Final Cut Pro 11.1 Released By Iain Anderson

Today, Final Cut Pro 11.1 was released, and arsenic usual, it’s a free update. If you’re mid-project, either hold until it’s complete, aliases return a backmost up conscionable successful lawsuit thing breaks. Zip a transcript of nan existent app, rename it to see its type number, and archive it, conscionable successful case.

This merchandise contains respective useful features, immoderate of which aren’t obvious, and immoderate which alteration useful caller workflows. Let’s excavation in.

Native Adjustment Clips pinch caller powers

That’s right, you nary longer person to find a third-party Adjustment Layer to beryllium capable to adhd colour corrections, effects aliases transforms to galore clips astatine once. But bent on — because they’re not built in, you whitethorn ne'er person encountered them, truthful what are they? An Adjustment Layer is simply a title pinch nan matter removed, and because a title tin see an constituent that affects everything beneath it, thing you do to nan Adjustment Layer affects everything beneath it.

(A speedy aside… why telephone it an Adjustment Layer? Simply because of nan Adjustment Layer colour corrections successful Photoshop that moved crossed to Premiere Pro and After Effects. However, nan autochthonal Adjustment Layer successful Premiere Pro still only supports effects and not transforms, making it acold little useful. In FCP, an accommodation furniture tin scale, harvest aliases reposition clips underneath — truthful you tin usage 1 to punch successful and retired connected a analyzable composite.)

To usage Adjustment Clips successful FCP 11.1, conscionable type ⌥A (or usage Edit > Add Adjustment Clip) and 1 appears connected apical of your timeline, fresh to beryllium trimmed and repositioned. Like a modular Adjustment Layer, immoderate effects, crops, transforms aliases colour corrections connected an Adjustment Clip use to each clip beneath it, and it remains an incredibly useful concept. However, nan Adjustment Clip is amended successful galore ways.

Transitions connected Adjustment Clips — and connected abstracted Roles? Yes please

First, you tin adhd transitions to them, fading a colour correction successful and out, conscionable arsenic you mightiness expect, but successful a measurement that Adjustment Layers ne'er did. This is simply a monolithic workflow boost, because you tin now set nan settings of colour corrections crossed an accommodation clip simply by adding it into a Storyline (⌘G) earlier blading it up, mounting different corrections successful each section, past adding transverse dissolves (⌘T) connected each those cuts. This is simply a awesome no-keyframes measurement to set colour complete time, and it’s a awesome measurement to work.

Second, you tin use an effect to a named Adjustment Clip successful a azygous movement by selecting an effect successful nan Effects Browser and past tapping ⌥A. For prize points, prime a scope successful nan timeline (with nan Range Tool, aliases simply tapping I, past O) and past prime an effect and pat ⌥A. The named accommodation furniture will past span conscionable that range.

Third, Adjustment Clips person their ain dedicated Role. If you adhd one, you’ll spot a caller Adjustment Clips domiciled which tin beryllium turned connected aliases off, and if you don’t for illustration its caller default color, you tin alteration it by pressing nan Edit Roles button. This makes it easy to research pinch looks successful much analyzable ways. By creating subroles wrong Adjustment Clips, you tin easy effort retired caller looks, connected galore abstracted clips crossed your timeline if you want, past flick them connected and disconnected from nan Timeline Index. This is simply a powerful technique.

Fourth, nan elemental truth that it’s built successful makes it overmuch little hassle to usage Adjustment Clips successful a collaborative environment. No request to make judge everyone has nan nonstop aforesaid Adjustment Layer installed, conscionable ⌥A and you’re done. One speedy note, though. While you shouldn’t usage Adjustment Layers connected immoderate caller projects, don’t delete your aged ones, aliases they’re beryllium missing from immoderate archived jobs you unfastened down nan track.

This characteristic unsocial earns nan .1, but there’s more!

Markers tin move

So simple, truthful obvious, truthful yet here. This characteristic was coming but hidden successful immoderate erstwhile versions of FCP, but was disabled, presumably for a bully (and apt technical) reason. Now, you tin simply resistance a marker sideways to move it wrong a azygous clip, aliases resistance it up to region it. Note that you cannot resistance a marker to a different clip. Fingers crossed that we spot multi-colored markers soon, but for now, if you want a spot of colour connected nan timeline, nan champion workaround is to adhd an emoji successful a caption and connect it to immoderate clip pinch a ⌘⌥-click.

Image Playground is now integrated

Pressing nan Import fastener now pops up a paper which includes Import and Image Playground arsenic options. If you find this slows you down, nan modular ⌘I shortcut still works, arsenic does drag-and-drop — which, incidentally, skips immoderate rewrapping that Import mightiness do.

AI has been discussed rather a spot here, and though location are different opinions connected really bully it is and really ethical it is to use, Apple’s attack has apparently been connected nan much ethical side. And moreover if you’d alternatively debar GenAI creation successful general, utilizing AI-generated creation for placeholder graphics is an perfect and evident usage case.

Image Playground made each of these, and while nan scenery is fine, I had asked for a “wide” changeable of nan person

My main rumor pinch nan implementation present is that Image Playground only makes quadrate images (not perfect for usage successful scenery aliases image videos) and it was trained to create person-centric images. While nan Placeholder generator (present since 10.0) offers a action of focal lengths, Image Playground likes each personification to beryllium a head-and-shoulders changeable successful a quadrate format, and aft cropping to widescreen, they’re simply excessively close. I’ve besides recovered that Image Playground really wants to characteristic circumstantial people, truthful if you inquire for “humans” it’ll inquire you to constituent to a photograph of a circumstantial quality it tin imitate.

I dream a early training exemplary tin nutrient images pinch a wider scope of focal lengths successful a 16:9 ratio, because pre-editing to Placeholder generators is simply a awesome measurement to work. Recently, I utilized Placeholders to create temp edits to approved euphony for back-to-back same-day-edits astatine a conference, and if I could person utilized semi-realistic shots alternatively than silhouettes, nan customer would person had a overmuch clearer thought of my ideas up of time.

Approved euphony below, thumps marked, and placeholder shots astatine a assortment of different focal lengths placed supra — but this would beryllium awesome pinch much realistic images from Image Playground

Still, Image Playground is an fantabulous instrumentality for unrecorded ideation pinch immoderate clients, and it’ll beryllium useful.

Quantec Room Simulator is included

At Apple, erstwhile this characteristic was shown astatine nan Final Cut Pro Creative Summit arsenic portion of a Logic Pro demo, nan assemblage was floored, but past somewhat fto down to observe that QRS was only successful Logic Pro. Still, we didn’t person to hold excessively long. Now it’s successful FCP arsenic well, successful nan Spaces category, nether nan Logic heading.

Quantec Room Simulator makes it easy to nonstop your characters into deep, acheronian reverberative spaces

While my attraction is usually much connected nan video than nan audio, this is an effect I tin perfectly spot myself using, particularly if I ever request to simulate really characters would sound successful a submarine, aliases a 1000L tank, aliases a Mining Machine Hall — seriously, cheque retired nan unthinkable scope of presets.

Bug fixes and workflow boosts

It’s now imaginable to rename audio effects successful nan Inspector, conscionable arsenic you tin rename video effects, which really helps to enactment organised successful a analyzable effects stack.

It’s ever been easy to uncover nan root clip for immoderate clip connected nan timeline (⇧F) but it’s not been truthful easy to find nan original clip wrong a multicam clip — until now. With a clip selected connected nan timeline, a azygous property of ⇧F will prime nan portion of nan original browser clip successful usage connected nan timeline, and a 2nd property of ⇧F will prime nan original clip wrong nan progressive angle.

File > Reveal Source successful Browser tin now find a root clip wrong a multicam clip

This allows you to very easy switch portion of a multicam clip connected nan timeline pinch its original root clip, useful if you request to execute 1 of nan fewer features that multicams don’t support, for illustration stabilization. Previously, you’d person had to dip into a multicam to execute this operation, and now you don’t. (Note that if you’re looking for a afloat solution for multicam flattening, that’s imaginable pinch a instrumentality from nan legends astatine Automatic Duck. You tin grab Multicam Flattener from nan App Store.)

Many different bugs person been squished, including immoderate related to nan Magnetic Mask. Also, there’s now a keyboard shortcut for showing aliases hiding nan Magnetic Mask editor: ⌃⌥⌘M. 

Minor updates to Motion and Compressor

Small updates and bug fixes were added present too. Motion gets entree to Image Playground, positive immoderate bug fixes, and Compressor gets amended value retiming — presumably nan Smooth Slow Mo from FCP. This will beryllium useful for anyone producing activity for immersive, wherever 90fps is preferred. Most cameras can’t scope that framework complaint astatine their apical resolution, and for immoderate kinds of productions astatine least, this will span nan spread betwixt each different camera and nan apical spec beasts — nan Blackmagic URSA Cine 17K, Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive, and nan Immersive Camera One and Two from Immersive Company.

Conclusion

As ever, it’s awesome to spot useful features still being added to an app that’s ne'er charged a cent successful upgrade fees aft complete a decade. Of course, Apple tin make that activity retired because you’ll request a Mac to tally FCP, and Blackmagic make Resolve activity by trading you cameras and accumulation gear, but I admit free upgrades nevertheless they’re made possible.

Adjustment Layers were awesome but nan inability to modulation them was ever an rumor — and now Adjustment Clips supply a overmuch much complete solution. Image Playground will beryllium useful for immoderate editors coming (it’s a powerful measurement to experiment) but I tin spot it becoming moreover much useful successful nan early pinch a fewer elasticity improvements. And QRS? Definitely worthy a deeper dive. If you’ve already backed up FCP 11.0 and immoderate progressive projects, update away, and happy editing.