Final Cut Summit Recap | Best Tips, What Happened at Apple and More!

[@JennJagerPro]

What do you guys think of the new features coming to FCP?!

[@jeffarballo1881]

Thanks for the update Jenn. I was going to go but my wife got Covid so I had to cancel. Anytime there is an upgrade to FCP it's great, but I think Apple is still way behind on FCP. I'm not really believing that they haven't added some features because they just weren't ready, I mean some new basic editing platforms that have been out for a short time already have text base editing and subtitles. If Apple wanted to have FCP up to par it would be. I believe they dropped the ball somewhere and now they are trying to play catch up. Hopefully FCP gets back on track because its so fast and we've done 3 feature docs on it so I don't want to see it go anywhere. And I will see you next year at the Summit.

[@BetterOnTwoWheels]

Scrolling timeline will be great. Also very happy to hear FCP is around for the long haul.

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

The scrolling timeline gets a tick and a star and a cherry on top from me too...

[@TheFinalCutBro]

I had no idea how much I was gonna love the summit. Seriously so amazing to get to meet you Jenn!! So glad we snagged that photo together 😂 This is my favorite summary of the Summit!

[@JennJagerPro]

I know! I would have talked it up more beforehand if I had realized I great it would be. We're giving everyone the FOMO now tho.

[@postpros-e]

Kinda ironic to see the two people who both initially surprised everyone with their "real life" sizes hanging out! 😄 It was a pleasure meeting you both and very much hope to bump into you again soon and do fries (for me) at In-N-Out again! 😉 If you're ever on this side of the pond, let me know!! And yes, great summary, Jenn. 👍🏼

[@stevepavlinadotcom]

​@@JennJagerPro So great to see you and Dylan in the same place. Your channel and his have been my favorite go-to sources for learning better FC Pro skills (which I've been using for years) and Motion (which I just bought earlier this week). Thanks a bunch for all you do as it is greatly appreciated!

[@theviablecoach]

Apple needs to add Auto Captions like every other major video editing program has.

[@MortsGarage]

THIS.

[@krubee416]

Standing on a mountain top with you yelling this and waiting for the echo

[@friedpicklezzz]

The lack of auto-transcribe is terrible. I cut a lot of internal videos for the company to update everyone on new developments and I need to manually add captions, which might be one of the most time intensive parts. Apple’s FCP team is either too small or too ignorant about what users need nowadays. Gone are the days of catering for just the cinematographers.

[@WarrenPeaceOG]

What solutions are people using for auto-transciption and editing text to edit video? Anyone using Builder? For the longest time we were transcribing, editing the text, then manually searching FCP for key phrases to find the speech that made the cut. It could only get more old-fashioned if we used scissors and glue to create the paper edit

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you from the kind words!! It was great hanging out with you.

[@JennJagerPro]

Likewise, Chris.

[@MortsGarage]

Jenn - that photo of you and Dylan might be my favorite thing to come out of the summit.

[@JennJagerPro]

That just made me lol.

[@j.sutton-kl4dx]

Hey Jenn! I attended the FCP Creative Summit your summary of the Summit is on point! Looking forward to next year!

[@applemagsafe]

I needed the moving timeline so bad. Thanks for telling about this update

[@paulelliott6488]

That compressor tip is MAD! Wow!

[@JennJagerPro]

Greenberg's a beast.

[@TechMixr]

Was great meeting you!

[@akira2577]

Fantastic recap! Thank you for including me! Always a joy to hang out with you and all our fellow FCP travelers. Already can’t wait for next year!

[@JennJagerPro]

Great seeing you and J again, friend!

[@olrogerio]

I loved your entrance for this video!!!

[@kutframe]

Thank you Jenn for this great recap and all these amazing tips from the FCP Family! Cheers from Corsica!😉

[@JennJagerPro]

You are so welcome!

[@frankleemorris2431]

very informative and helpful, thanks a bunch!

[@matthewTobrien]

Awesome recap - love hearing that the Final Cut Pro team is 100% committed to the app. And when I met Dylan at NAB even I was shocked by how tall he is and I'm 6'4"!

[@denisjones45]

Please attend next year! I'd love to see my FCP heroes together at the Creative Summit. You, Brad West, Serge M., Dylan John, and Rafael Ludwig weren't there!

[@matthewTobrien]

@@denisjones45 I'll do my best to be there! It's tough for Dylan John & Brad West because they're overseas.

[@JennJagerPro]

6’4”!?! Whatever you two are eating, you need to share.

[@markspencer4557]

What a great recap, Jenn! Was great to finally meet you in person - next year is going to be even better!

[@JennJagerPro]

You too!

[@marylim2011]

Thanks for sharing. Its insightful.

[@ThePoisonDrummer]

Thanks for this video!

[@chipcurry]

Thanks very much for the recap! I enjoy the information you gave, but I also enjoy Your enthusiasm!

[@aviduser1961]

Great show, great tips. This viewer started with FCP 1.0. Before that Photoshop 1.0. Those of you new to non-linear editing missed a lot of growing pains. It's truly a great time to be working with these tools. I cannot get over how reliable and inexpensive everything is. Some processes have become so much more simplified and easy. Add to that excellent resources like Jenn's channel and there are really no limits.

[@JennJagerPro]

I used to work for the Peacock :)

[@kuskal]

Hello Jenn, Thank you for your educational broadcasts. when is the next Final Cut summit event

[@gabrielspaulding4830]

Hey Jenn! Great video as always. Here's a super handy tip: you can Option-click the timecode field under the Viewer to instantly bring up the Source or Project timecode window, versus having to navigate to the Window menu.

[@JennJagerPro]

Thanks Gabe!

[@michaelalberts661]

And I thought I knew most every shortcut! Gabe, great seeing you at th FCP Summit. Can't wait to work together again. @@JennJagerPro

[@EnricoMarcellino]

Great list of tips and overview! Thanks for putting this together and sharing!

[@rippleguys]

Love your videos Jenn

[@JennJagerPro]

Ditto, guys.

[@stevepavlinadotcom]

Thanks for such a fabulous and detailed insider's look, Jenn. I appreciate it very much. It's surprising the the FC Pro team is just now finally adding a fixed playhead. I've been scratching my head over why it took them so long to add such a basic, basic, basic improvement to something so fundamental.

[@JennJagerPro]

From my understanding, this feature has been in the works for a very long time. The challenge was redrawing the high res waveforms in real time without skipping frames during playback.

[@stevepavlinadotcom]

​@@JennJagerPro Hmmm... as a former game programmer myself, I find it REALLY hard to believe - okay, impossible to believe - that this was actually the reason for the delay. If that were truly the issue, the FC Pro team would have to be deeply deficient in basic coding skills, which seem unfathomable. Even a relatively novice game programmer could devise multiple viable solutions to make this feature work, like simply caching a lower res version of the waveform for display purposes. How much data is actually needed to render the waveform in real time? I mean... it's NOT a lot of data to refresh or to render per frame, especially relative to the picture. If that's the reason they provided for the delay, it's simply not credible from a tech standpoint. It's far more likely that this problem kept getting punted forward due to internal politics, team conflicts, or for some other non-technical reason. If the hardware can render a full screen video playback without skipping a beat, it can surely render a smaller video plus the audio waveform simultaneously.

[@craigshields8806]

Great memory!

[@craigshields8806]

Thanks for sharing this recap! 🙏🏾

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

A brilliant video. Very many thanks Jen. Your excitement is infectious. You were our honorary Scottish person on the spot at the summit. Who knows, the Scottish contingent might show at next year's summit and then you'll be surround by very tall people - some of them wearing kilts (beat that FinalCutBro!!!). Braveheart + 10. Ooh Aye the Noo!

[@jonathan_ayala]

Thank you so much for this update!

[@chrisatlatenite]

It was an absolute honour and a privilege to share the stage with you for the Future Panel! This is such a great video!! You're awesome. Hopefully we get to hang out again next year!

[@JennJagerPro]

Chris, YOU’RE the best! Everyone visit fcp.cafe right now!

[@paulelliott6488]

Centered playhead, yes!

[@ikymagoo]

I went a few years ago, I need to go again next year, it was a great time

[@martinXY]

8:50 I bought Off The Tracks when it came out. Great doco.

[@thetomasloretta]

I’m off topic, but could you do a sample video of your Motion tutorial? I need Motion instruction but I need to know that it’s in the format that I learn best from. It’s really easy to learn from you, I just need a preview of the format. Thank you.

[@Featherlightstudio]

This was great stuff, thanks for all the amazing tips!

[@OfftheTracksMovie]

Thanks for the shout out Jenn!

[@JennJagerPro]

Your film is so great!

[@JamesBranch]

Great stuff. Really wish I'd been free to attend this year.

[@renodigitalservice]

I think you had to much fun🎉🎉🎉🎉!

[@rubiotv]

I was super bummed I couldn’t make this year. Looking forward to next year’s summit.

[@chuckb61]

Jen: It was great meeting you at the FCP Summit. Your energy in person is great and it's even more fun to see you again on video. Your description of the Summit was wonderful and they should hire you as a spokesperson.

[@RachelJIrby]

Hey Jenn- have you done a video on Compressor? I would like to learn more about it but I wanted to get the info from a trusted source like you.

[@JennJagerPro]

I haven't.... but I think I will!

[@SamPandiangan]

Greetings from Indonesia 😀

[@kawkijeff5364]

Hi, very nice experience

[@postpros-e]

Ooooooh… hot dude at 2:01! Thanks for the shoutout! 😊💕 But just for the record re: my stance on Keyper vs. SRM - and as my video shows - I'm in no way saying that Keyper is bad or useless. I'm only going by my direct comparisons that you can see in the clip where Keyper completely failed _in comparison_ (e.g. with anything *not* human first and foremost), but also note what it is most definitely great for where the SRM fails. And I don't know who told you that I took issue with *your* opinion on it! (all liiiiiies I tell ya!) I (unfortunately) didn't see your sessions and didn't know until just now that you have a video on Keyper. Will have to watch! I had just briefly seen _Roger from Coremelt's_ session where he slated the SRM compared to his plugin (for obvious reasons). So… I'm innocent!! 😉 It was a real pleasure meeting you (and your hubby) and very much look forward to the next time!

[@JennJagerPro]

Great meeting you too Robin! Here’s to many more summits together 🎉

[@bergmanvideoproductions]

Love your videos, Jenn! Thanks for summarizing your experience. I really wanted to go this year, but I was busy wrapping up the edit for a documentary. I wanted to meet Richard Taylor. I follow his channel as well. I didn’t see a link to his channel in your show notes.

[@JennJagerPro]

That was an oversight. I fixed it!

[@bergmanvideoproductions]

@@JennJagerPro Thank you, Jenn! Keep up the great work! I have learned so much from you and have been introduced to a lot of cool people by you. The Final Cut community is lucky to have you! 🙏🏼

[@trexpeditiongotravel]

Hi Jenn, do you have a video explaining how XML files work? 🤔

[@EllevonEditing]

This was awesome. Thinking about going next year now!🤔

[@JennJagerPro]

Yesss. We need more ladies!

[@EllevonEditing]

@@JennJagerPro I could not agree more!😭

[@danbrockettDOP]

So no mention from the FCP Team at Apple on if FCP will become subscription-based software?

[@JennJagerPro]

It was not discussed at this event (no one asked and they didn't say). I can tell you I have personally told them it would be a ginormous mistake FWIW.

[@danbrockettDOP]

@@JennJagerPro Thanks for the reply Jenn. I agree with you 100%, it would be a huge mistake.

[@loveyplay7]

What's the dates of the Finalcut Creative Summit next year?

[@JennJagerPro]

No dates yet, but I promise I will share when I know!

[@blackicestudios]

All I need in FCP is proper audio mixer and bussing so stems can be handled better And Better round tripping to Logic for better mixing

[@martinXY]

2:29 Great tip for re-syncing. FCP Classic automatically indicated when audio was out of sync with video, no intervention required. Good times.

[@JennJagerPro]

I remember that! What happened?

[@martinXY]

@@JennJagerPro Yep. We’d all like to know that, Apple.

[@infiveg]

О! это было крутая вечеринка. Дилан очень похож на моего родного брата))) Мы все высокие)). Переход флоу я сам научным тыком понял лучший вариант это 5 кадров. И всегда его использую длиной 5 кадров

[@BTSflyer]

FCP 7 if I remember right had a Scrolling timeline.

[@JennJagerPro]

I can’t remember. Does anyone else?

[@evi1ways]

Please Auto Captions, Transcribe editing, an INAPP magic mask. Locked on Tracking.

[@TaoCovillault]

I also don't think Apple is going to drop Final Cut any time soon, but my real fear is that they target it as a supercharged iMovie mostly focus on edit for Iphones and Ipads content... Because this is definitely the way it's been going in the last few updates already. Think about it, even when we got advanced features like HDR support, or ProRes RAW or HEIC support, all these came along when Apple mobile devices got the function too... Which make sense, don't get me wrong, but meanwhile we still don't have any AI integration, no text based editing no auto-captions, no tools for collaborative workflow, no log color wheels, not even an adjustment layers without third party 🤷🏽‍♂ I love Final Cut, and I don't want to have to have to learn another NLE, but I kind of already do, just in order to grow my network and team up with people...

[@realmattjc]

disappointing that we’re not getting more new features. Other editors are smoking FCP at the moment.

[@miguelaldama]

For sure! Davinci Resolve for example is far superior! and Cap Cut is advancing very fast!

[@Richard_Broom_Photography]

I have a sneaky suspicion, given the Apple team's reticence, that they might be about to pull a number of rabbits out of the hat. Hope so.

[@danbrockettDOP]

I've been on FCP since day one and recently dumped FCP for Resolve. As far as I'm concerned, having used FCP for more than two decades, the past five years, Apple has almost completely ignored FCP and the FCP community. Updates have been few and far in between the past few years and when they do update, it's just bug fixes and a few little not that impressive features. I see no new innovation and the sheer lack of updates shows what kind of priority Apple places on FCP. I think a lot of younger, newer editors never experienced when Apple was fully committed to FCP, high-end Hollywood features and episodic were regularly being cut on FCP, Apple would introduce updates with dozens of new features at least once or twice per year. The difference between then and now is stark and it has been inevitable. Apple is basically an iPhone company now that also sells some computers. FCP no longer sells high end Macs because the move to Apple Silicon has basically negated the need for 99% of buyers to even consider a "high end Mac" since even a mid level or in come cases, a low level Mac is more than adequate. Apple decided that old school editors would die off and to invest in the iMovie Pro audience, which was possibly a smart business move, but it never did endear FCP to working pros, and even younger working pro editors, I doubt very many came from learning to edit with iMovie. From Apple corporate's POV, what purpose does FCP serve? Hollywood no longer uses FCP. It no longer sells high end Macs. I honestly don't even think Apple cares THAT much about selling computers anymore, they're an iPhone company now. I still have FCP on my edit systems and will still occasionally use it but Resolve is a much more capable and flexible tool. What kept me on FCP for so many years was the flexibility in comparison with how you could accomplish specific tasks in any of several ways, while AVID was very rigid and would only function doing things the AVID way, FCP was very fluid. With the advent of the magnetic TL in FCP X, ironically FCP has now become a lot more like AVID, there is really only one way to edit that the magnetic TL is designed for. Sure you can hack your way around it but to use FCP most efficiently, you are pretty much stuck with only using the magnetic TL. Sometimes thats a good thing but often, it can be a PITA. I like the magnetic TL and have gone withthe flow for years, but occasionally more arcane edit tasks can be a PITA to deal with it. I like that Resolve has two different edit pages and you can choose the mode you want to use at any time. The audio mixer in the old FCP was actually pretty capable and even fun to use and mix outputs with. FCP's audio capability now is very basic and primitive in comparison. The color correction tools, while capable, are very basic in their function, granularity and capability in comparison to Resolve, CC in Resolve is a whole world unto itself. I hope the FCP team can dig FCP out of the early 2010s and make FCP more competitive with Resolve. Editors don't really want flashy bells and whistles, they usually want speed, reliability and the ability to meld with the tool so that they can concentrate on telling great stories, not to fight the software's weirdness or clunkiness. Users also want to see that the company that makes their editing software wants to keep on constantly improve it and BMD is incredible with this and Apple simply isn't, action or lack of it, speaks volumes about user perception. I personally think BMD has already won the war and the war is over but perhaps the FCP team can prove me wrong. I hope so, but I have moved on from FCP for most editing.

[@rahul49]

Final cut Pro video auto detecting syncut Fischer not ad

[@miguelcollado]

Careful there, Jenn 😅

[@JennJagerPro]

The Apple team is going to tackle me for those mockups any moment, I just know it 😬

[@djepodjepo]

Sounds like a fun event. But to be honest, as a true FCP editor for many years, I am getting restless due to the lack of cutting-edge innovation in FCP. The wait is long and there is no clear roadmap.

[@danbrockettDOP]

Jump into Resolve, the water's great!

[@infiveg]

Очень жаль, что Apple не внедряет нейросети в FCP, не улучшает трекинг и редактирование шумов картинки. Они начинают сильно отставать от давинчи и т.п. Я лично использую только FCP, но наши коллеги показывают обновления их программ

[@infiveg]

Куда пропал мой комментарий?

[@orbbb]

I should have gone :(

[@JennJagerPro]

NEXT YEAR!!!!

[@orbbb]

@@JennJagerPro I totally should.

[@PSWerkstatt]

First 😂

[@JennJagerPro]

Somebody had to do it.

[@PSWerkstatt]

@@JennJagerProIndeed, I am just working on your motion Tutorial for argumented reality. I have tried to use the 4 point tracking several times but it didn’t work. Anyway, seems that the problem is sitting in front of the screen 😂. Best wishes from Germany. Peter

[@Four1LF]

There's an engineering concept that's called, "If ain't broke, don't 'fix it'." Well, Apple "fixed it" by making FCP X. The person who thought the awesome visual metaphor that is FCP 7 could be improved was absolutely WRONG. To this day, I still have an Mac with Mohave O.S. so I can still run FCP 7. Had Apple "Just" kept making FCP 7 compatible with each new operating system and NOT killed its compatibility -editors would mostly opted to KEEP FCP 7 -even if there were no changes or improvements -because FCP 7 was not "broken." But Apple knows better than an editing metaphor that has been around for a hundred years. Also, be warned, after Apple killed Aperture thus leaving thousands of Professional Photographers PISSED just know, that, at ANY time the bean counters could kill ANY program at Apple even if thousands of professionals use it. Even though about half of the Professional (big-time) editors left Apple because FCP X Apple did NOT admit their mistake -they just plowed ahead with what editors called "iMovie Pro." Sometimes, thinking differently is thinking wrongly.