Marketing description

Final Cut Pro X is Apple's professional video editing software, built from the ground up to include everything you need for post production. Import and organize media, edit, add effects, sweeten audio, color grade, and deliver - without leaving the application.
Rebuilt from the ground up to meet the needs of today's creative editors, Final Cut Pro breaks free from the restrictions of old-fashioned timeline tracks. A new, dynamic editing interface lets you experiment freely while working with extraordinary speed and precision.

Key selling points

• Suddenly, everything falls into place
• Keep it together
• Perfect the pacing, right in the timeline
• It's never been easier to choose the perfect shot
• Powerful Media Organization
• Let your media organize itself
• Sort, filter, and search, on your own terms
• Search without a second thought
• Drag and drop photos, movies, music, and more

Product features

• Suddenly, everything falls into place
  With a visual simplicity that reveals powerful professional tools just when you need them, the Magnetic Timeline in Final Cut Pro offers an exceptionally fluid, flexible way to edit. Assemble shots with ease as clips "magnetically" close up to eliminate unwanted black gaps in the timeline. Similarly, clips move out of the way to avoid clip collisions and sync problems, so you can focus on creating your story. Interactive animations show you exactly what's happening in the timeline as you work, so you can easily try out new ideas.
• Keep it together
  Clip Connections are an easy way to place clips such as B-roll, sound effects, and music in the timeline so that they all move together as you make changes - even in the most complex projects. Final Cut Pro automatically creates a Clip Connection when you drag a secondary element to the timeline.
• Say goodbye to timeline clutter
  With Compound Clips, you can group a complex set of elements and collapse them into a single clip. This removes clutter from the timeline and creates a simplified version of the segment that's easy to move or duplicate. Reuse a Compound Clip in other projects - for example, for a unique sound design with layered sound effects. Or use a Compound Clip to add an effect to multiple shots with a click. Step into a Compound Clip or expand it at any time to make changes to individual elements.
• Perfect the pacing, right in the timeline
  The Magnetic Timeline improves on traditional ways of trimming, including ripple, roll, slip, and slide edits. If you need additional control, double-click an edit to open the Precision Editor and make trims directly in the timeline. The Precision Editor expands your view of the edit point so you can see both used and unused portions of your clips. Then skim entire clips and adjust edit points with a click.
• It's never been easier to choose the perfect shot
  With the unique Auditions feature, you can collect multiple alternative shots at a single location in the timeline and quickly cycle through them in context. Test different B-roll shots, different reads of the same lines, different color grades for the same shot, or different effects. Or use Auditions to create multiple versions of your project for different deliverables and venues. It's easy to create an Audition - simply drag shots of any length to the same place in the timeline and choose "Add to Audition. " As you try out different shots, the Magnetic Timeline keeps everything in sync.
• Powerful media organization
  Today's video editor has to deal with more formats and footage than ever before. Final Cut Pro X helps you handle it all with ease, offering dynamic new ways to organize your media and find just the clips you need.
• Let your media organize itself
  Final Cut Pro dramatically speeds up preparing your media by analyzing your source material in the background while you edit. Content Auto-Analysis scans your footage and creates metadata based on the way editors like to work - with range-based tags for media attributes, camera data, shot type, and whether the shot contains one person, two people, or a group. Use these tags to sort, filter, and search your clips.
• Sort, filter, and search, on your own terms
  Make searches even more precise by creating your own keywords and assigning them to clip ranges. Effortless skimming and keyboard shortcuts let you work fast. The List view shows the metadata for a clip as you skim to add new keywords. Or use the Filmstrip view to see your footage instantly without sorting through obscure clip names.
• Search without a second thought
  Set up Smart Collections to organize clips in a variety of ways without moving or copying files. Create a search using any combination of metadata and keywords, then save it as a Smart Collection. Final Cut Pro automatically adds new items to a Smart Collection when there is a match with the fields you've selected.
• Drag and drop photos, movies, music, and more
  Built-in content browsers let you preview and search for photos, music, and sound effects without leaving Final Cut Pro. Easily access visual content through the Photos Browser, which includes your iPhoto and Aperture libraries. Final Cut Pro supports MP3 and AAC files, so you can use iTunes as your built-in music library. Final Cut Pro also offers more than 1300 royalty-free sound effects through a free software update, as well as a range of generators - including graphic backgrounds and textures - that add polish to your projects. When you find the content you're looking for, just drag and drop to add it directly to the timeline.