Big-resolution cameras shoot in tiny compressed codecs. The antidote is transcoding, turning those heavily compressed clips into formats FCP actually likes. Apple gives you two dials to twist: Optimized and Proxy media.
Which one should you go for: Final Cut Pro vs Premiere Pro? Both are industry-standard tools that will let you edit, trim, cut, and polish your footage to a professional level. Both have their devoted followers, and both will accomplish…
Remember the old days when you tried to do Final Cut Pro tracking only to discover that “tracking” meant “watching your patience dissolve frame by frame”? Maybe you slapped a callout on someone’s head, and it tracked for three seconds…
It's all rainbow and sunshine until you throw the wrong Final Cut Pro codec and watch your timeline crawl like a three‑legged tortoise. So let’s trudge through the riveting topic of what formats FCP accepts, what it merely tolerates, and…
This is the quickest route from “I just bought it” to “why didn’t Apple ship this in the box?” We’ll use MotionVFX’s mExtension as the poster child, but the same logic applies to any modern, self-respecting plugin installer.
While Keyframing in Final Cut Pro sounds intimidating, the reality is that if you can click a diamond and drag a slider, you can animate.
We’ll be taking up five distinct levels of Final Cut Pro color grading. At Level 1, you’ll be faking it just enough to fool casual viewers. By Level 5, you’ll be grading in Rec.2020 HDR and exporting LUTs like someone…
What ties all these complaints together is that they usually can be fixed, provided you know where to look and which levers to pull.
You might be under the impression that once your timeline is complete, you can just casually drag the final clip to your desktop and call it a day, but export in Final Cut Pro is a tad more deliberate than…
The plan is simple on paper: import media, slap it into something coherent, sprinkle titles and sound effects, pretend you’re Spielberg, and export a pristine 4K master.
