Final Cut Pro 7. Comprehensive Editing Tools.

The faster the tools, the more time you have to be creative. Final Cut Pro 7 makes it even easier to edit quickly, accurately and flexibly with a range of interface enhancements that make everything from editing and trimming, to sweetening and finishing, more efficient.

Precision editing and trimming

Final Cut Pro 7 provides a full set of industry-leading editing and trimming tools that are incredibly easy to use. Edit in the Timeline or with the innovative Edit Overlay tool.

Choose from a comprehensive set of edits, including Insert, Overwrite, Replace, Fit-to-fill, Superimpose and Swap Edit. Then fine-tune your choices with Ripple, Roll, Slip, Slide, Extend and Shorten, either in the Timeline or in a dedicated Trim window.

You’ll find all the tools that professional editors expect — including three-point editing, JKL keyboard navigation, match frame, multitrack and asymmetric trimming, extend and split edit functions, and more. It’s all there, it’s all frame accurate and it’s all fast.

Using Trim Tools

Ripple, roll, slip, slide and work in the Trim Edit window.

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Real-time multicam editing

Cut multicamera footage as quickly as if you were switching a live show. Simultaneously view and cut from multicamera sources using the intuitive 1-, 4-, 9- or 16-up display. For even more speed and convenience, group up to 128 sources into multiclips, adding and subtracting cameras at any time.

Flexible markers

Final Cut Pro 7 offers flexible new ways to work with markers. You can now colour-code clip and sequence markers and use them to search for or jump directly to important locations. You can add marker notes and metadata while the clip is playing, create a custom name for each marker colour, and control whether markers of a specific colour are visible in the Timeline. A new option allows markers to automatically ripple in the Timeline as you edit. You can even export a tab-delimited Markers list to track marker information in a spreadsheet or a database.

Improved Markers

Colour-code markers, give them custom names and add notes.

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Convenient tabs

You can now colour-code tabs to make them easier to identify, and drag to reorder them. It’s also easy to distinguish Projects from Bins with the new Project icon in the tab header. Because Final Cut Pro allows you to have multiple sequences open at the same time, you can work faster by using the Close Other Tabs shortcut to close all nonactive sequences or Bins with a click. Save even more time by using a host of new keyboard shortcuts for efficient tab navigation.

Fully customisable interface

Final Cut Pro speeds your edit by letting you work the way you want. Easily customise window layouts and Timeline track sizes; customise Browser column order, width and layout; and adjust font size in the Browser and Timeline. Then zoom through your work with customisable access to more than 600 commands. You can create keyboard shortcuts — or add buttons to the user interface — for the commands you use most.

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Customisable Interface and Keyboard

Arrange screen layouts and assign keyboard shortcuts.

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Audio sweetening

Mix and enhance audio directly in Final Cut Pro, with 24 channels of audio input and output in a 99-track timeline, all at up to 24-bit, 96kHz resolution. Freely adjust your mix without altering the original audio files.

You can adjust your levels using the onscreen mixer or ride multiple faders at the same time on any device that supports the Mackie Control protocol. The Normalization Gain feature analyses and automatically raises the level of any clip to its maximum without distortion.

If you want to use audio effects, you can apply the same high-quality Audio Units filters used in Soundtrack Pro — such as Reverb and EQ — to sweeten audio on the spot or for easy round-tripping.

Pristine finishing and frame-accurate output

Final Cut Pro 7 has complete, frame-accurate Edit to Tape and Print to Video tools for creating professional output. High-quality effects processing, including 32-bit floating-point filters, ensure that picture-in-picture effects or effects with fine detail will look crisp and beautiful.

Enhanced media management

Use the Final Cut Pro Media Manager for project-, sequence- or clip-level operations. Quickly and accurately copy, move, and consolidate projects. Search, sort and sift right in the Browser to rapidly find the assets you need for your project. Media reconnecting is lightning fast with new Spotlight integration.