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12Final Cut Pro User Guide
What’s new in Final Cut Pro 10.3
Final Cut Pro 10.3 introduces new features and enhancements, detailed below.
New interface
• A redesigned modern interface puts the focus on your video. See Final Cut Pro
interface.
• Configure custom workspaces for tasks like organizing and color grading. Fill a second
display with the timeline (or hide the timeline completely). Expand the inspector to
full-screen height. See
Arrange the Final Cut Pro main window, Change the workspace
layout in Final Cut Pro, and Use a second display with Final Cut Pro.
Enhanced roles support and Magnetic Timeline 2
• Color coding of clips based on roles—Dialogue, Music, and Effects—lets you understand
your project at a glance. Enhanced roles support lets you create and manage a unique
set of roles for each Final Cut Pro library. See Intro to roles in Final Cut Pro.
• You can create and assign roles to identify different types of audio and video clips, and
you can customize the colors of roles. See
View and reassign roles in Final Cut Pro,
Create custom roles in Final Cut Pro, and Change role colors or names in Final Cut Pro.
• An enhanced timeline index lets you drag audio roles to rearrange the layout of the
timeline. See
Reorder audio roles in Final Cut Pro.
• You can use the Focus button in the timeline index to highlight specific audio roles and
collapse all others. See
Focus the Final Cut Pro timeline on a role.
• The Show Audio Lanes button in the timeline index displays a structured timeline layout
with dedicated lanes for each audio role. The Show Subroles button expands the view
down to the component level. See
Organize the Final Cut Pro timeline with audio lanes
and View and edit components in audio lanes.
• You can now add audio effects and keyframe audio volume changes for an entire role
within a compound clip. See
Work with audio roles in compound clips in Final Cut Pro.
• iXML support enables automatic creation and assignment of roles based on metadata
from an audio field recorder. See Create custom roles automatically during import using
iXML metadata.
Wider color gamut
• Video shot in wide-gamut color space can now be viewed in wider color gamut on
supported Mac computers and external displays. See Intro to wide color gamut and HDR
in Final Cut Pro.
• You can now import, edit, and deliver video in Standard (Rec. 601 and Rec. 709) color
spaces or in Wide Gamut (Rec. 2020) color space. You can configure color space
settings for both libraries and projects. See Use wide-gamut HDR color processing in
Final Cut Pro.