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Apple Likely to Announce Final Cut Pro Update This Week With These New Features
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I'm not familiar enough with Final Cut, but how different are the versions between OS's?
Is the iPad version full featured?
Yep. The small company I work for basically runs off Illustrator and InDesign, and every update I see coming in recently is just a bunch of generative bull**** nobody here needs. As you say, they're basically feature complete. That's my huge beef with software rentals ("subscriptions") is that at their worst they give developers a blank check to just noodle around and an incentive to chase whatever new trend to justify the recurring expense.
Meanwhile, Adobe has a lock on the industry because we've all got backlogs of years and years of files in .ai and .indd files. It's not like we can just start using Affinity Designer or whatever.
Once I grew beyond needing to combine 2 videos at once I was done with iMovie. You might want to look into Capcut. Very easy, very powerful, and very affordable (free without extra fancy transitions of the pro license).
Off topic but I'm waiting for a Logic Pro update where it takes advantage of the efficiency cores as well! Maybe even rewritten the code for its native plugins and other tasks to run on the GPU!
I used final cut 7 for all my university days.
I remember I really preferred it to Premiere (which was a mess in those days).
In recent years, though, Adobe finally gave Premiere the attention it deserved, and the software is now packed with functionality, especially if you also use After Effects.
That said, I'm sure the current version of Final Cut has a much sleeker interface; If I didn't use After Effects, I think I'd give 'ye old final cut a spin
I remember I really preferred it to Premiere (which was a mess in those days).
In recent years, though, Adobe finally gave Premiere the attention it deserved, and the software is now packed with functionality, especially if you also use After Effects.
That said, I'm sure the current version of Final Cut has a much sleeker interface; If I didn't use After Effects, I think I'd give 'ye old final cut a spin
I agree on capcut.
It seems to be the new hot thing, among amateur editors.
(Nothing wrong with that; I'm all for market segmentation)
The only reason I am missing from not using my Mac Mini is FCPX. Just wonderful piece of software, but when they changed the engine or whatever, back in 2017? the performance for my 2012 mini dropped so much it became painful for me to keep using it.
Now I can't afford to get a new computer, Apple computer included, and I have it in the bedroom, sitting, doing nothing but keeping company to my underwear.
For me the best reason to own any Apple computer is Final Cut.
Now I can't afford to get a new computer, Apple computer included, and I have it in the bedroom, sitting, doing nothing but keeping company to my underwear.
For me the best reason to own any Apple computer is Final Cut.
Opinion: Apple Final Cut Pro Is Not ‘Pro’ Anymore - Y.M.Cinema Magazine
It seems that Apple has removed its Pro App flagship from the ‘Professional’ tag. Since the beginning of the year, Apple has not released any update of FCP (Final Cut Pro). On the other side of the NLE map, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are deep into the race, as FCP remains on the starting...
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If you wanna disagree, then that's fine. That only brings FCPX to fall behind from other competitions by not facing the truth. This is why professionals complained and sent an open letter 2 years ago.
You have said this same thing on this thread about 5 times now.
FCPX is not at all in trouble, and the joke is on you if you think it's 'losing' users and getting left behind. It's like saying Premiere Pro is in trouble due to DaVinci stealing market share - or that DaVinci is in trouble due to the fact that they bundle their software with their hardware.
The market is diversifying due to more options than ever. In reality, it's a good thing; in reality, there are more people editing in 2024 than ever before - and arguably FCPX has played and continues to play a tremendous role in home video making, aka YouTube, which is a multi-billion-dollar industry. These types of savvy individuals are the core of Apple’s user base and have been for decades.
That's also excluding TikTok and Instagram that FCPX has been pivotal in. How do you think CapCut came out of nowhere?
Yes, there was an open letter from professionals, but if that's your main point, then it's fairly weak as FCPX does not need to be used in Hollywood anymore when its users probably accumulate more views through online platforms than Hollywood does. This kind of strategy naturally leads to more sales for Apple, kind of like, oh, I don't know... Blackmagic?
Each NLE plays its role and fills its place in the market.
As I mentioned earlier, any user still romanticizing FCP7 in 2024 surely lacks the ability to adapt to the changing landscape and lives in a bygone era. FCPX is vastly superior in 2024.
Bingo. Adobe's software is basically ransomware now—if you don't keep paying for all eternity, you lose access to your own files. And while we're at it, their apps behave a lot like viruses too—you'll know what I mean if you've ever tried to uninstall them completely.
I do use Affinity software now, but they really have no idea when it comes to creating a usable UI. At least Adobe got that right (mostly).
It seems to be. Final Cut Pro is exporting slower especially when using compressor than Adobe media encoder…
I think you are right on all accounts.
The only issue I see is the collaborative work on a project, which is harder to do on Final cut.
Our team was trying for a while to use Adobe's desktop file sync software. We were already paying for it, and needed some way to collaborate on projects in a hybrid workplace. It basically worked, but it also sha* the bed many times. It was also missing a very essential feature of selective sync, which people in their support forums had been requesting for literally years.
I wondered many times, why don't they improve this and at least try to approach the level of Google Drive or Dropbox? Then it hit me: they don't have to. We are locked in. Our small design firm can't stop using Creative Cloud because there's no viable competitor and every client is going to expect deliverables in Adobe formats. And even if there was viable alternative, we'd have to spend god knows how many hundreds of worker-hours to get up to speed on it. And we'd still have to keep at least one or two Adobe seats to access our decades of archived work.
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I am not the only one then! Adobe Media encoder exports about 5 minutes faster with the same video compared to Apple Compressor for me on my new M4 Mini.
Also there is this. https://www.provideocoalition.com/review-m4-mac-mini-for-video-editors/
It does though lol. Do you need a make a video a couple times a year, and the software sits dormant otherwise? Then subscribe for a month, make your video, cancel. Six months later pay for one month, make your video, unsubscribe. It's exactly how subscriptions work. I make videos about family events from time to time, but I only make one every couple years. I could spend $10 per year to get that subscription and do everything I need within a week, then cancel and not subscribe again until I feel like making another video a year or two later.
Isn't the "Voice Isolation" feature they added some time ago also AI-based? It's a feature I have found pretty useful, especially in making YTPs.
The "Magnetic Mask" feature sounds particularly interesting, too!
Back then it was just called an "advanced algorithm," – which is what 95% of these features are, recognizing common patterns, contrast in audio and video signal – and no one freaked out about it then. Now we have specialized silicon that can run an analysis like Magnetic Mask in real time and suddenly it AI taking over the world. Same stuff, just much more efficient now.
The best thing about your repeatedly linking to that article is that I get to re-read the top comment on that linked page, with the wonderfully succinct two sentence intro:Opinion: Apple Final Cut Pro Is Not ‘Pro’ Anymore - Y.M.Cinema Magazine
It seems that Apple has removed its Pro App flagship from the ‘Professional’ tag. Since the beginning of the year, Apple has not released any update of FCP (Final Cut Pro). On the other side of the NLE map, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve are deep into the race, as FCP remains on the starting...
If you wanna disagree, then that's fine. That only brings FCPX to fall behind from other competitions by not facing the truth. This is why professionals complained and sent an open letter 2 years ago.
"Wow… yet another clueless take on FCP with nothing more than the usual sad and dated dog whistles and logical fallacies. Measuring an NLE’s “professionalism” by the NUMBER OF UPDATES??"