Not being a colorist, this was my first exposure to Hue/Saturation curves – what they do is amazing. And, we can set a preference for our default color choice. This allows us to use the traditional, and much maligned, Color Board – or – Color Wheels – or – Color Curves – or – Hue/Saturation curves. Video scopes now display SDR or HDR values, depending upon the library and project settings, as well as the media you are editing.Īnd, thinking of color grading – WOO-HOO!! – color correction is now built into the Inspector – using the new Color Inspector. UPDATE: Apple has published an 18-page white paper: Working with Wide Color Gamut and High Dynamic Range in Final Cut Pro X. Editing HDR material is the same as editing HD. The actual HDR look is created during color grading. HDR requires shooting at least 10-bit camera native media. Which allows us to edit, color grade and output a wide variety of HDR media. This means we can set individual libraries to either Rec. Libraries now support both SDR and Wide Gamut HDR color processing. The only feature that requires High Sierra is HEVC encoding and playback.

FCP X 10.4 requires Sierra (10.12.4 or later). UPDATE: I’ve gotten a lot of questions about FCP X and High Sierra. What Apple has done is make sure that, as you and your projects evolve into these new media formats, FCP X will be ready and waiting for you. If you are not into HDR, or VR or HEVC, you can look at these core changes and say: “Is that all there is?” However, that’s the wrong perspective. 8K video and projects are fully supportedĮach of these required, I suspect, extensive programming changes throughout the application.HEVC and HEIF are now a fully-supported codecs (iOS 11 video is now supported).HDR media can now be viewed on an external HDR monitor.HDR is now implemented across all three apps, via Rec.Color correction/grading is totally redesigned (color wheels are back!!).360° VR editing, monitoring and export is now fully-supported.Yes, there are exciting new features, but the really hard work on the part of Apple’s developers was in upgrading the foundation of the application: In a sentence, Apple has positioned Final Cut Pro X for the future. I’ve had the opportunity to work with a pre-release version of these applications for a bit. Apple released the latest versions of Final Cut Pro X (10.4), Compressor (4.4) and Motion (5.4) this morning.

Apple developer tools 10.4