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New features in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7 - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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New features in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7

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- In this movie, we're going to take a look at some of the new features in Final Cut Pro 10.4.7. It's always good to be up-to-date with new features, and if you already are, feel free to jump forward to the next movie. But, this keeps us current on new additions to the software. One thing that should be noted is that all updates to Final Cut Pro X, since 2011, have been free. So you can simply just head to the app store and go to update to Final Cut Pro 10.4.7, as long as you are on the operating system required to run it. So, one of the big new features is a new Metal-based processing engine. What this does is speed up specific processes that involve your GPU. Metal is a graphics and compute technology and it's been used to replace OpenGL. Now, with Metal, this is going to allow the main processor and your graphics processor to work more effectively. And it affects your entire OS. But, in terms of Final Cut Pro X, this is going to allow for higher performance, specifically with tasks that involve the GPU, like rendering or exporting your movies, compositing, as well as things such as playback are going to be accelerated on your system. Now, Metal is ported in Mac OX El Capitan and later, but you're going to want to go check Apple's website to see which computers and OS support Metal 'cause not all computers do. For instance, a MacBook Pro of 2012 and later is required to have Metal support. While this feature release, in 10.4.7, didn't have a lot to it, this Metal technology is setting up the framework for new feature releases, which are going to be GPU accelerated for your video editing workflow. Now, besides Metal, we can take advantage of multiple GPUs in Final Cut, most notably on the new Mac Pro that is going to come out. So, this feature itself, you can actually see under your Final Cut Pro preferences. And if you head over to the playback tab, you'll see that under render and share GPU, if I had access to multiple GPUs, I could choose which one to use for rendering and sharing tasks. So, in this instance, I'm just on my MacBook Pro, and I don't have an external GPU selected, hence why this menu is grayed out. As to additional new features, some of these are optimization features for a new Apple Pro XDR display as well as the new Mac Pro coming out. We can see more information about this by simply heading to the Final Cut Pro X help menu, and you'll see that there is an actual window for what's new in Final Cut Pro X. So, you see Metal, optimized for Mac Pro, as well as the Pro display XDR. In fact, if you wanted additional information, simply just click on the complete feature list, and this is going to pop you over to a support page. If you're curious to know what was new in previous versions of Final Cut, like 10.4.6, you can see those listed just below. Have a full-feature list chart from 10.4 and on. So, there you have it. A few of the new things included in Final Cut Pro X. As we go forward, we're also going to look at some OS improvements, and how those help us inside of Final Cut Pro, such as being able to use our iPad as a secondary display.

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