Together with the release of macOS 11 “Big Sur” Apple released an update to its pro editing software Final Cut Pro and does away with the X, so the new version is now simply called Final Cut Pro 10.5. Apple is in the process of migrating its Mac computers to “Apple Silicon”. Last Tuesday the company released three Mac models that run on its in-house designed, integrated ARM-based “M1” chips rather than discrete Intel CPUs. Because of this tectonic shift apps need to be rewritten and optimized to run efficiently on these new computers and the ones to follow. Final Cut Pro 10.5 is fit for running on Apple Silicon M1 Macs Final Cut Pro 10.5 Release Notes Aside from a new macOS Big Sur-style “squircle” icon, there is not much new under the sun: Improved performance and efficiency on Mac computers with Apple silicon.Accelerated machine learning analysis for Smart Conform using the Apple Neural Engine on Mac computers with Apple silicon.Option to create a copy of your library and automatically transcode media to ProRes Proxy or H.264 at various resolutions. There is also a list of bugfixes and improvements. One of which I want to mention at this point. “Fixes an issue in which LUTs were not available in optimized or proxy clips”. This one has bugged me for weeks now and it’s good to see it fixed. The Pro Video Formats 2.3 have also been updated. Final Cut Pro users can download it via the “Software Update” functionality...
Published By: CineD - Saturday, 14 November, 2020