Apple Motion is used to make nearly all the effects, titles, generators and transitions in Final Cut Pro, both built-in and those made by others.
They can be made responsive to the aspect ratio of the timeline they are used in. Here’s how:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/making...
My question for Mr. Diabaté: ‘How rare must an experience be for it to remain a luxury?’
What will happen to the birth rate 9 months later?
First, I expect children will be born into the collective. What number of humans suit Earth?
What is the combined will of humanity?
Will human knowledge increase exponentially?
Is human speech needed?
Are all species each collectives?
I had to do the same for the BBC News Persian service a few years ago.
Having to make a pixel perfect recreation meant I got to know the After Effects to Premiere template workflow very well.
Signs of stagnation in post production:
1. App monocultures mean lack of competitors driving innovation.
ProTools for sound
After Effects for compositing and motion graphics
Premiere for editing
2. Post in 2025 wouldn’t be surprising to people from 2010.
“You’ll be part of the new(s) services initiative team”…
jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...
The steady inexorable growth of services.
Adobe Creative Cloud isn’t a cloud-based service.
Creativity apps as a service?
Pixelmator
Final Cut
Motion
Logic
How soon until Apple includes Apple Create?
For humans and AI agents.
Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):
An upside that is not worth the downsides.
An abstraction that could be countered with role-based effects. If Apple wanted to seem to care.
Seeing Apple market Resolve as the Apple Immersive Video app for Apple Vision Pro is frustrating for me as someone that sees track-based NLEs as quaint.
Seeing demoing how you need to use a Fusion patch to carry out simple compositing tasks for AIV gives me hope for Final Cut and Motion.
What a pity.
In 2017 was the first editing app that transcribed what you said and showed the words in sync with your footage on screen.
Two years later CapCut included the same feature in China, in 2020 for US users.
Shooting 9 pages/23 shots/15 setups tomorrow. With a crew of 1. And new lights & camera we’ve never used. And also I don’t know any of the lines. And I don’t like what I wrote. It’s ineloquent and unfunny. Let’s do this!
Should basketball basket heights be set depending on an equation based on the heights of the opposing team?
Random idea while watching Nick Folk: If your kicker is over 40 years old, field goals should be worth 4 points
Over 45? 5 points
Over 50? 8 points
Screenshot of new app with this text overlaid: "Final Cut Camera 2.0 Press Release Mentions next versions of Final Cut Pro"
Apple announces Final Cut Camera 2.0 and mentions…
“upcoming releases of Final Cut Pro 11.2 and Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.3, editors gain control over iPhone ProRes RAW footage, with direct adjustments for exposure, color temperature, tint, and demosaicing.”
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
This feature of Apple Motion has amazed my clients at the BBC for years. It has made me seem clever.
For graphics that work in any aspect ratio (100:1 to 100:1 and beyond) I only need to include a maximum of 4 Display Aspect Ratio snapshots.
#postsky
Faint text shows shards of text far apart on a black background
White text shows shards of text closer together on a black background - the word 'Vanished’ is recognisable.
White text shows shards of text closer together on a black background - the words ‘The’ ‘Day’ and 'Vanished’ are recognisable.
White text on a black background: "The Day Eva Vanished"
This new Final Cut Pro title ‘Unshatters’ the font, size and colour and text of your choice.
Get ‘Text Shards’ from Luca Visual FX now.
#fcpx
Final Cut Pro creative summit website message: “Sometimes the best projects need a little more time in the edit bay. That’s why we’re remastering the Final Cut Pro Creative Summit for its new Spring 2026 release. We’re using this extra time to go frame-by-frame, adding new content, polishing every session, and ensuring the final export is our most inspiring event ever. The first look at our new timeline drops this December!”
Aww, man… no 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼 Creative Summit for 2025 😭 I was already pre-approved by my work to go.
The good news is it’s still happening in the spring, instead. Unfortunately that’s my busiest time and could prevent me from attending. Damn it.
fcpcreativesummits.com
£126 for an Thunderbolt 5 enclosure that can hold 8TB of NVMe M.2 SSD with “up to 3,151 MB/s real-world performance”
Oh yes.
Now waiting for the next Sci-Fi project to bring it to use.
Watching the first episode of #AlienEarth inspired me to make a free Final Cut Pro title template that emulates the MU-TH-UR chat user interface, and also on-screen titles.
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It’s about time I got back into making free tools for Final Cut users!
Next: a time and space viewer.
Choose any location on Google Maps and go back in time.
Move in 3D through imagery captured 15 years ago.
Add historical photography and maps… visit 1925.
Paintings, illustrations and contemporary descriptions:
1525
Archaeology:
2025BC
Geology:
200,000BC
Screenshot from Adobe site showing that Creative Cloud Pro plan costs £100 a month, £774 a year.
Screenshot from Adobe site showing that Creative Cloud Pro plan costs £80 a month, £596 a year.
Warning for those on the ‘Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps’ plan
When your renewal comes around, Adobe will automatically ‘upgrade’ you to a different plan: the new ‘Creative Cloud Pro’ plan.
Upside: 4,000 generative credits.
Downside: Big price difference.
In UK: 25%
#postsky
Blackmagic Design’s Content Creator Ecosystem event
Wednesday 3 September, London
“Whether you're a filmmaker, YouTuber, TikToker, or creative agency pro, you'll learn how Blackmagic’s cinema cameras and DaVinci Resolve can supercharge your workflow”
cvp.com/events/shoot...
Golang developer and Final Cut Pro user Andrew Arrow has made a library in Golang that Claude Code can use to generate #fcpx sequences.
More about ‘Cutlass’
fcp.cafe/news/20250627/
Available on GitHub
#postchat
Inventing the Future John Buck
The reaction to FCPX always felt like entitled rage. 12 years of 32-bit FCP that birthed millions of businesses (including me). Bank it, upgrade, move on. I know Jobs spoke to Randy Ubillos (Premiere & FCP/KeyGrip) about the "Vertigo" aka FCPX launch and they agreed. 64-bit or nothing. @gruber.foo
News!
New Final Cut Pro plugin for Krock, a post production organisation and review system that competes with FrameIO, Shotgrid, Boords and Ftrack.
Includes
• Overlay mode: to check for image differences
• Auto-compare mode highlights visual differences with colour
krock.io/finalcut-int...
The Media Composer Transcript Tool gets you to a timeline quickly.
Pity you have to muck about with track targeting and edge selection while considering clip collisions and what clips are on what tracks.
Editors wasting brain space supporting technical implementation instead of feeling the story.
Transfer Toolbox v1.4.0 is out now on the Mac App Store! 🥳
Adds support for Final Cut Pro 11.1.1 (for Mac) and Final Cut Pro 2.2.1 (for iPad).
You can also buy it in a LateNite bundle!
transfertoolbox.fcp.cafe
