Final Cut Pro

Completely redesigned from the ground up, Final Cut Pro adds extraordinary speed, quality, and flexibility to every part of the post-production workflow.

Revolutionary Video Editing

• Assemble clips in the Magnetic Timeline without clip collisions or sync problems
• Use Clip Connections to attach B-roll, sound effects, and music to the timeline
• Reduce clutter by grouping clips into a Compound Clip. Easily expand it back to single clips
• Perfect your pacing right in the timeline with the Inline Precision Editor
• Cycle through different shots, graphics, or effects at one place in the timeline with Auditions
• Edit multi-camera projects with automatic sync and support for up to 64 camera angles

Powerful Media Organization

• Work with a broad range of formats including native AVCHD, H.264 from DSLRs, and more
• Content Auto-Analysis captures camera metadata and analyzes shots in the background
• Choose analysis options for stabilization, rolling shutter correction, and audio enhancement
• Create and apply custom keywords on the fly as you select ranges in clips
• Smart Collections let you dynamically organize content and find any shot in a few clicks

Incredible Performance

• New 64-bit architecture uses all the RAM in your system for larger projects and richer effects
• Final Cut Pro taps the GPU on the graphics card and all the cores in your Mac for speed
• Background processing lets you keep working without interruption
• A ColorSync-managed color pipeline produces accurate, consistent color across applications
• Broadcast monitoring lets you route video and audio through third-party PCIe and Thunderbolt I/O devices

Compelling, Customizable Effects

• Preview effects to see how they look with your footage before applying them
• Change the look of titles, transitions, and effects using intuitive controls
• Control effects with precision using a keyframe editor that appears directly in the timeline
• Adjust the Ken Burns effect with simple onscreen arrows for start and end points

Integrated Audio Editing

• Let Final Cut Pro repair significant audio problems such as hum, excessive noise, and more
• Sync DSLR video with separate audio in a single step, with instant audio waveform matching
• Enrich your soundtrack with a library of royalty-free sound effects and audio effect plug-ins
• Create immersive audio experiences in 5.1 surround

Intuitive Color Grading

• Improve the look of any clip with the single-click Balance Color feature
• Apply the Match Color feature to match the looks of two clips shot under different conditions
• Manipulate color, saturation, and exposure with the Color Board
• Fine tune color for a specific color range or area of the screen using keying and masks

One-Step, Optimized Output

• Deliver projects for playback on Apple devices and websites such as Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook
• Use themed menus to quickly author and burn a DVD or Blu-ray disc
• Export customized audio and video stems using Roles metadata
• Import and export XML to support third-party workflows

System Requirements: 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended), OpenCL-capable graphics card or Intel HD Graphics 3000 or later, 256MB of VRAM (512MB of VRAM recommended), display with 1280-by-768 resolution or higher, 2.4GB of disk space. Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.8 or OS X Lion v10.7.2 or later. Broadcast monitoring is available in beta and requires OS X 10.7.2 or later and compatible third-party device.

Some features require Internet access; additional fees may apply. Blu-ray recorder required for burning Blu-ray discs.