Final Cut Pro App Reviews

Absolutely the latest hardware and software - still no saving this buggy code from crashing daily. Running FCPX 10.1 on MacBookPro with 16GB ram and 1 TB flash disk. Clean computer - with a licenced copy of Microsoft Office and eval version of Adobe Photoshop. FCP crashes daily - sometimes 5 or 6 times - have it captured on my cell phone if anyone cares to see it. Letest version has many stupid bugs: downloaded Extra Audio content gets lost - requires a restart to get it back - which is uber annoying since the software crashes so often. Must avoid looking at the video effects - doing so seems to cause a crash (memory leak?); especially so, if timeline slider bar (can’t recall what the proper term is) is hovering over an applied effect, looking at the effects in the effects browser will causes the Mac and/or FCP to crash soon thereafter. There are other annoying issues as well, but the crashing is the ABSOLUTE WORST. Apple - PLEASE fix this!!!!!! Don’t make me go back to Windows…I’ve been suffering since Windows 3.11 and am sooo disappointed with FCP. I LOVE My MacBookPro and it’s phenomenal retina display. I even love using Mac OS Maverics! But FCPX is not usable in a professional environment due to the frequent crashes. And PLEASE don’t issue any more buggy software releases unless your testers have thouroughly tested them!! Do not do what Microsoft does - I want to use the software I paid hard-earned $$$ for - not debug it for you. I purchased this computer and FCPx ONLY for video editing and so far I’m very disappointed…. FCP runs well when it runs, and has a lot of great features over Priemere, but the crashing is not acceptable. This (crashing) is such a huge problem that your software engineers have removed the “SAVE” button since FCP keeps a continuous back-up of the work (== HUGE WASTE OF HARD DISK CAPACITY). For example, my 26GB of videos (rendered in HD1080p) consumed ~300GB of disk space (due to FCP converting all imported files to 4.2.2 HD format), and another ~150GB of garbage (intermediate back-ups) over the past two weeks of editing home videos. My 1TB HDD is half full already and I’ve only had this system for 3 weeks!

Amazing, best editing software. perfect for beginners.. I’m only 14!

I really wanted the new FCPX to work and be something amazing. ..but coming from a professinal editor….trust me it’s not. There is always something wrong with it. Always is unlinking files. I’m scared to turn it off and restart it because it erases edits. I’m leaving FC and heading back to Adobe, enough is enough.

This is the most stable version by far. I love it. Good thing i didnt switch. Thank you fruity. More updates to come….

Forced to upgrade to Mavericks, install hangs on splash screen every time. Tried all of apple’s suggested fixes as well as all suggested fixes on forums. Still unable to edit after spending $300 to purchase this software. Would not recommend.

I was an early adopter of FCPX and absolutely loved it. I worked through the failing to save bugs, duplicated projects to ensure I didn’t lose work, etc. It was totally worth it. But now, with the additions of the libraries and the optimizations they’ve made for the Mac Pro, it’s become nearly useless on my 2011 iMac. It stops and spins the beach ball when I change fonts, crashes to the desktop if I zoom in on the time line or extend a clip by dragging the edge, all things that functioned just fine before the “optimizations.” As of right now, it’s practically useless for me. Very frustrating for someone who’s supported and love the software since it’s debut. It’s never been as unstable and terrible as it is in it’s current form.

This software runs as it should. Ive have no complains with this version. Very pleased.

For a companey like Apple, this software is just terrible. The time line is laid out very poorly and it seems to have a mind of its own. I would not recommend to any proffessional seeking video editing software. DO NOT PURCHASE*

I have used FCP from version 1-7, while each version grew from the last, addting the features that were needed and expected I expected something similar when FCP X was released. Sure it was completely rewritten but how different could it be right? Wow! It was totally not what I was expecting and went against a lot of what I had grown accustomed to both in video editing and in Mac software. I found myself fighting the changes and not liking some of the implimentation of the user interface… at first. The more I forced myself to use it the more I began to reteach myself how to edit better. I can edit much faster then I ever could in earlier versions of FCP, or any other Pro editing software for that matter. It really is a well made piece of software and I hope more people give it a real chance before deciding it’s not for them. BTW the background rendering is just awesome!

I must say, I’ve been an Apple fanboy for quite some time now. I have never spoken ill of this company or their products, ever, until this point. This is the biggest piece of garbage out there. I’ve used a plethora of editing suites in my personal life and professional career, this makes Windows Movie Maker look incredible. I’ve used Adobe, Avid, Matrox, FCP 7, and Velocity (an awful news editing platform made by former Harris, now Imagine Communications.) This one takes the cake for biggest piece of junk. If you’re a consumer and only intend on using it for home movies shot on your iPhone or iPad, it may work, I have my doubts though. I used FCP 7 for the past 3 years professionally until I couldn’t hold on any longer (buggy, crashing, slow). The company I work for set me out to find an editor / compositor that would meet the needs of a multitude of workflows. i.e.. commerical and promotional production as well as news editing. If you work in either one of these fields avoid this software like the plague. We purchased a copy of this program; FCP, and the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (Premeiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, etc.). We’ve decided to go with the later. This latest version of Apple’s flagship editor seems to be designed to make editors lazy. Which is great, yay, you don’t have to properly name your clips or organize things in any reasonable manner. Try using offline storage or archieving projects only to be faced with headaches and frustration when you try to bring them back online or when they (Apple) decides to do an update that changes and restructions the way they store your files. Search (.fcpprojects and .fcpevents just to see how much confusion they’ve already managed to create with a “simple update”). The team that set out to create the world’s best editor has failed miserably and it’s definitely not designed in the usual Apple, easy-to-use, fashion. If you plan on making money and create something of value from editing / compositing, move on to another piece of software. I’ve always been able to justify the cost of all the Apple products I’ve purchased for myself and on behalf of the company I work for, unfortunately this time I can’t even justify $300, they should offer this for free to consumers and actually put out a real editor for professionals, something more consistant with FCP 7. Sorry Apple.

It took me some time to enjoy this app. Im an ex-Avid user. I also tried Premiere but it plunged me in early 2000. So I jumped for FCPX. The learning curve was not as great as I thought. It took me less time to edit the same TV program I used to edit each week. All features are included to focus on the important things. I do not like wasting my time looking for how to do something. FCPX is perfect for this.

FCPX is an amazing app, that in my opinion has a lot of features. Some people call it ‘An Alternative to Avid’ and I don’t agree. All the features are hidden somewhere in the menu bar. Like the Canvas and Viewer features in FCP 7, you’d have to go to Window > Show Event Viewer. Right now, the Multicam Editing is really great, especially with the Auto-Synchronizing feature. Why I left out one star is because the keying feature is not as strong as programs like Premiere or After Effects. And also it stops responding for about half a minute when I do heavy editing on my MacBook Pro, Core i7, 16 GIGs of ram and 3.0 GHz.

I love to work with FCPX, it’s fast intuitive and is pleasent to work on it. I would like just to have back the botton (send to Motion) directly from the clip on FCPX thanks

Final Cut Pro is great and easy to use, but when I need to send a short clip to motion, there is no send to motion button. So how do you make a really effects heavy music video sans exporting and importing every 10 sec clip? You can’t, -.-

New update keeps crashing. It took 4-5 crashes to start and after start it only remains 2 mins active then quit unexpectedly. Avoid updating until fix. Plz fix asap.

The new features might be good but I can’t tell because FCP alternatively crashes on launch or crashes while attempting to update libraries. Very disappointing.

The new Final Cut Pro X 10.2 versions boasts largely useless features (3D titles), has reorganized and hidden extremely important functions, and as usual refuses to let you use any project made with any previous version of Final Cut Pro X. I’ve had others tell me about crashing, problems with trimming etc, so tread carefully with this newly made software.

Some reviewers have crash problems but most of crashing issues come from third party plugins that need to be updated. First time I opened this new version of FCPX I experienced some crash too, but after udating all necessary plugins, video output software or old version of codec, FCPX run smoothly and faster without problems. My only dissatisfaction come from the fact that the development team does not really listen demands of the users like advanced audio mixing functions or scrolling timeline.

Brilliant! Take a simple and useful app like iMovie, and slowly make it garbage. Then offer a much more EXPENSIVE app! Once again, Apple, you’ve outdone yourselves!!! Brilliant!

When I read the reviews on the new FCPX I was a little hesitant to upgrade because of all the negativity. Not sure where the negativity came from, this new design is FANTASTIC! We create instructional video content and the new design of FCPX makes my workflow 10 times easier. New magnetic timelines and auto save features are great. The ability to creat one template in Motion 5 then import to FCPX as a independent template illiminated multiple template imports from older versions of Motion. The new drop elements to the timeline instead of creating a whole new trtack is genius. Now I can edit individual timelines without isulating from the old multi track design. The ability to scoll over video clips and hand click isulated tracks saves so much time it is not funny! For those that gave this upgrade a bad review it is obvious that you did not take the time to learn the new layout and workflow or maybe a little intimidated by the new design. Take the time, learn the power of this new rebuild, i found it well worth it. The only complaint I have is Apple not making it possible to import older FCP sequences, very disappointed in apple dropping the ball on that one. I use 7toX for Final Cut Pro program to convert older FCP7 files, worked with a few glitches, but for the most part did the job.