Final Cut Pro 10.8 New Features 

Thank you Dylan - hope you and your family are doing well

Hey thanks Dylan that means a lot!

You Guys are Awesome.

Agreed.

Agreed. With Siri built in this feels like it should have been one of the first implementations.

I’m guessing we’ll see it with the next OS release since all the foundational resources to transcribe and such will be part of the OS then.

2030

My guess is we need the next OS is to be out for them to easily enable that and Final Cut Pro, the next set of operating systems by Apple releasing this fall all add transcription to like phone calls, Voice Memos, and the Notes app to the name a few.

You seem to be clueless… Every Hollywood movie you’ve ever seen in the last seven years has been color graded in da Vinci resolve. No professional uses final cut to color grade unless they don’t know what they’re doing.

@@2424rocket Cool story bruh! 🤡

@@2424rocket Can't wait to see your movie in Hollywood! 😉 It looks like evolution will never hit you...

@@kenstpierre😂

Thanks Richard. Hope you are doing well

Thanks Matthew!

Here's a video we did on using Roles you might find useful: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h4XchWCEFwg.html

You will probably laugh, but I am currently using a 2015 macbook air to edit. LOL! it is an exercise in patience.... I do 20-30 seconds of edit, compound it and then join that to a few more like that, then once put them all in the same project... go to bed while it renders and most time wake up in the morning and it is ready (with a fan blowing on the computer all night). Though I can only watch a 1080 video on quick time on that machine so no 4k stuff output (can only view 4K in 12.5% proxy in project) I do NOT recommend it, but hey, we do what we have to do. Just ordered a m1max 32 GB and 1TB off ebay... I will let you know how different it is. I am currently doing some of the motion courses on your website, and I had to laugh as I could not render the projects (LOL!) Thank you for your videos, explainers and everything else.

You don't like the default SMASH-O???!!

I wouldn't apply a camera LUT for log conversion after ELC because that will distort the results since the LUT is expecting an unaltered LOG clip.

Probably the most request feature right now for sure

Well that is bizarre - check your keyboard customization (Option-Command-K) - maybe you are not set to the default keyboard set?

You can import them - but they will always come in at their native size - you then have to place then in a 16x9 project then choose what part of the image is visible

It is only available on Macs with Apple Silicon - M1 or higher

couldn't agree more!

Complex grades? Nobody really grades in final cut… Final cut is a joke compared to da Vinci resolve. Final cut is a granny editing system. It’s a joke.

@@2424rocketyou don't know the power of apple pro res raw in fcpx, padewone.

Instead of clicking the name, click the color triangle to the right - single click.

Applying ELC is like any other correction you perform to a log clip

You can either add a LUT and then use ELC or use ELC directly on the Log clip - just like directly grading a Log clip without a LUT.

I hear ya.

It's a tool. Can be a first step in combination with manual grading.

I can confirm I'm not hearing audio skimming with the arrow keys here but I never used arrow keys to skim audio in the past so I don't know if that used to work that way.

@@markspencer1203 ohh I see thank you mark!!! Yes, it used to work! I always used that way, now when I updated the first thing I noticed was this issue... =(

I don't believe that's it's ever worked that way. I just tried it in FCP 10.7. It does not work. If you need that level of audio scrubbing, then hold down, the K and L key to scrub forward and the K and J keys to scrub backwards. This is the correct method for scrubbing audio without the skimmer.

@@rippleguys Yeah that's what I thought thanks for confirming Steve.

@@rippleguys thank you for the trick, didn't know it. Just tried here and what happens: If I hold K and press L once, the playhead moves forward one frame, but I cannot hear that frame, if I keep pressing L (just pressing once, not holding), playhead continues moving forward without playing the sound. But if I hold K, press L and hold, playhead keep moving forward automatically and I can hear the sound. But that's the problem... I need to hear the sound frame by frame, like It worked before this update =(

I would prefer an option to apply after the grade but if you have decently exposed clips, and aren't doing anything extreme in your grade, applying the LUT before the grade won't have any detrimental impact

We did cover it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MS5Qecq2j3U.htmlsi=vXg7RUDUY_5uEhHG&t=130

You can use Toas: www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/pro/?promo=EUXG

@@markspencer1203 thanks Mark for the recommendation! And for the quick response! I love the FCP and Motion tutorials you and Steve do! So helpful! :)

No, it's only available on FCP for iPad

We sent out a follow up email - yes the link in the first email was bad.

Cue The Rolling Stones: "You can't always get...."

Probably see it come after the next OS update this fall

It's a separate video - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w5Il0_msQO0.htmlsi=lWsmoMsRWRiaiwKQ

The whole idea behind normalizing is to get all your clips into roughly the same dynamic range and color balance so that once you apply a look you can do so with an adjustment layer to all your clips at once and it will be applied uniformly - if you don't normalize you'll have a heck of a time matching your shots.

@@markspencer1203 Thanks, Mark.

No, they’re ditching premier pro for da Vinci resolve…Get a clue.

@@2424rocket it was just a question. The condescending answer was not cool

Is that what you took out of this video - that they have given up?

@@rippleguys Unfortunately, yes. 100%. they’ve given up. And let me be clear, my gripe isn’t with you guys, your video or your channel- I enjoy Ripple Training’s content- this just happened to be the first place I’ve seen the new version announced/explored (since again, Apple has decide FCP isn’t important enough to get even a mention in any of their keynotes/conferences while simultaneously featuring Resolve in their press material) and so it’s your comment section that received my gut reaction. Sorry. Major upgrades are supposed to add new features. Minor updates fix old ones. Besides Live Multicam, everything here essentially already existed in FCP. FCP for iPad 1. iPad Pro M4 enabled faster rendering and more streams. (Disingenuous as this is a feature of the M4 chip and not a new feature of FCP. Everything is faster on an M4) 2. Live Multicam. (Cool although I don’t know any professional productions shooting on iPad. Also, does it work on the Mac version?) 3. Being able to start and open projects on external storage. (This one is obvious and should have been in the original release of FCP for iPad considering the iPad had harddrive functionality years ago) 4. Apple Pencil Pro “barrel roll” for “live drawing” and “squeeze” to change brushes and settings. (more an Apple Pencil feature than FCP) FCP for Mac 1. Enhance Light and Color (I know they are using the buzz term AI here but it’s really taking a feature that already existed in FCP- “Balance Color”- and making it better. Appreciated but not exactly new.) 2. Smooth Slo-Mo (Absolutely welcomed but it’s making optical flow… better. Is that really new?) 3. Color and effect naming (This could almost be considered a bug fix. Premiere had this feature 10 years ago and people have been begging Apple for it for years.) 4. Search missing media and effects in Timeline Index (A genuine, solid feature. But really speaks more to the innovativeness of the Timeline Index rather than it’s increased functionality) 5. Expanded metadata search in the Timeline Index. (An obvious functionality update to an existing feature. Hardly game changing). It’s hard to imagine anyone jumping ship from Resolve, Premiere or Avid for any of these “new” features. And I know you guys have a relationship with Apple but can you honestly look at this list and think “next level”? A lackluster, minor update in a string of lackluster, minor updates for FCP. I’m starting to believe the Final Cut division at Apple is just one guy. And he’s part time. And leaves early. But only after a solid, long nap. Cheers and continued success to you guys at Ripple Training. I only hope Apple finds the drive it once had to make FCP an innovator for pro editors again.

@@genericuser7319 I mean you are not wrong, but I still have hope. At least they made an Update and in the last 12 months their were several slightly bigger updates(10.6.6, 10.7 and now 10.8) with several small but noticeable feature upgrades. They also said they have plans for Final Cut for 5-6 years. And they also just made a Camera App called Final Cut. Also they spoke at the Keynote that there will be a feature upgrade in the coming Autumn. All this shows that they support Final Cut. I think the problem is that they tried to save the iPad with Logic Pro and Final Cut which probably wont work. But for the last 1-2 years they had to built this iPad Version as well which slowed probably down the development. Looking at Logic they have now feature parity with the iPad and Desktop Version. Probably the try the same with Final Cut? If so then the development will become a lot faster in the future again. Also it make sense that they have no major new AI Features like Text Based Editing in it, because this will probably come when Apple Intelligence is out big time. But I understand you, I am also dissapointed in the features. Where is a better Keyframe Editor, where is some useable Final Cut to Logic Pro Workflow, where is better Color Correction(they should make it at least like Color Finale on Steroids) and where are some awesome new Apple Motion updates? I miss a lot, but still its the best editing programm. But if you need to do all in one DaVinvi is better and it doesnt need so many expensive external plugins. I use plugins for several hundreds of Dollars and its annoying. But still the editing is the most fun in Final Cut. It lets me be more creative and its faster. It just needs one major upgrade with several big updates and its up there again.

which one?

@@SLfilmBerlin In my case, the internal command set that determines what "keyboard " is installed is in German, qwertz instead of qwerty, which renders FCP non functional.

@@justinepaula-robilliard hm. works fine for me

@@SLfilmBerlin I have a US English Mac, I only speak English, I have never used German Language for anything, FCP is locked in using German Language short cuts, I don't know what to do,

This also happens in the spanish version. The weird thing, is that it only happens with some keyboards. My external old bluetooth keyboard is well recognized. I bought a new one and it was recognized as an american keyboard. The keyboard from an old 2015 MBP is also well recognized, but the keyboard of my M1 Pro MBP is also recognized as an american keyboard. I hope that this bug is corrected at some point, because it's been there for many years.

I'm thinking of upgrading for my new movie release

@@psysword Do it before the project. NEVER do it mid project ?

As I explain in the video it's not going to fully normalize LOG footage - not sure why you had an issue with HDR footage, were you in an HDR library & project?

@@markspencer1203 no, regular SDR library. Perhaps with footage that is way off in WB or exposure this tool can be helpful, but with shots that have been already properly white balanced and exposed the tool is useless. The whole of this “Light and Color” editor which was introduced in previous versions like a carry-over from Final Cut for ipad is kind of pathetic, very limited and not precise in separating shadows and highlights in their respective adjustments. Bottomline those three of four features they introduce to maintain the illusion of development are nowhere near enough to warrant a new VERSION of software. Minor feature upgrades, thats it. Soon Apple will report adding new emojis to Final Cut as primary innovation like it already does with iphones and Mac OS. Pathetic.

ok, you've blown off steam...FCP is still the most fun for editing.

I agree. I do enjoy editing in FCP but it's just not good enough for a bigger Film Production.

Can Davinci create 3d titles that look like they are on the ground ?

@@SLfilmBerlin Still a joke, I'm not the only one, search and you'll see, hard core FCP users, saying the same thing, well at the end you might be right, its good for having fun, not serious work, I'll give you that.

@@jobz9150 several big productions used Final Cut Pro 10 years ago already and it just became better since then. Also check out the work from Thomas Grove Carter to see the full potential of Final Cut.

If you still think that the tool is what makes you pro or not, you don't think that much.

I suspect you are not aware of the full suite of grading tools in FCP - trackable shape masks, HSL qualifications, etc. But yes Resolve is more powerful at the end of the day.

Such a ridiculous comment - for some reason you think that complex node structures somehow equal “pro”

@@rippleguysyoung, I suspect, in the way of the Force.