Apple excited many of its more hardcore fans earlier this year with the announcement of a new Mac Pro workstation. The new machine, which starts at $3,000, is being positioned as the work machine video professionals will use to edit 4K video. In anticipation of that, Apple has gone ahead and released a meaty update for its Final Cut Pro software.
In today’s stealthy Final Cut Pro update, Apple has added over 30 new features and improvements to the software. While the main focus is on its newfound support for 4K video, the new Final Cut Pro also adds a number of new multitasking features that take advantage of the new Mac Pro’s specs.
Here’s the full list of additions:
Optimized playback and rendering using dual GPUs in the new Mac Pro
Video monitoring up to 4K via Thunderbolt 2 and HDMI on select Mac computers
4K content including titles, transitions, and generators
Libraries allow you to gather multiple events and projects within a single bundle
Easily open and close individual libraries to load just the material you need
Option to import media to locations inside or outside a library
Automatically back up libraries to a user-specified drive or network location
Project Snapshots let you quickly capture the project state for fast versioning
Audio fade handles on individual audio channels in the timeline
Add precise retime speeds by entering them numerically in the timeline
Non-rippling retime option
One-step Replace and Retime
Custom project frame sizes
Through edits displayed on all clip types
Join Through Edit command removes bladed cuts to clips in the timeline
Detach audio from Multicam Clips in the timeline to manipulate audio and video separately
Make video or audio-only edits into the timeline with Multicam Clips as sources
Blade and move audio in J- and L-cuts
Roll audio with J- and L-cut splits open
Option to hide the Browser to gain more screen space for viewing
Native support for .MTS and .MT2S files from AVCHD cameras
Used media indicators on source clips
Improved performance with large projects
Improved performance when modifying or adding keywords to many clips at once
Easily move, copy, and paste multiple keyframes
Option for linear animation with Ken Burns effect
Improved image stabilization with InertiaCam and Tripod mode
Import photos from iOS devices
Proxy and playback quality controls accessible in Viewer menu
Support for portrait/landscape metadata in still images
Effects parameters, fonts, and text size included in XML metadata
Improved support for growing media and edit while ingest
FxPlug 3 with custom plug-in interfaces and dual-GPU support
API for custom Share operations using third-party software
Share directly to YouTube at 4K resolution
Share directly to Chinese video sites Youku and Tudou
Spanish language localization
The update to Final Cut Pro is available now to those who already own the software. If you don’t yet own it, you can grab it today for $299.99.
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