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15Final Cut Pro User Guide
Advanced effects
Final Cut Pro 10.2 offers powerful new tools for creating visual effects and superb video
quality in your projects.
• Use the flexible Shape Mask and Draw Mask effects to create areas of transparency
in your video clips. The Draw Mask effect lets you create complex custom masks and
provides options for linear, Bezier, or B-Spline smoothing. See Intro to masking in
Final Cut Pro and Create complex masks in Final Cut Pro.
• Define the shape of video effects and color corrections using the shape mask and color
mask controls built into almost every video effect. You can instantly display the alpha
channel for any effect mask. See
Intro to effect masking in Final Cut Pro.
• Create and save custom video and audio effects as presets for quick access. See Save
video effects presets in Final Cut Pro and Save audio effects presets.
• Take advantage of the flexible color correction workflow, which allows you to add and
rearrange instances of the new Color Correction effect just as you would any other clip
effect. See
Intro to color correction in Final Cut Pro.
• Display up to four video scopes simultaneously. See Display video scopes in
Final Cut Pro.
• Create beautiful slow motion on a wider range of content with improved optical flow.
See “Smooth out a slow-motion clip with video quality presets” in Change clip speed in
Final Cut Pro.
Camera formats
Final Cut Pro 10.2 adds support for the following formats. For a complete list, see Media
formats supported in Final Cut Pro.
• Panasonic AVC-Ultra codec family
• Sony XAVC-S
• JVC H.264 Long GOP
• GPU-accelerated RED RAW processing with support for dual GPUs
• RED RAW anamorphic formats
Additionally, you can now import Sony XAVC and XDCAM formats without a separate plug-
in.
Other notable features
• The Media Import window now contains all options in a single sidebar. See Intro to
importing media in Final Cut Pro.
• You can create Smart Collections across entire libraries. See Create Smart Collections
in Final Cut Pro and Organize Smart Collections in Final Cut Pro.
• Final Cut Pro 10.2 supports XML 1.5. See Use XML to transfer projects in Final Cut Pro.
• When you export a project using Compressor, the process now employs GPU rendering.