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Final Cut Pro Gets Major Update With New Camera App
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Personally I never had any problems syncing several different video streams and audio tracks via the inbuilt mulitcam sync function.
I can rename effects now? Maybe I'll rename a few of them after their iMovie HD equivalents, since I've often mentioned how several of the video effects in the 2003-06 versions of iMovie are now part of Final Cut Pro, and they're even better because you can use keyframes.
It's feature envy. NLE B or C gets a new feature and FCP users want to know why they can't have it as well.
At its core FCP is still amazing and handles a solid professional workflow from start to finish. Yes other systems have some interesting new features but I would not say they are running circles around FCP. Resolve and FCP and meant to target two very different groups of people with a lot of overlap in the middle.
Some pros depend on some new features and yes they should move to Resolve for those reasons. Other pros are still producing top content with FCP and are not held back at all.
FCP also takes a very modular approach and many of the features people want are options as plugins. Resolve adds a lot of that for free of course and thats neat but Resolve isn't for the faint of heart either. It's nowhere near as easy to pickup as FCP is. I say this as one that uses complex 3D animation programs and develops mobile apps. I use and love both FCP and Resolve. Without a doubt however Resolve is cumbersome, convoluted and more complex. FCP is designed to give professional results in a quick and easy way. It can't do everything but what it does do it can typically do it from start to finish faster and with less friction.
There is a market for both and some FCP users need to realize that. Not every NLE has to be clone of each other. There should be differences and a reason for each to stand out and exist.
Final Cut Pro 2 released in 2001 allready, we are at 10.8 next major rewrite would be 11.
You are missing an important factor here.This ^. The iPhone is not yet a Canon Sony Nikon (A7 S III etc) but for those who find it good enough for their scenario, think of it as buying 3 $1,500 cameras instead of 3 $5,000 cameras. It's also likely that using 2 iPhones in a custom side-by-side rig to film/stream 3d to Vision Pro will happen soon if not already, similar to how Sandwich 3d-streamed the Talk Show recently w/2 box cameras, detailed here https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/06/how-sandwich-streamed-the-talk-show-live-in-3d-on-vision-pro/ . Yes a single iPhone can already film 3d for the Vision Pro but the built-in cameras are very close together - a rig w/two cameras provides much wider camera separation, which is good for 3d.
EVERYONE already has an iPhone in their pocket and carry it with them where ever they go. They would not be buying one just for a film shoot.
Not many walk around with an A7 MKIII or Blackmagic
Being that Final Cut Pro launched on the Mac first with the price of $299, I don't see Apple switching to a subscription model at this point in the game.
I can see Apple maybe adding a subscripting cost in addition to the full price down the road. Giving users two options. Those who don't/can't afford the full price, can now pay $x amount per month/year.
Final Cut Pro Ver 2.0 can handle LUT.
Use automatic log processing in Final Cut Pro for iPad
In Final Cut Pro for iPad, log media is automatically processed using built-in camera LUTs. You can also manually apply camera LUTs to log media.
support.apple.com
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For youtube sessions, tutorials etc it has the look of a simple (portable) mini production studio.
No, it does not. Only the Log Conversion LUTs Apple supplies in there, you can not add your own LUTs.
Also, stabilization is not in there.
I am no Hollywood film maker. I make training videos, testimonials, videos for pet adoption for a shelter I volunteer for and stepped up to Final Cut Pro and find it does everything I need and is FAR FAR easier to learn than DaVinici.
It seems to be easier to for developers to make add ons as Davinci versions often are not available or come out quite a bit later - at least with the companies I've used for things. If you're not a pro film maker, you're probably using templates and add ons to help things along.
All that said, it's still not an easy application to learn but easy enough that you can teach yourself using some YouTube tutorials, which even doing that with DaVinci doesn't solve the problem that Adobe exists to make the most confusing, cluttered, and unintuitive GUI's. It must be their mission statement: "Make this as complicated to use as possible. If people aren't screaming cuss words, you're not doing it right."
What happens to everyone who paid for an App that goes subscription. You stop getting updates.
Can it use third party luts that Apple did not build into their proprietary camera app?
Though this is why a desktop client is key. Apply the lut to the entire product vs. risking a really yanky janky inconsistent look.
I don’t think anyone should be concerned about FCP on Mac going subscription. Apple would retire macOS before then.
True, but I don’t think many people would pay a subscription for the current fcp. The last years have been lackluster in updates.
Apple could say “hey, this time we’re really gonna put attention to this”, but who’s gonna believe them.
But he was replying to a question asking if anyone uses 4 iPhones/iPads to shoot.
But if you’re that much of a production, 4 iPhones? Not saying they aren’t excellent for quick walkthroughs or trying out a shot fast but is anyone shooting multicam with 4 phones?
Now that the capability is there, why not?
It’s a way lower cost for extremely small film projects than the cinema quality cameras they’d likely be unable to even afford renting otherwise.
This capability is actually lowering the barrier of entry cost of production if you look at it from the eyes of non-professionals. College kids could definitely use the phones they already have to make stuff of quality 🤷♂️
Hardly. It’s the same argument with iPhone vs dSLR. Don’t get me wrong I love my iPhone 15 pro max camera but doesn’t come close to my dSLR for serious shots (yeah, the camera you have, blah, blah…). Like that shot below, that orange glow isn’t some paint effect, that’s because the sun was setting behind me, and this guy screamed across at OshKosh at 0.98mach in front of us (thank god for ear pro). The iPhone would never get that shot (that was 1/500, 400mm/f2.8). The fact that the lens has switchable axes on the stabilization to allow horizontal tracking, but holding vertical crisply, Sure would the iPhone likely produce a usable image for a social media post, through some computational trickery, but that shot that looks crisp printed at 30”, nope Not as good. A lot of the magic with a black magic is the ability to put a big lens on it with geared focus pull, manual DOF.
Yeah, I’d guess, prior to the release of Final Cut Camera, there was no one (except in Apple’s marketing materials/beta testers) that were shooting multicam with 4 phones.
Today? I’ve even used it (for something Apple likely didn’t intend, but I sent feedback Just being there and enabling folks to do multicam simply by asking a few friends to download a free app is a big deal.
The Smooth Slow Motion AI feature is just amazing, compared with Topaz Apollo/Crhonos and Chronos Fast is waaay faster and quite similar results. you can do not so bad morphs as in Topaz, and once the clip is analyzed, you can play with the speed anytime (opposite to Topaz) which is amazing.
Cant wait them to include Scaling AI, Full frame Stabilization AI and Dnoise AI
For the Light and Color AI tool in my case, I need to add Auto Color Balance, then disable it in order to make the AI tools showing the correct color. A weird bug but with a workaround... and then it is also quite amazing!
Cant wait them to include Scaling AI, Full frame Stabilization AI and Dnoise AI
For the Light and Color AI tool in my case, I need to add Auto Color Balance, then disable it in order to make the AI tools showing the correct color. A weird bug but with a workaround... and then it is also quite amazing!
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You made a very good point with your comment. But of course I wasn't referring to Blackmagic hardware but to software. I am no pro but I had the Blackmagic app on my iPhone. THAT is what I replaced with Final Cut Camera
EDIT: No, it can't — my mistake. (Previous post: Yes it can, if you have space for ProRes HQ.)
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