Final Cut Pro User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Intro to importing media
- If it’s your first import
- Organize files during import
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- Import from Image Playground
- Import from iMovie for macOS
- Import from iMovie for iOS or iPadOS
- Import from Final Cut Pro for iPad
- Import from Final Cut Camera
- Import from Photos
- Import from Music
- Import from Apple TV
- Import from Motion
- Import from GarageBand and Logic Pro
- Import using workflow extensions
- Record into Final Cut Pro
- Memory cards and cables
- Supported media formats
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- Intro to effects
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- Intro to transitions
- How transitions are created
- Add transitions and fades
- Quickly add a transition with a keyboard shortcut
- Set the default duration for transitions
- Delete transitions
- Adjust transitions in the timeline
- Adjust transitions in the inspector and viewer
- Merge jump cuts with the Flow transition
- Adjust transitions with multiple images
- Modify transitions in Motion
- Add adjustment clips
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- Add storylines
- Use the precision editor
- Conform frame sizes and rates
- Use XML to transfer projects
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- Intro to sharing projects
- Share to Apple devices
- Share on the web
- Send a video frame to Pixelmator Pro
- Share in email
- Share stereo or spatial video
- Batch sharing
- Share using Compressor
- Create share destinations
- Change metadata for shared items
- View the status of shared items
- Speed up exports with simultaneous processing
- Glossary
- Copyright and trademarks
Media formats supported in Final Cut Pro for Mac
You can import and work with the following video, audio, and still-image formats in Final Cut Pro:
Video formats
Apple Animation codec
Apple Intermediate codec
Apple ProRes RAW and Apple ProRes RAW HQ
AVC-ULTRA (including AVC-LongG, AVC-Intra Class 50/100/200/4:4:4, and AVC-Intra LT)
Canon Cinema RAW Light (requires the camera manufacturer’s plug-in software)
DV (including DVCAM, DVCPRO, and DVCPRO50)
DVCPRO HD
iFrame
Motion JPEG (OpenDML only)
MPEG IMX (D-10)
QuickTime formats
REDCODE RAW (R3D) (requires the camera manufacturer’s plug-in software)
Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2
Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2
XAVC (including XAVC S, XAVC H, and XAVC HS)
XF-AVC
XF-HEVC
Still-image formats
BMP
GIF (including animated GIFs)
JPEG
PDF
PNG
PSD (static and layered)
RAW
TGA
TIFF
The Media Extensions feature built into macOS lets you use additional third-party formats that aren’t natively supported in Final Cut Pro (macOS Sequoia or later is required). See Import third-party formats with media extensions.
For information about formats you can export your movie to, see Export formats supported in Final Cut Pro.
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