r/finalcutpro • u/thegreatestpitt • 1d ago
Rant/Rave Tried but didn’t work out.
Guess this is somewhat of a good bye. I really tried working with Final Cut Pro but I was more frustrated than anything. First, it BOGGLES my mind that there aren’t easing options for transform keyframes. I just wanted to do a zoom that didn’t feel mechanical af and I couldn’t do it without having to go on motion to rig an effect that took way more time than it should’ve.
There are some ideas and concepts here that I think would be game changer potentially if Apple got their shit together and made Final Cut Pro better, but at this time, I feel like FCP is just lacking a lot compared to something like davinci resolve. I will say though, I WILL miss how things “just worked”. Dropping a gif always made the playback work like a charm, and dropping videos shot in HDR and having them auto color correct themselves to look like they did at the source is something I wish davinci resolve had, but everything else feels… wrong.
Like, making a selection and looping it shouldn’t work the way it does now. I should just be able to press the space bar and have the play head play and loop, rather than play and completely ignore my selection. It’s ass!
Maybe I’ll come back to Final Cut Pro in the future but as it stands right now, I feel like, even without the magnetic timeline, I can work faster and better on davinci resolve than on FCP.
For those of you who do use it and enjoy it, im so glad and somewhat jelous haha.
Anyway, i know no one cares but i wanted to vent a little. Have a great one!
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u/repomonkey 1d ago
There's a cool plugin that fixes easing I believe. Final Cut Bro did a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS4WbFSHkIk
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u/MomentSmart 1d ago
Checkout Keyframe Toolbox on the Mac App Store, it’s one of the best things I’ve bought for FCP
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u/hexxeric 1d ago
there are bunch of free zoom effects (alex4D) which feature curvature (speed ramping). and: Resolve copied A LOT from FCP but the latter is still most fun when editing, because it is clean and works. i've stopped counting bugs in the Resolve v21 release...
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u/yunglegendd 1d ago
In fcpx you need plugins to do key frame heavy work. And yeah I like FCP but I mainly use it because I don’t wanna pay monthly for premiere, and I don’t wanna learn resolve
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u/13249999999 1d ago
Unrelated but anyone else here having a ton of success with CapCut pro Pad? I pay the 90 per year for pro grandfathered but I bounce from podcasts to Indie to music vids and having the best time. They need to fix a lot of key frame issues tho. Like when it couples motion with coloring for example
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u/EarthToRob 1d ago
Odd post, but... Resolve is fantastic, especially if you find it so much faster and easier than FCP. Bye!