California: Apple has updated Final Cut Pro X with powerful new features designed to reinforce the remote workflows and speeds up editing for content creators. Improvements in creating & managing proxy media provide editors with portability and performance when working with large resolution formats, or even when collaborating remotely.
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New social media tools automate video cropping in the square, vertical, and other custom sizes for popular social media platforms and new workflow improvements enhance the flexibility and performance of Final Cut Pro which is making the Mac stronger than ever for all video editors and motion graphics artists.
Update to Final Cut Pro includes major improvements to proxy workflows that make libraries more portable and streamline remote work with large, high-resolution files.
- Examples include Frame.io, a cloud-based creative collaboration platform for review and approval, plus asset management tools like Keyflow Pro and PostLab. If proxy media isn’t available for a few clips, users can adapt workflows to display either the original file or an optimized version.
- With machine learning, clips during a project can now be automatically analysed for dominant motion and intelligently cropped with Smart Conform to convert them into a square, vertical, or any other sized video. It’s perfect for popular platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, & Twitter.
- Transform Overscan reveals media outside the crop boundary when adjusting scale, rotation, and position, which allows storytellers to simply reposition the crop. Video editors can also add a Custom Overlay to guide them when placing text and graphics within a non-landscape frame.
- Video professionals can now work even more efficiently with a series of latest workflow improvements in Final Cut Pro. ProRes RAW camera settings, like ISO, color temperature, and exposure offset are exposed in the inspector for the first time.
- Editors can also apply audio crossfades on adjacent clips in one simple step; use a new context menu to shut a project or clear timeline history, and sort clips and projects in ListView according to the last date each file was modified.
Motion now offers professionals an entirely new range of possibilities for creating stunning effects and graphics. Creators can import third-party 3-D models or choose from a built-in library of 3-D models within the USDZ format to be used in titles, generators, effects, and transitions.
They can even use behaviors or keyframes to manipulate the position, rotation, and scale of a model, and take benefit of existing replicators, emitters, lights, and cameras for further creativity.
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Editors can customize outlines by animating their offset, applying multiple stroke filters to the same object, or using the gradient tools to make multiple strokes in different colors. This permits the motion graphics artists to create dazzling animations and effects while avoiding the time-consuming work of outlining elements by hand.
Even the Compressor is additionally updated to support custom LUT effects, the ability to use Camera LUTs to convert log-encoded footage to SDR or HDR outputs, and other workflow enhancements.
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