Apple Updates Final Cut Pro, Compressor and Motion (June 2024)

This week, Apple released updates for Final Cut Pro (Mac & iPad), Compressor and Motion. Not all these features will work on Intel Macs. Here are all the details.

BIG NOTE: For the first time, Final Cut (Mac) will not support DVD burning. If this feature is important to you, read this article.

APPLE FINAL CUT PRO (MAC) – Version 10.8

Released June 20, 2024, Final Cut Pro 10.8 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Automatically improve the color, color balance, contrast, and brightness of video or still images using the new
• Enhance Light and Color effect, powered by machine learning.
• Enable Smooth Slo-Mo to create amazing slow-motion visuals with an AI-enhanced algorithm on Mac models with Apple silicon.
• Stay organized by renaming color corrections and video effects in the inspector.
• Drag effects right from the inspector to other clips in the timeline or viewer.
• Use new filters in the timeline index to quickly identify clips with audio effects, video effects, retiming changes, missing media, or missing effects.
• Search in the timeline index by reel, scene, camera angle, camera name, custom metadata, or effect name.
• Search in the timeline index for user-created roles.
• Search for clips in the browser using new “Starts With” and “Ends With” search criteria.
• Enable or disable timeline scrolling using a new toolbar button.
• Improves timeline scrolling behavior during reverse playback.

– IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES –

• Fixes an issue where captions would sometimes flicker when timeline scrolling is enabled.
• Fixes an issue where browser items would be appear to be renamed when naming a folder.
• Fixes an issue that caused disabling the audio roles of a clip to make the video roles appear disabled.
• Accurately tone-maps HDR video content in 360° view for 360° projects.
• Fixes an issue that could cause ProRes RAW clips to be displayed incorrectly in the viewer on Intel-based Mac models.
• Fixes an issue that caused a freeze frame from a log-encoded clip to appear too bright in an HLG timeline.
• Fixes an issue that caused a disabled Color Board effect to be incorrectly enabled after exporting and reimporting an FCPXML of the timeline.
• Fixes an issue that caused the Space Designer audio effect to show presets as missing.
• Fixes an issue that could cause Final Cut Pro to stop responding when rendering with another app active.
• Fixes an issue that caused switching between the angle viewer and the video scopes to change the angle viewer selection back to “Enable video and audio switching.”
• Fixes an issue that caused Final Cut Pro to stop responding when both a folder and an enclosed item were selected in the browser.
• Adds support for sharing 8K ProRes MXF files.
• Improves support for Canon C2 AVC media.
• Adds support for Canon XF-AVC 1920×1080 59.94i/50i H.264 25Mbps.
• Removes support for disc burning.
• Updates FCPXML to version 1.12.

Release Notes link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102825

FINAL CUT PRO (iPad) – Version 2.0

Released June 20, 2024, Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.0 includes the following features and enhancements:

• Connect to Final Cut Camera on iPhone or iPad to record up to four camera angles at once using Live Multicam.
• Easily create and edit projects on a connected external storage device.
• Dial in your exposure with shutter speed and ISO controls in pro camera mode.
• Enable focus peaking to ensure your footage is sharp while recording.
• Polish your videos with 12 new color grading presets, 6 dynamic glitch backgrounds, 20 soundtracks, 8 basic text titles, and more.

–  IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES –

• Clip duration in the inspector now appears as timecode.
• Fixes an issue that prevented deleting gap clips in Position mode.
• Fixes an issue that caused Zoom to Fit to stop working when the timeline position was changed.
• Improves playback performance when editing with the Magic Keyboard.
• Fixes an issue that caused the disabled skimmer to become active after a browser clip was dragged into the timeline with a trackpad or Apple Pencil.
• Fixes an issue that caused filmstrip thumbnails to be drawn at incorrect intervals.
• Fixes an issue that caused the volume offset value to remain at 0 when adjusting the volume of multiple clips.
• Improves reliability when importing media into a project.
• Improves reliability when a voiceover recording is interrupted by certain calls and timers.
• Fixes an issue that caused disabling all multicam audio components to show a missing media state.
• Fixes an issue that caused angle name changes made in the angle editor to not appear in the timeline or inspector.
• Fixes an issue that caused the inspector to not update to the active multicam audio component.
• Fixes an issue that caused audio configuration changes made in the angle editor to not appear accurately in the timeline.
• Improves the reliability of Live Drawing in a portrait timeline.
• Fixes an issue that caused adding a clip to the timeline using keyboard shortcuts to sometimes add objects from the content browser as well.
• Fixes an issue that sometimes caused the viewer to dim when Final Cut Pro was reopened.
• Fixes an issue that caused timeline clip thumbnails to not be updated immediately after media was reconnected or missing content was redownloaded.
• Fixes an issue that caused retime video quality settings to be omitted when copying and pasting format settings.
• Includes stability and performance improvements.

Release Notes link: https://support.apple.com/en-is/102731

APPLE COMPRESSOR – Version 4.8

Released June 20, 2024, Compressor 4.8 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Compressor 4.8 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
• Preview left or right eye angles of spatial video shot on Apple Vision Pro, iPhone 15 Pro, or iPhone 15 Pro Max
• Create video or image sequences from the left or right eye of spatial video for stereoscopic workflows in other applications.

–  IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES –

• Fixes an issue where “This Computer” could not be deselected when setting up a group of shared computers to process Compressor batches.
• Fixes an issue where modifying the audio of a video clip shot in portrait mode would cause the image to rotate 90 degrees.
• Adds support for Canon XF-AVC 1920×1080 59.94i/50i H.264 25Mbps.

Release Notes link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102745

APPLE MOTION – Version 5.8

Released June 20, 2024, Motion 5.8 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Automatically improve the color, color balance, contrast, and brightness of video or still images using the new Enhance Light and Color filter, powered by machine learning.

–  IMPROVEMENTS & FIXES –

• Improves stability when exporting a movie with an applied Analyze Motion behavior.
• Improves stability when switching between the Filters and Properties Inspectors in a project with an applied Color Curves filter.
• Improves stability when analyzing in reverse using Point mode tracking in the Analyze Motion behavior.
• Fixes an issue in which Motion may become unresponsive when using a third-party FxPlug plug-in.
• Fixes an issue in which a Keyer filter may render incorrectly when Color Processing is set to Automatic in the Project Properties Inspector.
• Improves stability when creating a particle emitter or replicator from the Media list in a 360° project.

Release Notes link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102746

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