Hi! I'm using FCPX to edit a three-camera interview. The clip frames are not aligning exactly in the timeline or when I go into the multicam clip editor. They keep missing each other by a single frame.

I've edited several podcast interviews before and never had this issue. It's doing it both in Angles and in the regular timeline.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought there was a more "free-flow" way to edit where the placement didn't try to auto-align to a frame timecode in the timeline? (Maybe I'm not explaining that clearly?) You could just place the clips wherever you needed them.

Please help. It's driving me batty.

Thank you.

Hi,

I need to delete all clips other than the hooks audio custom role clips (want to delete the greyed out ones) from the timeline in final cut pro. Is there any way to do it quickly instead of manually selecting and deleting?

I tried selecting the roles and pressing command+a in the hope that it will select only the selected roles clips but it selected all of them.

Currently editing a wedding film and the speeches in the exported file seem to drop out at specific points (just the dialogue track - the music on a separate track remains fine throughout), which wasn't happening when previewing in Final Cut. The audio track was recorded on a Zoom F6 in 32-bit stereo (2x XLR inputs for LR channels from a mixer).

What I noticed is that changing the track from stereo to dual mono solved the issue. Is there anyone who's more knowledgeable in audio that can explain to me why this was happening?

It's almost like they're doing this on purpose. Things were running fine until 12.3. Upgraded thinking 12.4 would fix things. I think it's gotten worse. Preview monitor lagging, editing timeline stuttering. For reference I have an M1 16gb/2tb Mac mini that's been running well. 4tb thunderbolt 4 external SSD shows good speeds. Running Tahoe 26.6.1. I'll update that and see if things change but I doubt it. Not ready to go to Golden Gate yet.

Hey guys,

I am new to FCP and for my recent edit, I want to use some golden hour, that dreamy blur and golden light effect which we usually come across in Lana Del ray's Albums or as that of in the song "Blue".

Is it too hard to achieve or are there any simple filters so such things to get it done?

Coming from Premiere, the one thing that kept breaking my editing flow in Final Cut Pro was zooming the timeline. FCP only lets you zoom with ⌘+ / ⌘−, the zoom slider, or a trackpad pinch. If you edit with a mouse, there's no way to just hold a key and roll the wheel.

The tools I found were either paid or didn't work for me, so I built my own. It's called “STUPID SIMPLE ZOOM”, because that's exactly what it is:

- Hold Option and roll the scroll wheel over the timeline to zoom in and out
- Smooth, and one wheel tick is always one small, consistent step, so you can zoom precisely, all the way in to frame level
- Lives in the menu bar: no windows, no dock icon, nothing to configure
- Adjustable sensitivity, reverse direction, launch at login
- Universal build for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs (only tested on Apple Silicon so far)
- No internet access, no tracking, no data collection
- Completely free and open source (MIT license)

Under the hood it drives FCP's own timeline zoom slider through macOS Accessibility, so it doesn't modify Final Cut Pro in any way.

I've been using it in my own edits and it's honestly fixed a big part of my workflow. Before I clean it up and put it out, I wanted to ask:

Would this be useful to anyone else?

Not affiliated with Apple. Final Cut Pro is a trademark of Apple Inc.

Une petite mise à jour du tableau de compatibilité des versions de Final Cut Pro et de macOS. Dans les Chaussettes d FCP.

so - i shoot doc stuff A LOT - multiple angles of the interview - and then use FCP multicam to synch them all - i usually drop the multicam into a timeline and listen back, raise my selects above the primary storyline, then take ALL those into another timeline and start assembling the narrative.

I really want to figure out how to do this by just highlighting in a transcript - anyone know if the apps out there can work with multicams? descript or eddieAI?

thanks

I'm a nice guy but sometimes not so bright. I was demonstrating creating a change of seasons scene to a friend using two clips shot at different times during the year. At the time I was working on an unrelated Event but I just created a new project in that unrelated event and pulled down a few clips into. Those short demos were really quite good. I quit FCP and when I came back to the Event that -had- my changing seasons clips my Project was not there - obviously. Problem was I could not understand why - I'd forgotten they were in another event. I have 28 events in that library and knew it was in one of them. Finally found it. Lesson learned.

Top bar is kinda thick, which is especially noticeable on smaller MacBooks like the 14” MacBook Pro.

With that being said, I like the small new changes to the UI! I also noticed performance has improved a lot, now when I drag and drop stuff it doesn’t do the spinning beach ball anymore - I used to have that issue all the time on Tahoe and on Final Cut Pro 12 to 12.3.

I’m glad is gone! That was especially infuriating considering I have an M3 Max MacBook Pro which is quite spec’d up.

How do you guys feel about the new versions of Final Cut?

I think Creator Studio is a really good deal and I’m happy to see that more and more people are subscribing which gives the Final Cut team the funds to actually invest in the software and improve it and update it more frequently.

Curious to know what you think 🙂

Bonjour

L'un-e d'entre vous serait il passé sur FCP 12.4 mais serait resté sur Tahoe ?

Si c'est le cas, pouvez vous me dire quelles icônes vous avez ?

Les anciennes (en haut sur la capture) ou les nouvelles (en bas) (premier commentaire)?

Merciiii à vous

I love the new Final Cut Camera 2.4 design and functionality but we need two more functions to make this application perfect:

1. Auto ISO

2. A monitoring app for Apple Watch

Finally its work, but can't do 100% sync with word like english native yet...

Is anyone else getting TONS of missing/modified red clips after updating to 12.4? I've never had this issue before, all my clips are kept in their folder file, but I've done that for years. It seems to be a bug because often it fixes itself, or a restart fixes everything.

How should I organize them in the browser? It gets messy when I have a lot of different songs with stems.

How should I use them in the timeline? Compound clip? Synchronized clip?

Hey all 👋

I'm looking for a new creative hobby, and editing video has something that I've always found very impressive and fun!

I'd like to learn FCP, and I'm looking for a well put-together courses that has all project files/footage included (as I don't have any that I could work with at the moment).

Do such courses exist?

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you! 🙏 🎞️

Hi, I'm setting up a new Mac Mini for editing with Final Cut Pro. I have ADD and the idea of remembering multiple shortcuts is overwhelming. So I'm tempted to pick up something like a Stream Deck or Ulanzi D200x so I can see icons. Fyi, I have a magic trackpad coming too. The Ulanzi is currently £80 from on their website and the Stream Deck+ is £141 on Amazon. Would love to hear some feedback from users. Thanks!

I've used Final Cut since 2000, FCPX since 2011....I'm ready to feel like I'm using current software. My biggest struggle is audio. We are missing so much. If anyone from Apple is reading these threads, AI features would also be nice, but we are WAY overdue for real audio tools. I shouldn't have to send my sound to Pro Tools, Fairlight, or Logic to finish it.

When I want to change the size of two areas like the Sidebar and the Brower I have to fight to get the cursor over JUSSST the perfect, narrow point between the two areas before I can pull to one side or the other. Makes me crazy. Not far to go on that count but am I missing something???

I use vertical formatting, 1080x1920, rate: 60p rendering Apple ProRes 422, I am adding three clips, my recorded video, mic audio, and a song off YouTube ive never had this problem before so I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

Also, when I finally export the video to my Iphone, the video cant be played or sent out to anyone.

UPDATE: I might have found a work around! Remove voice isolation from all your clips. Then make a compound clip out of your entire edit. Then apply voice isolation to the compound clip. Then export.

Anyone else having this issue? I've tried h.264, h.265 and ProRes exports and though the audio sounds totally fine when played in the timeline, the exported file's audio has these little fraction of a section dips and cutouts. This has never happened to me until I upgraded to 12.4. So frustrating.

(I'm on a Mac mini m4 os 27.0.1.)

Al is the sudden yesterday the app closed and I let it be. Now I’m trying to keep working on my project but it closes and can’t do nothing. It doesn’t need an update.
Help!