Thank you! I always thought it was a bug in my installation. This is the most annoying thing about FinalCutPro. I never understood how this can be so difficult to achieve and hence thought it must be a bug.
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Final Cut Pro Gaining New Features on Mac and iPad Later This Month
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FCPx is WAY beyond 7...far faster to edit on and very powerful. Apple did a poor roll-out of FCPx (when we were all expecting FCP8 in 2011) and some people just are still holding on to their prejudices about it. Yes, of course you can drag titles around in the canvas. I think the issue is the 12 YEARS that have elapsed since you were editing.😁 If you spend a bit of time with it (I'd actually suggest listening to Final Cut Grill from the episode about 10.2 forward), you'll pick it up fast.
The actual problems NOW are mostly due to the past couple of years...Apple is not keeping up. My guess is either we're at the end of the line for FCPx OR, Apple is holding back and something much bigger is coming. Hard to read with Davinci gaining attention on one hand, but on the other...Apple Vision will need a place to create content plus Apple just launched FCPx on the iPad.🤔
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I wouldn't be surprised if FinalCut Pro is managed by a team of less than 5 people. To understand how little importance they give to the product look no further than their recent keynote. There is an interview with the "Head Apple Editor". What product does she use? Premiere Pro. That's like Microsoft's Corporate Communications team using Google Workspace.
This is exactly what I am thinking. The magnetic timeline in FCPx is great for fast editing, the resolution independent timeline is also great but that's were it stops. For more and more things you now need plugins and some of those plugins tend to impact FCPx stability. What's more some of those plugins are now going subscription only with the price so high you may as well get Adobe Cloud.
At the moment I am expecting FCPx on Mac to either go subscription only in the not too distant future or get discontinue all together. I have bought a copy of Resolve Studio and started editing a couple of side projects in it to familiarise myself to be ready to jump ship when the time comes.
Anyone remember Aperture? Discontinued from one day to the next.
For using it twice a year just use iMovie or get the free version of DaVinci Resolve.
I ditched Final Cut Pro because they save every single render file, when will we get the ability to turn this off and render manually!?
Was at the presentation at Apple Park today. You’re in luck, you can see them perfectly.
Turn off auto render and then use ctrl r over the selected clip to render it manually. I do it all the time.
As an option; Sure. But as the *only* option, I would hate it. I chose Final Cut back in the day exactly because I could buy it and not subscribe to it and rent it every month. And I have owned it for 9 years now. And Apple is still updating that version I bought back then (which to be clear, I would be fine with them releasing Final Cut Pro 11 for a new price to be bought - I don't expect perpetual updates for a one-time purchase). That's a better deal than a subscription would be over that time. But it's not just about the money either; It's about the principal and inherent anxiety associated with subscriptions. Every minute of being subscribed to something you're not actively using feels like a waste and to me is anxiety provoking. Owning it is restful. It's always there and I don't need to worry about it. Subscriptions you micro-manage "Oh will I need FCP this month? Better unsub and re-sub later" then you re-activate your sub and panic to get it used enough to justify it to yourself.
But each to their own; As I said up front, both models being an option is cool with me. Like CrossOver offers both subscription and lifetime licenses and I'd way rather just outright buy a lifetime license, but most wouldn't; And that's cool
PS. If you don't need that many advanced features; What about iMovie?
I almost guarantee you someone tries FCPx on iPad for the first time they will never use it on a Mac. It currently has so many limitations it makes Adobe Premiere Express look like a high end NLE for feature films.
WOW! You're TIMING on this...just yesterday, I went back and forth with a plug-in developer. They said all new plugins will only be part of their subscription model. Subscriptions end with plug-ins for me.As it is, they require a custom app to be installed on top of the plugins. I'd rather have NONE of their products at this point. Time for push-back. OVER it.
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YES, the magnetic timeline is so fluid and efficient that I don't want to give it up. Then, there's the the huge, overlooked integration between Motion and FCPx. 🤞🏻 for both to stick around! Apple COULD do a power play...charge for Motion and make FCPx free.
I remember LiveType being dropped...then Apple didn't even bring the livefonts into Motion! OOF! That was part of our show-opening.
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Back in the day when Adobe Flash was the goto for Multimedia development there was a paid extension that allowed you to run Flash as a kiosk app with the ability to access system level API calls. When it all got discontinued we kept a single machine around running the dev platform for this just so we could update two kiosk systems clients were still using.
Just do the same for FinalCut and Motion. Keep a separate machine that runs an older version so you can access the features you need. Do all other work on your main machine. Somewhat painful but if it gets the job done why not.
I have been genuinely surprised with the improvements Premiere brought to the table with the 2023 and 2024 releases.
Adobe really invested in this program, which wasn't obvious looking at how it had been neglected by the company for years and years.
Too many frustrating years with buggy software really scared me off. Photoshop 2024 now seems to have gone the same way... so many bugs I have gone back to the beta because it's more stable on my MacBook Pro.
I though the only people still using FinalCut were the ones paid to do so by Apple, so Apple could use them in advertisements.
Apple did not do that. Apple simply has no long-term vision. Jobs did. Now that Apple vision is a thing, Apple is wondering why no one is using their Final Cut Pro App and put a couple of people back on the team to try to get back some attention. It won't work. Anyone serious about video will never again get locked into Apple video tools.
Please give examples are how fcpx is not pro in comparison to fcp7? As far as I am aware it is even more feature rich
Sounds like you’re complaining about not being able to use a tool because you haven’t read the manual.
My comment is this works ok with iMovie (phone/pad) to Mac. You’d think FCP would “just work” as well migrating. My issue is keeping the library coherent without sourcing all media in photos (icloud). From pad USB C external HD to Mac is ok though.