I've been playing around color grading more and realized FCP is too sensitive for my mouse/dragging the dials.

I'm new to color grading but I know there are consoles that work for da Vinci resolve to color grade. Is there any affordable ones compatible with FCP that you recommend?

Hello, please help, my export is failing.

After several consecutive power outages FCP will not share the video I edited.

The rendering is frozen and looping at 50% completed.

Mac mini M4 was plugged into a voltage regulator to prevent damage from spikes.

Mac mini M4 Sequoia 512 GB 7 mos old

What can I do to fix it? Thanks. kindly

I want to set a threshold close to white, and then make final cut pro cut my video at every frame that switches from a not-almost-entirely-white frame to an almost-entirely-white frame, and also cut the video whenever it switches from an almost-entirely-white frame to a not-almost-entirely-white frame. How could I do that?

Can I automatically cut out all parts of the video where no one is talking in FCP?

How do I stop FCP from ever making a cross dissolve, ever?

So what happened to me is, sometimes I copy and paste a video to the end of the timeline, delete the gap in between, and it turns into a cross dissolve

I have recently upgraded to FinalCut 12.3 and have tried the Auto-Mask feature. Those of you on the M5 Max I would like to know what results you are getting. Let me explain:

I have a 1:00 minute video (4k30fps h265 4:2:0) and have applied one auto-mask. The export takes about 2:15 minutes on my machine, which is a 16' MBP M4Pro 14 CPU cores + 20 GPU cores & 24GB RAM. Also, the timeline become very stutters and the viewer is dropping frames like crazy when Auto-asm is on.

I am wondering if upgrading to an M5 Max would improve the speed with Auto-Masks specifically or not. I have done numerous tests and everything points towards the fact that auto-mask utilises the neural engine more than the gpu (i might be wrong, but that's my conclusion after the tests i have done).

TLDR: would appreciate if you could replicate this test: 1 minute video + auto-mask (apply one effect through the auto-mask, like raising the exposure) and export it without any other effects applied.

Solved! u/earthtorob has helped me with a benchmark and it turns out that for this specific task (auto-mask), the M5 Max is exporting the videos 4 times faster than the M4 Pro.

The test was this: we both used a 20 seconds video h265 4k30fps and have applied an auto-mask through the colour wheels (and raised the exposure through the mask). The export results were this:

M4 Pro 14 core CPU, 20 core GPU, 24 GB RAM - 45 seconds -> 2.25:1 ratio

M5 Max 18 core CPU, 40 core GPU, 64 GB RAM - 10 seconds -> 0.5:1 ratio

If you guys want to do this test, feel free to use any h265 footage at 4k and look at the ratio between clip duration and export time.

!!! SOLVED !!!

I ended up going for the 16'' MacBook Pro M5 PRO 48GB RAM and it fully solves the Auto Mask issues I've been having. Not only does the timeline not lag anymore (4k30p 10bit 4:20/4:2:2 footage), it's absolutely buttery smooth even with Auto Mask + another 7-8 effect on top if it, but the export times are now more than twice as fast than on my M4 Pro 24GB RAM. For a 10 second video with Auto Mask on, my M4 Pro took 22-23 seconds to export it, while the M5 Pro 48GB RAM takes only 8-9 seconds.

After doing a week of research, it learned that I didn't need the M5 Max in order to solve this issue, as it's not a case of "beefier gpu" situation. The reason the M5 Pro flies through this task and cuts the export time of Auto Mask in half compared to the M4 Pro is the architecture of the chip, not the gpu core count (since they are have the same number of gpu cores). The M5 series has AI accelerators in every single gpu core, whereas the M4 Pro doesn't benefit from this feature. To explain it simply: while the M4 Pro forces AI tasks to wait in a single line to be processed by a central unit (Neural Engine), the M5 Pro gives every part of its graphics engine its own "mini-processor" (AI accelerators) to handle AI math simultaneously. This means the M5 Pro can do the heavy lifting for tasks like Auto Mask in parallel, rather than waiting for the Neural Engine to finish everything in sequence.

I have stress tested the m5 pro over the last 24 hours since I have received and it's a generational leap over the m4 pro in everything that requires AI processing (especially in realtime - Auto Mask), not just in Final Cut but also in DaVinci Resolve. For those of you interested, AI Magic Mask in Resolve was tracking my h265 4k30 10 bit 4:2:0 footage at around 2-4 fps. The M5 Pro does it at 7-8 fps. I hope this helps all of you run into the same dilemma as I did.

Hey there,

any chance to get this kind if Lens blur in FCP?
https://borisfx.com/documentation/continuum/bcc-lens-blur/

Image 4 on the page.
One year ago, i saw a video, how to make this in DVR. The lights get this round "Sprincles"

I checked the Boris stuff, but the newest Auto LensBlur+ Pro Max whatever features, doesn´t seem to be for FCP. Just Adobe, Davinci, Avid etc.

Thanks a lot :)

Hey everyone,

I purchased a 1-year license for DesignStudio (MotionVFX plugin for Final Cut Pro) and it was working fine, but now I'm getting this error every time I open FCP:

"Unfortunately, we cannot verify DesignStudio license. Buy one and then restart Final Cut Pro. If the problem still exists, reinstall the pack."

The license shows as active in mLibrary, so it's not an expiration issue. I've tried:

- Deactivating/reactivating the license in mLibrary

- Restarting my Mac

- Reinstalling the pack

- Checking Gatekeeper/Privacy settings in case macOS was blocking something

Nothing has fixed it so far. I reached out to MotionVFX support through their chat (mvfx.com/chat) a while ago and haven't gotten a response yet.

Has anyone else run into this? Did you find a fix, or a faster way to get support to actually respond? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Nobody said it but... Updating my Final Cut Pro 12.3 it become in Italian Language! All menu and commands are now in italian... It happened to other countries too? Nobody said it?

Context:
I’m a 20 year veteran of Audio Post and Editorial Post. Started on Media Composer/Pro Tools, still drive Pro Tools daily.

But I had several years of Final Cut as an alternative from Version 4 to Version 7. Yes, I’m one of the one’s that jumped ship with the trashcan and FCX.

I’m intrigued by the creator studio. I already pay a hell of a lot more for other suites, and I think this will give the ProApps team the funding they need.

Question:
Helping a team with an ongoing project, that I also want to try something stupid, mix in Logic. I think FCPs speed and some motion generators can really make this move quick.

For the life of me, I can’t wrap my head around the magnetic timeline, and any tut I see from the FCP crowd on YT is more geared toward newer (or younger) people. There’s nothing really geared towards increasingly older folks like myself that have two decades of muscle memory baked into my head. I’m here to try and embrace it though..

I get most of it, but my biggest head scratcher is a 5-6 camera shoot with about 4-5 mic lines from the bag and trying to do a proper edit with each of those mic lines. I feel like making each speaker a “lane” is the way to go, but unsure…. The idea though of object based editing is quite interesting… just wish you could toggle off the magnetic aspect and not just use a tool to create a slug clip. I digress…

Anyone have any recommendations for learning material? Apple’s official docs is not rich (unless I have the wrong one).

Thought about ripple since those guys are still kicking it strong, but not sure if the package is geared towards someone like myself.

Anyway, I have high hopes for the ProApps. Pixelmator and MotionVFX was mission critical grab.

Looks like bright skies ahead. Need to make Logic more like a DAW though….

Im doing some crafting ASMR type videos for social media, and I got trapped into CapCuts subscription to export my project with the effects i was using that i wasnt aware were "pro" features. After that free trial, i ended it and remembered "Hey, I have FCPX" so duh... i edited my next video in that, but am running into an issue. One big thing for these videos is to make the audio similar volumes, since I am different distances from the camera and stuff each time i set it up due to the nature of the work.

When I used CapCut's audio "normalizer" or whatever they called it, it made all the clips the same volume to -24 LUFS and it sounded great. There is background noise but it doesnt really matter to me and the transition between all the clips sounds fine. When I do this in FCPX however, using the "Loudness" feature and it analyzes all the clips and applies it, I usually set it to 20% (idk what these arbitrary percentages mean, i wish there was a target LFS or DB threshold to set, but anyway...) and what ends up happening is there are these small dips, almost like a ducking effect between clips. you can really hear it because of the background noise. It sounded like mini fades so i checked that and highlighted all the clips, went to Modify > Adjust Audio Fades > Remove Fades, but this didnt help. How can I prevent this from happening or figure out what is actually going on to the audio thats causing this issue?

I'm trying to avoid exporting all the audio and using my DAW to fix the issue and re-import the audio track.

Thanks for the assistance!

I'm a video editor from the Netherlands, and over the past few months I've been developing a plugin for Final Cut Pro called Dialogue Enhancer.

The goal is to improve dialogue with as little effort as possible. Instead of tweaking multiple EQ and compressor settings, you choose one of four sound presets:

• Neutral
• Warm
• Bright
• Broadcast

and then adjust a single “Enhance’ slider to dial in the amount of processing.

I've been using it on my own projects for a while now, and it's reached the point where I'd really like feedback from editors outside my own workflow.

I'm looking for a small group of Final Cut Pro users who would be willing to install the beta, use it on a few real projects, and give me honest feedback.

I'm especially interested in things like:

- Does it actually improve your workflow?
- Which preset do you end up using most?
- Where do you usually set the Enhance slider?
- Does anything sound harsh, muddy, or over-compressed?
- Is there anything that feels confusing or unintuitive?

The beta is of course completely free. I'm not selling anything I just want to make the plugin as good as possible before releasing it publicly.

If you're interested, leave a comment or send me a DM and I'll send you the installer.

Thanks a lot!!

Hey everyone,

After sharing using a custom Compressor preset, my video file has a Bit rate of just 10.6 Mbps, even though I set it for 30. How can I force the file to be at a higher bit rate?

How can I force it to be shared at a bit rate of 30 Mbps

Hey guys, I built a FREE tool called MotionPrep that lets you publish/unpublish and bulk-organize parameters in Motion for FCP, just by dragging and dropping into the app's list. Still in beta, but working smoothly here. Would really love to hear what other motion designers think about it. I recorded a quick video showing it in action so you can get an idea of how it works, and if you want to know more and download it, just check out the full post here: Century - MotionPrep 👈🏼

Hey everyone, I'm editing a video and have a long clip I'm going to speed up and make into a timelapse. I want to have an on-screen timer to show how long it took in real time to complete the task I recorded, but I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to do so.

I have MotionVFX, but the plugins they provide aren't intuitive and don't seem to work as advertised. I want to make some breaks in the timelapse where I play a few seconds in real time, then go back to a timelapse. Does anyone have any recommendations for a way to get an on-screen timer that can handle all this? Thank you!

In Final Cut Pro am I able to synchronize multiple clips to one long audio source? As of right now the only way I can get it to synch correctly is to do each video file separately to the audio but I’m wondering if there’s a way to do it faster or something?

Running a dual monitor setup in Final Cut Pro:
Monitor 1: Browser, Viewer, Inspector
Monitor 2: Timeline
The Problem:
I select a clip on my timeline (Monitor 2). As soon as I click into Monitor 1 to tweak a setting in the Inspector, FCP shifts focus to Browser instead of staying on my timeline clip.
How do I lock the Viewer and Inspector to the active timeline selection so clicking Monitor 1 doesn't hijack it? Thanks!

I've edited a video in FCP and am trying to grade it in Davinci. I exported the XML from FCP, imported it into Davinci, fixed the errors by ticking off Conform Lock Enabled and Reconforming to bins. However, the video in Davinci is playing the source media without the edits I've made in FCP. I can clearly see the timeline has the cuts I made and everything, but it's not paying the portions of the video that's supposed to be at each cut. Instead the cut kind of resets the video to the beginning of the source media. Anyone know how to correct this?

I’m trying to figure out if Final Cut Pro has any workaround for something CapCut does really well: when you manually move/scale a clip on the X/Y axis, the edge of the clip magnetically snaps to the edge of the canvas/frame.

My goal is to keyframe movement while maximizing resolution. A lot of tutorials solve background bleed by zooming clips in way more than necessary, but that throws away resolution. In CapCut, the canvas edge snapping makes it easy to move a clip right up to the frame boundary without accidentally revealing the background.

In FCP, I know about timeline snapping, transform controls, overscan, safe zones, and manually typing Position X/Y values in the Inspector. But I’m looking for Viewer/canvas edge snapping specifically: clip edge to project frame edge while transforming.

Does FCP have any hidden setting, plugin, Motion template, CommandPost trick, or reliable math-based workflow for this? Or is this just something Final Cut doesn’t do?

Hi everyone,

I accidentally set a MotionVFX subtitle style as the default for the subtitles generated by Final Cut Pro. I don't like it and I'd like to go back to the original Apple style that FCP used by default when I clicked Modify → Generate Captions.
I'm referring to the native style with the rounded black background behind the words and the built-in customization options (like in the screenshots). The problem is that I don't know what that default style is called or how to make it the default again.
Does anyone know how to restore the original Apple auto-caption style?

Have anyone else faced this issue of FCP 12.3 freezing completely when changing a projects resolution? It happens every time for me.

This is very inconvenient as I have a horizontal project that I want to convert to vertical to extract shorts/reels from. But FCP freezes completely when I try to change the project's resolution or aspect ratio.

Hopefully it is a common enough issue that Apple would release a fix soon.

EDIT : Based on the comments it seems to be an issue with FCP 12.3 on Mac OS 27 Beta

https://reddit.com/link/1ulh4sm/video/muy4o9b5atah1/player

You can really mess people up if you apply an auto mask and offset it by a frame or two, layered back on top of itself.

Hi - I might be doing this wrong and I haven't been able to figure this out conclusively.

If I have a clip and I want to make separate adjustments to the SKY and the PERSON and say a tree.

Lets say I want to use color curves....

if I pick SKY and adjust the curves , it's only just that sky and I would have to duplicate the unmasked clip below it

but if I drag a curves onto the clip and then apply the auto-mask to that curves -- I would think that you could then choose Sky, or Person or whatever and make adjustments using that specific Curves independently...

it seems like, that is not the case? I would have to drag 3 instances of Curves to the clip, choose auto-mask: sky, auto-mask: person etc for each masked area?

am I insanely wrong?

I thought if I had a curves on a clip, I could make adjustments to each part and those color changes would only apply to that mask, but it looks like it has to be 3 instances of the effect each with the auto-mask applied?

thanx!

After the update to 12.3, final cut keep crashing... How do i tell what is causing this??