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Bug Tracker
This page is dedicated to keeping track of the latest Final Cut Pro bugs and issues.
You can read on recommendations on if you should update Final Cut Pro here.
We keep track of these bugs via our GitHub issues site.
GitHub is a safe and secure developers platform used by over 73 million users worldwide.
To submit a new bug report, simply sign up for a free GitHub account and post an issue here.
If you'd prefer not to use GitHub, then you can always email us your bug report: [email protected]
Whenever posting a new bug/issue to GitHub, we also submit feedback directly to Apple via Feedback Assistant.
You can also send feedback directly to the Final Cut Pro team via their Feedback Form, however, unlike Feedback Assistant you can't track your request or add additional information after submitting, nor can you have a discussion with the Apple team via the comments - so we generally recommend you use Feedback Assistant as well.
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Finding Crash Logs
You can find previous crash logs in this folder:
~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/
You can find your user library by holding down OPTION
when you click the Go
menubar item from Finder.
Because crash logs are really large, the easiest way to share them on GitHub (and with Apple via feedback) is via a GitHub Gist.
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Third Party Software
It's important to note that since Final Cut Pro 10.6.6 Apple has dropped FxPlug3 support.
When the effect or look you want to achieve can't be created with the filters or generators provided with Final Cut Pro or Motion, the FxPlug software development kit (SDK) allows you to write your own custom visual effects.
FxPlug is a compact, powerful image-processing plug-in architecture that lets you create unique, hardware-accelerated or CPU-based effects plug-ins with customized UI and onscreen controls.
In Final Cut Pro 10.6.5 and earlier, FxPlug3 plugins ran "inside" Final Cut Pro, and a bad plugin could crash Final Cut Pro.
However, since Final Cut Pro 10.6.6, only FxPlug4 is supported, and all FxPlug4 plugins are run "out of process" - meaning they're effectively their own application, and if they crash, Final Cut Pro doesn't.
Generally speaking if a FxPlug4 plugin crashes, then Final Cut Pro will just try restart it, and if it crashes 5 times or so, then it'll display the "this plugin is not responding" message.
All Workflow Extensions also run out of process.
For example, you can see all the different processes in Activity Monitor:
If you manually try and force quit a process, you'll see Final Cut Pro start it up again when needed.
What this means is that since Final Cut Pro 10.6.6, if Final Cut Pro crashes, it's NOT a third party FxPlug4 effect or a Workflow Extension - it's something in Apple's own code, and there's nothing third party developers can do about it, so there's no point emailing FxFactory, CoreMelt, MotionVFX, etc. to complain.
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Final Cut Pro 10.6.9
Here's a list of the 30 most recently added Final Cut Pro 10.6.9 bug reports:
The above list is pulled from our GitHub issues site.
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Final Cut Pro 10.6.8
Here's a list of the 30 most recently added Final Cut Pro 10.6.8 bug reports.
Some of these bugs may eventually be migrated to the 10.6.9 list once confirmed.
- FCP & QNAP SMB v3 corrupting libraries upon duplicating projects. (September 13, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro Bug Viewing Motion Templates (August 31, 2023)
- Changing Background Rendering Time (August 30, 2023)
- Phantom Clip Skimming (August 11, 2023)
- 🧵 Non-reproducible Final Cut Pro 10.6.8 Crashes (August 7, 2023)
- Crash when right clicking on library (August 6, 2023)
- Command Set Import should be limited to .commandset files (August 5, 2023)
- Crashed after creating transition (August 4, 2023)
- In specific and reproductible case, font variation is not saved in the project (after quit/reopen) (July 24, 2023)
- Impossible to change font variation (bold, italic...) (July 24, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro ignores Opacity of 0% in Motion Template (July 20, 2023)
The above list is pulled from our GitHub issues site.
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Most Popular
Here's a list of the 30 most popular Final Cut Pro bug reports:
- FCP intermittent brightness fluctuation on Apple Silicon during playback of Sony SLog3 XAVC-L MXF (May 31, 2023)
- FCP video noise reduction produces incorrect frame cadence on retimed rate conformed clip (May 31, 2023)
- FCP incorrect frame order on playback or export if retimed compound clip contains trim or through edits (May 31, 2023)
- FxPlug4 Analysis API broken with Titles (September 22, 2023)
- FCP & QNAP SMB v3 corrupting libraries upon duplicating projects. (September 13, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro Bug Viewing Motion Templates (August 31, 2023)
- Changing Background Rendering Time (August 30, 2023)
- Phantom Clip Skimming (August 11, 2023)
- Motion 5.6.5 Text Sequencing Direction Bug (August 8, 2023)
- 🧵 Non-reproducible Final Cut Pro 10.6.8 Crashes (August 7, 2023)
- Crash when right clicking on library (August 6, 2023)
- Command Set Import should be limited to .commandset files (August 5, 2023)
- Crashed after creating transition (August 4, 2023)
- Retiming in secondary timeline borks the primary timeline (July 30, 2023)
- 10.6.7 Runaway FCP Processes (July 28, 2023)
- Crash after adding Title to Project/Timeline & Black Viewer (July 27, 2023)
- 10.6.7 Random Beach Balls After Working A While (July 26, 2023)
- In specific and reproductible case, font variation is not saved in the project (after quit/reopen) (July 24, 2023)
- Impossible to change font variation (bold, italic...) (July 24, 2023)
- Crashed when pasted text in text field of Centered Title (July 24, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro 10.6.7 crash on launch (July 24, 2023)
- 🧵 Final Cut Pro 10.6.7 generally unreliable and buggy (July 23, 2023)
- Some 4K H264 10bit 422 Footage is blurry when paused on M1 Ultra Mac Studios (July 21, 2023)
- Custom Export Destinations missing after update (July 20, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro ignores Opacity of 0% in Motion Template (July 20, 2023)
- FCP crash during XML import (June 27, 2023)
- Imported iMovie picture in picture border and drop shadow does not rotate with picture (June 19, 2023)
- Changing Color Adjustments Sliders via Accessibility API do not update correctly (June 15, 2023)
- Generator with Effect doesn't update correctly during playback (June 15, 2023)
- .MP4 Audio Click/Pop Issue (June 6, 2023)
The above list is pulled from our GitHub issues site.
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Recently Added
Here's a list of the 30 most recently added Final Cut Pro bug reports:
- FxPlug4 Analysis API broken with Titles (September 22, 2023)
- FCP & QNAP SMB v3 corrupting libraries upon duplicating projects. (September 13, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro Bug Viewing Motion Templates (August 31, 2023)
- Changing Background Rendering Time (August 30, 2023)
- Phantom Clip Skimming (August 11, 2023)
- Motion 5.6.5 Text Sequencing Direction Bug (August 8, 2023)
- 🧵 Non-reproducible Final Cut Pro 10.6.8 Crashes (August 7, 2023)
- Crash when right clicking on library (August 6, 2023)
- Command Set Import should be limited to .commandset files (August 5, 2023)
- Crashed after creating transition (August 4, 2023)
- Retiming in secondary timeline borks the primary timeline (July 30, 2023)
- 10.6.7 Runaway FCP Processes (July 28, 2023)
- Crash after adding Title to Project/Timeline & Black Viewer (July 27, 2023)
- 10.6.7 Random Beach Balls After Working A While (July 26, 2023)
- In specific and reproductible case, font variation is not saved in the project (after quit/reopen) (July 24, 2023)
- Impossible to change font variation (bold, italic...) (July 24, 2023)
- Crashed when pasted text in text field of Centered Title (July 24, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro 10.6.7 crash on launch (July 24, 2023)
- 🧵 Final Cut Pro 10.6.7 generally unreliable and buggy (July 23, 2023)
- Some 4K H264 10bit 422 Footage is blurry when paused on M1 Ultra Mac Studios (July 21, 2023)
- Custom Export Destinations missing after update (July 20, 2023)
- Final Cut Pro ignores Opacity of 0% in Motion Template (July 20, 2023)
- FCP crash during XML import (June 27, 2023)
- Imported iMovie picture in picture border and drop shadow does not rotate with picture (June 19, 2023)
- Changing Color Adjustments Sliders via Accessibility API do not update correctly (June 15, 2023)
- Generator with Effect doesn't update correctly during playback (June 15, 2023)
- .MP4 Audio Click/Pop Issue (June 6, 2023)
- 10-bit H.264 black clips and timeline export failure with certain formats (June 1, 2023)
- FCP intermittent brightness fluctuation on Apple Silicon during playback of Sony SLog3 XAVC-L MXF (May 31, 2023)
- FCP video noise reduction produces incorrect frame cadence on retimed rate conformed clip (May 31, 2023)
The above list is pulled from our GitHub issues site.
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