Apple Updates Final Cut Pro, Motion & Compressor

Here are the latest updates to Apple’s video applications, taken from Apple’s Release Notes for each product.

FINAL CUT PRO – version 10.6.2

Release notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201237

New Features

• Quickly locate media that appears more than once in a project using highlighted clip ranges or the Timeline Index.
• Improve the clarity of speech by adjusting the level of background noise using machine learning (Requires macOS Monterey 12.3 or later).
• Optimized playback and graphics performance for M1 Max and M1 Ultra on the new Mac Studio.
• Import Magic Movie and Storyboard projects created with iMovie for iOS version 3.0 into the timeline.
• Adds Korean language support.

Final Cut Pro 10.6.2 also includes these additional fixes and enhancements:

• Attach titles and graphics to existing tracker data in the Tracker Options on-screen-control.
• Choose either pin to tracker or offset from tracker in the Tracker Options on-screen-control.
• Tracking Editor automatically displays in the timeline when performing an object track.
• Items attached to a tracked object can be scaled in X and Y sizes uniformly.
• Improves reliability when using the Object Tracker with clips that don’t match the project’s frame rate.
• Improves reliability when using the Object Tracker in connected storylines.
• Improves reliability when using Send to Compressor with a compound clip that contains Object Tracker data.
• Improves functionality when selecting photos and videos with the Photos browser.
• Improves functionality when dragging photos and videos from the Photos app directly into Final Cut Pro.
• Improves performance when drawing waveforms.
• Improves reliability when playing audio from a clip that is reversed in the timeline.
• Fixes an issue where video scopes would sometimes appear monochrome.
• Improves reliability when removing effects from retimed clips.
• Fixes an issue where opening a compound or multicam clip in a connected storyline would sometimes display an empty timeline.
• Fixes an issue where opening a project after modifying its starting timecode would sometimes display an empty timeline.
• Improves reliability when using the keyboard to navigate to captions attached to a secondary storyline.
• Includes an alpha channel when exporting a PNG file from the timeline.

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MOTION – Version 5.6.1

Release notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202203

New Features

• Use the new Sliced Scale filter to divide an image into slices to prevent distortion when scaling.
• Optimized playback and graphics performance for M1 Max and M1 Ultra on the new Mac Studio.
• Adds Korean language support.

Motion 5.6.1 also includes these additional fixes and enhancements:

• Fixes an issue in which the reconnect media window might be unresponsive.
• Fixes an issue in which sharing media could cause banding.
• Adds a Scale Mode menu to choose a scaling method when using a match move behavior.
• Improves playback and share performance when working with 3D Objects on Mac computers with Apple silicon.

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COMPRESSOR – Version 4.6.1

Release notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202204

New Features

• View a video’s transparency (requires macOS Monterey 12.3 or later), the aspect ratio of an output, and modified source media properties in the preview viewer.
• Rotate and flip video files using new video properties in a setting.
• Optimized transcoding performance for M1 Max and M1 Ultra on the new Mac Studio.
• Adds Korean language support.

Compressor 4.6.1 also includes these fixes and enhancements:

• Adds the ability to drag and drop media from the Photos app.
• Adds the ability to encode files to HEVC 10 Bit 4:2:2 on Mac computers with Apple silicon running macOS Monterey 12.3 or later.
• Fixes an issue where an alias would not trigger a transcode with a Watch Folder.
• Adds an HEVC HTTPS Live Streaming destination with updated resolutions and bit rates.
• Adds a new automatic bit rate preset for HTTPS Live Streaming in the video settings inspector.
• Fixes an issue in which selecting a Final Cut Pro project with a Generator in the batch window may not work as expected.
• Fixes an issue where creating a new job from a selected output may fail.
  Adds a warning when system settings may prevent jobs from being submitted.

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