What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.2

Final Cut Pro 10.2 introduces new features and enhancements, detailed below.

3D titles

Final Cut Pro 10.2 introduces 3D titles with intuitive controls for look, lighting, and animation. See Intro to 3D titles in Final Cut Pro.

Access a large collection of text styles to create stunning looks with one click. See Add 3D titles in Final Cut Pro.
Use simple surface material presets and lighting presets to get started quickly. See Intro to 3D text materials in Final Cut Pro and Intro to 3D text lighting in Final Cut Pro.
Customize your titles with hundreds of combinations of text styles, materials, lighting, and edges.
Instantly convert any 2D title to 3D. See Convert text to 3D text in Final Cut Pro.
Open any title in Motion to add multiple lights, cameras, and tracking. See Modify Final Cut Pro titles in Motion.

Final Cut Pro 10.2 offers powerful new tools for creating visual effects and superb video quality in your projects.

Use the flexible Shape Mask and Draw Mask effects to create areas of transparency in your video clips. The Draw Mask effect lets you create complex custom masks and provides options for linear, Bezier, or B-Spline smoothing. See Intro to masking in Final Cut Pro and Create complex masks in Final Cut Pro.
Define the shape of video effects and color corrections using the shape mask and color mask controls built into almost every video effect. You can instantly display the alpha channel for any effect mask. See Intro to effect masking in Final Cut Pro.
Create and save custom video and audio effects as presets for quick access. See Save video effects presets in Final Cut Pro and Save audio effects presets.
Take advantage of the flexible color correction workflow, which allows you to add and rearrange instances of the new Color Correction effect just as you would any other clip effect. See Intro to color correction in Final Cut Pro.
Display up to four video scopes simultaneously. See Display video scopes in Final Cut Pro.
Create beautiful slow motion on a wider range of content with improved optical flow. See “Smooth out a slow-motion clip with video quality presets” in Change clip speed in Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro 10.2 adds support for the following formats. For a complete list, see Media formats supported in Final Cut Pro.

Additionally, you can now import Sony XAVC and XDCAM formats without a separate plug-in.

The Media Import window now contains all options in a single sidebar. See Intro to importing media in Final Cut Pro.
You can create Smart Collections across entire libraries. See Create Smart Collections in Final Cut Pro and Organize Smart Collections in Final Cut Pro.
Final Cut Pro 10.2 supports XML 1.5. See Use XML to transfer projects in Final Cut Pro.
When you export a project using Compressor, the process now employs GPU rendering.

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