Final Cut Pro User Guide for Mac
- Welcome
- What’s new
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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
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- Add storylines
- Use the precision editor
- Conform frame sizes and rates
- Use XML to transfer projects
- Glossary
- Copyright
What’s new in Final Cut Pro for Mac
Final Cut Pro 11 introduces new features and enhancements, detailed below.
Magnetic Mask
Expand your creative freedom with an all-new AI-enhanced mask that easily isolates people, objects, and shapes from the background without a green screen or time-consuming manual tracking or rotoscoping. See Add a Magnetic Mask in Final Cut Pro for Mac and Add a Magnetic Mask to a video effect in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Transcribe to Captions
Automatically create captions in the timeline with a powerful AI language model built for speed and accuracy. (Requires macOS Sequoia or later.) See Create captions in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Spatial video editing
Import and edit spatial video clips from devices such as Apple Vision Pro or iPhone 15 Pro or later; add titles, color correction, and effects; and share captivating spatial projects that can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro. See Intro to stereo and spatial video in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Workflow improvements
With Vertical Zoom to Fit, scale clip heights to fit in the timeline. See Zoom to fit the timeline contents vertically.
Hide clips in the browser to declutter your view. See Hide clips in the browser in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Use the Media Extensions feature built into macOS to work with more video formats. (Requires macOS Sequoia or later.) See Import third-party formats with media extensions in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
Speed up your editing with new Callout and Picture in Picture effects, Modular transitions, and keyboard shortcuts for common tasks in the browser and timeline. See Intro to effects in Final Cut Pro for Mac and Keyboard shortcuts in Final Cut Pro for Mac.
System requirements
The minimum system requirement is macOS Sonoma 14.6. The Transcribe to Captions and Media Extensions features require macOS Sequoia or later. For more information, go to the Final Cut Pro Tech Specs webpage.
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