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16th January 2026
Cult of Mac reports that Apple has removed the 90 day free trial of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro.
Because the trial timer reset with each Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro update, there's quite a few Final Cut Pro users that have actually just been using the free trial for years, as there's generally been a new update every 90 days.
Some users also realised that you just needed to delete a file to reset the trial - for those wanting to stay on an older version.
This definitely isn't a surprise, and eventually I'm sure Apple wants everyone to jump to the subscription option.
Dylan Bates (The Final Cut Bro) recently posted a video about Patrokiras's Final Cut Pro X Workspace Remapper.
This is a free tool that allows you to completely customise your Final Cut Pro Workspace layout.
In theory it's amazing - and Patrokiras has done a great job building a fantastic website to customise things. It's a really nice user interface!
Because a fcpworkspace file is just a plist (Property List) - it's actually very easy to mess around with an customise - you can just open it in a text editor (I use BBEdit).
Back when I first started working on FCPX Hacks, which later became CommandPost, I had a tool that allowed you to customise Final Cut Pro workspaces in a very similar fashion.
Alex Gollner (Alex4D) was also messing around with these files about a decade ago.
However, what we discovered is that hacked or customised workspaces made Final Cut Pro pretty buggy and unstable, and we were generating lots of crash reports.
When I spoke to Apple about this, they basically said to stop messing with the Workspace layouts - so we did.
So now that Patrokiras has released a very friendly and easy-to-use way of creating your own layouts, it'll be super interesting to see if the same users start to report more FCP bugs and crashes.
I've already started to see a few reports of people saying that things like the Export button randomly stop working.
If you're using a customised workspace, and Final Cut Pro isn't crashing and is rock solid - please let us know in the comments!