How the OWC Drive Dock can backup your large RAID quickly and easily.

We're back! More about that soon. In more important news, new versions of our favourite apps are out.

The last few WWDC's have been pretty well packed with new hardware and software. Apple's 2022 World Wide Developers Conference continued the innovation.

Apple has officially responded to the recent open letter from Final Cut Pro editors to Tim Cook.

Apple has published updates to the Pro Video apps today. Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor get new features, iMovie for the Mac gets an update too. There's also an update of Pro Video Formats to 2.2.3.

We sat down with Xander Soren, Director of Product Marketing, Pro Apps, Tom Boger, Vice President of Mac & iPad Product Marketing and Shelly Goldberg, Senior Director, Mac & iPad Product Design. 

We now know we have a couple of new features coming from Apple in Final Cut 10.6.2. Dupe detection and better Voice isolation using ML in the Inspector.

We had the pleasure of testing out the new Mac Studio M1 Ultra and Studio Display over the last week. Is this the fastest Mac Apple has ever made and more importantly, how fast does Final Cut Pro run?

Today's Apple event bought an all-new M1 Max or M1 Ultra powered Mac Studio and a 27-inch 5K Retina Studio Display.

It was a great day for Apple hardware, we also got an indication of the next version of Final Cut Pro.

A new video from Apple on how to move a Final Cut Pro Library to an external drive.

In this latest presentation from the 2021 FCP Global Summit, all panelists have their eyes on the future.

There's a bad batch export bug with Final Cut Pro, Compressor and macOS Monterey.

In this new video from the 2021 FCP Global Summit, Cirina Catania runs through the steps of how to get your FCPX cut into other NLEs.

In this new video from the 2021 FCP Global Summit, we focus on the individual and freelance working.

We are very happy to publish the fifty minute Summer Stories with Vince Vaughn presentation from the 2021 FCP Global Summit.

Some of the smaller developers make excellent apps for macOS. Here's five that I use on a regular basis.

Tomorrow (Friday) we look forward to the biggest day of the 2021 FCP Global Summit. We have the Apple presentations, vampires on planes and of course the OWC Apple ecosystem workflow demo.

With less than two weeks before the start of the FCP Global Summit, we thought it would be a good idea to take a look through the schedule and highlight a few interesting sessions we hope to attend

Having said that, they will all be good and we will try to watch as many as we can, there is always something to learn.

Don't forget to register (It's free) for the FCP Global Summit here. The summit runs from Monday November the 8th to Saturday November the 13th.

Friday 12 of November - Apple Day!

FRIDAY 12pm EDT I think we have to kick-off with the possible highlight on Friday, Knut Hake talking about the Netflix Original vampire thriller in the air, Blood Red Sky. Two things to do before hearing from Knut. First of all watch the movie on Netflix and then have a read of Oliver Peter's article on how the film was made with Final Cut Pro.

FRIDAY 1PM EDT Apple present 'What's New in Apple Pro Video'. Expect to see FCP 10.6 running on the new MacBook Pros. Cinematic Mode and of course the new tracking in FCP will also feature. Maybe we will see Motion and Compressor demoed as well. Remember, the Apple presentation will not be available afterwards, miss it, miss out!

FRIDAY 2pm EDT The session after that is an OWC solutions demo. Not only do you have OWC CEO Larry O'Connor, but you also have Jen Soule and Sam Mestman presenting. New products maybe?

There's also a couple of sessions in the evening that look to have an Apple involvement. Keep an eye on those.

Monday 8th of November is a 'New to me' day designed as an introduction to the Pro Apps.

1pm EDT Mark Spencer kicks off his run of presentations with 'Motion in Just Minutes: How to Get Started Under 10 Min'. If you have never used Motion and wanted to give it a go, this presentation will be ideal.

8pm EDT  We will be tuning in for Mike Matzdorff and his session '“The FCP Mindset” for the Track Based Editor.' He's got a lot of NLE knowledge, Hollywood credentials and a great sense of humour.

Tuesday November the 9th moves on to the art in editing and also the two 'tracks' of sessions start.

1pm EDT Audio is often the poorer half of production, so good to see Charlie Austin presenting 'Getting People to Sound GREAT in FCP'.

2pm EDT Straight after that, we will be flicking the remote control over to watch Sam Mestman present 'Blueprint for a Micro Budget Feature'. 

7pm EDT Summer Stories in Chicago with Vince Vaughn. The key is in the title here. We are looking forward to hearing from this Hollywood actor and producer on being involved with making films on a much smaller scale, but still with a lot of passion for storytelling.

8pm EDT Later in the day, the leading lady of Motion, Jenn Jager makes her Summit debut with 'Motion: Animation Made Easy with Behaviors'.

Wednesday 10th of November is all about Mobile, lots to choose from here.

7pm EDT Antipodean (He's going to be up early!) Lee Herbet will present 'From iPhone to FCP: How to Start on Your Phone and End on Your Mac'. Even more important with the iPhone 13 Pro out now.

8pm EDT Following that will be Nick Harauz with a topic that doesn't get much of a mention, but is essential for social media - 'Designing Vertical Video'.

9pm EDT Another mention here to one half of the Ripple team, Mark Spencer who is presenting 'Working with iPhone HDR in Final Cut Pro'. As we think Dolby vision is THE mastering format for the future, we will be watching.

Thursday 11th of November is a day focused on pros. 

12pm EDT Thursday starts with Cirina Catania 'FCP for Non-Editors: For Producer's Eyes Only' It will be interesting to get a different perspective on FCP.

8pm EDT The organiser of the program, Jeff Greenberg will present 'These Shots are Never Going to Match!' We know he likes a challenge when it comes to colour correction and from a recent Skype call, we know Jeff is going to have to use all his colour correcting knowledge on this one. 

Finally, Saturday 13th of November is about Career, Social and Community

2pm EDT We will be watching Bethany Grayton present "How to Build Traction on Youtube".Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe!

7pm EDT Brings in Robin Moran from Indonesia with "How to Overcome Workflow Anxiety?." Lessons to be learned post Covid.

9pm EDT How to Give Great Feedback - Working Well in Creative Collaborations will be hosted by Steve Douglass, Vince Vaughn and Jeff Greenberg. 

10pm EDT Saturday Night Wrap-Up Party!

Some great sessions to attend during the week, but you do have to register. See you there!

A week with the new M1Max powered 16 inch MacBook Pro. What's good, what's amazing and what we thought it would do better on.

New MacBook Pros, Final Cut Pro updates and Apple staff on a podcast! Doesn't happen often, worth a watch.

Apple has released a good update to the ProApps, Final Cut Pro to 10.6, Motion to 5.6 and Compressor to 4.6. iMovie gets some love too.

A welcome Apple silicon and form factor update to the MacBook Pros, two sizes and two choices of chips.

As it says on the tin, Lee Herbet and PhotoJosph had a chat on Wednesday about cameras, tech, life and HDR. But maybe not in that order!

Today at the Apple event, we got to see the new iPhone 13, with new features that will certainly appeal to filmmakers and mobile creators. Yes, Final Cut Pro and iMovie will be able to refocus movies recorded on an iPhone 13 Pro!

Alex Lindsay's Office Hours crew talks about Final Cut Pro on its tenth anniversary.

Our favourite NLE is ten years old today. We look back at its launch, the troubled early years and what the future might hold as Final Cut Pro goes into early adolescence.

Pre-Launch

It is hard to stress Final Cut Pro's impact on the industry before FCPX. Yes, there were large installed Avid houses who scoffed at the thought of a cheap NLE and lower chargeable rates, but apart from those, as FCP had made editing available to so many, it was everywhere.

We had all watched the bootleg preview of FCPX from NAB back in April 2011 and expected a lot. Apple had 'bought out' the LAFCPUG meeting and demoed the new app to editors who had queued up to get in. 

The simplification of the timeline looked incredible when the same cuts were shown in FCP7 and FCPX side by side. We had skimming, live waveforms, the magnetic timeline and clips getting out of the way when things moved. Features that really did look like they were the basis of the next generation of non-linear editors.

All FCP7 fans had been looking for major speed increases, over the last few years we had spent a lot of time staring at that render bar. Mass transcoding files to one codec to avoid crashes even led to rap videos. 

The new technology that Apple had wrapped into FCPX made it feel like this app couldn’t fail. It was going to be fast. Videomaker was convinced, they awarded the unreleased Final Cut Pro X 'Best Editing Software' at NAB.

But the cracks had already started to appear.

Rumours started to circulate that features were missing out of the new app, such as capture from tape. A hack of Ripple Training's servers didn't help when social media posts showed screen grabs of a very slimmed down list of preferences. 

The comparisons between FCPX and iMovie started, (which to be fair the app hasn't shrugged off to this day) unfair now possibly, but the Rottweiler Scott Simmons immediately got his teeth into an iMove/FCP comparison video.

The Launch

Apple's server's must have glowed hot on June 21st 2011 when FCPX 10.0 was finally released. 

Editors across the globe downloaded the app and started to explore the new features. It was a big change and we think the majority of users were left a bit dumbstruck as their 'tool of choice' had been completely changed to the point that they had to relearn how to edit.  

The Top Ten Editors concerns about Final Cut Pro X

Features were missing, there was no broadcast output, no tape ingest, but these were dwarfed by the realisation that you couldn't open old FCP7 projects in FCPX.

Not strictly true, as Philip and Greg from Intelligent Assistance had been holed-up in the Apple skunk works developing an app that could take FCP7 XML and convert it into FCPXML that FCPX could read. 

The launch was coupled with one of the most mindless marketing decisions Apple has ever made. 

They killed Final Cut Pro 7 

Overnight, FCP7 went from being the leading industry NLE, to an app that you couldn't buy and Apple didn't support. To paraphrase Steve Martin - The change from FCP7 to FCPX should have been a dissolve, not a cut. Unopened boxes of Final Cut Pro Studio 7 became like contraband as facilities scoured resellers for the last units.

Final Cut Pro X was attracting a lot of criticism, some of it very public and very embarrassing. In a lot of industry people's minds, it has never recovered.

The Updates

I can't really judge how the Final Cut Pro team must have felt a few months after the launch, it must have been tough. But to their credit, they kept their heads down and carried on releasing updates, lots of them.

FCPX started to attract a following of editors who had ignored the barrage of negative social media and had actually tried it out. (FWIW I still encounter editors who are very vocal about their disdain of FCPX even though they have never used it!)  

Users were attracted to its speed, the organisation tools, the ease with which they could upload to YouTube and Vimeo and more. Slowly Apple bought back features and added some reimagined new ones. Seven months on from its launch, the syncing of footage and the new multicam tools in 10.0.3 were revolutionary - no other NLE could touch it.

There was also the start of the huge FCP ecosystem. There were probably more FCPX tutorials on YouTube than all the other NLEs put together. The building of titles and effects in Motion led to the creation of a now super-saturated plugin market.

It seemed every six months we got a release that not only fixed bugs and fine tuned FCP for speed, but also came with new features, some aimed at regaining the pro market. 

Those FCP7 editors who hadn't made the move to X, just carried on editing, it all still worked.

The Competition

The brief of Adobe Premiere's new Product Manager was 'To eat Final Cut Pro's lunch'. It started with one of the most amazing pieces of software alchemy out there. They made Premiere's GUI dark, trying to shake off its rather Soviet inspired sparse light grey look. It was touted as the direct replacement for FCP7 for all those who didn't want to make the jump to FCPX.

Underneath its new appearance it had the same old clunky, crash inducing code and the Adobe engineers embarked on a long game of 'Whac-A-Mole' squashing bugs.

But it started to gain traction, even though it lacked essential editing tools like a Clip Mixer. To their credit, Adobe listened and added features as fast as they could, which in a way was a problem as some of them were not really that well executed. 

FCPX was a source of inspiration, Skimming led to HoverScrub, Motion plugins led to the nightmare that is MOGRTS, the multicam tool could now do more than 4 angles. They were developing at a pace that was to outstrip Apple and in the industry's eyes, they had made FCP8.

Its biggest selling point though, was that it was available on a lot of users systems already. If you used Photoshop and/or After Effects, then you could get Premiere for free in the new Creative Cloud subscription. Going cross platform also helped build the user base.

Whilst all this was going on, Blackmagic whose wallet was bulging after selling so many I/O cards, had acquired da Vinci Systems. Grant Petty's mission was to provide colour correction tools to everyday video and film editors that had previously cost hundreds of thousands of Dollars.

He did a good job too and many productions were tripping over to Resolve for finishing as FCP users were rather underwhelmed by the basic Color Board.

But Grant had a bigger plan, NAB after NAB saw a new Resolve launched with evolving editing tools. We are now at the point where Resolve is perceived as an editor with advanced colour correction as opposed to a colour corrector with good editing tools!

The pace of Blackmagic's development of Resolve has been very fast, couple that with a free version that anybody can download and use - and you have the reason why Resolve is gaining support across the board, from broadcast TV to YouTubers; feature films to weddings.

Both Premiere and Resolve have learnt from Final Cut Pro, they have used the app for inspiration, but moved forward in the traditional 'two-up' source and record paradigm that editors are very comfortable with.

Oh, and during these ten years, Avid has just been Avid. 

The Future

We got in early with an article about what we would like to see in Final Cut Pro over the next ten years, so we won't bore you with duplication.

Final Cut Pro - The Next Ten Years

Looking back over the ten years, we think Final Cut Pro's perception in the film and TV industry is still coloured by the rather disastrous launch. Thankfully, the person (above the FCP team) who was responsible for that colossal marketing misjudgement has left Apple. 

Premiere and Resolve have silently and slowly mopped-up the editors who don't want to liberate themselves from tracks, bins and audio patching. 

The way forward for Apple is two pronged, innovate and then communicate with users and potential users.

Firstly, Apple is positioned perfectly with the new M1+ machines to tune FCP for maximum performance that the other NLE companies will struggle to match. They also need to get their development mojo back now the transition to Apple Silicon is well under way. Surely a super-simple but very powerful collaborative workflow is just around the corner? 

The last few releases seem to be a bit thin on the ground feature wise - will 10.6 be the large update we have been waiting for? (Dupe detection anyone?)

Secondly, Apple needs to shout more about how great Final Cut Pro is. Now, we are not suggesting a TV spot like Adobe's Premiere Pro commercial that probably only touched the NLE to match back up with the soundtrack. We are talking about getting back involved with the community.

Apple has axed its training program, its certification process, it doesn't officially appear anymore at NAB or IBC. Over the last few years, things have slightly changed, the Cupertino omertà lifted with the chance to question the Pro Apps team at the FCPX Creative Summit.

But, it's not enough! 

Apple need to promote Final Cut Pro more. It's worth it, it sells Macs.

The amount of users wanting to produce video is growing day by day and FCP needs to be in front of them as they make a choice on how they are going to edit. FCP will always have the users who have upgraded from iMovie, but there are so many more who now see Premiere as the 'Pro solution' and thus the thing to aspire to.

This is well within Apple's power, they have a track (no pun intended) record of changing the way people think or completely revolutionising an industry with a product. 

So, after a difficult birth and competition from its siblings, let's hope that Final Cut Pro grows into a popular teenager that everyone likes.

Apple gave an hour and fifty minute presentation to kick of the 2021 World Wide Developer's Conference. Jam packed with iOS stuff, but what about new hardware and Final Cut Pro?

It's been a while since the new M1 iMac was announced, but the first YouTube reviews are in.

When Final Cut Pro X was released back in June 2011, Apple said that there was a ten year road map in place for its development. Well, we are nearly at the end of that journey, so what about the next road map? What will the future bring to our favourite non-linear editor?

Today's presentation bought new products and upgrades, but the ones we are interested in are the new iMac and iPad Pros. All powered by the M1 chip.

A whole day of free presentations aimed at people who use Apple products to make videos? Can't be bad!

Updates to all of the Pro video Apps today -Motion looks the most interesting with a new Auto-Shrink option in text layouts.

It has been two and a half months since Apple announced the new M1 SOC Mac mini, MacBook Air and 13” MacBook Pro. So after a good couple of months with a 13” M1 MacBook Pro, I thought I’d put together my findings to help those out there who are thinking of buying one.

The biggest Apple news of 2020 was the start of the transition of the Mac to Apple silicon. Alex Gollner writes about how the transition might go over the next two years. Tell us what you think in the comments below!

We seem to be so close to coupling two Apple technologies together to achieve something really cool. But at the moment, they are miles apart.

Rounding out 2020, Apple made the first move in its transition from Intel to Arm-based Apple silicon processors. The MacBook Air, the 13” MacBook Pro, and the Mac mini are the first Macs to feature the new chip.

As we celebrate the end of 2020, it is time to look back at the highlights in the world of Final Cut over the last 12 months. It was a year of a flurry of software updates from the Final Cut team plus many hardware updates from Apple. It also saw an acceleration of editors working remotely and big improvements to the hardware and software of video production.

We thought it wouldn't take long before updates were released to the Apple Silicon compatible Pro Apps. Final Cut Pro and Compressor get an extra feature and stability improvements. Big Sur and iMovie get some love too. We also have a new Apple Wsupport article on sharing.

It's been a week since the new M1 silicon Macs were announced. The reviews are starting to come in, so we thought we would list the ones we thought had done a good job.

The keynote speaker has been announced, the week's schedule is almost full of great sessions and Apple will present live. Have you got your ticket for the 2020 FCPX Virtual Global Summit yet? (There is a code!)

Today Apple has updated all the pro video and audio apps. Final Cut Pro updates 10.5, Motion to 5.5 and Compressor to 4.5. A few new features for FCP, but all will now run on Apple silicon! We list ALL the new features.

No surprise here as Apple said in its event on Monday that Thursday was going to be Big Sur day. It's out, should you upgrade?

Well, we were not disappointed as today Apple announced the first Apple Silicon Macs. We also got a release date for the new MacOS Big Sur.

We are two weeks away from the FCPX Global Virtual Summit. On the Thursday, all Apple presentations will be streamed live from Apple Park.

Apple has announced a special event next Tuesday entitled 'One More Thing'. Will we see a range of new silicon Macs? Will we see a new version of Final Cut Pro X?

We have just had an email from FMC with an update including the announcement of the first speakers for the online conference. This year's FCPX Global Virtual Summit looks like it will again have a high quality set of sessions during the week.

It's update time for the Pro Apps today. No new features, just bug fixes for all three and a few tweaks to iMovie.

These are challenging times, so it comes as no surprise that Future Media Conferences has moved the entire FCPX Creative Summit online this year. The new FCPX Global Virtual Summit will now be online in November.

Disaster has struck. After 8 years of hard use, my faithful original retina screen 15 inch MacBook Pro decided it had had enough. What will replace it? 

Today Apple has released an update to Final Cut Pro X to 10.4.9. It brings new proxies, proxy relinking, media management and more. Also an update to Motion gives the ability to import 3D models- Wow!

Oliver Peters puts the new 27 inch iMac through its paces. How does it compare to an iMac Pro and what was the benchmark test that it scored better on?

What is inside the new 2020 refreshed 27 inch iMac? We know the RAM can be upgraded, but what about the other components?

Hot on the heels of the iPhone shot The Princess Bride, Apple has entered the non-landscape video publishing market with 'The Stunt Double' a vertical video from Academy Award® winning director Damien Chazelle. Well worth a watch. Vertically of course.

In Live Show 13 we talked  about WWDC and what that means for the Pro Apps (including Final Cut Pro X) running on the new Arm-based processors. We have seen there's a new FCPX, Motion and Compressor coming - what else do we know? Don't miss Jace Sparks talk about future API's for FCPX!

Where were you this time last year? We were waiting to go into WWDC to see the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR for the first time. This year? Nobody is attending, but we do have the Keynote livestream. Will we see the beginning of the transition from Intel to Arm-based processors?

Whilst we were perusing the specs for a new MacBook Pro, we noticed that there is now a more powerful graphics card option. There's also a new customer SSD upgrade kit for the Mac Pro.

We have 10 free passes to Post Production World Online that we are going to giveaway in a sweepstake. Will you be one of the lucky 10 to win a pass to all sessions that's worth $299?

For two days, there are free sessions running at Post Production World Online that are dedicated to the Apple ecosystem for filmmakers. To watch, all you have to do is register!

Aimed at those who might have more time on their hands and want to learn new skills, or editors who need to work from home, Apple has extended the free trial period for Final Cut Pro X and made a free trial for Logic Pro X.

The Banker is a film staring Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Nia Long, and Nicholas Hoult. In theatres now and available on AppleTV+ shortly, it was shot on film and edited in Final Cut Pro X. Oliver Peters talks to the producer and editor, Joel Viertel.

At about this time in the year, we start to look forward to the NAB show in Las Vegas. It's slightly different this year. With the threat of being exposed to coronavirus, AJA is the first big company to say they are not attending.

Today Apple has announced that the 15 inch MacBook Pro range has been replaced by the new 16 inch MacBook Pro. It gets a bigger screen, new keyboard, new sound system, better GPU and larger storage capacity. We take if for an early test drive with some 8K 60FPS ProRes RAW footage in HDR in FCPX!

We are looking forward to the release of the new Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR. We now know more about the release date and have more information on both.

I'm sat at the airport waiting for a plane out of San Francisco, so this gives me time to reflect on the 2019 FCPX Creative Summit. What was it like and was it worth it?

We welcome Oliver Peters to FCP.co and his first post is a cracker! Oliver interviews Steve Bayes, who up until last year was the Final Cut Pro X product manager. They talk about the FCPX development process, squashing bugs, the now infamous launch, why ProRes was needed and of course the future of video production. A rare opportunity to get some historical background information about FCPX - Essential reading!

We have a great show this week, not only do we have Steve Martin, Jeff Greenberg and Chris Fenwick on the show to talk about the 2019 Creative Summit, we also have a ticket to give away as well. You must tune in!

In this article, Sam Mestman looks at each Apple product that can shoot or edit, indicates its place for filmmaking and also tells us which models he recommends. If you re thinking of buying a new Mac, iPad or iPhone, this is for you!

We are very pleased to welcome Steve Bayes to FCP.co as a regular contributor. Steve up until a year ago was the product manager for Final Cut Pro X, so although he can't talk about future FCPX plans, we look forward to him sharing his 30 years of post production wisdom with us.

Brad Olsen, the producer of the FCPX film 'Off the Tracks' has announced that an abridged version will be available on YouTube at 8PM tonight (BST) Midday PDT. We have embedded the video so that it's ready to watch!

Well, you can't knock Apple at the moment when it comes to upgrading the hardware. Hot on the heels of the 8 core MacBook Pro is an update to the MacBook Air and 13 inch entry level MacBook Pro.

Want to know the latest news about the FCPX Creative Summit? Felipe Baez hosted three guests live on YouTube to talk about what we know and what we might see at the Summit. (Especially from Apple!)

We are very pleased to announce that FCP.co will be reporting from WWDC in San Jose next week. In fact we will be at the Keynote presentation and the State of the Union presentation. We can’t wait!

Apple today announced speed bumps to the 15" and 13" Touch Bar MacBook Pro models, including an 8 core model for the first time. The keyboards get an update as well, but the prices for the models remain the same. They have also announced extra repair cover for existing models with butterfly keyboard mechanisms.

We are back from NAB, we have got over the jet lag, so time to delve back into our photos and notes and round up our thoughts about NAB from day two onwards.

We publish the first in a set of videos from the Faster Together stage at NAB 2019. We start with an inspirational presentation from Michael Cioni, Senior VP of Innovation at Panavision. He takes a long hard look into the future.

An odd combination, but one when you read the article below, all will become clear. We post the pictures from the first Faster Together event in Las Vegas and post a free Final Cut Pro X plugin that was used for the quick-turnaround edits on the night.

Not an update to the Pro Apps, but great news from six third-party companies who have announced that their products will support ProRes RAW. A year on, the video format is gaining traction!

Today Apple has updated Final Cut Pro X to 10.4.6, Motion to 5.4.3 and Compressor to 4.4.4. Apart from converting incompatible media formats, this looks like a big set of bug fixes. iMovie gets an update too!

The first day of Spring, but time to cast your mind back to January. The LACPUG had a special night where Apple and Frame.io presented the new features of 10.4.4 to the audience. The video of the presentation has just gone live!

As NAB draws near, the announcements start. Three of the speakers who will present on stage at the Faster Together event have just been announced. It is going to be well worth attending!

At the recent LACPUG meeting, one of the guests on stage was tech reviewer and vlogger Jonathan Morrison. A big FCPX fan, watch how he discovered how fast it was to edit when compared to a colleague's NLE.

Were you sad to hear the usual annual meetup wasn't going to happen at NAB 2019? We can break the news that LumaForge has just announced that a replacement Tuesday night event will be held - an expansion of previous year's Faster Together presentations.

Possibly one of our shortest ever articles, today Apple updated Compressor to version 4.4.3. Just one thing added, support for ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ

A busy few days for everybody! Apple's video Pro Apps all get an update and the fourth FCPX Creative Summit takes place. We have corralled the videos from the past week with multiple languages and multiple opinions on the update!

MacOS Mojave was released on Monday and one of its lesser publicised features is easier external GPU support. Michael P Schmidt burnt the midnight oil testing out an eGPU with Final Cut Pro X. Prepare for a performance boost!

On June the 4th at WWDC this year, Apple gave us a glimpse of their new Mac operating system, 10.14 or Mojave. It has been released today, you can download and install it now.

We have been to the previous three and can tell you first hand, if you are interested in Final Cut Pro X, this isthe event of the year to attend.

Two new exciting hardware releases, Apple announce 2018 MacBook Pros with speed bumps & 32GB of RAM and Blackmagic release an accompanying eGPU to accelerate professional software. 

It's quite simple. Stop what you are doing, make a large coffee and watch these two videos. Never before has Randy Ubillos, the creator of the original Final Cut Pro and FCPX, gone into so much detail about the history of NLE software development. We publish the two part recording of Randy's chat with Michael Horton at the recent LACPUG 18th birthday anniversary meeting.

If you are anywhere near Los Angeles next week, then you must attend the 18th anniversary of the LACPUG. FCP & Premiere creator Randy Ubillos and original FCP team member Tim Serda will be interviewed by Michael Horton. Bradley Olsen will present the debut of 'Off the Tracks' the crowdfunded documentary about FCPX. There's a coupon code as well!

Apple gave us a 7th birthday present with a minor Final Cut Pro X update. 10.4.3 is mainly a bug fix including a correction for the 25 FPS MXF problem.

Where were you seven years ago today? We were huddled over a laptop scratching our heads looking at Final Cut Pro 10.0. Things have changed a lot since then and now we have a stable, mature NLE that competitors are having to copy.

We now know the name of the new macOS that should be released later this year. At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in San Jose California, macOS Mojave was introduced and its got a great 'dark mode' that will work well with the Pro Apps.

Apple has announced that updates of Final Cut Pro X to 10.4.1, Motion to 5.4.1 andCompressor to 4.4.1 will be available as free upgrades on Monday April 9th 2018.

Two big new features for FCPX are Closed Captions and the ability to use the new ProRes RAW codecs.

Apple also announced that 2017 was FCPX's best year with over 500,000 new seats being sold, bringing the total tally of seats sold to over 2.5 million since launch.

Do you remember Apple's 10.4 presentation from the LACPUG? Afterwards three of the filmmakers from the Apple Short Film Project got to present and talk about their entry. Sam Mestman takes a look behind the scenes of the productions with the finished films and recorded presentations from that night.

Are you going to NAB this year? If so, you will need to read this message from Sam Mestman who details exactly what is happening regarding Final Cut Pro X on and off the show floor. (And also tell you where the party will be happening!)

It has been a few weeks since the event, but we are very pleased to be able to publish the full FCPX & Motion presentation that Apple gave at the LACPUG meeting in Los Angeles on January 14th.

Apple has made a big point of mentioning their continuing support of the ‘Pro User’ over the last six months. We understand, but the best way they will target new pro users is by officially attending the two big trade shows of the year.

The updates we have been waiting for are finally here. We take a look a the new features of Final Cut Pro X, Motion and Compressor and put the software through some tests. We publish information on the new features, the test results, the recommendations and the gotchas.