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25Final Cut Pro User Guide
Work faster, smarter
• Assemble clips in the Magnetic Timeline, which fluidly adjusts adjacent clips to
eliminate gaps, collisions, and sync problems.
• Ripple, roll, slip, and slide your edits using state-of-the-art trimming tools, then fine-
tune your cuts with the inline precision editor.
• Connect clips to lock cutaway shots, superimposed titles, and sound effects to your
main storyline, or nest clips within other clips.
• Edit multicamera footage, automatically syncing up to 64 angles of video with different
formats, frame sizes, and frame rates. View up to 16 angles at once, then use the angle
editor to move, sync, trim, add effects, or color grade individual clips in the timeline.
Get organized
• Declutter your workflow by organizing your media clips: Rate them, add keywords, or
bundle them into Smart Collections.
• Let Final Cut Pro detect people and shot types and then automatically assign keywords
like “One Person” or “Wide Shot.”
• With a single click, arrange sound clips into separate audio lanes in the timeline for
dialogue, voiceover tracks, music, and more.
Make every effect special
• Add stunning visual effects using any of more than 300 built-in special effects,
transitions, and generators, then adjust them with precision keyframes and onscreen
controls.
• Retime clips to create cinematic fast-motion, slow-motion, and variable-speed effects.
• Reduce or eliminate grain and video noise with easy-to-use noise-reduction tools.
• Create studio-quality 2D and 3D titles and set them in motion, without leaving
Final Cut Pro.
• Add closed captions in a variety of formats, without the need for expensive third-party
software or services.
• Create stunning effects and sweeping graphics in Motion—Apple’s professional imaging
effects app—then open and adjust them in Final Cut Pro.
• Add pro audio effects with dozens of plug-ins for audio compression, EQ, and more—
or send your soundscape to a professional audio application like Apple’s Logic Pro for
advanced mixing.
• Let Final Cut Pro analyze your video and nondestructively fix common problems like
excess hum or loudness. Correct shaky video
using the Final Cut Pro stabilization
feature.
Perfect your pixels with advanced color grading
• Automatically balance colors, match colors, and white-balance clips…
• …Or go manual and use the professional color-grading tools built into Final Cut Pro,
including a dedicated color inspector with color wheels, color curves, hue/saturation
curves, and keyframes to adjust corrections over time.