r/finalcutpro

I'm thinking about biting the bullet and getting the Creator Studio because as a retired teacher, the $13/month seems a bit more palatable to my pension. ;)

Questions for those who have used FCP for any given amount of time:

1. What do you wish you knew before using FCP?
2. What is the one feature that FCP has that makes you love FCP more and more?

Thank you. I appreciate your enabling for me to subscribe! LOL

Adobe has been driving me nut with constantly price hiking Creative Cloud. Even with a student discount, I was paying upwards of $40 a month. The move is a no brainer. Any tips while I adjust to the growing pains/transition? I've been an avid After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro user for about 10 years

I have audio and video skimming turned on. Every time I use B to make a cut, skimming stops working. I turning skimming off/on, clicking elsewhere to change focus, and a bunch of other things but the only thing that work every time is to quit/start FCP again.

Has anyone seen this? Maybe there is a faster work around?

Hey guys, been looking at my Import preferences in FCP and wanted to sanity check what I've got enabled versus what's actually useful in practice. Screenshot of my current settings attached.

Right now I've got Visual Search off, Balance color, Find people, and all the Analyze Audio options (fix audio problems, separate mono/group stereo, remove silent channels, transcribe) off too. Transcode is also off, no optimized or proxy media on import.

https://preview.redd.it/5mvosbl47bkh1.png?width=1108&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4212a98caceb5ad9c0427cbc9457b4f3354a158

Curious what everyone's actual workflow looks like here, what do you always leave on, what do you skip, and why? Trying to figure out what's actually worth the processing time on import versus what just eats up background task time for little benefit.

Thanks!

Where is the loop playback function? On Davinci Resolve theres just a loop button and it will continuously playback a clip while you color grade it. How does final cut not have that basic feature? I've been looking everywhere and have found solutions like press X and then command L but that just loops the entire timeline. And then theres command L plus forward slash but is that the only way to do it?? What am i missing here?

Here is the scenario

I drop a 1 Minute Video on the timeline.

I drop a 3 minute audio below it. This is the main audio clip that will. Stay.

Now i want 5 seconds from the Video clip somewhere from the middle.

I delete the starting portion of the video.

And ....

The audio also gets deleted...why because the connection point at the start...

I mean why .....

Now to keep the audio and the 5 seconds video is a task in itself. Any software... literally doesn't make it that hard ....

And they all also have magnetic timeline so please don't point out the magnetic timeline.

I am paying Apple subscription for 3 months. Still using Capcut. I am so disappointed that Apple has made FCP unusable for intermediate creators.

I want to start with an empty table and gradually stack it up with computer parts as I name them. I have no idea how to go about this and I can't find anything on YouTube, working with AI bot at the minute but does anyone know where I could learn this or have a YouTube video I could watch? I actually what to drop them in with a sound effect also.

Hi guys,

Ran into this migrating a project from Resolve to FCP. The raw Canon C70 footage is 4096x2160, and I'd defaulted my Resolve proxy export to a generic 1920x1080. When I tried to relink the proxies to the originals in FCP, it flat out refused with "video aspect ratios don't match," even though resolution, frame rate, and audio config were otherwise fine.

Turns out 4096x2160 is a 1.896:1 ratio, and 1920x1080 is 16:9 (1.778:1),close, but not identical, and that was enough for FCP to reject the relink entirely, 0 of 274 files matched.

Is FCP really this strict across the board, or is there something I'm missing? Feels like a pretty small ratio difference to hard-block a relink over, especially since a proxy is just a lighter working file.

Next time, either myself or the DIT should render the proxies proportionally to the source aspect ratio (e.g. 2048x1080 to keep 1.896:1, rather than defaulting to a fixed 1920x1080 16:9 preset) if cutting in Final Cut, because right now I find myself only able to work with the raws. Again, this is a test project, so it's not the end of the world, but it's annoying, curious if there's a way to force a relink through when the mismatch already exists.

Thanks

Wanting to learn editing. I have a MacBook Pro M3 and want to know what software is easier to learn? And where can I learn the easiest way? Videos? Books?

Is there a a plug in that exists?

I have a bunch of transitions, overlays, film grain etc.

Is there a way to have that within FCP? Instead of having to dig thru finder every time.

I have SFX that I can import into the sfx library. Is there such thing for videos?

Thanks.

Anyone ever figure out how to have captions appear in a composition clear while previewing/scrubbing in the browser? I'm editing an interview in a different language and trying to favorite moments of the interview in the browser, and I've already uploaded the English captions to the composition clip but they are not appearing in the browser. Any ideas? For now I'm just doing a workaround involving exporting burn-in captions and temporarily overlaying that video on the original video in the composition. Pain in the butt.

Hi Guys,

Could someone explain in simple terms what a Project, Event and Library are in Final Cut Pro? Ideally with an example. I’ve been using FCP on and off for the past three years but I’ve used it haphazardly, clicking here and there without understanding how it’s meant to work. I’d like to learn the difference between a Project, Library and Event and what each does. Could someone please explain this with an example? Thanks.

Hi all, as the title says I am a newbie and I am willing to learn from you whatever tips and tricks, or plugins or external apps whatsoever that can help me improve my skills in Final Cut.

I already installed the motionvfx plugin as well as some luts and various free assets from some websites but any help from more experienced users is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance 🤞🏻

I make social media videos for audiences in different countries, so I keep bouncing between Resolve, Final Cut, Premiere and CapCut.

Honestly, I want to stay in Final Cut most of the time. It runs great on my Mac, the Magnetic Timeline is fast once you get used to it, and the whole Creator Studio setup with Motion, Compressor and Pixelmator Pro can be ridiculously convenient.

But some really basic gaps keep pushing me into other apps. Generate Captions is still US English only. If I’m editing Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish or basically anything else, I have to leave Final Cut before I can even start styling the subtitles. For software aimed at creators, that still feels pretty strange.

The same goes for people on camera. I’m not looking for crazy face filters, but sometimes a client or presenter just wants a little skin smoothing. Final Cut can detect skin now, but there still isn’t a simple built-in retouch tool. It’s either another plugin or another round trip.

Social versions also take more work than they should. Smart Conform helps, but making 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 versions with different subtitle layouts, safe areas and graphics still feels much slower than CapCut. Libraries and render files also get huge unless I keep babysitting them, and handing a project to someone using Premiere or Resolve is never especially pleasant.

I know 12.3 just came out, and I like the direction Apple is taking. I just wish one update would focus on the boring everyday creator stuff instead of adding another impressive feature.

Am I missing a better workflow, or does everyone else still bounce between three or four editing apps too?

Hey r/finalcutpro regulars,

I'm buying an M5 MBA (24 ~ 1TB) in a few days. I also recently bought a Samsung T7 SSD "on-sale" from Amazon, I know I could've gotten a better price around the holidays but I can't wait that long as I'm planning to start video editing once I get my MBA.

I wanted to ask is 1TB enough to work with when editing 1080p/4k videos on FCP? I hope down the line I can snag a 2TB SSD for a "good price" down the line as we're in the RAMmageddon era.

Hi, im doing attempting to add a very gradual 10 sec long fade to black to my clip, and then a very gradual 10 sec fade from black to my clip transition using keyframes (starting at 0% ->100% opacity, and then vice versa). The issue I am having is that the fade to black is very gradual and is working as intended, however the fade from black happens super quick, despite it still being 10 seconds. Like, it goes from black to fully lit in ~2 seconds, despite there being a ~10 sec gap on the opacity keyframes. I cannot figure out cross disolve for the life of me and not sure if that is the better fade to black transition to use here. Does anyone an ideal workflow for this?

i was so looking forward to purchase the bundle and now finding out that i need to pay monthly for that bundle instead of owning it. genuinely so upset.
i hate how everything is based on subscriptions instead of owning. i totally missed my chance here.

is it possible to get a second hand bundle from someone who has already bought it?

Hey guys, I just wondering if is it OK or safe to save all my FCP files on cloud particularly OneDrive?