Apple Updates Final Cut Pro, Motion & Compressor
This morning, Oct. 25, Apple updated Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor. Here are the details.
FINAL CUT PRO
Version 10.6.5
- Supports faster exporting of H.264 or HEVC on Macs with Apple silicon.
- Increases stability when disconnecting a Sidecar display on Intel Mac computers.
- Improves performance when editing on a Mac with an ambient light sensor.
- Fixes an issue where adding images from the Photos browser to a new project may cause additional media to be appended before the last clip.
Release Notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201237
MOTION
Version 5.6.3
- Includes stability and performance improvements.
- Addresses an issue in the Save As panel, where the Save and
- Cancel buttons were unreadable in certain languages.
Release Notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202203
COMPRESSOR
Version 4.6.3
- Adds file support for HEVC 8-bit 4:2:2 encoding.
- Adds support for multi-pass HEVC 4:2:2 encoding. (Requires macOS Ventura – 13.x)
- Changes the default HEVC encoder type to Faster.
- Adds support for previewing the transparency of an HDR video. (Requires macOS Ventura – 13.x)
- Fixes an issue where you may be unable to submit a batch when certain directories don’t have read/write permission.
Release Notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202204
SUMMARY
4:2:2 codecs provide more color information than 4:2:0, which was the standard for both H.264 and HEVC. Defaulting Compressor to “Faster” means that the compression default uses hardware acceleration.
All these fixes are good news, however, it would be even better to see features added from the long list of Final Cut requests.
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3 Responses to Apple Updates Final Cut Pro, Motion & Compressor
Apple seems to be more interested in new features rather than fixing the broken ones along the way such as producing Blu-ray disks that won’t play on standard stand-alone players such as Sony and Panasonic. What a rotten apple spoiling the bushel.
Richard:
Apple’s support – such as it is – for Blu-ray Disc has been a thorn in our side for many, many years. I do not have any hope that Apple will make it better.
Larry
I just don’t understand Apple’s development culture. New features are important, but stability, reliability, and cleaning up bug fixes are more important to consider FinalCut Pro a truly professional editing platform. And that Blu-Ray issue completely baffles me! Blu-Ray is now so standard in video creation and distribution that there is absolutely no excuse for not implementing it into Apple’s ecosystem.
And the pace of added features development in FCP is another issue!!!