2026
August
18th August 2026
Happy Tuesday! 👋
BretFX is celebrating 10 years in the business! HUGE congratulations Bret!
To celebrate this incredible milestone, every BretFX product is just $10 for the next 10 days!
You can learn more on the BretFX website.
The Final Cut Grill has been releasing a heap of awesome episodes!
Make sure you check out the latest, The Making of Final Cut Pro at Apple - Colleen Pendergast.
Film editor Knut Hake has announced a whole suite of incredible applications to the world - many of which focus on Final Cut Pro improvements.
Knut edited Blood & Gold - which has a great case study on FCP Cafe.
Knut writes:
20+ apps. Built by one editor who got tired of missing tools. 🛠️ Over the past months I built more than 20 Mac and iOS apps — for video editing and post-production, plus a bunch of everyday macOS tools. Built with Claude's help, but to a real quality bar, originally just for myself.
Unlike a lot of vibe-coded apps being released at the moment, all these apps are actually notarised, code-signed and written in Swift.
Fun random fact, the SyncScript Pro icon, created by the amazing Matthew Skiles, features the name of my University film, SAKOOZ.
You can learn more on Knut's website.
Rafael Ludwig has released PowerEQ:
PowerEQ brings the one-click broadcast-voice engine of EQ Studio to Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, and Premiere Pro — play a few seconds, press Analyze, and your dialogue is cleaned, EQ-matched, leveled and loudness-targeted in real time. Also runs in Logic and any VST3/AU host.
You can learn more on Rafael's website.
There's a bunch of new Final Cut Pro apps hitting the market, but most of them aren't notarised or code-signed (yet?) - so I haven't dug into them deeply yet.
For example:
WaveXML by Matt Deguara:
A free macOS beta that lines Zoom / MixPre / Sound Devices audio up to the cameras, then an FCPXML or FCP7 XML timeline back into Final Cut, Resolve, or Premiere. Local. Full app, no clip limits.
You can learn more on the WaveXML website.
AAF Everything by Jerome Gardie:
Final Cut Pro writes FCPXML and has no AAF import or export in any version, while the mix runs on AAF. Getting a locked cut to audio post has always needed a third party step. AAF Everything converts between AAF, Premiere Pro XML, FCPXML and FCPXMLD in any direction, in batch, with no editing application in between.
You can learn more on the AAF Everything website.
AAFx:
AAFx turns a Final Cut Pro FCPXML file or .fcpxmld bundle into a self-contained AAF: roles become named tracks, every region keeps its source timecode, and the audio travels inside the file.
You can learn more on the AAFx website.
Media Sync Tool v2.1 is out now with the following changes:
- Convert continuity report PDF to CSV for seamless clip logging! Supports ScriptE Editor Logs, Peter Skarratt's templates and other common continuity formats.
- Review the converted CSV, then import it as usual.
You can download and learn more on the Mac App Store
Cut Shelf v1.1.4 is out now with the following changes:
- Improves the behavior or dragging items between shelves. Now dragging between shelves moves the item instead of copying. To copy an item to another shelf, hold down Option.
- If you drag an item to the empty space under your shelves, the app now offers to create a new shelf.
You can download and learn more on the Mac App Store