![]() And these problems join a number of regular crashes I experience when attempting to export videos, create compound clips, and copy content from one library to another. There’s no excuse for it, and no amount of updating on Apple’s behalf appears to solve the issue. And you can bet your bottom dollar that the likes of LumaFusion don’t, either. It’s so bad that I’ve developed the muscle memory required to start and stop footage as I go about my editing duties.įrom what I’m told, Adobe Premiere Pro doesn’t do this. ![]() Then, Final Cut Pro drunkenly catches up by slowly revealing the clip previews and audio waveforms. As the video plays and you scroll, you’re essentially left with blank horizontal bars that don’t contain any form of useful information – until you hit ‘stop’. ![]() Hit ‘play’ on your video and scroll through the timeline, and Final Cut Pro will refuse to redraw the audio waveform or clip preview on the timeline. Questionable underpinningsĪs fast as I can fly through an edit on Final Cut Pro, there’s one glitch that casts a shadow over the entire process. I’ve made no secret about my desire to have a full-blown version of Final Cut Pro on the iPad, but until Apple sorts out the cumbersome file structure and dreadfully inefficient use of disk space, I can’t see how it’s ever going to be possible. That gets expensive and means the idea of cross-device syncing remains nothing but a dream. Sure, you can run everything from an external SSD as I do, but you’ll need terabytes and terabytes of space available if you don’t want to run into the dreaded ‘not enough space’ message during a render. This makes Final Cut Pro anything but portable. As noted, all of the footage and audio files are kept safely in separate folders, yet Final Cut Pro appears intent on randomly copying stuff into the library without my permission and creating humungous render files. I detail the way I do it in my popular Skillshare class, but in essence, it involves keeping the Final Cut Pro library and my raw footage and audio separate.ĭespite this, my library file still balloons in size as the video editing process matures. There are several (arguably, too many) options when it comes to managing your library and raw files in Final Cut Pro. But Final Cut Pro feels about as light on its feet as an oil tanker. In part, this is to be expected video files, by their nature, are large. But my tales from the other end of the production scale reveal the breadth of problems surrounding Apple’s video editing suite.įinal Cut Pro is incredibly cumbersome. None of these things affects me, because I make videos of myself talking to a camera about MacBooks and headphones. “Different users have to be able to access the same library at the same time. “Editing big productions needs collaboration,” explains Steven Sanders, the chief editor behind Fox TV series War of the Worlds. Working collaboratively is also cited as a problem. The second is a lack of integration within Hollywood’s existing framework, relating to data transfer issues and the inability to meet standards. The first is a lack of trust professional film editors believe that Final Cut Pro simply isn’t up to the task of editing big-budget TV and film productions due to missing features and poor support from Apple. The letter urges Apple to promote Final Cut Pro better and add features that are required for more comprehensive industry adoption. To date, 461 people have signed an open letter to Tim Cook which asks Apple to “publicly stand by the use of Final Cut Pro” in TV and film industries across the world. It’s just a shame that Final Cut Pro is so inherently flawed. It’s why I’ve never bothered to try out Adobe Premiere or sniff out the likes of LumaFusion on the iPad. That’s why I still use Final Cut Pro for video editing. It really isn’t worth undoing all of that hard work just because something else has caught your eye – particularly if time is money. ![]() ![]() It takes a significant amount of time and effort to create the processes, workflows, and habits that enable you to be so productive with such tools. When you find a creative tool that works for you, it’s always best to stick with it. ![]()
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