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What is Final Cut Pro X?

Create stunning 3D titles in just a few clicks. Adjust the look, lighting, animation, and more with simple controls that generate studio-quality titles.

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Create stunning 3D titles in just a few clicks. Adjust the look, lighting, animation, and more with simple controls that generate studio-quality titles.


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5.0 out of 5
"Best Video Editing Software"
Final Cut Pro X is my go to software for all my video and audio editing needs. It is quite advanced. Yet with a background with Imovie software I w...
Shiv K.
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4.5 out of 5
"One of the fastest and most reliable video editor toaday."
It has multiple editing features such as cropping and text animations for editing our videos. It works very smoothly on all of our Macbooks and iPa...
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"FCPX is Fabulous!"
I love the magnetic timeline!.. It took some getting used to initially; however, the speed of editing that comes with the quick adjustments that ca...
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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

Final Cut Pro X is my go to software for all my video and audio editing needs. It is quite advanced. Yet with a background with Imovie software I was able to catch on. I'm still learning new features as new projects come up. It has all features you may need and plugins to add for additional cost for more advanced tools. The option is there and that's what makes it the best in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

Sometimes it is not easy to figure out how to use a particular feature and it may require searching for tutorials from external sources. Yet I believe this is the case with most softwares. It is a great software but can only be mastered by those who have an extensive experience and background in editing, photography and videography. The average person will struggle but it's not impossible to figure it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

Changing the background. Cutting dead space. Captions. Reducing file size. Combining files. Creating professional clips. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

Final Cut Pro X is very lightweight and works great on our MacOs systems. It has simple and good looking editing interface. It has vast collections of special effects and audios for our videos. It has simple tools to advance tools for our professional video editing. It supports all types of video resolutions for our 2K, 4K, and even 8K videos. It also support different types of video coding methods for better quality and framerates in our videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

It is only available on MacOs and is a bit expensive too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

Final Cut Pro has been great for editing our videos in terms of speed and better quality. It has large collections of effects, audios, and animations for improving our videos. It is highly optimised for Apple silicons, which provides great framerates while editing our high resolution videos. It supports varities of Video Coding techniquies for better video quality and color. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

It has multiple editing features such as cropping and text animations for editing our videos. It works very smoothly on all of our Macbooks and iPads. It supports all of our video formats. It has many built in collections of music and transitions for our videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

It supports trial but after that It is a bit expensive to buy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

It works very smoothly on all of our MacOs systems and enable us to use Metal features while editing our videos, this helped us edit our videos in very high quality with great speed. It have very simple and user friendly interface for editing, which took very less time to understand Final Cut Pro's editing inteface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

Final Cut Pro is very fast and efficient video editor on our Mac devices. It support our high quality videos from 2K to even 8K editing. It supports multiple layers of special effects on our videos. We can also import many other special effects and vfx from any source for our editing. It supports allmost all different types of video and audio formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

It is a bit costly for these limited features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is very lightweight and fast video editor totally build for Mac platforms. It has high quality video encoding feature which encodes our videos very efficienty without compromising the video and audio quality. It supports very high framerates for our videos to be more stable and lagfree. Final Cut Pro has a very large community for our problems to be solved there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

FCPX's ability to handle all video types is fine. I expect other editors can say the same. However, having the Apple "edge" and ability to interact with all (my) Apple devices puts a familiarity and consistency to things. The features are vast and even though I make TV commercials, I've only scratched the surface of all the tools available. One can be come VERY productive the FCPX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

My only complaint is even with two monitors my editing real estate is taxed. Sometimes my timeline has so many layers that I have no choice but to scroll up or down to get to something. I would prefer having it ALL visible at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

It handles all my video production from SM ads, training videos, TV commercials, creative projects (short films, music videos). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

I have been fortunate to use FCPX over the last fifteen years. It is a wonderful online editing tool that delivers each and every time! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

There is nothing that I dislike about FCPX. It's interface and ease of use sets it apart easily from other video editing software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

FCPX significant simplifies the video editing process. It makes editing fun while encouraging creativity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

It is unbelievably simple to use. The shortcut keys like 'C' for the cut tool make everything so simple. Plethora of options to select from which are all infinitely customizable. You will not need to rely on any customer support as most of it is self-explanatory, but a few things might need Googling like knowing what the Keyer (green screen) effect is. Great options for simple sound editing, the precision editing is really a beast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

Expensive as the software and the hardware required are expensive. You will get tied down to the ecosystem. Compiling even just a 10-minute video can take a really long time. Competitors like DaVinci Resolve are pretty good as well and open source as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows me to create longer, more professional videos, say compiling a presentation video for an event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Magali V.
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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

Quick workflow with every video editing feature I'll need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

Expensive to buy (but updates are free!) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

I edit all my videos, for all platforms on different aspect rations as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

Its so easy to cut clips and put them on the timeline. Most of the processes are straightforward and organization can be contained inside of your projects (Libraries). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

I don't like that there is little customization of the window layout, and my windows don't always stay the way I left them. I need to see audio meters and I have to open them every time. I'm sure there's a layout setting I can change to make a "custom" layout but I'd rather it just keep what I did last time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Final Cut Pro X:

If you're looking to do quick cuts and easy corrections, Final Cut has everything built in. There are third party plug ins that you can get to do heavy graphics or you can round trip to another software. It doesn't do quite everything, but it is VERY efficient in what it does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its super fast to cut and render videos, yet powerful enough to do professional work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Final Cut Pro X?

I absolutely Final Cut Pro X, especially it's simplicity. I used iMovie recreationally for years, and when my marketing company asked if I knew how to do video editing for YouTube and social media, I said yes.

I figured I'd have a steep learning curve with Final Cut Pro, but it's extremely intuitive and similar to iMovie. I don't use every advanced feature, but when I need to, I can easily find a tutorial on YouTube. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Final Cut Pro X?

Sometimes the text editor is weird when adding captions to videos, and occassionally, it'll crash if I'm doing to many edits - though that could definitely be due to my laptop. Overall, I'm very impressed with how easy Final Cut Pro X is to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Final Cut Pro X solving and how is that benefiting you?

I need to quickly edit videos, make short clips for social media with captions, and occassionally edit longer videos for YouTube.

I absolutely love how easy it is to save settings in Final Cut Pro. I have a bunch of saved fonts and colors, audio setting plugins, and export settings, which easily allow me to take any video, and have the output match all the other videos for brands I work with. Very easy and intuitive product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.