Final Cut Pro X User Guide
- Welcome
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- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.9
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.6
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.4
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4.1
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.3
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.2
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1.2
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.1
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.6
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.3
- What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.0.1
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- Intro to effects
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- Intro to transitions
- How transitions are created
- Add transitions
- Set the default transition
- 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
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- Intro to media management
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- View a clip’s information
- Override a clip’s metadata
- Locate source media files
- Relink clips to media files
- Consolidate projects and libraries
- Back up projects and libraries
- Create optimized and proxy files
- Create a proxy-only project
- Manage render files
- View background tasks
- Convert incompatible media
- Create camera archives
- Glossary
- Copyright
What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.4
Final Cut Pro 10.4 introduces new features and enhancements, detailed below.
360 VR editing
Create and deliver immersive 360° video with titles, effects, and live output to a VR headset. See Intro to 360° video in Final Cut Pro.
Apply 360°-compatible titles, effects, and generators to 360° clips and projects without creating seams, unwanted distortions, or other artifacts. See Add 360° video effects in Final Cut Pro and Add 360° titles and generators in Final Cut Pro.
Advanced color correction
Color grade with powerful new color wheels, color curves, and hue and saturation curves. See Intro to color correction effects in Final Cut Pro.
Use built-in camera LUTs to automatically process log footage and preserve its full dynamic range. Apply looks with custom LUTs to suit your creative needs. See Apply color lookup tables (LUTs).
Animate your color corrections using keyframes. See Keyframe color corrections in Final Cut Pro.
Correct a clip’s white balance. See Manually white-balance clips in Final Cut Pro.
High-dynamic-range video
Edit, grade, and deliver high-dynamic-range (HDR) video with live output to an HDR monitor. See Intro to wide color gamut and HDR in Final Cut Pro and Configure library and project settings for wide gamut HDR.
Export HDR master files suitable for certain HDR televisions and displays. See Export HDR master files with Final Cut Pro.
Import projects created in iMovie for iOS or iPadOS
Start your project with iMovie on an iOS or iPadOS device, then send it directly to Final Cut Pro to finish editing. See Import into Final Cut Pro from iMovie for iOS or iPadOS.
More video and audio formats
The following formats are now supported in Final Cut Pro when using macOS High Sierra 10.13:
HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), also known as H.265, a video compression standard
HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format), a file format for still images and image sequences
RF64, an extension to the WAV file format that allows for files larger than 4 GB
See Media formats supported in Final Cut Pro and Export formats supported in Final Cut Pro.
Other notable features
Effects plug-ins from Logic Pro X have redesigned, resizable interfaces. For more information, see Add audio effects in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Pro X Logic Effects.
You can now save a library to an NFS volume and use it as if it were on a local storage device. See Create a new library in Final Cut Pro.
Final Cut Pro 10.4 supports XML 1.7 for new color grading controls, 360 VR effects, and HDR. See Use XML to transfer projects in Final Cut Pro.