FCP Cafe is a community for professional Final Cut Pro editors and developers.

This website has been thrown together by Chris Hocking at LateNite.

Soundly v2025.07.98 is out now!

This release fixes an issue where Final Cut Pro import would fail if your Event had emoji's in it - and who doesn't love an emoji in your event name!

You can learn more on the Soundly website.

FidelityFuze is now available for purchase! 🥳

Until 13th of July, the first 100 FCP Cafe users can get a discount by using the discount code: FCPCAFE20

The website explains:

Resolution. Refined. Real-Time.
Next-gen video upscaling that feels like magic — right as you edit.

Quality without the wait. FidelityFuze is built for creators who move fast and deliver sharp. Whether you're upgrading older clips, finishing fresh content in 4K or 8K, or dialing in detail before hitting publish — it upscales in real time, right in your timeline. No intermediate exporting. No extra apps.
Just beautifully crisp footage that's ready when you are.

You can watch a promotional video on YouTube:

It was first announced over at Reddit, in a post titled Built a native Final Cut Pro plugin for real-time upscaling – 1080p, 4K, even 8K directly in the timeline.

The developer Sebastian Krogull will post a developers case study over at FCP Cafe in the coming weeks.

You can learn more and purchase on the FidelityFuze website.

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Soundly now has Final Cut Pro Integration! 🥳

The developers write:

Our new integration with Final Cut Pro, currently in beta, lets Soundly send sounds directly to the timeline. Know someone who wants to test it? We’re offering six months of Soundly for free to beta testers. Just reply to this email to show your interest.

You can learn more on the Soundly website.

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Color Finale Transcoder 2 now supports Canon RAW video (CRM files). 🥳

This popular format joins BRAW and N-RAW as formats you can edit directly on the Final Cut Pro timeline with full control over exposure, white balance, and color temperature.

Still using Transcoder 1? Don’t worry — an exclusive discounted upgrade to Version 2 is available for all Transcoder 1 users, now with powerful new Canon RAW support.

We've tested CRM files in Final Cut Pro and it works well:

However, the Canon RAW implementation still has the same bugs/issues as we've previously reported with Color Finale Transcoder for BRAW and N-RAW - i.e. it doesn't work well with speed effects.

You can learn more on the Color Finale Transcoder 2 website.

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Pinch and a punch for the first day of the month!

Ok, so this is pushing the boundaries of a Final Cut Pro related post, HOWEVER I did edit it in Final Cut Pro, so... there's that...

Regardless... Jumper for Avid Media Composer now has Group Clip support (i.e. Multicam support). 🥳

Whilst Jumper for Final Cut Pro and Jumper for Adobe Premiere Pro has supported Multicam Clips (and Synchronised Clips in the case of Final Cut Pro) for a while, on Avid it's a bit more tricky.

However, now, as long as you have matching timecode ranges, Group clips now work in Avid too!

You can watch a quick and dirty realtime demonstration of the functionality here:

You can watch a much longer and deeper dive into Jumper this FCP Cafe news entry from 10th June 2025.

You can also learn the origin story of how I got involved with Jumper on this FCP Cafe news entry from 6th November 2024.

You can download and learn more about Jumper on the Jumper website.

Krock.io now has a Final Cut Pro Workflow Extension available on the Mac App Store.

The Krock.io plugin for Final Cut Pro brings feedback, review, and collaboration right into your editing timeline —so you can stay creative and in control, without switching tabs.

For those that don't know Krock.io is basically very similar to Frame.io.

You can learn more about the integration on the Krock.io website.

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Andrew Arrow writes:

Hello FCPCafe! I've been working on an open source golang fcpxml program called "cutlass":

I've really gone deep into each XML element and how to properly generate working xml you can import.

I'm a developer and Final Cut Pro user. My history with FCP goes back years and year, I tried to be a video editor as a career but ended up beging a software developer instead. But, I purchased the full version of the software a long time ago. And, to Apple's credit, every single time I go to the App Store on any mac I still have access to download it. I must have been through 20, 30? I don't know but a lot of macs over the years. Just recently I downloaded it again and notice the XML Export feature.

Wow. There's a lot of stuff there. I mean a lot. I started playing around with generating the xml and that has lead to this project. I spend most of my time just telling Claude Code the video I want to create, and he uses the cutlass library to achieve it. I'm hooking up FCP directly to Claude. A different kind of AI Video generation!

Would love feedback, -aa

You can check out a tutorial video he's made on YouTube titled Final Cut Pro plus golang: Using cutlass with FCPXML Templates.

You can download and learn more on his GitHub repository.

ZaRealWeb has created a new website and tool called AutoSubtiler specifically for Final Cut Pro.

The tagline is:

• Feed Your Audio
• Craft Your Subtitle
• Produce For Free

You can check out a tutorial video on YouTube titled I built a FREE AUTO-SUBTITLER for FINAL CUT PRO (Customizable).

You can check it out on the AutoSubtiler website.

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Dev Benegal’s film on James Ivory for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled An Arrested Moment was won Best Short Documentary at the New York Indian Film Festival’s 25th Anniversary edition. 🥳

You can read a case study about the film on FCP Cafe.

The official press release says:

On Friday, June 20th, after the Opening Night Screening at the 25th Anniversary Edition of the New York Indian Film Festival, Festival Director, Aseem Chhabra, and filmmaker, Anurag Kashyap, presented the award for Best Short Documentary to director Dev Benegal for his film ‘An Arrested Moment’ in collaboration with Navina Haidar, Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al- Sabah Curator in Charge of Islamic Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The film was produced by Min(d) Studio’s Maya S. Patel and Neeraj Jain.

‘An Arrested Moment’ is about James Ivory’s relationship to India, his deep admiration for Indian art, and his love for storytelling. The film transports viewers into images of Indian painting, drawing, and photography that have inspired Ivory’s work over the years. On seeing Indian miniatures for the first time as a young man, Ivory said, “Something just clicked — like falling in love.”

Benegal says, “Celebrating James Ivory and collaborating with Navina Haidar, has been a deep dive into the soul of India and Indian art. There were no divisions or boundaries when these masterpieces were being created. To film Jim, and hear his journey through art and film has been an experience of a lifetime. As a filmmaker, I could not be more fortunate.”

The film is a collaboration between The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Islamic Art Department and Min(d) Studio for the exhibition Ink and Ivory, Indian Drawings and Photographs Selected with James Ivory, on display in the Museum’s Hagop Kevorkian Gallery from July 29, 2024–May 4, 2025. It had a special premiere at The Met’s Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in the fall of 2024 with over 700 guests in attendance.

Haidar says, “Presenting Indian painting and photography through the lens of James Ivory’s life and work and Dev Benegal’s filmic imagination, created a unique addition to the exhibition.”

Min(d) Studio was founded by Dev Benegal, Maya S. Patel, and Neeraj Jain with a shared vision to tell stories about people and cultures that are often unheard and unseen — championing stories that can spark conversation outside the walls of the cinema.

You can watch a trailer for the film on YouTube.

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ATEM Exporter v1.0.3 (Build 5) is out now!

It includes the following bug fix:

• Fixed a regression which prevented connecting to an ATEM device. HUGE THANK YOU to Hans Linssen for all his help, support and testing! Thank you to all our TestFlight users!

You can learn more and download on the ATEM Exporter website.

evrExpanse v6 is out! 🚀

We’re excited to introduce 📌 Apply Finder Tag—a powerful new feature in v6 that allows you to apply Finder Tags to your files using metadata.

The Apply Finder Tags feature in evrExpanse lets you quickly batch-apply Finder tags—including both color tags and custom tags (labels)—to your files. This makes your media instantly easier to find, group, and organize using Finder’s built-in tags system.

The initial release supports DaVinci Resolve: You can now automatically assign Finder Tags to your media based on the Keywords metadata exported from Resolve. Future updates will expand this workflow to support metadata from other leading NLEs as well.

You can also choose how tags are managed:

• Add: Add new tags from your metadata file to each file’s existing tags. This preserves all current color tags and custom tags, simply adding any new ones for richer organization.

• Overwrite: Remove all existing Finder tags from your files and apply only the tags specified in your metadata. This is ideal when you want your Finder tags to exactly match your exported metadata.

• Remove: Delete only the tags listed in your metadata from your files, leaving all other tags in place. Use this for quick cleanup or to undo previous tagging actions.

With Apply Finder Tag, we complete the round trip by bringing organizational metadata from your NLEs back into Finder Tags—closing the cycle and enabling seamless metadata interchange between your Mac and your editing software. 🔄

This gives you complete control to fit your workflow needs.

Detailed Reporting & Full Transparency

After tagging, evrExpanse creates a dedicated report folder next to your metadata file. Inside, you’ll find color-coded logs for all processed files, missing files, and any duplicates that were skipped—making it easy to review your tagging results right in Finder.

You can download and learn more on the evrExpanse website

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Earlier this week Final Cut Pro turned 14! 🥳

I'll let Mr Richard Taylor do the honours...

Also, in very positive news, Mashable reports from VidCon 2025:

The editing software of choice? Final Cut Pro

TikTokkers can keep CapCut. At VidCon 2025, it's all about Final Cut Pro. For Apple users who shoot and edit their own content, this Mac video editing software is indispensable. So far, it's the single most-recommended product we've encountered in conversations with creators. A subscription will set you back $299.99, but there is a free trial to test it out.

That's awesome news, and to be honest, very surprising given all the help, support and sponsorship Adobe gives VidCon!

FidelityFuze has been announced over at Reddit, in a post titled Built a native Final Cut Pro plugin for real-time upscaling – 1080p, 4K, even 8K directly in the timeline.

The developer Sebastian Krogull has already had HUGE interest in the product, which is currently at release candidate stage, in final beta testing.

I've had a chance to download and play - and it's very impressive.

Sebastian will post a developers case study over at FCP Cafe after launch!

You can learn more here:

• Product page
• User guide

Noting that Sebastian says:

Note: These are preview versions of the final website. FidelityFuze hasn’t launched yet – it’s still in early access. I’m building it solo and working to make sure everything is solid. DM me or reply here if you’d like to try it – or just share your thoughts.

We'll post more in the coming weeks!

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To help support the editing community through these uncertain and crazy times, the amazing Zack Arnold (ACE—editor/producer for Netflix’s Cobra Kai & founder of The Arnold Academy For Creatives) has put together an exciting event called Navigating the Future of Entertainment.

It includes an insane lineup of speakers including Walter Murch, Jay Clouse, Annie Duke, Matt Nix and many more.

It's a free 5-day event to help creatives of all kinds understand what the hell is going on now, forecast what's coming next, navigate industry uncertainty, and survive the AI apocalypse (without selling your creative soul).

It runs 23rd to 27th of June 2025.

You can learn more on the Navigating the Future of Entertainment website.

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ATEM Exporter has been reduced from USD$150 to a one-time payment of USD$79.99 on the Mac App Store. 🥳

After posting about ATEM Exporter on the Facebook Blackmagic ATEM Mini User-group, which has over 60K members, I started to receive a lot of DM's and emails with interest in the software.

For those that don't know, ATEM Exporter is a native Swift + Swift UI Mac Application that listens to a Blackmagic ATEM switcher, and logs all the camera changes.

You can export the camera changes as a Final Cut Pro FCPXML, to use in Final Cut Pro or Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve.

You can export a Program Cut, which allows you to use your program feed from an external recorder (such as a Blackmagic HyperDeck), and add cut points each time there's a camera change.

You can also export a Multicam, which allows you to use your program feed as well as any ISO (i.e. independent camera) recordings, and export a Multicam clip for Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

ATEM Exporter was built in a few hours during a live event, and at release it had only been tested in a real-world live production using an Blackmagic ATEM Constellation 8K, Blackmagic HyperDeck's and AJA recorders for ISOs.

Since release, we've had quite a few users test it on all kinds of ATEM's.

Originally I was thinking that this would be a very niche, high-end tool - i.e. for people with expensive Blackmagic ATEM Constellation 8K's.

However, after posting to the Facebook group I realised just how many people have and use ATEMs for all kinds of things - especially at the lower budget in schools, universities, places of faith, etc.

As a result, I decided to reduce the price, and also release a quick and dirty demo video that I originally threw together late at night for Apple's Mac App Store Review.

You can watch it here:

Hope this helps!

You can learn more on the ATEM Exporter website.

Whilst I've got you... here's a sneak peak at our upcoming SplitTake icon by the AMAZING Matthew Skiles:

He's also put together a "placeholder" icon for LateNite apps we still have in development:

How cool are these!

Media Sync Tool v8.9 is out now on the Mac App Store.

It has the following improvements:

• The proxy media workflow has been drastically simplified.
• Media Sync Tool now syncs your proxy media the same way as the originals, eliminating the previous necessity to use the complex workaround.
• You no longer have to use the 'Force Sync' keyword - this option has been removed completely.
• The option to add a source metadata FCPXML is now removed too, as it is became unnecessary.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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BRAW Toolbox v1.4.5 (Build 75) is out now! 🥳

Whilst Blackmagic will be releasing their Blackmagic RAW MediaExtension at SOME POINT in the coming weeks/months, as of today BRAW Toolbox is still the best way to get BRAW into Apple's Final Cut Pro.

It's also currently unclear if the Blackmagic MediaExtension will actually have decent RAW controls within Final Cut Pro.

Given Blackmagic really just wants you to use DaVinci Resolve - it's unlikely that Blackmagic's developers are spending too much time on making BRAW great in Final Cut Pro.

BRAW Toolbox is INSANELY powerful - you can even keyframe RAW parameters that you can't control in DaVinci Resolve.

Whilst there are now other competitors that copied the same techniques as BRAW Toolbox to get BRAW into Final Cut Pro, BRAW Toolbox is the only solution that's updated regularly, always includes the latest FxPlug and BRAW SDK updates, and is tried and tested on real-world productions.

BRAW Toolbox was built for my production company, LateNite, because I got frustrated when clients would hand over SSDs with 2-4TB's worth of BRAW footage, that we'd need to convert to ProRes to start editing with it in Final Cut Pro.

BRAW Toolbox is now used by over 3.45K users across the world. It's been used on feature films, televisions series and high-end television commercials.

gwphotographe writes on the CommandPost Discord:

I swear if you get me talking about how much I love this plugin you’ll never get me to shut up. Using it currently to work with 6TB of BRAW footage for a documentary. 🙌🏼

The latest update contains the following improvements:

• We've improved how we render error messages in BRAW Toolbox. HUGE thank you to Darrin Cardani at Apple and Gabriele de Simone at FxFactory for all your ongoing help, assistance, genius and support (and for putting up with my crazy questions)!
• Added support for Panasonic LUMIX S1II and S1IIE Blackmagic RAW clips.
• Improved performance for URSA Cine 12K LF and URSA Cine 17K 65 clips.
• Updated from Blackmagic RAW SDK v4.5 to v4.6.
• Updated from FxPlug v4.3.2 to v4.3.3.

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

Marker Data v1.2.1 is out now!

This release includes the following improvements:

• Updated Pagemaker Module to version 1.0.7
• Pagemaker module now maintains aspect ratios for vertical images in PDF exports, ensuring parity with gallery preview

You can learn more on the Marker Data website.

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WWDC 2025 has been and gone.

I've been flat out this week, so I haven't caught up on all the latest WWDC news yet, however, luckily we have Iain Anderson in the community!

You can read his Video news from Apple’s WWDC article over at ProVideo Coalition.

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WWDC 2025 has launched! 🥳

However, unlike previous years, I didn't have the interest and excitement to get up at 3am to watch the Keynote or Platforms State of the Union.

In fact, I haven't even finished the Keynote yet. 😬

However, for Final Cut Pro editors there's not a huge amount of exciting news.

Metal 4 is coming to Mac & iPad, so that'll bring some improvements.

The latest version of Metal is built to scale to the needs of modern apps. The streamlined API makes it easy for you to achieve optimal performance on Apple silicon with lower overhead command encoding and scalable resource management. Compilation is more explicit and faster than ever with all new ways to reduce run-time compilation.

Metal 4 introduces first-class support for machine learning, starting with native support for tensors in both the API and shading language. Integrate machine learning directly into your Metal app using the command line to execute large networks, or within your shaders to inline inference operations alongside the rest of your shader code.

Metal 4 also extends the MTLDevice that you already use today. You can incrementally adopt features that will help your app or game the most, in the order you need them.

Background Tasks are coming to iPad, so you'll finally be able to export from Final Cut Pro on iPad in the background, without Final Cut Pro aborting the export if you change app focus. 🥳

Here's some example Swift code:

import BackgroundTasks
import SwiftUI

@main
struct ColorFeed: App {
    var body: some Scene {
        WindowGroup {
            // ...
        }
        .backgroundTask(.appRefresh("com.colorfeed.wwdc25.appRefresh")) {
            await self.handleAppRefreshTask()
        }
    }
}

Image Playground gets an update, with support for ChatGPT - but really, who is ACTUALLY using Image Playground in Final Cut Pro today?

...and so far, that's pretty much it as far as I can tell.

I still need to finish the Keynote and Platforms State of the Union, so I'll post more tomorrow if anything jumps out.

There's normally lots of cool new tech, as the WWDC videos are released each day.

Fun fact... All of the 2024 Apple WWDC videos were graded using Tangent panels in Final Cut Pro controlled by CommandPost. I wonder if they did the same this year? 🤔

Oh, and one interesting side note... Intel Mac's won't be supported in macOS 27 next year.

But I didn't want to end the day on a downer, so...

People often ask me "what makes Jumper so special" and "why would I use Jumper when Premiere has Media Intelligence now built-in"?

Well, if you're a Final Cut Pro editor, you should ABSOLUTELY be using Jumper - it's a no-brainer.

But even for Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, and Adobe Premiere Pro users, Jumper is insanely useful - especially in high-end collaborative workflows.

You can even access Jumper Standalone from your Mac menubar. Remote users will be possible in the not-so-distant-future too! 🤯

It's basically "Spotlight for your NLE" - and it's SUCH a handy tool to have in your toolbox.

It hasn't changed the way I edit - I still organise Events with lots of emoji's, in the Final Cut Pro Browser, and I still do selects in the Browser's collections - for example:

However, I basically use Jumper as my "search engine" for times when a client asks "find me the shot of the old man with the red hat", etc.

When I'm doing fast-turnaround edits, unless I have two machines, I don't really have the computer power to analyse things whilst I'm editing (as Jumper makes use of every bit of CPU, GPU and RAM you throw at it!), so I generally just let Jumper analyse everything overnight once I've finished for the day, so when it comes to revisions, I can find things super quickly.

You can download a free trial and learn more about Jumper on the Jumper website.

You can read about my involvement with Jumper on this FCP Cafe news post from 6th November 2024.

To demonstrate it's power - I've just recorded a very quick and dirty screen recording.

This video is unscripted, real-time, no edits, warts and all, using beta software... so... well... enjoy!

If you have any questions, reach out on the CommandPost Discord or Jumper Discord!

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Gyroflow Toolbox v1.3.1 (Build 23) is out now! 🥳

This includes the following improvements:

• We've updated to the latest Gyroflow Core Renderer. HUGE thank you to the amazing AdrianEddy for all his ongoing help, assistance, genius and support!
• Updated from FxPlug v4.3.2 to v4.3.3.
• 175 lens profiles have been updated from the hero Gyroflow project. Thanks to EVERYONE who has submitted lens profiles and another HUGE thank you to AdrianEddy for all the work that goes into managing them.

There is still an outstanding bug/regression related to vertical videos.

Originally, vertical videos worked great in Gyroflow Toolbox, but at some point changes in Gyroflow broke something, and we haven't been able to work out what.

I think, thanks to the amazing AdrianEddy, we now have a possible solution - we'll try and solve this and get out a new bug fix ASAP.

You can learn more about Gyroflow Toolbox on the Gyroflow Toolbox website.

I'm also busily working away on my next app for the Mac App Store, SplitTake.

SplitTake is a Swift/Swift UI application for capturing your screen, webcam and external microphone to ProRes for editing in Final Cut Pro.

There's a lot of great screen recording apps out there, but a lot of them (like ScreenFlow) expect you to do all the editing WITHIN their app - I just want something that easily records the highest quality possible, then gives me everything in Final Cut Pro.

I'm still trying to get the under-the-hood stuff working well first, before tackling the user interface, but here's a sneak peak:

I'll hopefully get it up on TestFlight next week. Stay tuned!

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FxPlug v4.3.3 is out now! 🥳

FxPlug is the effects engine for Apple's Motion and Final Cut Pro.

It includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

• FxPlug SDK is now supported on machines running macOS 11.0 and above.
• 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.
• Added compatibility with older versions of Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor and support for macOS 11.0 and above.
• 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 an issue where the FxCustomParameterAPI’s -currentTime method could return an invalid time.
• Deprecated the -[FxImageTile openGLTextureForContext:] method.

You can download FxPlug on the Apple Developer Downloads website.

We'll look into updating BRAW Toolbox and Gyroflow Toolbox ASAP.

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Transfer Toolbox v1.4.0 is out now on the Mac App Store! 🥳

This release adds support for Final Cut Pro 11.1.1 (for Mac) and Final Cut Pro 2.2.1 (for iPad).

Transfer Toolbox allows you to convert Final Cut Pro (for Mac) Libraries into Final Cut Pro (for iPad) Projects.

You can learn more on the Transfer Toolbox website.

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Wow - it's June already. That went quick.

ATEM Exporter v1.0.2 (Build 4) is out now!

This release has zero improvements or bug fixes - sorry!

However, it does have an INCREDIBLY cool new icon but the insanely AWESOME Matthew Skiles. 🥳

Matthew has made some KILLER icons for me over the years...

...but I think this one may be near the best!

You can buy and learn more about ATEM Exporter on its website.

A few days ago, I posted the following on our CommandPost Discord:

Back in 2016, I introduced FCPX Hacks into the world. It originally started off as a little proof of concept project to make finding the browser playhead easier for Scott Simmons. Once I solved that annoying problem... LOTS of other Final Cut Pro editors had other ideas and suggestions, myself included. FCPX Hacks grew and expanded. Eventually, a random Queenslander called David Peterson emailed me, and said my code was basically rubbish (he since disputes this accusation, haha) and I desperately needed help. He introduced me to GitHub, and my single Lua file, eventually become hundreds. David and I are now great friends, who catch up in person whenever we're in the same state. FCPX Hacks evolved into CommandPost.

In the last 9 years, there's been well over 244 releases of CommandPost/FCPX Hacks. It's been downloaded over 258 thousand times. It's been used for projects at Netflix, Pixar and the BBC. People at companies such as Apple, Avid and Adobe use it daily. All of the 2024 Apple WWDC videos were graded using Tangent panels in Final Cut Pro controlled by CommandPost.

CommandPost has always been free and open-source. We've had some awesome financial contributors via GitHub Sponsors and PayPal. Over the last 9 years, CommandPost has brought in AUD$26,374.12 of revenue - basically AUD$2,930.46 per year. A lot of that money has been spent on buying new control surfaces (such as the DaVinci Resolve Editors Keyboard) so that we can add and maintain support in CommandPost.

As you will have seen... I haven't been able to spend as much time on CommandPost as I used to. I now have kids to feed, mortgage to pay, a Film & Television production company with staff (that also have kids and mortgages) to keep afloat. As many have experienced, in the last couple of years, our bread and butter of corporate/advertising jobs have dramatically decreased, and budgets have shrunk. I'd LOVE to spend more time on CommandPost, but it's super hard when it doesn't bring in a lot of revenue.

So I'm proposing a change... I would like to ATTEMPT to try and bring CommandPost to the Mac App Store. I have zero idea if Apple will ever allow it - but I'd like to give it a shot.

In a perfect world, I'd like to just make it a one-off cost (i.e. lifetime/perpetual only) - but I know that times are tough, and some people actually prefer the smaller monthly/yearly costs than a more expensive one-off cost - so I'm open to your ideas and suggestions.

There's currently 471 things on the CommandPost todo list on GitHub, that I would LOVE to action. If CommandPost actually paid my wage, I could spend my time ticking off all of those items - but to do that, I need decent income from CommandPost.

CommandPost would remain open-source (although to be honest, there's only been a tiny handful of contributors to the code), so you could always build it yourself. Old versions would still work. But if you wanted to use the latest and greatest, you'd need to pay, to basically maintain the support. It's actually a LOT of work to keep up with Apple's Final Cut Pro and macOS changes - we're not on the Final Cut Pro beta program - so each time they do an update it's a mad rush to fix things. I would give free licenses to EVERYONE who was a GitHub/PayPal Sponsor prior to today.

I'm not sure about prices. I'm still not sold on a subscription option. I still have no idea if Apple will even allow it. But if we want CommandPost to keep being updated, SOMETHING needs to happen.

Anyway... here's food for thought. What do YOU think?

After posting this on Discord, and sharing the link to the post on Facebook, Twitter, etc. I've been FLOODED with DM's, messages, emails, voice mails, etc.

The feedback has been INSANELY overwhelmingly positive and excited. People seem to genuinely love CommandPost, and want to see it updated and improved.

Whilst there's lots of differing opinions and views, the GENERAL consensus seems to be that people would prefer perpetual/lifetime licenses (as opposed to subscription), and would be ok with around USD$50.

So... that's what we're going to do. Over the coming days and weeks, we'll attempt to bring CommandPost to the Mac App Store for a single fee of USD$50.

The core CommandPost Lua code will remain open-source with an MIT license. We'll continue to merge any CommandPost-App changes back into the Hammerspoon repository.

Given CommandPost v1.5.2 has over 14,312 downloads (noting that a lot of users are still running very old versions of CommandPost for a variety of reasons - I still get bug reports from users on version CommandPost v1.0.6!) - there's certainly potential that it could generate enough income to keep me fully on CommandPost for a year!

There will also be other changes/improvements/additions...

After building Jumper for Avid Media Composer, I fell in love with the Avid PanelSDK - it's so good. The documentation is great, the API is great, the team behind it are great.

Compared to DaVinci Resolve's Python/Lua API, Premiere's Extensions API, and Final Cut Pro's very basic and lacking Workflow Extensions - the Avid PanelSDK is fricken awesome.

As a result, over the coming weeks/months, I plan to release a CommandPost Panel for Avid Media Composer on the Mac App Store for USD$50. This purchase would just be for the Avid panel - you'll still need CommandPost installed - so it'll be USD$100 for Avid users.

There's almost infinite possibilities of what we can do here - so it's super exciting! Your ideas are certainly welcome!

We will also continue to "spin out" toolboxes from CommandPost and make them standalone apps.

The Sony Timecode Repair Toolbox will eventually become the Timecode Toolbox on the Mac App Store - we already have an epic icon for this:

I started building this not long after BRAW Toolbox was shipped, and I even employed someone to try and build it for me at one point, but it's never been finished. It's on the todo list!

The Titles to Keywords/AutoSequence Toolbox will eventually be "spun out" as a standalone paid called SyncScript Pro (previously referred to as Assistants Toolbox on FCP Cafe).

I'm also currently building another app called SplitTake - a simple Swift/Swift UI application for capturing your screen, webcam and external microphone to ProRes for editing in Final Cut Pro.

So, as always, there's a LOT to do, and not enough hours in the day. But hopefully the more people that eventually buy CommandPost, the more time I can spend on it.

And if enough people buy it, maybe, just maybe, I'll be able to drag David Peterson away from his "real job" so he can work on CommandPost full time!

Onwards & Upwards! xx

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If you've been in the post production community for a minute, you've most certainly come across the name Monica Daniel.

She's been featured on the BorisFX Artist Profile.

She's been on Zack Arnold's various websites and podcasts for years.

She's been Sh*tting Sparkles.

She has an insanely impressive list of IMDB credits.

Whilst I don't believe we've ever met in person, I've probably listened to hundreds of hours of her talking over the years on various podcasts.

She now needs our help.

She writes on GoFundMe:

This is very difficult for me to do. I pride myself on being self-sufficient and independent. I have been a professional editor with a successful career in film and television for 20 years. I am a single mother of two teenagers who do well in school and are loving young humans. My son is special needs, and that provides its own unique challenges as I try to be the best mother I can for them. I have given back to the post-production community through volunteering for non-profit organizations like Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group and Blue Collar Post Collective. I have moderated and been a speaker on panels, taught seminars, mentored many up-and-coming editors, and produced a filmmaking edu-tainment podcast for the filmmaking community.

When the strikes hit a couple of years ago, I had just finished working on the finale of a television show. And I have not worked since then. I needed to continue to provide for my children while I tried to find work. I have drained my savings and have managed to extend it as long as I can by accumulating extremely high credit card debt. I have had to pay thousands for water damage to my home in that time and have delayed repairs in my home because I cannot afford it. There have been medical bills and car repairs. I've gone to food banks and ran out of food stamp benefits.

I need help as I am trying to find sources of income and get back on my feet and figure out my career path. I am too young to retire and too old to be considered for many other types of jobs. Thank you for reading.

When you look at the people who have already donated, you know this is important - for example:

• Marianna Montague
• Michael Kammes
• Philip Hodgetts
• Trevor Horton
• Kes Akalaonu

These are industry heavyweights.

I know it's bloody hard to be a post production professional anywhere in the world today, but if you can spare some money and help out Monica, that would be amazing.

Thanks team! xx

You can learn more on her GoFundMe post.

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ATEM Exporter v1.0.1 is out now on the Mac App Store! 🥳

ATEM Exporter is a native Swift + Swift UI Mac Application that listens to a Blackmagic ATEM switcher, and logs all the camera changes.

Click here to buy on the Mac App Store

You can export the camera changes as a Final Cut Pro FCPXML, to use in Final Cut Pro or Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve.

You can export a Program Cut, which allows you to use your program feed from an external recorder (such as a Blackmagic HyperDeck), and add cut points each time there's a camera change.

You can also export a Multicam, which allows you to use your program feed as well as any ISO (i.e. independent camera) recordings, and export a Multicam clip for Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve.

ATEM Exporter was built in a few hours during a live event, and has only currently been tested in a real-world live production using an Blackmagic ATEM Constellation 8K, Blackmagic HyperDeck's and AJA recorders for ISOs - so we welcome any user feedback for other ATEM's!

We're currently just using a placeholder icon (from Timecode Toolbox) whilst a new one is being designed - stay tuned!

You can learn more on the ATEM Exporter website.

evrExpanse 5.6.3 & 5.6.4 Bring Accurate Camera Capture Time to FCP Workflows

The latest updates to evrExpanse, versions 5.6.3 and 5.6.4, deliver a major improvement for editors who rely on accurate timestamp metadata — especially when working in Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and other NLEs or metadata tools.

📸 Camera-Embedded CreateDate Support

CreateDate is the actual moment the camera records each clip — embedded directly in the file’s metadata. Until now, many workflows relied on the filesystem creation date, which can become inaccurate after file transfers or cloud uploads/downloads.

With evrExpanse 5.6.3, this camera-authored CreateDate is now embedded in DaVinci Resolve metadata export, joining the existing support for Final Cut Pro and other supported NLEs. The “Content Created” field in metadata now reflects the true capture time, enabling better organization, filtering, and Smart Collection creation — even after transfers or rewraps.

🕞 Accurate Timestamps in Transcoded Files

Version 5.6.4 takes it even further. When the “Include Source Metadata” option is enabled, evrExpanse sets the transcoded file’s creation date to match the original CreateDate from the camera — not the OS-generated date.

The result? When transcoded media is imported into Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or other NLEs, the “Content Created” field shown in the browser reflects the true capture time — not a timestamp corrupted by transfer or OS-level changes.

✅ Key Benefits

• True Content Created timestamps preserved in transcoded files
• Improved accuracy for Smart Collections and media organization workflows
• Full compatibility with FCP, DaVinci Resolve, and metadata tools like FoolCat
• Smart fallback to filesystem creation date when metadata is unavailable

These updates are available now in evrExpanse 5.6.4. 👉 Learn more at evrapp.cloud

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The amazing Joe Marler reports on our Discord:

The v11.1.1 fix involving "MXF media to plays back incorrectly" (only XAVC-L) had been filed as issue 449 in the FCP Cafe bug database

There was also an unannounced fix in Pro Video Formats v2.4.1 the day after the Final Cut Pro v11.1.1 release.

That Pro Video Formats v2.4.1 fix addressed sluggish Quicktime XAVC-L playback on Apple Silicon.

I tested the Final Cut Pro v11.1.1 fix on bug #449 before installing Pro Video Formats v2.4.1, and it none-the-less fixed the specific XAVC-L bug involving black frames when using the Final Cut Pro Import dialog on Apple Silicon.
However the QTP bug was suspicious. It might have been in /Library/Video/Professional Video Workflow\Plug-Ins/AppleAVCLGCodec.bundle or in /Library/Video/Professional Video Workflow Plug-Ins/AppleMXFImport.bundle, but I did binary diffs on those and diffs of the decompiled pseudocode and I don't see where it was.

The Final Cut Pro v11.1.1 fix was possibly in the Flexo private framework, maybe in MXF::FileReader.

This is what I absolutely LOVE about the Final Cut Pro community - we have such insanely smart people just openly sharing very technical information. Awesome.

Thanks Joe for all your on-going help, support and genius in both the wider post production community, and ESPECIALLY here at FCP Cafe in the GitHub Issues!

The Pro Video Formats v2.4.1 update was released on 23rd May 2025, so if you haven't already updated, please do via System Settings or downloading manually on the Apple website.

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Final Cut Pro v11.1.1 is out now with the following bug fixes:

• Addresses an issue that could cause MXF media to play back incorrectly.
• Improves reliability when adding video to drop zones in the inspector.
• Fixes an issue when sharing with the “Allow export segmentation” setting that caused inconsistent frame rates.

Compressor v4.10.1 is out now with the following bug fixes:

• Improves reliability when exporting ProRes 422 clips in MXF format.
• Fixes an issue when sharing with the "Allow export segmentation" setting that caused inconsistent frame rates.

There has been no changes to Motion, FxPlug, or Workflow Extensions... yet.

For those that might have missed it Final Cut Pro for iPad v2.2.1 was realised on 8th May with the following bug fix:

• Fixes an issue that caused user-installed fonts to not appear.

We'll test out, and keep you posted on our findings. Thanks team!

evrExpanse v5.6.3 is out now!

New Features: Expanded Metadata Field Coverage

Metadata is now more consistent across all export types, improving cross-platform workflows and post-production integration.

Newly added fields by export type:

• DaVinci Resolve (.CSV): Date Recorded

• Final Cut Pro (.FCPXML): Focus Distance

• evrExpanse (.CSV): Reel Number, Scene, Take, Camera Number, Focus Distance

• Silverstack (.CSV): Camera Letter, Reel Number, Scene, Clip Number, Take

• ASSIMILATE SCRATCH Integration (.XML): Clip Number, Reel Number, Scene, Take, Camera Number, Focus Distance

• Avid Media Composer (.ALE): Clip Number, Reel Number, Scene, Take, Camera Number, Finder Tags, Finder Flag, Focus Distance

📊 For full field comparison, see the updated metadata coverage chart.

You can download and learn more on the evrExpanse website

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Gyroflow Toolbox v1.3.0 (Build 22) is out now!

This release includes the following improvements:

• We've updated to the latest Gyroflow Core Renderer. HUGE thank you to the amazing AdrianEddy for all his ongoing help, assistance, genius and support!
• We've improved how we render error messages in Gyroflow Toolbox. HUGE thank you to Darrin Cardani at Apple and Gabriele de Simone at FxFactory for all your ongoing help, assistance, genius and support (and for putting up with my crazy questions)!
• Updated from FxPlug v4.3 to v4.3.2.

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

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Pro Editor Bundle v3 is out now!

Now you can buy all of our apps directly on the Mac App Store! 🥳

The Pro Editor Bundle v3 is USD$500 and includes:

• BRAW Toolbox
• Capacitor
• Fast Collections
• Gyroflow Toolbox
• LUT Robot
• Marker Toolbox
• Metaburner
• News Import
• Recall Toolbox

The Mac App Store also supports Complete My Bundle - which credits customers for apps they’ve already purchased within a bundle. You only pay the balance for the remaining apps.

You can find the Pro Editor Bundle v3 on the Mac App Store here.

Alternatively, if you don't need LUT Robot or Capacitor, you can buy the original Pro Editor Bundle on the Mac App Store here, or if you don't need Metaburner, you can find Pro Editor Bundle v2 on the Mac App Store here.

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Metaburner is now available on the Mac App Store at a discount rate (for a limited time)! 🥳

Previously it was only available on FxFactory - however, there were a few users (cough, Vigneswaran Rajkumar), that really wanted it on the Mac App Store too, so we've finally put it there too!

The versions should be mostly identical (although the Mac App Store version is sandboxed) - and we'll try keep them in-sync.

You can buy it today for USD$79.99 (previously USD$149 on FxFactory).

Metaburner is an Advanced Metadata Generator for Final Cut Pro.

You can access it via a Title in the Titles sidebar.

Metaburner gives you 25 text layers that you can populate with whatever metadata you want.

You can even stack multiple Metaburner Titles on top of each other for unlimited metadata fields!

To begin, simply drag your Final Cut Pro Project from the Browser into the Metaburner Title Inspector via a drop zone, and then Metaburner has full access to everything that's in the FCPXML.

There's also a Lua scripting environment built-in, so you can even "code" your own text for unlimited possibilities.

You can even share Lua variables between multiple Metaburner titles for some crazy cool workflows!

You can learn more on the Metaburner website and buy on the Mac App Store.

The charming Shamir Allibhai from Eddie AI has released an awesome little blog post.

He explains:

I remember April 2011. It was when Apple launched Final Cut Pro X and ended FCP 7. FCP X’s magnetic timeline looked amazing but too much of radical departure for me back then. It was too hard to use after having learned and depended on FCP 7. I migrated to Adobe Premiere.

The launch didn’t just divide the editing world — it shattered it.
Editors walked out. Forums caught fire. Careers shifted overnight.

But what if we got the story wrong?

What if that launch wasn’t a failure… but a fault line?
One that quietly reshaped the next decade of content creation?

We wrote about this pivotal moment in our latest long form article...

The Final Cut That Wasn’t — A deep dive into the launch that broke the industry before building it again. For editors, creators, and anyone who loves a good comeback story.

You can read it on the Eddie AI blog.

You can also step back in time, and read my ORIGINAL FCPX thoughts from 2014 on the FCP Cafe Blog.

Enjoy!

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Thanks to everyone who visited Max & Ronny at the OWC booth at MPTS to check out Jumper for Final Cut Pro!

There was lots of excitement - especially seeing that Jumper analysis files created in Final Cut Pro, can be used in Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro and Jumper Standalone - on Mac and PC!

You can read more about Jumper on our original FCP Cafe article.

Marker Toolbox v1.5.1 (Build 22) is out now!

It includes the following improvements:

• Add supported for Vimeo's new CSV format. Thanks for reporting Matt!
• Updated TimecodeKit from v2.0.11 to v2.3.3. Thanks Steffan Andrews!

Marker Toolbox allows you to import a Adobe Premiere CSV, Vimeo CSV, Wipster CSV, Dropbox Replay JSON, Frame.io FIOJSON (including from the V4 Beta), Timecode+ TSV & Text Comments into Apple's Final Cut Pro, Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve and Avid Media Composer.

You can even get OpenAI's ChatGPT to help interpret your Text Comments - which is perfect for handling emails from clients!

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

Eddie AI is now available in Final Cut Pro! 🥳

Shamir Allibhai writes:

Imagine if you could just "prompt" your clips in Final Cut Pro to create a great story.
Scratch that. You don’t need to imagine: "ChatGPT" capabilities have arrived for FCP.

And the big week for Eddie AI just got even bigger.
(🎥 Launch video part 3, below...watch to the end 😉)

First Premiere Pro.
Then DaVinci Resolve.
And now... Final Cut Pro. 🍎✂️

Eddie — the AI assistant video editor for pros — is now integrated with all three major video editing applications. That means wherever you cut, whatever your workflow, Eddie and its advanced AI models are there to make you more efficient.

And quite frankly, to liberate you.

📥 Import footage (multicam, sync, compound, and all)
🧠 Find the story
🗂️ Log b-rolls
✂️ Cut roughs
✨ Export projects/timelines, ready to polish

⏳ Hours, if not days → now minutes ⚡

Try Eddie for free — 2 full projects/month, no credit card required

You can learn more on the Eddie AI website.

You can also read about this new integration on RedShark News.

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Introducing Off-topic Rants! 🥳

Over the years, I've written hundreds of blog posts on various personal and LateNite websites, as have some of my friends, collaborators and co-workers at LateNite.

When we re-designed the LateNite website a few years ago, we simplified it, and removed links to the very old blog - the pages were still online, but kinda hidden, only to be found if you Googled them.

However, rather than letting all that content die, I've decided to keep it alive here on FCP Cafe in the *Off-topic Rants section.

Yes, I'm a digital hoarder. We have 267 hard drives in NeoFinder and 353 LTO tapes. 🫠

I also created Unreal Cafe and Resolve Cafe very shortly after setting up FCP Cafe, but they never really took off, so I've moved my Unreal Cafe blog posts here, and have taken down both these sites, so I can just concentrate on Final Cut Pro. 👋

So basically... Off-topic Rants is a random collection of blog posts that contain technical information, creative information, film reviews (apologies if I wrote something bad about your film!), and who knows what else.

Some interesting posts from over the years include:

• Philosophy of Open Source (13th September 2006)
• Post Production Workflow (23rd December 2008)
• Final Cut Studio 3 Predictions (21st February 2009)
• Avid vs FCP – My thoughts… (10th May 2009)
• Mac Hardware Predictions – Death to the Mouse (22nd June 2009)
• Assistant Editor Lecture (30th October 2010)
• Waiting on Sound (16th September 2012)
• The Hard Drive Challenge (12th December 2013)
• FCPX Rant (28th January 2014)
• Directing The Wizards of Aus (20th December 2015)
• Superannuation for Filmmakers (6th June 2018)

Some of the old blogs have formatting issues, broken links, and missing content, so feel free to submit a pull request if you come across anything, or just let me know on the Discord or GitHub.

Also the main Off-topic Rants page currently doesn't list everything, so you can only find a lot of the old blogs by searching, or stepping through the blog posts page-by-page (which will take a while, as there's currently 349 posts!).

If nothing else... all these decades of old blog posts will probably explain why I'm so crazy... 🤷

Enjoy!

Jumper for Final Cut Pro has been on display at MPTS show at Olympia Grand Hall in London today, and will be back again tomorrow! 🥳

The amazing Ronny Courtens from OWC (Head of Enterprise solutions - Jellyfish/Jupiter/LTO) and Max Lund from Witchcraft Software (the lead developer of Jumper) will be on the stand demoing Jumper, running large shared media volumes and on-premises machine learning datasets off a Jellyfish NAS.

Ronny is giving live demos of their latest high-performance Jellyfish NAS systems, their powerful new Jellyfish Manager v3.0, and the very first release of their brand-new Jellyfish Media Management software.

The Jellyfish systems is connected to super-fast OWC Thunderbolt 5 hubs, docks, and drives, to demo high-speed edit-while-ingest collaboration workflows.

If you want to see the fastest and most user-friendly storage solutions for creative teams, and the latest developments in on-premises machine learning, go and visit MPTS on the ccktech booth, Stand B42.

The event runs:

Thursday 15th May - 09:30 - 17:00

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New Case Study!

Dev Benegal has written an awesome new case study covering his film An Arrested Moment.

You can read all about it on FCP Cafe.

Thanks heaps Dev for sharing with the Final Cut Pro Community! 🥳

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Marker Data v1.2.0 is out now!

In includes the following improvement:

• Introducing Pagemaker – a new feature that allows users to create PDFs directly within Marker Data
• Swatch analysis now provides percentage progress, including completion status for each processed image (#122)
• Updated Notion Module CSV2Notion Neo to version 1.3.5
• Increased Notion Module's upload threads

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

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Jumper for Final Cut Pro will be on display at MPTS show at Olympia Grand Hall in London next week thanks to OWC! 🥳

The amazing Ronny Courtens from OWC (Head of Enterprise solutions - Jellyfish/Jupiter/LTO) and Max Lund from Witchcraft Software (the lead developer of Jumper) will be on the stand demoing Jumper, running large shared media volumes and on-premises machine learning datasets off a Jellyfish NAS.

Ronny will give live demos of their latest high-performance Jellyfish NAS systems, their powerful new Jellyfish Manager v3.0, and the very first release of their brand-new Jellyfish Media Management software.

The Jellyfish systems will be connected to super-fast OWC Thunderbolt 5 hubs, docks, and drives, to demo high-speed edit-while-ingest collaboration workflows.

If you want to see the fastest and most user-friendly storage solutions for creative teams, and the latest developments in on-premises machine learning, come and visit MPTS on the ccktech booth, Stand B42.

The event runs:

Wednesday 14th May - 09:30 - 18:30
Thursday 15th May - 09:30 - 17:00

Caption Pop AI v1.1.5 is out now!

It now includes background text boxes, improved color pickers, new languages, and a DTD bug fix.

The auto-update’s broken, so to install:

• Quit FCP & SR app
• Delete the SR app
• Download and install new version
• Restart FCP and then relaunch Caption Pop AI

After updating, both the SR app and Caption Pop AI should have 1.1.5 version numbers.

You can learn more on the Stupid Raisins website.

evrExpanse v5.6.2 is out now!

This update is packed with powerful new features and enhancements for Canon users, making it easier than ever to unlock the full potential of your EOS Cinema camera metadata — especially for those working with legacy equipment.

New Features:

• Canon XF Utility Integration: Seamlessly integrate with Canon XF Utility for a more efficient metadata workflow with Canon XF-AVC MXF media.

Enhancements:

• Expanded Metadata Support: Direct extraction of Camera Index, Reel Number, and Clip Number from Canon EOS Cinema MXF files, providing deeper insights into your footage.

FIXED:

• Improved Color Space Detection: Resolved color space extraction issues for Canon C200 (XF-AVC) files.

Read the Full Release Notes

You can download and learn more on the evrExpanse website

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EDL-X v2.14 is out now!

In includes the following improvement:

• New Choice for Clip Names: Top-Level Clip Names - Forced - grabs the first name found while drilling down in the timeline

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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Audio Design Desk v2.2 is out now!

It contains the following changes:

• +Sounds Marketplace is here. The way that sound packs are browsed and downloaded has been changed to an online model based on the ability to individualize sounds.
• Stem Splitter
• Generate new sounds using the integrated SoundGen tools
• New triggers panel in the Timeline
• Bug fixes and UI refinements

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

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Dylan Bates (The Final Cut Bro) has released a new app called Motion Template Version Tool.

I'm so incredibly proud of Dylan for jumping neck deep into development and programming - that's awesome!

You can watch him explain the application on YouTube:

You can pay what you want - with a minimum of USD$5.

You can download and learn more on The Final Cut Pro store.

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CommandPost is now on Discord!

You can sign up for our new CommandPost Discord community on Discord.

I haven't had Facebook on my phone for years, and at the start of the year I removed Twitter as well.

Sadly, as a result, I was very slow to respond to Twitter DM's and questions on our CommandPost Facebook Community.

I'm an active member of a few Discord Communities, so I figured, I might as well try move the CommandPost community to Discord! We'll see how it goes.

Hope to see you there!

Jumper is coming to Avid Media Composer & DaVinci Resolve!

Whilst this isn't technically Final Cut Pro news, it will bring some benefits, as Jumper's analysis files will be common between Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve (Mac & Windows), Adobe Premiere Pro (Mac & Windows) and Avid Media Composer (Mac & Windows)!

A standalone/desktop version of Jumper is also in active development.

You can learn more on the Jumper website.

MotionVFX has updated a bunch of their products, for example:

• mFlare 2 v3.1.6: Crash fixes, added base template
• mTracker 3D Area v1.1.2: Added base template, updated separator for templates

You can download and learn more on the MotionVFX website.

X2Pro5 v5.0.44 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Support for mov files created on iPhones.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Builder NLE v4.2.12 is out now with the following bug fixes:

• Bug fix for dealing with stale security scoped bookmarks when accessing media files
• Bug fix for audio playback

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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BRAW Toolbox v1.4.4 (74) is out now!

It contains the following improvements:

• Added support for Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K 65.
• Added support for updated Constant Quality record settings on URSA Cine.
• Added support for Panasonic UB-50 Blackmagic RAW clips.
• Updated from Blackmagic RAW SDK v4.4 to v4.5.
• Updated from FxPlug v4.3.1 to v4.3.2.

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

Arctic v24.3.2 it out now with support for Final Cut Pro 11.1.

You can learn more and download on the Arctic website.

MotionVFX has updated a bunch of their products, for example:

• mFilmLook v3.0: New Motion Blur Al effect available in CineStudio. All effects added as separate handy presets
• mRotoAl v1.1.5: Updated separator for templates
• mFilmLook Elemental Presets v1.0.1: Support for the latest mFilmLook, featuring Motion Blur

You can download and learn more on the MotionVFX website.

Creator's Best Friend v1.3.4 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Bug fix for determining the visibility of a marker on a clip's out point

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Simons Says Translation v3.9.6 is out now with minor bug fixes.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Sync-N-Link X v1.3.5 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Critical bug fix for crashes caused by garbage collection (introduced in version 1.3.3)

You can download on the Mac App Store.

captionAnimator v1.1.4 is out now with the following bug fix:

• Bug fix for a crash caused by creating shortened titles from a caption (in some cases)

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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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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Sync-N-Link X v1.2.1 is out now!

It contains the following change:

• Bug fix for DTD validation

You can download on the Mac App Store.

Audio Design Desk v2.1.9 is out now!

• *New: Global Auto Transpose in timeline. This allows regions which contain key metadata to be transposed to the selected key of choice. By default full mix music isn't included in this control, but the option for that can be adjusted in effects preferences. This feature is most useful with shorter pitched regions such as loops.
• Moved sound pack manage panel to dedicated window. There is a new key command to show it in the main Library menu. Tab is removed but there is a button at the bottom of the sound pack manager for the window. The manage panel also has a number of fixes.
• • Button in home screen sound pack panels wasn't working correctly
• Audio Editor's edit range controls weren't behaving correctly on render new file dialog
• More robust and performant rendering queue for pitch or time shifts in the Timeline
• Regions when dragged to the top of the timeline would often snap back to their source track
• Drag copy of regions, snap, pitch shift after copy, etc

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

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BRAW Toolbox v1.4.2 (72) is out now!

It contains the following bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where the Toolbox drop zone failed to work properly in Final Cut Pro 11 due to depreciated FCPXML versions. Thanks for reporting Alex Sofonea!
• Fixed a bug where the Check All/Uncheck All button in the Workflow Extension didn't work correctly. Thanks for reporting Mathew Welsh!

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

Dylan Bates (The Final Cut Bro) has released a new product called Ultimate Glitch Transitions for Final Cut Pro | Vol. 1

You can use the discount code Glitch20 to get 20% off at checkout.

Dylan writes:

Hey fam, if you've been editing in Final Cut Pro for any length of time, there's a good chance you've run into an issue with transitions. When you apply a transition onto an overlying layer like a title or logo graphic, it almost always takes over the entire timeline, regardless of what you are applying it to.

THIS DRIVES ME CRAZY.

This week, I released a brand new glitch transition pack. But whenever I release a new plugin, I want it to solve problems that we have as everyday editors in Final Cut Pro.

So my goal with this pack was to solve that exact problem. And I am happy to report, that it was a success!

My new Glitch Transition pack allows you to enable / disable whether or not you want to apply it to the rest of the timeline.

PLUS it comes with 20 variations of glitches, as well as an enormous amount of customization. So the possibilities truly are endless!

You can learn more and purchase on Dylan's Gumroad Store.

SendToX v1.2.7 is out now!

It has the following change:

• Bug fix for falsely reporting that files are offline

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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CommandPost v1.5.1 is out now!

It includes the following bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug in the Modify Project action for Final Cut Pro. Thanks for reporting Adam Schoales!
• Fixed how CommandPost reads and writes Final Cut Pro 11's sandboxed preferences. This fixes features such as Enable Rendering During Playback.
• Fixed how CommandPost reads Final Cut Pro 11's sandboxed User Destinations.
• Fixed a bug which prevented CommandPost from sending FCPXMLs back to Final Cut Pro. Thanks for reporting Martin Turner!

You can learn more and download for free on the CommandPost website.

Jumper 2024.12.05 (1453) for Apple Silicon Mac's is out now!

It includes the following updates:

🆕 Important Changes

• We now finally support visual processing of R3D files! To enable this feature, you need to go to www.red.com/downloads and download and install REDCINE-X PRO.
• We now save the transcriptions as plain text files in the audio analysis folder. The transcription can be found in the two .txt files if you right-click on a file in Jumper's media table and click Reveal Audio analysis.

🔨 Improvements

• Improve frame capture quality when making reverse image searches via Final Cut Pro

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Prevent automatic shutdown of Jumper Engine if the Final Cut Pro Trial version is running.
• Make sure the settings for target audio and video track in Premiere Pro doesn't reset on restart, thanks for reporting @citizensam!
• Make sure we are frame-accurate when doing reverse image searches from a Premiere Pro timeline, thanks for reporting @citizensam!

You can learn more and download a free trial on the Jumper website.

captionTranslation v1.0.1 is out now!

It includes the following new feature:

• Manage languages button to directly access the Translation Languages feature in System Settings

You can download now on the Mac App Store.

Audio Design Desk v2.1.8 is out now!

It includes the following changes:

• Fix: Replace and Metronome panels in timeline weren't appearing
• Fix: Exit full screen video will return video to previous docked size
• Fix: Slip editing in audio editor
• Improved metadata analysis/guessing for very short files. Added minimum confidence slider to UI.
• Improved loudness analysis for very short files
• Fixed Region Effects popup
• Fixed some region mouse responsiveness issues.
• Improved metadata windows

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

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Jumper is having a Black Friday sale!

Get 50% off yearly and lifetime licenses with the discount code: BLACKFRIDAY50.

You can learn more on the Jumper website.

CoreMelt is also having a massive Black Friday sale!

Get 50% off everything with the discount code: CM2024BF.

Offer ends 4th December.

You can learn more on the CoreMelt website.

Hedge is also doing a Black Friday sale!

Until 7th December, all new licenses and upgrades to Pro are 20% off. Yes, that includes bundles 🥳

Use the discount code: BLACKFRIDAY.

You can learn more on the Hedge website.

Isaac T. has started selling awesome clothing for filmmakers and post production professionals!

You can learn more on his blog.

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Strada & Michael Cioni have just released the full video of Michael's presentation from the 2024 Final Cut Pro Creative Summit!

I was there in the room - and it was an absolutely awesome and inspiring talk.

It's called Why Early Adopters Win: CEO Michael Cioni’s Strategies for Creators and you can watch below on YouTube:

Julie Eckersley and Dr Austin Hayden have written a manifesto for creating high-quality, low cost television for the Digital Age, titled FREESTYLE TV.

I had the honour of writing a couple of pages about my personal thoughts/opinions on what Producers should know about Post Production.

You can download the PDF and have a read via the FREESTYLE TV website.

Metaburner v1.1.2 (52) is out now!

This release fixes a bug where Metaburner could crash when handling unsupported fonts. Thanks for reporting Joseph Nilo!

You can download and learn more on the Metaburner website.

Media Sync Tool v1.2 is out now.

It includes the following changes:

• Added support for Final Cut Pro 11
• Implemented major bug fixes

You can download Media Sync Tool on the Mac App Store.

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Backups for Final Cut Pro v2.1.4 is out now!

This update includes the following changes:

• Verified to run under MacOS Sequoia and work with Final Cut Pro v11.0.
• Update the terminology used in various dialogs and help files.

You can download Backups for Final Cut Pro on the Mac App Store.

Hazy by FilmConvert for Final Cut Pro is out now!

Filters are an important part of any filmmaker's toolkit, and now, you can get all the benefits of shooting with diffusion filters in post using Hazy. Soften any bright areas of your image, smooth any uneven skin tones, and add a nice bloom effect to strong light sources using our filter presets.

You can learn more on the Hazy website.

Halation by FilmConvert for Final Cut Pro is out now!

Take your project to the next level by adding Halation to your footage. As a by-product of shooting film, Halation adds a red glow around the bright part of your image, adding to the romantic feeling of celluloid film.

You can learn more on the Halation website.

Robin S. Kurz has released a new video on his YouTube channel titled, Final Cut Pro 11: New Transcribe to Captions Feature + Must-Have Tools for Faster Workflow!

You can watch it on YouTube below:

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Seed Creative has posted an awesome video covering the Final Cut Pro Creative Summit.

You can watch it on YouTube:

Audio Design Desk v2.1.7 is out now!

• Hot Fix: v2.1.6 had an experimental library indexing feature accidentially enabled. Removed.
• Fix: The timeline area oriented the Arrow cursor to its center point rather than its tip. This made dragging sometimes confusing and unintuitive
• Improve audio track's automation point UI
• Allow drag and drop of videos into the video player
• Show more extension status' in the window title bar

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

Color Finale is having their Black Friday Sale offering up to 65% off post-production tools.

You can learn more on the Color Finale website.

Looking for other Black Friday deals?

Jonny Elwyn's site is probably the best place to find them!

You can check out his detailed list of deals on his website.

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CommandPost v1.5.0 is out now!

It includes the following changes:

Improvements:

• Updated to Lua v5.4.7.
• Added support for FCPXML v1.13 used by Final Cut Pro 11.
• Increased the number of banks from 30 to 50. Thanks for suggesting Todd Hallam!
• We now force the Sony Timecode Repair Toolbox to use FCPXML v1.11, so that it can be more easily imported into older versions of DaVinci Resolve.

Bug Fixes:

• Added support for Clear Key in Final Cut Pro Command Sets. Thanks for reporting Iain Anderson!
• Fixed an error on macOS Sequoia, where macOS would return no frontmost windows (which shouldn't technically be possible). Thanks for reporting Iain Anderson!
• Fixed a bug where Insert Action in the Scripting panel would fail to import some actions. Thanks for reporting Ermal Rexhepi!
• Fixed a bug in Final Cut Pro 11 and macOS Sequoia where CommandPost could fail to apply Effects, Transitions, Titles and Generators. Thanks for reporting Kurt Farr!
• We now correctly trigger Final Cut Pro Trial menubar items when running the trial version of Final Cut Pro.

You can download for free via the CommandPost website.

Producer's Best Friend v1.4.72 is out now.

It contains:

• Support for version 1.13 XML from Final Cut Pro 11
• Bug fix for creating thumbnail images

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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In very sad news, the post production community recently found out via Rohan’s brother in-law that Motion guru Rohan Marks has unexpectedly past away.

Whilst I knew of Rohan and his amazing work in the Motion and Final Cut Pro community, I didn't know him personally, however Bret Williams of BretFX has shared these thoughts:

😢 It is with great sadness that I share with the group that our resident Motion guru Rohan Marks passed away last week. According to his sister he was "lost suddenly and too soon." Rohan was an amazing soul and a mentor to us all here. Rohan was one of the nicest guys I've ever known. We had become good friends over the last few years, chatting frequently about Motion and life in general.
Spreading the word about Motion, and helping people learn Motion was one of his passions. He even recently went so far as to say to me that "Motion literally changed my life. For the best." He was proud of the work he did as one of Stupid Raisins creatives and more recently you could find his own solutions on FxFactory as "ROWIE" and his tutorials on his YouTube channel.
Please keep Rohan's family and friends in your thoughts and prayers. Rest in peace Rohan. You will be sorely missed. 💔

From all reports, he was a very loving, helpful, and talented person - and will be very much missed by everyone in the Motion and Final Cut Pro community.

<!-- Insert giant virtual hug to everyone who knew and loved Rohan. xx -->

BRAW Toolbox v1.4.1 (71) is out now.

It includes the following improvements:

• Updated from Blackmagic RAW SDK v4.3 to v4.3.1.
• Updated from FxPlug v4.3 to v4.3.1.
• Improved Blackmagic RAW SDK stability with simultaneous decodes.

Whilst Apple did announce at the 2024 Final Cut Pro Creative Summit that Final Cut Pro 11 now supports the new macOS system-wide MediaExtension Framework, and that Blackmagic will at some point release a Blackmagic RAW Media Extension - there is currently no time frame, so we have no idea if this is coming in days, weeks, or months.

In 2023 Apple announced a new framework called MediaExtension, that provides a means for developers to create format readers and video decoders for media that the system doesn’t natively support - such as Blackmagic RAW and Nikon NRAW.

This was supposed to come in macOS Sonoma, but they silently killed it - only for it to reappear in this years WWDC for macOS Sequoia.

Whilst it's been out for a while, the documentation is insanely complicated and limited and the only person I know who's done ANYTHING with it so far is the incredible Anton Marini, who's been building an ffmpeg Media Extension over on GitHub here.

I originally started playing with and testing MediaExtension's both back in 2023, and during the macOS Sequoia beta's, but never made much progress, as Final Cut Pro 10.8.1 didn't support Media Extensions anyway.

However, given there's no certainty as to when Blackmagic will release a Blackmagic RAW Media Extension, we're going to go back and see if we can bring a Blackmagic RAW Media Extension to market sooner rather than later.

Apple announced 3rd party Motion Templates were "coming soon" to iPad at launch, and that functionality is still not out - so we don't really want to waste time waiting for something that could be a year away.

We'll continue to keep you posted on our progress on FCP Cafe.

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

Capacitor v1.1.0 (5) is out now.

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

You can learn more and download Capacitor on the Capacitor website.

Builder NLE v4.2.10 is out now.

It includes the following changes:

• Critical bug fix to read and process "Final Cut Pro Document" binary files exported from Final Cut Pro
• Bug fix for keyboard commands invoked from the People or Keywords field
• New feature: ignore hidden clips when importing an event from Final Cut Pro 11

You can download on the Mac App Store.

EDL-X v2.13 is out now.

It adds support for FCPXML version v1.12 and v1.13.

You can download on the Mac App Store.

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Transfer Toolbox v1.3.0 is out now for free!

Transfer your Final Cut Pro 11.0 (for Mac) Libraries to Final Cut Pro 2.1 (for iPad) Projects!

You can learn more on the Transfer Toolbox website.

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