full release notes:

Final Cut Pro v11.1 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Add color corrections and effects to an adjustment clip above the timeline to apply them to a range of clips at once.
• Get inspired with Image Playground and use Apple Intelligence to quickly create stylized images based on a description, suggested concepts, or people from your Photos library.*
• Speed up your Magnetic Mask workflows with important bug fixes, performance improvements, and a new keyboard shortcut to show or hide the Magnetic Mask Editor.
• Use the Quantec QRS (Quantec Room Simulator) effect to create natural and transparent audio reverbs that simulate real acoustic spaces.
• Stay organized by renaming audio effects in the inspector.
• Reveal the source of a multicam angle or synced clip in the browser.
• Move markers in the timeline by dragging them in a clip, or remove markers by dragging them out of a clip.

Additional support and bug fixes:

• The Magnetic Mask Editor now closes automatically when the last Magnetic Mask is removed from a clip.
• Improves reliability when batch exporting compound clips that contain Magnetic Masks.
• Adds support for using Transcribe to Captions with a single audio role component.
• Improves stability when dragging a library item to a text editor to generate an FCPXML.
• Improves reliability when upgrading a library that contains 100 fps clips.
• Improves reliability when sharing a project that includes ARRI ProRes MXF media.
• Fixes an issue that prevented a LUT from being automatically applied when importing ARRIRAW MXF clips.
• Improves performance when applying Smooth Slo-Mo to ProRes 4444 files with an alpha channel on Mac models with M1.
• Fixes an issue that caused audio to go out of sync when adding 25 fps clips to a 23.98 fps timeline.
• Fixes an issue that could cause sound to slip out of sync when detaching audio from a clip with a J-cut and a through edit.
• Fixes an issue that caused an MP3 or AAC audio file to have a truncated audio waveform after export.
• Fixes an issue that caused black frames to be displayed when playing back HEVC clips from a RED camera.
• Fixes an issue that prevented the browser from automatically scrolling to an active cell in list view.
• Fixes an issue that caused the selected browser clip to change when Show Hidden Clips was enabled.

Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.2 includes the following features and enhancements:

• Expand your editing workflows with support for portrait orientation on your iPad.
• Speed up your editing with keyboard shortcuts to nudge a selection, replace with gap, and lift or overwrite to the primary storyline.
• Get inspired with Image Playground and use Apple Intelligence to quickly create stylized images based on a description, suggested concepts, or people from your Photos library.*
• Capture in 50 fps for additional editing flexibility and delivery options.

Improvements and bug fixes:

• Double-tap in the timeline to quickly start and stop playback.
• Automatically scroll the timeline when moving the playhead, moving timeline clips, or editing, including trimming, retiming, and selecting multiple clips.
• Animation keyframes now default to the Transform All property.
• Fixes an issue that caused the inspector to sometimes apply effect changes to the previously selected clip.
• Addresses an issue that caused clips to sometimes appear black in the timeline.
• Improves reliability when editing focus points of Cinematic mode videos in a connected storyline.
• Improves reliability when using onscreen controls to resize clips in the viewer.
• Fixes an issue that interrupted audio playback when changing the audio configuration in the inspector.
• Addresses an issue that caused multicam syncing to fail with the inspector open.
• Improves reliability when using the Continuous Zoom slider with the front-facing camera.
• Fixes an issue that caused incorrect voiceover controls to appear after a Live Multicam session.
• Addresses an issue that caused the app to rotate unexpectedly when using Stage Manager and Live Multicam.
• Fixes an issue in Live Multicam that caused incorrect lens options to appear in the zoom slider for certain frame rate and resolution settings.
• Addresses an issue that caused the Live Multicam Record button to sometimes appear offscreen.
• Improves reliability when using the jog wheel on iPad mini.
• Fixes an issue that caused the Picture in Picture viewer to flash and not resize correctly on iPad mini.
• Addresses an issue that caused the voiceover controls to flash on iPad mini.
• Improves the reliability of the inspector color palette when VoiceOver accessibility mode is turned on.
• Includes stability and performance improvements.

New keyboard shortcuts:

• Replace with Gap: Shift-Delete
• Overwrite to Primary Storyline: Option-Command-Down Arrow
• Lift from Primary Storyline: Option-Command-Up Arrow
• Nudge Left Many: Shift-Comma (,)
• Nudge Right Many: Shift-Period (.)
• Import from Image Playground: Shift-Option-P

Motion v5.10 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Get inspired with Image Playground and use Apple Intelligence to quickly create stylized images based on a description, suggested concepts, or people from your Photos library.
• Fixes an issue where disabling a soloed object in the Layers list would not clear its solo state.
• Improves stability when using the Timecode generator.
• Improves performance when playing back image sequences.

Compressor v4.10 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Get higher quality frame rate retiming powered by best-in-class machine learning, converting to higher frame rates, such as 60, 90, and 120 fps.
• Adds support for video pass-through of long GOP to MXF exports.
• Fixes an issue where the app would crash when applying an audio only preset to a video.
• Fixes an issue where custom frame size was constrained to a previously selected aspect ratio.
• Fixes an issue where multichannel audio layout was misinterpreted.
• Fixes an issue where log processing is retained when replacing a log-encoded video source file in an existing job.

FxPlug v4.3.2 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Improved overall stability.
• Added ability for plug-ins to close a remote window.
• Added tagged pop-up menus so that plug-ins can rearrange the items or add new items between existing items without having to change their parameter handling code.
• OpenGL is deprecated. Please update your plugins to work with Metal.
• Fixed an issue that would cause dynamically registered FxPlugs to not load during a “Send To Compressor” event.
• Fixed an issue where anamorphic footage was improperly cropped during analysis.
• Fixed some memory leaks in the FxPlug.Framework.
• Fixed an issue where the FxCustomParameterAPI’s -currentTime method could return an invalid time.
• Deprecated the -[FxImageTile openGLTextureForContext:] method.

Final Cut Camera v1.2 includes the following features and enhancements:

• Quickly switch to the 48 mm telephoto lens to capture the perfect shot. (Requires iPhone 14 Pro or later.)
• Play back your Log videos in SDR or HDR with the vibrancy of the original scene by applying the Apple Log LUT. (Requires iPhone 15 Pro or later.)
• Record videos in Spatial Audio for even more realistic and immersive sound. (Requires iPhone 16.)
• Capture in 50 fps for additional editing flexibility and delivery options.

Improvements and bug fixes:

• Improves reliability when recording in 4K 120 fps or 4K 100 fps.
• Fixes an issue that caused preview latency when recording in 4K 60 fps.
• Improves the reliability of HDR overexposure indicators.
• Addresses an issue that caused the thumbnail image to sometimes not appear or update when recording with an external drive.
• Fixes an issue that caused the Continuous Zoom slider to be hidden after switching to a different lens.
• Addresses an issue that caused focus peaking indicators to sometimes appear on the edge of the frame.
• Fixes an issue that prevented automatic exposure from resetting to zero after switching from manual exposure.
• Addresses an issue that caused the green dot indicator to sometimes appear incorrectly while in the media browser.
• Improves reliability with media transfers to Final Cut Pro for iPad.
• Improves reliability when changing device orientation.
• Includes stability and performance improvements.

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MotionVFX mRotoAI v1.1.4 is out now with the following changes:

• Improved stability and optimized memory usage

You can download and learn more on the MotionVFX website.

Picture This... v1.0.7 is out now with the following changes:

• Critical bug fix for image generation failures caused by file names that are too long
• Bug fix to escape image file names for valid XML

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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Final Cut Pro v11.0.1 is out now!

It includes the following bug fixes:

• Addresses an issue that caused Custom Overlays not to be visible in the viewer.
• Fixes an issue that caused errors when using Send to Compressor from a timeline that included Magnetic Mask effects.
• Improves reliability of the Show Horizon command in the viewer.
• Improves performance when pressing and holding the H key to scroll the timeline manually.

You can update now on the Mac App Store.

Final Cut Pro for iPad v2.1.1 is also out now with the following bug fix:

• Fixes an issue that caused Final Cut Pro for iPad to display a black screen and close unexpectedly.

Sync-N-Link X v1.3.2 is out now.

It includes the following bug fix:

• Critical bug fix for an error message raised by failing to access media files via security-scoped bookmarks (in some cases)

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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BRAW Toolbox v1.4.3 is out now!

It includes the following changes:

🔨 Improvements:

• Added support for Panasonic UB10 Blackmagic RAW clips.
• Updated from Blackmagic RAW SDK v4.3.1 to v4.4.

🐞 Bug Fix:

• Fixed a regression where the Toolbox drop zone failed to work properly in older versions of Final Cut Pro.

You can learn more and download on the BRAW Toolbox website.

Marker Toolbox v1.5.0 is out now!

It includes the following new feature:

• Added support for MP4 Chapter Markers (such as Hybrid MP4 recordings from OBS). Thanks for suggesting Adam Olivero!

You can learn more and download on the Marker Toolbox website.

Producer's Best Friend v1.4.73 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Bug fix for detecting disabled audio clips in a project

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Captionator for Final Cut v2.1.4 is out now with the following bug fixes:

• Bugfix: Re-adds the Build In/Build Out option for Custom Titles (now found under the custom title panel)
• Bugfix from 2.1.3: Model panel would sometimes show "Loading...", and should now be fixed.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

captionAnimator v1.1.2 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Bug fix for captions containing multiple fonts

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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Automatic Duck's latest app, Multicam Flattener is now available for purchase! 🥳

Finally it is possible to flatten Multicam clips in Final Cut Pro timelines!

You can read more about it and watch a tutorial video on the Automatic Duck website.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Sync-N-Link v1.3.1 is out now with the following new feature:

• Support for disabling camera audio when a synced clip is opened into a Timeline

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Captionator for Final Cut v2.1.3 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Fixes a bug that could cause the model selector to stick on "Loading..." forever.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Builder NLE v4.2.11 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Critical bug fix for cases where mixed DTD version numbers can create FCPXML that cannot be imported into Final Cut Pro.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

fontAudition-X v1.0.7 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Minor bug fixes address formatting of the font window.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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Marker Toolbox v1.4.2 is out now with the following bug fix:

• The Apply Markers to Existing Final Cut Pro Clip drop zone now works correctly with FCPXML v1.13 and Final Cut Pro 11. Thanks for reporting Jeff Roy!

You can learn more and download on the Marker Toolbox website.

captionAnimator v1.1 is out now with the following changes:

• New feature: option to split captions into shorter titles
• Bug fix for titles being connected to the wrong primary storyline clip (in some cases)
• Cleaned-up app icon

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Creator's Best Friend v1.3.2 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Critical bug fix to prevent a timestamp containing 60 seconds

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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Sync-N-Link X v1.3 is out now!

It contains the following new feature:

• Ignores event clips hidden in Final Cut Pro 11

You can download on the Mac App Store.

X2Pro5 v5.0.43 is out now!

It contains support for Final Cut Pro 11 and FCPXML v1.13.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

evrExpanse v5.3.0 is out now!

In contains the following new feature:

• ARRI Camera Support for Smart LUT Finder

Smart LUT Finder now supports ARRI camera files in .mov and .mxf formats (ProRes). For cameras using LogC3, the appropriate LUT can be extracted directly from the file's metadata, streamlining the color grading process.

Supported ARRI Cameras:

• ALEXA Mini LF
• ALEXA LF
• AMIRA
• ALEXA Mini
• ALEXA SXT W

You can download and learn more on the evrExpanse website.

Audio Design Desk v2.1.12 is out now!

It contains the following changes:

• Fixes add sound pack folder command
• Adds new drag target in the timeline to allow you to drag multiple sound pack folders and install them at once.
• Fixes various sound pack management issues in previous build

You can learn more and download from the Audio Design Desk website.

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