Import. Organise. Edit. Add effects. Sweeten. Grade. Deliver.
You’ll find breakthrough features in every part of the workflow.
Incredible Performance
Final Cut Pro has been rebuilt from the ground up to offer unprecedented speed and superior quality through every part of the post-production workflow.
64-bit architecture
No longer restricted to the 4GB limit of 32-bit applications, Final Cut Pro uses all the RAM in your system to handle larger frame sizes and keep more frames in memory. You can now create more extensive projects and work with deeper, more interesting multilayered effects.
GPU utilization
Final Cut Pro uses the high-speed GPU on the graphics card for effects previews and rendering. Because tapping the GPU core speeds up processing, you can work with richer, more complex effects that play in real time during the creative process.
Background processing
As you edit, Final Cut Pro takes advantage of unused cycles in the background to execute a range of tasks, so you can be creative without interruption. Background processing includes rendering, transcoding and moving media.
ColorSync-managed
colour pipeline
Final Cut Pro is designed to use Apple’s ColorSync colour management for display and processing, producing accurate and consistent colour from import through render and export. Colours look the same whether you’re playing back media in Final Cut Pro, Motion or QuickTime.
Shared Render Engine
Final Cut Pro shares a render engine with Motion and Compressor for consistent speed and quality. The shared engine allows Motion templates to play back in Final Cut Pro without rendering. The engine renders in linear-light colour space for exceptionally realistic results.
Ultra-fast data transfer
Final Cut Pro is the perfect match for Thunderbolt I/O technology, which provides two channels on the same connector with 10Gbps of throughput in both directions. This ultra-fast connection means you can use high-resolution displays and high-performance data devices. And Thunderbolt video devices let you send audio and video from Final Cut Pro X to an external
broadcast monitor.
Cocoa foundation
Final Cut Pro is a OS X native application built with the Apple Cocoa framework. Using intuitive, familiar interface elements and technologies like Core Animation, Cocoa makes Final Cut Pro more responsive, interactive and fun to use.
Grand Central Dispatch
Final Cut Pro utilises Grand Central Dispatch in OS X to harness all the processing power of multiple cores on the Mac. For even more speed, Final Cut Pro also uses the new AVX capabilities of Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” processors.
Background process monitoring
Easily monitor the progress of background processes from the dashboard, so you always know what your multicore processors are doing. Or click to open the Background Tasks window and get a detailed display of active processes along with their progress. For complete control, you can manually pause or cancel any background process.
High-quality rendering
The high-quality rendering in Final Cut Pro makes it possible to compute realistic effects with extraordinary precision using floating-point, linear-light colour space calculations. You get the same superb results for blurs, scales and lighting effects as you would from high-end compositing software.
Broadcast monitoring
Output video to an external monitor using third-party PCIe cards or Thunderbolt I/O devices.1 Connect to waveform monitors, vectorscopes and calibrated, high-quality broadcast monitors to ensure that your final project meets broadcast specifications. Or send video to large HD screens and projectors so everyone in the edit suite can see the creative process at work. You can even arrange your Final Cut Pro X interface across two displays and also connect an external broadcast monitor.
Intelligent Import
Start editing before you’ve finished importing your media. Final Cut Pro X offers support for a wide range of popular native formats and creates proxies in the background as you work.
Import XML
Import media and metadata from third-party developers that use the new XML format in Final Cut Pro X. Export basic colour information. Import and export audio keyframes and intrinsic effects parameters such as opacity and scale. This improved XML support saves time and reduces creative rework when moving projects and media between applications.
Increased native format support
Final Cut Pro natively supports more formats than ever, including AVCHD, H.264 from DSLRs and a range of professional formats. Resolution independence lets you mix and match formats and frame rates all the way up to 4K. Final Cut Pro also supports compressed audio formats — including MP3 and AAC — so it’s easy to use iTunes as your built-in music library. For video blogging, capture video from the built-in camera on your Mac or Apple LED Cinema Display.
Camera Archive
Easily create a single-volume archive for any collection of media. When you create a Camera Archive, Final Cut Pro adds a unique identifier to every clip to ensure that it’s tracked accurately throughout the editing process.
Import layered Adobe Photoshop graphics
Import and keep all the object layers from a Photoshop file in a single Compound Clip so you can animate, colourise and add effects to individual layers while editing in Final Cut Pro X.
iMovie import
Start in iMovie and finish in Final Cut Pro. This is the perfect workflow for those who want to do a quick rough cut and then move to Final Cut Pro for full-featured editing. Or take a project to the next level by graduating from iMovie to Final Cut Pro. All your iMovie Events and Projects transfer seamlessly, so you can keep cutting without a break in the action.
File-based import
Import a wide range of codecs and formats from popular cameras that record to memory cards. Start editing instantly by inserting a card directly into the SD slot in your Mac. Final Cut Pro copies the media from the SD card and gives you the option to edit natively or transcode to ProRes in the background while you continue to edit. See all supported formats
Tape-based import
Final Cut Pro supports streaming DV capture through FireWire. Or capture video from tape using third-party video cards and software. Let the capture run in the background at your workstation or use a dedicated capture station.
Proxy creation
Create proxy media in the background, so you can work outside the edit studio without copying large original files. Import once using high-quality master sources, then transfer lightweight proxies to your notebook for editing on the road. When you’re back in the office, just reconnect from proxy to original media and keep working at high resolution.
Powerful Media Organisation
Final Cut Pro features a new way to organise and search large amounts of media — without copying and moving files or rooting in old-fashioned static bins. Now you can find clips in a few clicks.
Content Auto-Analysis
Dramatically speed up your workflow by performing Content Auto-Analysis during import. Some options are designed to get processor-intensive analysis out of the way so you can work in real time during the edit. Because the analysis runs as a background process, you can keep editing to meet your deadline. Or analyse clips later to streamline specific tasks.
| Media detection | Final Cut Pro analyses all metadata related to a clip and uses it for media management. The import process detects media type (audio only, video only, audio and video, or a still), frame size, frame rate, and codec, along with a wide range of other details. And if you import directly from the camera, the rich camera metadata is attached to the clip, so you can use it to search and organise your media. |
| People detection | Auto-Analysis uses people detection to determine if there is a single person or multiple people in the shot. This information is used to automatically organise shots into Smart Collections. |
| Shot detection | Final Cut Pro flags shots as close-up, medium or wide, then organises them into Smart Collections by type of shot. |
| Stabilization | Let Final Cut Pro analyse your media in the background to identify shaky segments. Then, when you’re editing, you can apply the Stabilization effect with a click and see instant results. For additional control, adjust parameters manually and see the results in real time. |
| Rolling shutter | Quick pans with the progressive CMOS sensors found in DSLRs can make an image look warped. Final Cut Pro can automatically make corrections after performing background analysis. |
| Colour balance | Final Cut Pro can analyse the color of your clips on a frame-by-frame basis to produce superior results when you use the single-click Balance Color feature. The colour correction is optimised for the specific frames you’ve selected. |
| Audio enhancement | Final Cut Pro can analyse and fix significant audio problems — such as hum, excessive noise and silent channels — during import. |
Range-based keywords
Old-fashioned bins don’t come close to the dynamic capabilities of searching through your media using keywords. Just select a range of time in your footage and assign one or more keywords to that range; you can create multiple overlapping ranges on the same clip. Use keyboard shortcuts to work even faster. When you assign a keyword, Final Cut Pro sets up a Keyword Collection and places the shot inside, ready for use. A simple Find function lets you combine keywords with other metadata to locate important shots.
Filmstrip and List views
The Filmstrip view in the Event Browser makes it easy to screen your media, because you can immediately see what you’re looking for. The List view includes small filmstrips that let you combine the power of a visual reference with rich metadata for sorting and searching. Skimming these views is faster than hunting for obscure clip names buried deep in bins.
Smart Collections
Smart Collections make it easy to organise clips without moving or duplicating files. Easily create Smart Collections using custom keywords and metadata generated from Content Auto-Analysis. Final Cut Pro automatically updates Smart Collections as you import new media or add relevant metadata. For example, you could set up a Smart Collection to organise footage based on the shoot date, camera and scene number.
Easy-to-use search tools
Quickly find clips in any Event by choosing from a full set of custom search functions that include clip name, keywords, Content Auto-Analysis tags and camera metadata. Then instantly create a Smart Collection based on your search criteria. Because Final Cut Pro organises media by Event, you can browse and search for media across multiple Events, independent of individual projects.
Grouping and arranging Events
and clips
Grouping uses the power of metadata to instantly organise related media in the Event Browser. Grouping can be based on media drive, reel, scene, duration, file type and much more. After grouping your media, you can quickly arrange it inside the group using camera metadata such as name, take, duration and time stamp.
Favorites and Rejects
A single keystroke marks a range selection as a Favorite so you can come back to it later. One click on a Favorites range creates start and end times so you’re ready to edit. Or mark a clip segment as a Reject and hide it from view to reduce clutter. Because you can mark multiple ranges on one clip, you have much more flexibility than you would with traditional In and Out points. Show only Favorites or only Rejects to find clips fast.
Browsers for photos and music
The Photos Browser in Final Cut Pro lets you quickly access your complete Aperture and iPhoto libraries. Use the search capabilities in the Photos Browser interface, then drag any photo or video clip into your project. Save even more time by using iTunes as the library for your music and sound effects. Craft an immersive soundtrack by choosing from more than 1300 royalty-free sound effects, available through a free software update. Since Final Cut Pro can handle MP3 and AAC files, there’s no need to transcode before using the clips — just drag and drop to add them to the timeline.
Timeline Index
Use the Timeline Index to navigate the timeline by jumping directly to clips, keywords, markers and to-do items. Filter information with a click so that you see only the items you care about when you’re stepping through a complicated project. Or use the built-in search tool to filter and find just the clips you want. Tick off to-do items in the Timeline Index so anyone can see what has been done and what items remain open.
Sharing with Xsan
Put your Events and projects on a central SAN to speed up collaboration with multiple editors. Start a project on one system and hand it off to another editor to finish on a different system connected to the same SAN. Place media, projects and Events anywhere on the SAN for custom organisation.
Media Relink
Reconnect media and exchange files with third-party applications using a robust relink interface. Select media that has been moved or modified, or locate clips that have been transcoded, trimmed or colour-graded by third-party tools. Then easily relink to your Final Cut Pro X project or Event.
Revolutionary Video Editing
Final Cut Pro has reinvented creative video editing. Skim through footage, edit in a timeline that lets you move elements without clip collisions, and easily try out different shots and effects.
Magnetic Timeline
The Magnetic Timeline eliminates the restrictions of traditional, track-based timelines — so you’ll never be slowed down by clip collisions or out-of-sync problems as you’re working under pressure to assemble your story. As you add shots, other clips close up to eliminate gaps or move out of the way to make room. Just double-click to review an entire source clip in context. The Magnetic Timeline automatically tracks clip relationships as you rearrange, trim or add clips, letting you easily make changes in even the most complex sequences.
Skimming
The most responsive way ever to view vast amounts of media, skimming in the Filmstrip view lets you fly through keywording and selecting the best takes. Combine the Skimmer with the familiar Playhead for ultrafast navigation and editing. Skim to any point in your timeline, then press the Space bar to play the video instantly.
Multicam
Edit multicam projects faster than ever before with a collection of innovative features that provide unmatched speed and flexibility. Select video and photos, then create a Multicam Clip by automatically syncing different angles based on time of day, timecode, markers or audio waveforms. Play back multiple angles at once in the customisable Angle Viewer, and use the powerful new Angle Editor to dive into any Multicam Clip and make precise adjustments. You can change, add or delete camera angles at any time and work with different codecs, frame sizes and frame rates without conversion. When it’s time to cut your multicam project, simply click in the Angle Viewer or use keyboard shortcuts to switch between angles on the fly.
Clip Connections
Now it’s easy to position B-roll, titles, music and sound effects, with direct links to reference clips in the timeline. For precise edits, create a connection even down to the level of an audio sample. Establish a new connection with a keystroke and make changes at any point. When you move a reference clip in the timeline, all its connected clips move with it. If you’re working with a large number of clip connections, you can group them into a Storyline with a single connection point.
Compound Clips
When you want to group clips in the timeline or Event Browser, consolidate them into a Compound Clip. Include any type of clip, such as video, audio or graphics, and simplify your timeline for faster changes. Compound Clips let you reuse a montage in other projects or apply an effect — like a speed change — to multiple clips at once. Step into a Compound Clip to make changes or break it apart at any time to work with the individual clips.
Auditions
Use Auditions to quickly try out different shots with a click. Collect multiple clips within one Audition clip in the timeline, then play them back in context to see which one works best. Use Auditions to see the same clip with different effects applied, try different performances of the same line, or view different montages in the same location. As you try each shot, the Magnetic Timeline instantly adjusts to reflect the clip length, keeping everything in sync.
Inline Precision Editor
When you need to fine-tune the timing of an edit, just double-click any edit point to reveal the Inline Precision Editor. Skimming over the extra material in the clip lets you find the best edit point. A single click lets you trim to a specific frame or audio sample.
Roles
Use Roles metadata to organise, search, mute, view and minimise clips in the timeline. Work with automatically assigned roles for video, titles, dialogue, music and effects, or create and assign your own custom roles. Add subroles for more control as projects get more complex.
Connect, Insert, Append, Overwrite, Replace
Edit with confidence using the timeline modes you know, with powerful options that have been updated to make editing fast and easy. Use any combination of techniques to place clips in your timeline — drag and drop, click intuitive icons, or save time with keystrokes.
| Connect | Attaches clips such as B-roll and audio to the Primary Storyline; for more complex projects, create and manage a Secondary Storyline. |
| Insert | Places the clip at a precise location in your story; the Magnetic Timeline shifts other elements as needed. |
| Append | Ensures that your clip always goes to the end of the timeline — without any extra steps. This is the fastest way to rough-cut a story. |
| Overwrite | Works with a selected range in the timeline or goes right to the Skimmer location. With the Shift key modifier, you can even back-time clips so the end point matches the Skimmer position. |
| Replace | Allows you to swap one shot for another while leaving the rest of your project untouched. Choose to Replace from the start or end of a shot for more flexibility. |
Three-point editing
Combined with the power of the Magnetic Timeline, the classic three-point edit is even better. Single keystrokes let you insert and overwrite, giving you complete control without slowing you down.
Top and Tail
Use the technique favoured by professional news and documentary editors all over the world. Trim the top or tail of an interview clip with a keystroke. Shortening sound bites and streamlining interviews just got a lot faster.
Timeline trimming
Adjust your clips directly in the timeline for the fastest, most straightforward way to make timing changes. Grab a clip edge to make a quick trim, or use the Trimming tool for all the standard trimming functions like ripple, roll, slip, slide and extend. You can also make precise adjustments by entering numerical trims on the keyboard. With the immediate visual feedback of the Magnetic Timeline, you can watch your project adjust as you get the timing just right.
Split edits
The secret to dialogue editing is using split edits such as J and L cuts. Hear the dialogue before you see the picture (J cut) or let the sound carry over to the next shot (L cut) to smooth out transitions or add dramatic tension. Easy to learn and use, J and L cuts can add polish and professionalism to every project.
Position tool
Use the Position tool to access a flexible technique for arranging clips in the timeline. Switch to the Position tool with a keystroke to preserve timing and leave a gap when you move material. Then switch it off to regain the advantages of the fluid Magnetic Timeline.
Transitions
Choose from more than 90 professionally designed transitions and add them to your project with drag-and-drop ease. Instantly insert a classic cross-dissolve with a simple keyboard command (Command-T).
Clip Appearance
Change your timeline view to reflect exactly what you need to do at that moment. Adjust video thumbnails, display audio waveforms, change clip height and show clip connections — all from the Clip Appearance window. You can even choose to show clip names or Roles metadata for a visual check before exporting media stems.
Playhead info
When you skim video in the Event Browser, you can enable a tooltip-type display that shows the clip name and source timecode. Seeing basic metadata makes it easy to know exactly where you are at all times.
Retiming
Control speed changes directly in the timeline and say goodbye to complicated Bezier curves and timing graphs. Just select an entire clip or choose a range, then pick a preset speed. Click and drag for fine retiming control and pick from three types of frame blending, including optical flow. Choose a preset for instant rewind, replay or reverse effects. Apply audio retiming — without affecting pitch — to fit any voiceover or music selection exactly where you need it.
Placeholders
If you have to begin editing before you’ve received all the source material, insert Placeholders to rough together a sequence to be filled in later. You can even use Placeholders to build a complete storyboard in Final Cut Pro.
Accelerated editing with
the Skimmer
Place the Skimmer in the timeline to trim with precision, extend an edit and more — all while your Playhead stays right where you left it.
Always saved
Final Cut Pro continuously saves all the work in your projects and Events, so you never have to worry about losing unsaved changes.
Compelling, Customisable Effects
Choose from a rich array of visual effects, easy-to-use transitions and animated templates for titling. See real-time previews and use built-in controls to customise elements as you work.
Video effects
With a wide selection of high-quality effects in Final Cut Pro, it’s easier than ever to experiment with glows, blurs, lighting and more. Just select a shot, then choose an effect; skimming the effect thumbnail lets you preview it before applying it. Use the Option key to preview the Amount parameter and see the effect applied to a greater degree as you skim. Apply the powerful chroma or luma keyer to instantly pull a high-quality key, even with uneven backgrounds. Intuitive onscreen controls allow for direct manipulation of effects.
Inline keyframing
There’s no need to jump into a separate interface to adjust effect keyframes — you have full control right in the timeline, so you can adjust timing based on other content in your project. Choose to show video or audio animation and start adding keyframes. Automatic smoothing between keyframes means less time spent tweaking to get the perfect result.
Royalty-free themed animations
Final Cut Pro ships with a large number of animated titles, transitions and effects sequences, all created by leading motion graphics designers and a top Hollywood effects house. Preview content in the Themes Browser, then drag and drop to add elements to your project. Simplified controls for each animation let you make adjustments that produce consistently good results, and you can open any item in Motion for greater customisation.
Advanced chroma keying
In addition to using the high-quality, one-step chroma key in Final Cut Pro X, you can now access advanced keying controls for colour sampling, edge adjustment and light wrap. Tackle complex keying challenges without exporting to a motion graphics application. And play back results instantly and in context to make critical editing decisions.
Titles
Final Cut Pro includes professionally designed animated templates, with intuitive onscreen controls that make it easy to create titles that leap off the screen. With more than 160 animated templates to choose from, you can achieve a polished look immediately. If you want to customise a template or create your own professional-quality titles, you’ll find all the tools you need by opening the animation in Motion 5 — the motion graphics companion to Final Cut Pro. Learn more about Motion
Transforms
Reposition, rotate, crop and distort — all with overlaid onscreen controls that let you manipulate the image directly. Use numerical controls in the Video Inspector to fine-tune parameters.
Video generators
Open the Generators Browser to access a range of automatically generated video elements — including animated backgrounds and varied textures. Just drag and drop to add them to your project.
Ken Burns effect
Animate stills and video without keyframes by using simple onscreen arrows to pick start and end points. For images that contain people, Final Cut Pro recognises the location of faces to create intelligent results.
Working with Motion
If you have Motion 5 installed, you can right-click any title, transition, or video generator in Final Cut Pro to open it in Motion and customise it. When you save your modified effect in Motion, you can instantly access it in Final Cut Pro and even share it with other editors. Or have a motion graphics designer create unique effects in Motion and save them as easy-to-use, streamlined templates in Final Cut Pro. Learn more about Motion
Integrated Audio Editing
Built-in professional audio editing features — including libraries of high-quality sound effects and audio effect plug-ins — let you enhance, edit and mix audio without leaving Final Cut Pro.
Audio enhancements
You can have Final Cut Pro repair significant audio problems during import, or select clips later for automatic enhancement. Final Cut Pro analyses audio files for common problems such as excessive background noise, hum and extreme volume changes. Use the Analyze and Fix function to remove silent audio channels and properly set up common audio channel configurations. Or open the Inspector to access a range of controls that let you fix audio problems or give your clip a unique sound.
Automatic audio sync
When working with DSLRs and video cameras, it’s increasingly common to record high-quality audio separately. Final Cut Pro compares waveforms from the camera audio and second audio source to sync sound automatically — down to the sample level. If camera audio is unavailable, Final Cut Pro uses timecode to match recorded audio with picture. In short, syncing by hand is a thing of the past.
Subframe audio editing
Edit audio with the greatest precision possible. Final Cut Pro supports subframe audio editing at a sample level up to 192kHz, so you can make audio adjustments with a high degree of accuracy.
Fade handles
Grab the fade handles at the edges of any clip to control audio fade-in and fade-out directly in the timeline. Drag the handles to visually line up an audio fade with action, graphics or other elements in your project. Unlike keyframe-based audio fades, trimming the audio clip leaves the fade handles intact. And with built-in options to adjust the type of fade curve, you have even more precise control.
Match Audio
If you have multiple clips recorded with different microphones or in different environments, use the Match Audio feature to automatically adjust EQ for consistent sound across your project.
Bundled audio effects
Search and preview audio effects in the Effects Browser before applying them to your clips. Select from a collection of more than 100 audio effect plug-ins — including more than 40 from Logic Pro — each with its own specialised interface. All effects can be keyframed and played in real time.
Surround mixing
Pick from a variety of stereo or surround presets to improve the sound of your mix. Presets include surround animations that let you instantly fly your 5.1 sound from front to back or side to side. You can also customise your mix using a graphic surround panning interface and easily add keyframes to adjust panning over time.
Professional EQ control
Choose a 10-band or 31-band equaliser for each audio clip to make expert adjustments with high precision. Use one of the many EQ presets to get a quick start on enhancing dialogue and music.
Audio Units plug-ins
Final Cut Pro supports 64-bit, high-quality Audio Units plug-ins from professional third-party effects developers, with access to the full interface and all controls for each plug-in. Choose plug-ins for professional digital signal processing (DSP) effects, noise removal, pitch correction, reverb and more.
Audio recording
Record a musical performance or a voiceover directly into Final Cut Pro. Choose the input device, monitoring type and volume — all in the Record Audio interface.
Royalty-free sound effects
Download more than 1300 royalty-free sound effects through a free software update, then access them in the Music and Sound Browser. These are perfect for a wide range of projects.
Intuitive Colour Grading
Whether you want to improve the colour in a scene or create a distinctive look for an entire film, you’ll find both single-click improvements and fine-grained controls in Final Cut Pro.
Balance Color
All colour grading begins with colour balancing. The Content Auto-Analysis feature can analyse clips for colour balance in the background as they’re imported. After your footage has been analysed, you can improve the look of any clip in the Event Browser or timeline with a click. The Balance Color feature uses sophisticated algorithms that increase contrast while making skin tones appear more natural.
Match Color
Save hours of painstaking work by using Match Color to instantly align the look of clips that were shot at different times of day or with different cameras. Simply choose the source shot, click your reference shot, and Final Cut Pro intelligently adjusts colours for the best possible match. You can also use Match Color with a clip of your favourite movie. If you’re looking for a sci-fi grunge or film noir look, find a reference image with the look you want and use it to match colour.
Keying and masks
To isolate and change the colour of just the sky or the skin tone of the actors in a shot, Final Cut Pro puts a powerful combination of keying and masks at your fingertips. First select the area or colour you want to affect, then apply the key by dragging across the image with an eyedropper that dynamically shows the range of selected colours. For additional control, place an adjustable mask around the key. Any mask can be keyframed over time to change shape or move with the action on the screen.
Color Board
For editors who prefer hands-on control of colour, saturation and exposure, the brand-new Color Board can make quick work of common corrections. Because you can control the highlights, midtones and shadows separately from the master control, it’s easy to get the look you want.
Waveform, vectorscope and
histograms
Monitor your colour and brightness values using the built-in, industry-standard waveform and vectorscope monitors. Final Cut Pro also includes a histogram view commonly found in photo editing programs like Aperture.
One-Step, Optimised Output
Deliver your project to popular devices and destinations in a few clicks. Final Cut Pro offers a wide range of output settings designed for Apple devices, discs, QuickTime and the web.
Media stems export
Roles metadata makes it easier than ever to export a QuickTime movie with custom video and audio tracks arranged just the way you need them for delivering to broadcast or sound mixing. Combine all audio into a single multi-track QuickTime movie, or export each role as a separate file. Automatically create different versions of your finished project during export, including swapping titles and dialogue for different languages, dates and locations.
Export XML
Send your project out for finishing using advanced third-party tools for compositing, audio mixing and colour grading. Update a media asset management system with new media that has been tagged and organised by multiple editors. A world of third-party integration and collaboration is available using the rich, new XML in Final Cut Pro X.
Share presets
The Share function makes it easy to get high-quality results when exporting your project. A broad library of delivery settings optimises your output for Apple devices such as iPad, iPhone, iPod and Apple TV. You can even create an output for Podcast Producer. A specially designed email preset ensures that your project is the right size to send as an attachment.
DVD and Blu-ray
Final Cut Pro provides several easy-to-use templates for delivering discs. Choose from a set of themed menus and burn a DVD or Blu-ray disc.2 Burn a red laser AVCHD disc using DVD media right on your Mac, or connect an external Blu-ray burner to create a standard Blu-ray disc for longer projects like full-length movies.
HTTP live streaming
HTTP live streaming is becoming the most popular way to make video available over the web. Final Cut Pro simplifies delivery with a specially designed preset optimised for web streaming.
Web sharing
For those who can’t wait for the world to see their latest project, Final Cut Pro includes direct sharing to Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube and CNN iReport.
Export Movie
When you’re working with ProRes, Export Movie is the fastest and highest-quality output choice for creating a self-contained QuickTime movie. Because Export Movie uses rendered effects files without having to rerender, the output is as fast as a file copy.
Working with Compressor
Use Compressor to access a full range of professional encoding features. Send a project to Compressor or create custom output settings for reuse in Final Cut Pro. You can share these custom settings with other Final Cut Pro editors, even if they don’t have Compressor installed on their workstations. Learn more about Compressor
