About Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is a video editing software, which enables businesses and professionals to create and distribute video content. It includes powerful postproduction tools, multicam editing, data import capabilities, and interactive motion graphics.
Teams can collaborate on projects, edit content in real-time and perform color correction and audio mixing within the application. Final Cut Pro allows businesses to arrange video clips for transitions across a timeline and refine video using exposure control and visual effects. It also enables professionals to create workflows across applications, review media formats, and consolidate footage within a unified platform.
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- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Final Cut Pro: A Great Choice for Apple Users
Reviewed on 2/07/2022
I have extensive experience with professional video editing, and once I switched to Mac, I started...
I have extensive experience with professional video editing, and once I switched to Mac, I started to move to Final Cut Pro. It takes time to get used to its quirks, but once you memorize crucial shortcuts (the Tilde key is your friend!), you'll be handling big projects with ease.
Pros
Final Cut Pro offers almost unparalleled speed and performance for video editing, with all the bells and whistles video editors need, inside a clean and simple interface.
Plus, it's insanely cheap: $300 for life. Mac users avoid this at their peril.
Cons
Final Cut Pro's controversial features like the Magnetic Timeline take a LOT of getting used to. And there are much fewer plugins and templates than After Effects/Premiere.
Reasons for Switching to Final Cut Pro
It's affordable and FAST.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Final Cut Pro, the ideal video editor for our social networks
Reviewed on 2/09/2021
Final Cut Pro has offered me the freedom to create great projects to upload to my youtube channel,...
Final Cut Pro has offered me the freedom to create great projects to upload to my youtube channel, my networks like TikTok or Instagram and sometimes has helped me to develop videos for my clients, editing in this software is simple, even in aspects such as colorization, at other times I have been limited when making bigger post-production, I recommend this software for simple projects, we can create good videos for any occasion with this program, and I think any apple user can take great advantage of it.
Pros
Final Cut Pro is a great video editor for the apple user who is only looking to make simple edits, this software can automatically trim our video to fit the dimensions of any social media. This video editor has custom overlays to adjust the design of our text and graphics.
Final Cut Pro is optimized to offer better performance on the new generation of Mac computers. So if you have one of these PC's you will be able to render your projects much faster.
In my opinion, if you are looking for a friendly video editor that allows you to make projects comfortably on your mac for any social network, final cut pro is a great option.
Cons
Final Cut Pro is expensive for the features it offers, it's a really simple video editor, and can offer us resources to make great videos for our social networks, but it's a very limited software when we want to create complex projects, for a lower price we can access video editors aimed at a more professional audience. Final Cut Pro bets on the creation of linear videos, leaving aside many functions to create a further elaborate work.
If you're a video editing professional and you are looking for software that allows you to handle all aspects of our post-production, I would recommend you to look for another video editor, because most of the time you will be very limited by the features of Final Cut Pro.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Final Cut Rendering and Exporting Issues
Reviewed on 4/11/2021
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Final Cut Pro is an easy to use beginner-friendly app. I started using this app first to get the basics of video editing in terms of the language, effects etc, after which I migrated to other platforms that did the same thing. The ease of access never measured up to that of Final Cut Pro so I ended up switching over back to Final Cut Pro. A great thing about it is that it doesn't utilize a lot of my battery percentage so I can get longevity on my battery life when using the software. I would recommend this software to a beginner in the world of video editing.
Cons
Ater fully editing my project I was ready and eager to export for use. The rendering process took almost forever to complete but I understood based on the nature of the task. After it completed rendering I left it overnight to export. When I got up to check the project it was at 27 PERCENT!!! I cancelled it and retried and it sat there for hours before it could be exported. I had to put off my presentation. I wished there was a prompt that indicated the issue that hindered exporting.
- Industry: Media Production
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Most powerful editing software on the market for the best prize.
Reviewed on 14/02/2023
Final Cut has a somewhat different approach as to how you edit or how you use a editing software...
Final Cut has a somewhat different approach as to how you edit or how you use a editing software compared to other editing software solutions but once you have learned the logic behind it is an incredibly powerful software which enables you to edit anything video based.
Pros
Final Cut is super intuitive to use and learn and with a one time payment you will continually receive software updates making it the most inexpensive yet most powerful professional editing software on the market.
Cons
3rd party software integration is limited compared to Premier Pro as FCP is only available for Mac and hence has a smaller user basis.
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DaVinci ResolveReasons for Choosing Final Cut Pro
Final Cut 7 was no longer supported and had become outdated.Reasons for Switching to Final Cut Pro
Final Cut is the most comprehensive software solution for video editing and unlike Premiere Pro not very consumer unfriendly subscription based. With Final Cut a one time payment gives you full acces to the software which includes regular updates and newly developed features.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
An intuitive, easy to learn PRO video editing software.
Reviewed on 25/01/2022
I use Final Cut to edit e-course videos, YouTube videos, and sometimes even videos for Facebook and...
I use Final Cut to edit e-course videos, YouTube videos, and sometimes even videos for Facebook and Instagram. It gets the job done well. It's easy to understand and navigate. It's great for novice video editors and full-out pros. It's a great, versatile software that's really a pleasure to work with.
Pros
I love that this software is accessible. Content creation is a rapidly growing industry and Apple was insightful enough to make a high-quality video editing product that anyone can learn to master.
Cons
The worst part about this software is the stock effects. At this point, it would be better for Apple to pay creators to utilize their custom cuts, LUTs, sounds, titles, etc than to keep pretending that the pre-installed ones are of professional quality. Using the built-in effects can make videos look cheap and low quality.
Reasons for Choosing Final Cut Pro
Final Cut was just soooooooooo much easier to navigate. Sooooo much easier to understand. Sooooooo much easier to figure out. As a self taught video editor, this was what really set Final Cut Pro apart from the rest.Switched From
Adobe Premiere ProReasons for Switching to Final Cut Pro
I chose Final Cut based on the usability. It was easier to use and understand as I've mentioned in detail above.Final Cut Pro FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Final Cut Pro.Q. What type of pricing plans does Final Cut Pro offer?
Final Cut Pro offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$299.99
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Available
Final Cut Pro is available at $299.99
Q. Who are the typical users of Final Cut Pro?
Final Cut Pro has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Final Cut Pro support?
Final Cut Pro supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Final Cut Pro support mobile devices?
Final Cut Pro supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Final Cut Pro integrate with?
Final Cut Pro integrates with the following applications:
Cantemo Portal, CatDV, Frame.io, Kyno
Q. What level of support does Final Cut Pro offer?
Final Cut Pro offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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