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Apple today released Final Cut Pro version 10.4.1, the latest update to its professional video editing software that it previewed last week. The update is available from the Mac App Store free of. Jan 17, 2014  Closed Captioning is actually a process of encoding text and it's metadata into the video file, so it does take a bit of doing to create a program to do that. As for step-by-step directions, you'll have to do the tutorials for which ever application you purchase.

Final Cut Pro X is a professional non-linearvideo editing application published by Apple Inc. as part of their Pro Apps family of software programs. It was released on June 21, 2011 for sale in the Mac App Store. It is the successor to Final Cut Pro.^[1][2] Both editors are incompatible and have quite different approaches to editing.

• 1Features
• 6Feature films and television shows edited with Final Cut Pro X

Features[edit]

Final Cut Pro X shares some of both its code and interface design philosophy with Apple’s consumer video editing software, iMovie.^[3][4]

Interface[edit]

• Event Browser: Replacing “bins” in other NLEs, the Event Browser is where the original media is found and can be searched and sorted by various forms of metadata. Keyword Ranges, Favorite and Rejected Ranges, and Smart Collections allow for faster sorting of a large number of clips.
• Magnetic Timeline: Inventing an alternative to track-based timelines found in traditional NLEs, Final Cut's Magnetic Timeline uses Clip Connections to keep Connected Clips and Secondary Storylines in sync with clips located on the Primary Storyline. By default clips move around each other “magnetically” filling in any gaps and avoiding Clip Collisions by automatically bumping clips out of the way vertically. The magnetic connections are also user definable.
• Roles: In order to separate and organize different audio types on the magnetic timeline, editors can designate what 'role' each clip plays. Introduced in version 10.0.1, Roles can be assigned to clips as an alternate way of creating organizational functionality. A Role (or Sub-Role) gets assigned to clips to identify what it is (for example: Video, Titles, Dialogue, Effects, Music). Upon Sharing a Master File of the Project the various Roles can be split out as stems or in a multitrack file for broadcast delivery or other distribution needs.
• Content Auto-Analysis: Found in the Import Window and Event Browser is the option to analyze media for shot type and facial recognition or fix potential problems like audio loudness, audio hum, channel grouping, background noise, color balance, pulldown removal, and stabilization. This process generates metadata that can automatically be organized as Keywords and can grouped into Smart Collections.
• Synchronized Clips: Video and audio clips recorded on separate devices can be synched automatically by timecode, audio waveforms, and markers together as a single clip.
• Compound Clips: Nested Sequences from the original Final Cut Pro have been replaced by Compound Clips. A selection of video and audio clips can be nested into a single Compound Clip. This Compound Clip can be opened in its own timeline or broken apart for further editing. It can also be reused in different Projects.
• Closed Captions: Introduced in version 10.4.1, closed captions can be created right in the timeline or imported into the timeline from an external file.
• Multicam Editing: Introduced in version 10.0.3, multiple camera angles can be synchronized automatically and combined into a Multicam Clip. Once in the timeline a Multicam Clip can be cut up into different angles by using the Angle Viewer. A Multicam Clip can be opened in the Angle Editor where new angles can be added, synched, relabeled, and rearranged at any time.
• Auditions: Clips can be grouped together in the Event Browser or on the Timeline as Auditions. Once in the timeline an Audition allows the user to choose between different clips in their edit while the timeline ripples automatically in order to preview two or more different versions of a cut.
• 3D Titles: Introduced in version 10.2.0, text can be extruded, textured, lit, and shaded with materials and environments in 3D. This allows users to create titles like those found in Hollywood blockbuster movies directly in the application.^[5]
• 360 Degree Video Editing: Introduced in version 10.4. Import and edit 360° equirectangular video in a wide range of formats and frame sizes.
• Advanced Color Grading
• High Dynamic Range

Technical features[edit]

While inheriting the name from its predecessor, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro X is a completely re-written application. As a native 64-bit application it takes advantage of more than 4GB of RAM. It utilizes all CPU cores with Grand Central Dispatch. Open CL support allows GPU accelerated processing for improved performance for playback, rendering, and transcoding. It is resolution-independent, supporting images sizes from SD to beyond 4K. Final Cut Pro X supports playback of many native camera and audio formats.^[6] It can also transcode video clips to the Apple ProRes codec for improved performance.^[7][8] Many tasks are performed in the background such as auto-saving, rendering, transcoding, and media management, allowing the user an uninterrupted experience.^[9] Final Cut Pro X was developed for macOS and is not supported on the Windows Platform.^[10][11]Training and Certification is available by Apple for Final Cut Pro X.

Workflow integration[edit]

Motion 5

Titles, motion graphics, effects generated in Motion 5 can be published to Final Cut Pro X. Inside the Final Cut Pro X, editors can modify the parameters and contents of the effects, as long as the permission for such modifications is turned on in the Motion 5 project file.

Adobe Photoshop

In Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 and later, editor can import Photoshop projects onto the storyline similar to a still image. A Photoshop project with layers is treated similar to a compound clip and the layers are preserved after being imported into the Final Cut Pro X. Individual layers of the Photoshop project can be toggled on or off inside the Final Cut Pro X by double clicking the imported project and going into the compound clip editing panel. Other adjustments to the Photoshop project should be performed on the imported Photoshop project using Adobe Photoshop program with updates happening in real time inside Final Cut Pro X.

Development[edit]

Final Cut Pro X was made available for purchase and download on the Mac App Store on June 21, 2011 along with new versions of Motion and Compressor.^[2][12] Since then the application has been updated a few times each year with new features, bug fixes, native codec support, and overall improvements with stability.^[13]

Many features found in Final Cut Pro 7 that were missing in Final Cut Pro X on its initial release^[14] have subsequently been added such as: XML import and export, server support, multicam editing, chapter markers, and broadcast monitor support.^[15]

Because Final Cut Pro X abandoned a track-based timeline in favor of the Magnetic Timeline initially there were limitations in exporting audio stems for Broadcast and Distribution needs. On September 9, 2011 version 10.0.1 was released with a new solution to this problem, the introduction of Video and Audio Roles. Clips are assigned Roles and upon Sharing a Project the user could export Multitrack Quicktime Files or Stems.^[16][17] AAF export is done with third-party app X2Pro which uses FCPXML. Another method is to use Logic Pro X to make an AAF.

With version 10.0.6 released on October 23, 2012 Apple introduced native Redcode Raw support as well as MXF support through a third party plugin. MXF was eventually natively supported by version 10.1.4.^[18]

Prior to the introduction of version 10.1.0 Project and Event Libraries were separate folders. Events contained all the original media and Project Libraries contained the actual edited Projects on timelines. The Project and Event Libraries were stored in a user’s Movie folder or on the root level of an external hard drive. These Libraries automatically opened in Final Cut Pro X depending on which hard drives were mounted. That all changed on December 19, 2013 when Project and Event Libraries were merged into a new Library model. Libraries contained Events which in turn contained Projects. And unlike before Libraries could be opened and closed by the user. Media could be stored internally in the Library or kept outside the Library. On June 27, 2014 media management was further refined with the release of version 10.1.2.^[19]

During the NAB Show 2015 Apple released version 10.2.0. 3D Titles were introduced directly in Final Cut Pro X as well as its companion application, Motion. The Color Board merged with a new Color Correction effect to allow for more flexibility in stacking layers of effects. The ability to apply a Keying or Shape Mask directly to any effect was also introduced.^[20]

Version 10.3 introduced an entirely new interface and an improved magnetic timeline. Support for iXML metadata when importing audio. Audio editing vastly improved. Audio roles can be shown in lanes. REC 2020 color import, edit and export. MXF support.

Version 10.4.0 introduced color wheels and color curves, 360º video editing and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video,

During the NAB Show 2018 Apple released version 10.4.1. Closed Captioning was introduced as well as support for ProRes RAW. Version 10.4.1 requires Mac OS version 10.13.2 High Sierra.

Release history[edit]

For a complete overview of the changes made, see Apple's release notes.

Reception[edit]

Final Cut Pro X was announced in April 2011 simultaneously at the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group held at Bally's Las Vegas and at the NAB Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center and released in June 2011.^[12][24]

The reaction was extremely mixed, with veteran film editor Walter Murch initially saying, 'I can't use this,' citing a lack of features compared to Final Cut Pro 7. In a 2015 interview, Murch was much less critical of the tool and suggested that he was interested in using it.^[25]

Missing features and issues noted as essential to professional video production in FCPX included lack of edit decision list (EDL), XML and Open Media Framework Interchange (OMF) support, inability to import projects created in previous releases of Final Cut Pro, a lack of a multicam editing tool, third-party I/O hardware output, and videotape capture being limited to Firewire video devices only, including capture with third-party hardware,^[14] were addressed within the first six months of the product's life. EDL export, a product of the early days of videotape editing, is now supported through third-party software^[26] and creating an AAF (a newer version of OMF)^[27] for passing projects to ProTools through X2Pro.

Since then, in some people's opinions, some of Final Cut Pro X's initial shortcomings have been fixed.^[28][29]

Apple announced in April 2018 that there are more than 2.5 Million users of Final Cut Pro X.^[30].

Ecosystem[edit]

Since its release, FCP X has supported the construction of Effect, Title, Transition, and Title plugins by publishing custom built effects from Apple Motion. This has led to a third-party ecosystem of developers building effects from simple color corrections to complex templates.^[31] Third-party plug-ins can also be created through Apple's FxPlugSDK.^[32] As Projects, Events, and Libraries are stored in a database format; this has allowed many third party developers to build workflow tools by utilizing FCPXML.^[33]

Feature films and television shows edited with Final Cut Pro X[edit]

Film[edit]

• Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (2013)^[34]
• Loreak (2014)^[35]
• Focus (2015)^[36][37]
• Well Wishes (2015)^[38]
• What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)^[39]
• La Isla del Viento (2015)^{[citation needed]}
• 600 Miles (2015)^{[citation needed]}
• Saved by Grace (2016)^[40]
• Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)^[41]
• Saturday's Warrior (2016)^[42]
• Voice from the Stone (2016)^[43]
• El Hombre de las Mil Caras (2016)
• Bokeh (2016)^[44]
• Geostorm (2017)^{[citation needed]}
• The Unknown Soldier (2017) ^[45]

Television[edit]

• Trailer Park Boys (2012)^[46]
• Leverage (2012)^[47]
• George to the Rescue (2013)^[48]
• Drag Queens of London (2014)^{[citation needed]}
• O.J. Speaks: The Hidden Tapes (2015)^[49]
• Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes (2016)^[50]
• Sex on the Edge (2016)^{[citation needed]}
• Students on the Edge (2018)^{[citation needed]}
• La Peste (2018)^{[citation needed]}
• Paramedics: Emergency Response (2015)^[51]

References[edit]

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8. ^'Optimize, Transcode, Render, Share in FCPX'. fcpx.tv. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
9. ^'Quick Tip: Control Rendering and Background Tasks In Final Cut Pro X - The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat'. 2011-08-13. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
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16. ^'Export Stems out of your Final Cut Pro X Timeline Using Roles - The Beat: A Blog by PremiumBeat'. 2011-11-11. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
17. ^Wiggins, Peter. 'Using Roles in FCPX with Media Stems Export - How does it work and can it replace OMF?'. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
18. ^'FCPX 10.1.4 - Why It's a Good Thing - FCPWORKSFCPWORKS'. www.fcpworks.com. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
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21. ^Philip, Hodgetts (September 1, 2011). 'What is the secret to Final Cut Pro X's color management?'. Philip Hodgetts Blog.
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24. ^Coldewey, Devin. 'Apple Announces Final Cut Pro X At NAB: $299 In June'. TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
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27. ^'What is the difference between the OMF and AAF formats? Why do I want to use one vs. the other?'. avid.force.com. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
28. ^'7 professional editors share their FCPX experiences'. 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
29. ^'Why Should Final Cut Pro 7 Editors Consider Final Cut Pro X? | Larry Jordan'. larryjordan.com. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
30. ^'Final Cut Pro X update introduces ProRes RAW and advanced closed captioning'. Apple, Inc.
31. ^'Final Cut Pro X - Resources - Ecosystem'. Apple. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
32. ^'About the FxPlug SDK'. developer.apple.com. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
33. ^'What to do with Final Cut Pro XML'. www.kenstone.net. Retrieved 2016-07-14.
34. ^'Final Cut Pro X - In Action - Detective Dee - Apple'. www.apple.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
35. ^Wiggins, Peter. 'Loreak, Spain's official submission in the 2016 Oscars' best foreign language film category was edited on Final Cut Pro X'. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
36. ^'Final Cut Pro X - In Action - Focus'. Apple. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
37. ^'Final Cut Pro X resurrected: Focus' advanced workflow | postPerspective - Randi Altman's postPerspective'. postperspective.com. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
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39. ^Wiggins, Peter. 'Post Production on 'What Happened, Miss Simone?' An Oscar Nominated Documentary Edited on Final Cut Pro X'. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
40. ^Courtens, Ronny. 'Hollywood veteran Lance Bachelder explains why he has chosen to use Final Cut Pro X on his latest feature film 'Saved By Grace''. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
41. ^'ART OF THE CUT: JAN KOVAC CUTS 'WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT' ON FCP-X by Steve Hullfish - ProVideo Coalition'. 2016-03-09. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
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48. ^Wiggins, Peter. 'How Emmy winning George to the Rescue gets cut on Final Cut Pro X for NBC'. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
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NAB 2018 will see an update to another NLE as Final Cut Pro X will hit version 10.4.1. This comes just a few months after the big 10.4 update that brought new color tools among the major new features. This is an incremental update with a few noteworthy features including closed captioning tools, enhanced exporting options for Roles, an updated Compressor and what I think might be the most noteworthy feature in a while as far as Apple pro video goes, a new ProRes flavor in ProRes RAW.

Closed Captioning

Closed Captioning is an important addition as it’s becoming more of a requirement beyond broadcast regulations for things like social media. While sites like YouTube can do automated captioning, clients might want a more exact text-translation of their video for YouTube or Facebook. Captioning for Facebook can be tricky so more built in tools to help with captioning across the board are welcome. Alex4D has some good info on the new CC features as well.

Looking at the image above, FCPX 10.4.1 will add these new captioning tools in the timeline, inspector and the timeline index. Apparently you’ll be able to connect the captions not just as a normal Connected Clip to video but right to audio clips as well. This will be nice as there are many times when your captions are reflective of voice over or audio clips that have been covered by b-roll. You’ll basically be better off with captions attached to audio instead of video because that is what they will reflect. Connected Clips and the Magnetic Timeline will come in handy here so when you move the audio the caption data goes with it. Here’s a bit more from Apple about the new captioning:

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Create – Import an existing caption file to your project and Final Cut Pro automatically connects each caption to the corresponding video or audio clip in your timeline. You can also create captions from scratch in multiple languages and formats. The viewer displays text in real time, so you always see the latest version of your captions as you work.

Edit – Attach captions to connected audio or video clips in the timeline, so they move in sync with your edit. It’s easy to adjust text, color, location, and timing in the captions inspector. The enhanced Timeline Index lets you quickly search and select captions, or use caption roles to instantly switch between different versions. And with built-in validation, Final Cut Pro instantly warns about common errors, including caption overlaps, incorrect characters, invalid formatting, and more, so you can correct issues as they arise.

Deliver – Export captions in the industry-standard CEA-608 and iTT (iTunes Timed Text) formats, with the option to embed captions in your video file or create a separate sidecar file. Captioned videos can be shared directly to YouTube and Vimeo. And you can send your project to Compressor so that it includes captions in a batch or an iTunes Store package.

This was a bit of a surprise to me but a welcome surprise as ProRes is such a great codec for post-production and I, as an editor, welcome our ProRes overlords. I’ll admit that I don’t understand all that much about the geekiness of under-the-hood codec programming (I don’t have to, I just want to edit with it) I just know that I can feel the goodness of a great intermediate codec when I’m editing. I’ll take proper ProRes over any camera original codec almost any day of the week. I never thought that you could provide ProRes compression with raw camera data as that seems to defeat the purpose of “raw” camera data but as I said I don’t understand how all that voodoo works. But I do understand this chart:

That’s some amazingly low data rates that will allow for some fast transfer times and even faster editing. It looks like these new ProRes RAW data rates will be variable and according to Apple: “images with greater detail or sensor noise are encoded at higher data rates.” An updated ProRes white paper (check out Adam Wilt’s post about ProRes RAW for more info and a link to the white paper) is forthcoming and I’m sure all the geekiness one wants to consume about ProRes will be there for the reading.

A few benchmarks that Apple provided:

• Play up to 8 simultaneous streams of ProRes RAW 4K video
• Encode ProRes RAW HQ video to H.264 nearly 6x faster than REDCODE RAW 3:1
• Render ProRes RAW HQ video nearly 6x faster than REDCODE RAW 3:1
• Encode ProRes RAW HQ video to HEVC over 6x faster than REDCODE RAW 3:1

ProRes RAW is something that will be supported by equipment vendors in their products. The early partners will be Atomos with the Sumo 19 or Shogun Inferno, through a free firmware update. DJI will support ProRes RAW in the Inspire 2 drone with its Zenmuse X7 camera via a “RAW activation package.” There are no camera vendors supporting ProRes RAW yet but I can’t imagine that won’t be far behind. I hope that won’t be far behind.

ProRes RAW will also be supported in Motion and Compressor. Need to send ProRes RAW clips to your friends without FCPX? Cue up a transcode batch of ProRes RAW clips in Compressor and transcode to whatever you need. From what I understand ProRes RAW will be in a .mov container but you won’t be able to view the clips in Quicktime Player or other Quicktime app. You’ll have to bring them into FCPX, Motion or Compressor.

That begs a question, will we ever be able to use ProRes RAW clips in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Avid Media Composer, Resolve or any other post-production applications? I would think so since it’ll probably be licensable like the rest of the ProRes family. It would also be nice to encode ProRes natively on Windows in our Adobe apps!

This new FCPX 10.4.1 will also get a new Roles in the sharing pane on file export. It’ll offer a lot more granularity on what happens with Roles when you export the file.

This Final Cut Pro X10.4.1 isn’t huge but it’s way more than just a maintenance fix or bug update. And with ProRes RAW the update extends beyond just FCPX. What’s also significant is it’s the second feature release in four months. This is some pretty rapid FCPX development we haven’t seen in quite some time. Apple also said that FCPX now has over 2.5 million seats out in the world. That’s a lot of FCPX-ing.

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This new Final Cut Pro 10.4.1 will be available on April 9 as a free update for existing users, and for $299.99 (US) for new users on the Mac App Store. That’s the Monday of NAB 2018!

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