Final Cut Pro User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Intro to effects
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- Intro to transitions
- How transitions are created
- Add transitions and fades
- Quickly add a transition with a keyboard shortcut
- Set the default duration for transitions
- Delete transitions
- Adjust transitions in the timeline
- Adjust transitions in the inspector and viewer
- Merge jump cuts with the Flow transition
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Modify transitions in Motion
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- Add storylines
- Use the precision editor
- Conform frame sizes and rates
- Use XML to transfer projects
- Glossary
- Copyright
Media formats supported in Final Cut Pro for Mac
You can import and work with the following video, audio, and still-image formats in Final Cut Pro:
Video formats
Apple Animation codec
Apple Intermediate codec
Apple ProRes RAW and Apple ProRes RAW HQ
AVC-ULTRA (including AVC-LongG, AVC-Intra Class 50/100/200/4:4:4, and AVC-Intra LT)
Canon Cinema RAW Light (requires the camera manufacturer’s plug-in software)
DV (including DVCAM, DVCPRO, and DVCPRO50)
DVCPRO HD
iFrame
Motion JPEG (OpenDML only)
MPEG IMX (D-10)
QuickTime formats
REDCODE RAW (R3D) (requires the camera manufacturer’s plug-in software)
Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2
Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2
XAVC (including XAVC-S)
XF-AVC
XF-HEVC
Still-image formats
BMP
GIF
JPEG
PNG
PSD (static and layered)
RAW
TGA
TIFF
The Media Extensions feature built into macOS lets you use additional third-party formats that aren’t natively supported in Final Cut Pro (macOS Sequoia or later is required). See Import third-party formats with media extensions in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
For information about formats you can export your movie to, see Export formats supported in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
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