NAB in Las Vegas has a number of interesting gadgets and software announced. Actually, the event has more professional gears than consumer gadgets. Therefore, Apple has also tapped on the opportunity to announce the newest version of their professional video editing software, Final Cut Pro X.
Apple calls the FCP X as revolutionary as the original Final Cut introduced back in 1999. Apple also disclosed some figures of the current version of FCP, saying that the software is popular in indie film community, essential for broadcast community and has 2 million users with 94% satisfaction.
The new Final Cut Pro X is a complete revamp from the ground up. And it’s now a 64-bit application and supports OpenCL. There are a number of new features, are as follows at a glance.
- 64-bit app, OpenCL support
- All editing native – no transcoding (for supported formats incl. H264, I assume)
- Fully color-managed Final Cut based on colorsync
- “Resolution-independent playback system” up to 4K formats
- Uses Grand Central Dispath
- Media is ready for editing even before ingest is completed. Stabilization, audio and shutter correction, shot detection and preliminary color balancing automatically applied during ingest
- Timecode-based keywording within clips
- Collections and “smart” collections of media based on metadata and analysis, presented in iMovie filmstrip style
- Auto-syncing clips via audio waveform analysis
- Automated color-matching between clips
And with the many new features above, the FCP X costs only $299! Find out more from crunchgear
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