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11Final Cut Pro User Guide
Advanced color correction
• Color grade with powerful new color wheels, color curves, and hue and saturation
curves. See
Intro to color correction effects in Final Cut Pro.
• Use built-in camera LUTs to automatically process log footage and preserve its full
dynamic range. Apply looks with custom LUTs to suit your creative needs. See Apply
color lookup tables (LUTs).
• Animate your color corrections using keyframes. See Keyframe color corrections in
Final Cut Pro.
• Correct a clip’s white balance. See Manually white-balance clips in Final Cut Pro.
High-dynamic-range video
• Edit, grade, and deliver high-dynamic-range (HDR) video with live output to an HDR
monitor. See
Intro to wide color gamut and HDR in Final Cut Pro and Configure library
and project settings for wide gamut HDR.
• Export HDR files suitable for certain HDR televisions and displays. See Export HDR files
with Final Cut Pro.
Import projects created in iMovie for iOS or iPadOS
Start your project with iMovie on an iOS or iPadOS device, then send it directly to
Final Cut Pro to finish editing. See Import into Final Cut Pro from iMovie for iOS or iPadOS.
More video and audio formats
The following formats are now supported in Final Cut Pro when using macOS High Sierra
10.13:
• HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), also known as H.265, a video compression
standard
• HEIF (High Efficiency Image File Format), a file format for still images and image
sequences
• RF64, an extension to the WAV file format that allows for files larger than 4 GB
See Media formats supported in Final Cut Pro and Export formats supported in
Final Cut Pro.
Other notable features
• Effects plug-ins from Logic Pro have redesigned, resizable interfaces. For more
information, see Add audio effects in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Pro Logic Effects.
• You can now save a library to an NFS volume and use it as if it were on a local storage
device. See
Create a new library in Final Cut Pro.
• Final Cut Pro 10.4 supports XML 1.7 for new color grading controls, 360 VR effects, and
HDR. See Use XML to transfer projects in Final Cut Pro.