Final Cut Pro X has had its share of ups and downs since its massive rebuild several years prior: Early missing features left loyal editors frustrated, and though the pro apps team has regularly updated the app since, it hadn't seen much love since February of this year. And with longtime pro apps leader Randy Ubillos retiring last year, it left some users concerned about the app's future — myself included. Happily, I am eating some good humble pie tonight. Just look at this 10.3 features video, as cut together by Trim editor Thomas Grove Carter.
He got an early look at the next version of Final Cut Pro, and boy is it a doozy. I put just some of the features he highlighted below, but you really should watch the video. It's enough to make this woefully-out-of-practice video editor want to go outside and make something RIGHT NOW.
Final Cut 10.3's new features include:
- A new interface and color-coded timeline
- Overall timeline refinements
- Continuous playback
- Roles organization
- Per-attribute removal
- Audio lanes, individual role lanes, and subrole lanes
- Roll connected clips
- More keyboard clip selection options
- Copy/paste timecodes from Notes directly into the viewer to jump to the right point
- toggle fade handles
- Focus on parts of the timeline
- Multiple presets for workspaces
- Save custom layouts
- Mixing roles
You can grab the Final Cut update for free right now from the Mac App Store (opens in new tab), as well as updates to Motion (opens in new tab) and Compressor (opens in new tab) that add wide color workflows, 3D text enhancements, and a new dark interface for Compressor.
