UPDATED: Apple Releases Bug Fixes for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Larry

[ UPDATE Aug. 2, 2023. This morning, Apple released Final Cut Pro 10.6.8, which fixes an issue where video can freeze in the Viewer. This addresses the problems expressed in the comments with v. 10.6.7. My recommendation is that if you have upgraded to 10.6.7, upgrade to 10.6.8 immediately. If you haven’t upgraded yet, wait a day or two to make sure this update doesn’t have problems, then upgrade.]

[ UPDATE July 24, 2023: Based upon user feedback, which you’ll read in the Comments below, the update for Final Cut seems to have significant playback issues. I’ve reached out to Apple to learn more and will update this article if they respond. In the meantime, I recommend waiting before upgrading – if you haven’t upgraded already.]

Apple this week released bug-fix versions of their pro video applications. From Apple’s “Release Notes,” here’s what’s new.

NOTE: Apple states: “Before installing a Final Cut Pro update, verify that your system still meets Final Cut Pro system requirements. Then make sure to back up your current version of the Final Cut Pro application and your Final Cut Pro libraries.”

FINAL CUT PRO (v 10.6.8)

Fixes an issue where video can freeze in the Viewer.

FINAL CUT PRO (v 10.6.7)

Final Cut Pro 10.6.7 includes the following bug fixes:

Addresses an issue where audio effects would not be reset during playback.
Fixes an issue where an Audio Units effect could have incorrect values when importing using FCPXML.
Improves waveform redrawing on expanded audio components when adjusting volume with the Touch Bar.
Resolves an issue where the Voice Isolation Amount slider would snap to 0% when trying to set a value less than 7%.
Improves reliability when retiming a clip with the Scene Removal Mask applied.
Fixes an issue where the Control Range setting in the Color Adjustments effect would be incorrectly set to SDR when importing using FCPXML.

NOTES

MOTION (v 5.6.5)

Motion 5.6.5 includes the following bug fixes:

Improves stability with FxPlug 4 plug-ins.
Improves stability when dragging a group that contains an FxPlug plug-in to the Favorites folder.
Improves performance when using the Sequence Text behavior with Anchor Point set to Line (in the Layout pane of the Text Inspector).

NOTES

COMPRESSOR (v 4.6.5)

Compressor 4.6.5 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Changed the Settings and Locations sidebar to now be resizable when the Inspector is open.
Improves reliability when processing 4:2:2-based H.264 media on Mac computers with Apple silicon.
Addresses an issue where the color space of a Photo-JPEG source was incorrect when Color space was set to Automatic.
Fixes an issue where an exported IMF supplemental package was one frame shorter than the original package.

NOTES

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23 Responses to UPDATED: Apple Releases Bug Fixes for Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor

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Gregory Wendt says:

July 31, 2023 at 7:41 am

Hi Larry, the biggest problem is that the viewer freezes after every five or 10 minutes of editing and one thing that has worked is closing the event, opening another event, clicking on a clip and getting it to play and then coming back to the event I want to work on and this sometimes works and sometimes does not. restarting final cut seems to work each time, but it is rather annoying.

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- Larry says:
  
  July 31, 2023 at 7:43 am
  
  Gregory:
  
  Thanks for your comment. Hopefully others can use this workaround until Apple fixes FCP.
  
  larry
  
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Alan Olmstead says:

July 31, 2023 at 9:50 am

I recently upgraded my OS from Big Sur to Ventura so that I might be able to upgrade FCP beyond 10.6.1 but now I’m sitting on my hands. Is it possible to still access an incremental FCP upgrade? (10.6.5 or whatever might be the most stable earlier version?).

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- Larry says:
  
  July 31, 2023 at 9:55 am
  
  Alan:
  
  Not online. But you may be able to do that in an Apple Store.
  
  Larry
  
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Bruce Hamilton says:

July 31, 2023 at 10:31 am

I always make a backup copy of the current FCP app and add the version number before upgrading. This way I can copy it back if the upgrade has issues.

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- Larry says:
  
  July 31, 2023 at 11:09 am
  
  Bruce:
  
  This is a brilliant idea and one I need to emulate.
  
  larry
  
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Harry Tremp says:

August 7, 2023 at 9:35 pm

I tested FCP 10.6.8 yesterday. Unfortunatly with Tracking Callouts and some other Plugins from FX Factory still exists. I reinstalled Tracking Callouts but still – no luck.
So i went back to 10.6.5 Version of FCP, which works flawless.

I addressed this again yesterday to Gabe from FX Factory Support who responded:
Unfortunately I can only confirm what you already discovered. Although Apple rushed the 10.6.8 update to fix some other glaring regressions, they left this problem out. We voiced our disappointment, especially in light of the fact that the issue you ran into is – by now – widely known to users and developers, and has been extensively discussed days before they released 10.6.8.

While Apple does not disclose their plans with the public, I assume that the amount of pressure we have placed on them is sufficient enough to warrant another emergency update. I do not know how long it will take, but we are waiting on that update to address the problem for all users. We hope Apple has learned from the experience and will avoid the same disruption in the future.

—
Gabe
support@fxfactory.com

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- Larry says:
  
  August 8, 2023 at 4:27 am
  
  Harry:
  
  Thanks for reporting this. It is enormously frustrating that Apple’s quality control has slipped this badly on two successful releases. We expect better.
  
  Larry
  
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