What's New in Final Cut Pro 10.6.6

[@Bengalfan]

Steve, I never cease to be amazed at how you can pack so much valuable information into your videos. It is always a pleasure to watch and learn from you and Mark. This video is exceptionally well done. Thank you!!!

[@rippleguys]

Thank you

[@OrdinaryFilmmaker]

I appreciate the in-depth coverage of what is included, and I also leaned something.

[@FrancoisTutos]

By far the best video about that topic. Others rushed to get that video out and got very superficial about the background remover tool for instance. Thanks.

[@PlayandFresh]

a brutally perfect explanation

[@kaysha]

Auto color space confirming is a welcome addition. Turning on HDR on my phone 😂

[@UX-Designern]

Great and informative video. I use Final Cut Pro and the Scene Removal Mask a lot, but I don’t start the shots with myself out of the frame. Here’s what I do: 1 - Import the footage into FCP. 2 - Export out a random frame from the video as PNG. 3 - Import that PNG into Pixelmator. 4 - Use the AI Removal tool to remove myself from the image (it’s just one click) 5 - Export that clean plate out of Pixelmator. 6 - Import it into FCP and place it before the footage. 7 - Make the clean plate 1 frame long. 8 - Select the clean plate and the footage and create a Compound Clip. 9 - Add the Scene Removal Mask effect to that Compound Clip. 10 - Turn that once again into another Compound Clip (so I can cut up the Compound Clip without affecting the reference point of the Scene Removal Mask). It might sound complicated but it literally takes a maximum of 2 minutes to do.

[@dmsflorida]

Excellent overview of the new features! Ripple Training is always my go-to for this type of info...first to share and best presentations.

[@AuthenTech]

Love your updates, thanks for sharing. Congrats on the 100K

[@GameSack]

I'm finding all of my Favorite audio Effects now mute the audio. You need to find a clip where the effect is already applied and re-save the Favorite Effect.

[@QleeMinati]

same here!!!!!

[@GardenObsessions]

Unfortunately I didn’t have any clips saved with my presets. Now I can’t use any of them. Anyone have a workaround yet?

[@editorskeys]

Great video Steve! Looking forward to trying these all out!

[@oscarlopezmov]

Very well detailed video, thank you!

[@Red35Photography]

Brilliant Steve. Just thought Apple has left developing FCPX on Mac and after seeing the iPad app. All are great too and love the new AI masking. I would like to see auto transcribing like on Premier and DaVinci Resolve, that will make my day!

[@huilustudio]

I'm not only super excited, I'm also hyper excited!

[@BenNesvig]

This is helpful. Smart conform for HDR in SDR projects will save a lot of time. Scene removal looks like it wouldn't completely replace a tool like Runway. Still wish Final Cut would allow easing in and out of Transform keyframes.

[@sizzlemann]

Thanks for the tour of the new features! You guys are the bomb!!

[@digitaldevigner4080]

At first I thought the new keying effect was garbage until I learned it’s kind of like the Delta Keyer in Fusion with a clean plate. That’s my Keyer of choice and I always shoot a clean plate when possible to get the most out of it. Kudos to Apple for creating a Keyer that works that way but is much easier and can work across a wide range of backgrounds. This is also very helpful for green screen shoots and not just useful to not use a green screen. Using a screen helps give the effect a nice flat background with enough separation from the subject to work better. By shooting in green one also then has the option to do a key another way just in case this effect doesn’t deliver desired results. Plus you could use this effect on green screen to essentially create a cleaned up green background and then use another Keyer to have more manual controls. Use the new effect to essentially remove wrinkles and uneven lighting. The downside of course is it has to be shot that way and only works with a locked down tripod. Not as capable as the Delta Keyer in Fusion where we can use a motion tracked clean plate for a moving shot. Then again this isn’t meant for VFX. It’s meant for content creators and talking head type stuff.

[@silkogelman]

Great tutorial, thank you! 🙏😀 You show really interesting ways to use the mask! And wow that Automatic HDR SDR Color conform! Will you use HDR as project setting by default now? And why do you not produce the YT videos in 4K? The video looks a bit outdated in 1080p to me sometimes. 😬

[@dbaechlermusic]

thanks for the great video. I used to disable HDR on my phone. Now, I know how to use it !

[@pep98]

As usual a very good a clear explanation of all the new goodies. Thank you so much!

[@JBManos-gg2zm]

Great video! Thanks Steve! I’m amazed at how many ad breaks YT inserted though… like 7! KZbin is getting obnoxious that way

[@skymakai]

Excellent explanation of the new features. But, what size display are you screen recording? The elements are all very small. Especially watching on an iOS device.

[@rippleguys]

3200 x 1800 (I usually record at 2800 x 1620 but it was an oversight.

[@JeffGeerling]

I like the general idea of the new keyer (sorry, 'mask' haha), but I feel like the requirement for a frame at the beginning or end will trip up a lot of people. It seems with the Neural Engine on the Mac, the wizards behind imaging on iOS could whip up some AI that works even with clips that aren't prepped for keying (using person detection). Though it goes to show: as with most things in production, an ounce of preparation is worth a pound of editing!

[@rippleguys]

Yeah, I agree - it's funny you mentioned that because on two of my takes I forgot to record a reference frame LOL

[@JeffGeerling]

@@rippleguys Ha! That's *exactly* what went through my head as you described it-"I know I'm going to forget that reference frame sometimes." So now I have to determine if it's more efficient for those clips to pull it, try to piece together background reference using clone tools in Photoshop, then merge that frame into the video clip ... or use another AI tool to do the keying when I need it, and pull that footage back to FCP!

[@AshokVermaYoutube]

thanks

[@CruiseReport]

I would love to see a tutorial on how to mix 360 video and standard 4K video into a multicam clip. I have tried everything I can think of, and after creating the muticam clip, I cannot edit the 360 orientation in the main timeline.

[@Inspirewithdrones3342]

Thank you so much! I was just thinking about the complexity of working with my HDR footage from my Mavic 3. But then, I see your video and realize that I needed to update FCP. Great work sir!👍🏾

[@tinkarobert]

Thank you for the video, glad to see the features from the new iPad version in the Mac version.

[@psk.n]

Thank you so much for this incredible video as always!

[@videosbici]

Thanks so much, Mark. As always, your videos are the best source of information to be up to date in FCPX

[@cubex341]

This is an amazing video, extremely useful and entertaining, you also make the perfect voice-overs. Thanks so much!

[@mikeonhisbikes]

Wow! Thanks for this. So much useful stuff packed in here! Lot’s to learn! Just when I think I’ve got the hang of FCPX, you guys show me how much there is to learn - especially all the keyboard shortcuts! Thanks!

[@WarrenPeaceOG]

When FCPX came out, I learned how it was designed to be used and standardised a workflow to take advantage of it. Metadata and Smart Keywords replaced Bins and Selects, and the Magnetic Timeline made the timeline more non-linear and less like playing Jenga. It was a huge advance in video editing. Props to Randy Ubillos who designed FCPX. A few years ago I added 3rd party machine-transcription and full text-to-video editing, which has been equally revolutionary, saving months of work. But Apple hasn't added this essential capability to FCP and doesn't seem like it's going to. Apple dropped the ball in the 8 years since Randy left. No one seems to love the project or know why it's great

[@rippleguys]

You make good points, but it's still great and I can tell you that there are passionate people on the team who do understand why folks love FCP. The future of FCP is bright I can assure you.

[@WarrenPeaceOG]

@@rippleguys I appreciate the confidence!

[@jmrhq]

Warren, I'm curious which text-to-video app you are using. Thank you.

[@WarrenPeaceOG]

​@@jmrhq Hi Jonathan - Years ago I started using SpeedScriber to transcribe talking heads; it would add the text to the metadata of the video. This made footage searchable! The transcribed speech was then edited and assembled in a text document. When finished, the document was used to manually search the video for key words to find each segment used in the assembly. Then I switched to SimonSays, which critically also has a browser-based text assembly app, where you drag and drop text chunks from one page and assemble them on a second page. SimonSays was particularly good because it automated the process. No more manually searching footage! Once happy with text edit, you export an XML and when you import it into FCP, the talking heads are already assembled. No searching for footage. No editing. 🙌Just tweaking edit points. The next iteration, which I haven’t really had a chance to fully test is Builder from Lumberjack. It’s part of a suite of filmmaking apps focussed on metadata. It’s like an app version of SimonSays, so it seems much more robust. SimonSays Assemble seemed really limited by the browser. Another app which seems on the cusp of full text-to-video editing is Detail. It brings together metadata and AI and leverages smart phones as wireless cameras/recorders, a switcher, an NLE, and AI driven social media factory. Check the site

[@Deep-Travel]

@@rippleguys It may be bright for social media content creators but not any longer for professional work. What once made FCPX shine is no longer enough. If they care about FCPX they have a funny way of showing it by screwing users like they just did with 10.6.6. They just told me F%^$# your investment in Third-party plugins. And to make sure they did F$#@& me they did the update behind my back without warning me about losing over $1,000 in plugins. I cannot finish the jobs I had in FCPX. That is how much they care for us and FCPX.

[@RobertDaleKlein]

Awesomely informative and deftly presented -- thank you, Steve!

[@fionngorilla]

This HDR feature is so good! As is shouldve been long time ago. Thanks for showing.

[@videoeventjakarta]

The sliders is gonna be a huge help for me. I can adjust contrast faster rather than using curve.

[@mikeretondo9546]

I really could have used this upgrade 10 days ago! I needed to convert my iPhone HDR to SDR. I also could have used the blur background effect too.

[@MVRALLYE]

merci pour toutes ces explications

[@andyb4553]

Thank you for sharing these new features. Tough improvements though. Your examples are always appreciated and Kate fits perfect!

[@ennoedits]

Great semi-compact feature overview. And special thanks for the demo of the HDR tools.

[@TheAMALGEORGE]

Great video. Thank you

[@andrewgarley1400]

Great Video

[@Chips-Lab]

Always nice to see you in every Final Cut update. Thank you for the work

[@digitaldevigner4080]

I love the new ProRes raw floating window. Doesn’t add any raw controls we didn’t already have but going into the info tab and digging around for the raw settings per clip was always a bit clunky. Now having a floating window we have access to while color correcting is a really nice help. I realize not everyone is using ProRes Raw but it’s such an amazing raw format. I like it better than BRAW.

[@overlycranked8674]

Some people are born teachers. Steve and Mark are those people. Thank you very much for this clear and concise instructions on the new features. Now, if only Apple Inc. also add some Audio-AI features we will start catching up with those other NLE_AI options ... ( insert wink emoji here )

[@claudioagmfilho]

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻, What an amazing video, thanks for sharing it...

[@Darren777Au]

Might try this with our church sermon, to change the background FX, just to try and test. Interested to know how it handles panning with the topic in front of musical instruments, etc and lights.

[@imtiaztanjim9979]

Steve, that is a great video. this is exactly what I needed after the update. thank you

[@GameSack]

The scene removal mask is perfect for imitating a Zoom call. I can still see lots of "chatter" on your hair in the spare bedroom scene, just like Zoom would do. I'll have to check out the auto-HDR. Previously if I recorded a game in HDR and used the HDR tools in an SDR project, I could NEVER get it to look quite right, even when grading it manually. So I'm not confident that Apple's method of adjusting HDR to SDR is faithful, no matter the source. The SDR to HDR looks pretty cool though. The exporting options might make HDR KZbin videos a bit easier but there's still the nightmare of dealing with YT's HDR-to-SDR conversion. It will be fun to look back on these days in 20 years.

[@mattspour3035]

Thanks for the great video - has turning off the ease in and ease out on transform/position keyframes been sorted yet? I shoot lots of motion control product video and like to keep the camera movements flowing. I am constantly having to manipulate keyframes before and after my in/out points to avoid the ease in/out if adding masks etc.

[@greinalexandra]

Thx for the update

[@TheEditRoom]

Thanks for the quick update! Great stuff!

[@chrisatlatenite]

Awesome summary as always!

[@NarimanGafurov]

Keyper plugin give is most best results!

[@warzyd86]

Why you think so? My friend just did few checks and seems like in update, mask feature works for other objects like animals and not only people like in Keyper.

[@NarimanGafurov]

​@@warzyd86 try it yourself if you have Keyper and you will see for yourself) I don't need masks for animals, for example. I shoot people more and FCPX masks work terribly, especially since they are designed only for static videos.

[@ikymagoo]

Very cool, thanks

[@dverbmusic1945]

omg, i was just about to buy Keyer, thank god i waited lool 😅🙌

[@markspencer1203]

Keyper works in many situations where the FCP Scene Removal Mask will not. For example, Keyper does not require a clean plate.

[@idiazmedia9696]

@Rippletraining first off I wanna congratulate you guys on achieving your goal of 1000+ subscribers well deserved and I must’ve been living in a cave because I didn’t see there was an update coming for final cut rest assured I rely on you guys to give comprehensive details on the new updates so thank you for all you do!!

[@raghuvengala6304]

Exllent Sir

[@AbdullohQodirov2021]

I have a problem with my workspace. So, my insector window is not showing like yours. And how can i change it? I’d be very happy if you help me. Thanks. Btw i am beginner. I’ll wait for your reply🙏

[@fisheater844]

Great upload well explained as usual just wondering what camera did you use for the under water clip.

[@rippleguys]

GoPro Hero 11

[@smyth613]

Thanks. good job Steve

[@eliopajares]

Thanks for the video. Any new features on Compressor?

[@rippleguys]

not worth doing a video about. It's in the documentation

[@theVariedLife]

Awesome video. Thank you so much. Sub'd and liked.

[@PatrickMastersProductions]

I like the new features but why can we not get a true audio mixer?

[@TheRealJamesWu]

Finally HDR titles!

[@yasser_singer]

😍😍😍😍

[@michaelch5060]

Thanks Steve!

[@rud]

1) I suppose a faster shutter with less motion blur could help remove the background around hands etc. perhaps add some blur afterwards if one wants that look. 2) like the title behind using the background. I hope to remember it when I need it. :) 3) had the misfortune of had recorded a lot on HDR on my iPhone, having to combine it with 2 non HDR cameras was a pain so it is good to see they have improved that. 4) Horray. Proper brightness in titles. 5) So dont need compressor to export HDR / dolby vision. sweet

[@rippleguys]

All a resounding Yup!!!

[@TheRealJamesWu]

Also new update to Pro Video Format 2.2.5 came out today as well.

[@mdturnerinoz]

I love this "convert" function! Well done Apple (and Ripple)! I have heaps of video shots with grandkids on the Great Barrier Reef that I will redo! :0)))

[@weeklyfascination]

Just downloaded the latest version of Final Cut Pro. Can't wait to use some of these new features. Looks like I didn't need that green screen I got a few months ago. But it's great to know I can cut out backgrounds, which other editing software has included for a while. Thanks for the wealth of info. I'll need to watch this a few times to digest all the info.

[@BenBalser]

Doing a proper green screen will look way better than the background removal feature. I think Steve pointed that out. So yes, you do still need it.

[@rlbink2498]

So far in my testing of scene removal, the results, even following Apple's recommendations, have been quite mixed and there are plenty of artifacts. Green screen is probably a better bet. Side-by-side, Sheffield Softworks Keyper and even Videoleap, an iPad app, offer better results. I wish there were more controls for fine tuning the scene removal. Perhaps in a future update.

[@1959fenderstrat]

Great Steve thank you - I colour grade in DR because many of their tools are colour space aware. However, even when using DR to colour grade SDR footage it only has a fixed but smaller colour space, think REC 709 2.4 vs REC 2020. So it appears that the smart conform in 10.6.6 is using AI to make up for the missing colour range....? If so this is very interesting, could it be that this additional AI in FCP could be used when broadcasting ? Imagine you have an HDR TV could it be possible to accurately upscale the gamma space even though its broadcast was in a lower gamma say Rec 709 2.4? This is what I think Apple have done in FCP 10.6.6 ? What do you think? Shaun

[@simoharjane7823]

Thank you

[@AfoteyAnnum]

Wow, FCPX is really becoming a super powerful tool! That AI masking is really impressive!

[@akyhne]

No, it's garbage.

[@AfoteyAnnum]

@@akyhne LOL sure, whatever you say

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Since one can't adjust it is impressive, but not that useful.

[@AfoteyAnnum]

@@jaimeduncan6167 it depends on the use case, no pun intended. In an instance where someone just needs a quick mask, like in the video, it's incredibly useful. This, just like pretty much every tool we use as editors, all depends on how we use it and what the requirements call for. Additionally, there's always room for improvement, so future iterations may in fact allow for adjustments. At any rate, that this even exists is awesome, whether you personally will use it or not.

[@dennisnc7438]

Totally garbage. Who needs this? Pro’s need Braw support, decent colorgrade tools etc. Apple lost love for the pro’s they once valued.

[@gruvie]

fcpx for iPad is like Formular 1 for Vespas 😜

[@dnest007]

What is the advantage to using HDR if you just need to convert it to SDR eventually?

[@rippleguys]

Because for the people who have displays that can resolve HDR, will have a better experience. If they don't, platforms like KZbin will simply tone map the HDR so that it can be viewed on SDR displays.

[@WayneDawkinsThePartyMan]

Great but the background replacement needs tools to address the mask , some denoising would go a long way. If not might as well stick to green screen.

[@Need2ShootFilm]

Great explanatory

[@Electricshadows]

Subscription model? DiVinci please

[@TrevorWilliams215]

I love the idea of the “AI” keyed but having the requirement of the subject being out of the frame at the beginning is a big limitation. It reminds me of the silly backgrounds they had back in the day with iChat (shoot if you look at the features they had back then, they were WAY ahead of their time, it has more features than today’s FaceTime). It asked you to step out of the frame and click apply and step back in. It feels like an advanced real time difference key than apple’s already present AI powered subject in photo detection in iOS. Why can’t that be used as a video effect?

[@rippleguys]

good question.

[@Teks123]

i just want some good autocaptions apple plzzz, social media is booming and i have to bring my files to capcut to get a good auto captions. (btw i tried captionator, its not nearly as good)

[@davidramms]

Capcut is great for that, and free

[@Teks123]

@@davidramms i know, but it just sucks having to move between softwares, i cant believe apple is lagging behind such a basic feature nowadays

[@jobz9150]

All I asked of Apple were better keyframe interpolations.

[@thebrazilshow]

I don't see how to update. My version is 10.6.5. - how do I update?

[@GameSack]

Go to the App Store, type in Final Cut Pro and then click it. You can download the update. The "push" notifications are pretty slow to roll out.

[@drewbin101]

Wonder if you can open these new features in motion and publish additional settings? Most likely we'll have to wait for a motion update as well?

[@BenBalser]

Motion was updated today with 5.6.4 and includes all the new stuff in FCPX.

[@paulbmurphy]

Scene removal is fun, but too rough to be of professional use. It's an interesting proof of concept additional that demonstrates the power of AI. This kind of stuff will get more refined in future updates.

[@eggydrums]

At this point in time I think it’s better to see this feature as Apple’s response to apps like IG and CapCut that do this as well. By no means are the results professional, but speaking as an editor who does work for social media, having this feature natively on desktop will 100% save me time on round trips between programs.

[@cvdwal83]

Hey, Thanks for your video. I have a problem, I still have to adjust the settings manually. I did what you did and enabled the automatic color conform. But the only difference is now I don't get an information box when I put a clip in the timeline, but the colors are still too bright and I have still to adjust. I have the latest version.

[@cvdwal83]

Fixed it! I have to import all the clips again.. Thanks!

[@KasaTavs]

Why not give credit to the creator that produced that FCPX iPad project?! Thanks, @Andyto for the amazing job!

[@rippleguys]

Agreed -

[@BenBalser]

Motion also updated today to keep compatibility with macOS FCPX, as was Compressor with some minor sort of useless stuff.

[@seecraig]

Scene Removal Mask needs a Marker for the reference frame so it isn't limited to the first or last second. It may need an image well so you can drop a frame in from a separate clip. The problem is on many shoots it's not easy to keep the camera rolling to ensure the first or last second is clean. Imagine talent is already in frame, you record and oops you stop the shot before getting the talent out of the frame. The entire take is blown as a result since it can't be used with Scene Removal. Apparently, this is a different technology than the Keyper plugin which doesn't require a reference frame. Or perhaps Apple needs to allow for AI to determine the best key if a reference fame isn't recorded. Or perhaps work more like Resolve's Magic Mask. In any case, I wish Apple's implementation weren't this awkward. Granted they may improve it in upcoming updates but those have been slow in coming. Yes, a big miss on speech-to-text transcription, captions, and titles. Even free programs like CapCut and ClipChamp are doing that.

[@wdj935]

Nice!!! Will I be able to save a video with a transparent background similar to PNG files? If so, will it allow me to import the PNG like file into another program?

[@dougbenn]

You should be able to do that, just make sure you export the file as a format with the Alpha channel - something like ProRes 4444 will maintain the transparency then it's just a file to do with as you please from there.

[@rippleguys]

@@dougbenn Yes, works with both still (PNG) and movies (HEVC 10bit)

[@videotipsandtricks]

Дякую вам за актуальне відео!

[@michaelpatakos2960]

IIlove final cut but is so hard to not make the transition to davinci,final cut look is 3 years back.

[@brodybourne]

Was hoping for that audio remix tool 😢

[@thetiredtourist3927]

Please give us audio soundtrack that automatically adjust to the length of the video.

[@titusnixon]

Well Steve things doesn't seem that complicated in the new version. Now I have a good reason to get a New iPad, been waiting for a good reason

[@carlhen100]

Can you answer this for me? Can I record in Dolby Vision on my I phone and use Final Cut to make it viewable on my Samsung TV in HDR?

[@markspencer1203]

If your Samsung TV supports the HLG version of DolbyVision, yes.

[@carlhen100]

@@markspencer1203 my Samsung does not support Dolby Vision. No Samsung TVs do. I’m asking if the new version of FC supports converting to regular HDR. Thanks.

[@markspencer1203]

@@carlhen100 I would just export as HLG HDR w/DV and see how your TV handles it - I suspect it will appear in HDR.

[@carlhen100]

@@markspencer1203 thanks

[@baldfvi]

Steve, first time watching your videos. I'm struggling with removing the background of 360 degree products, so I'm stuck with the only App it allows me to do that, in this case After Effects with the rotobrush (but it takes for ever). I was very happy Apple introduce the update with the scene removal mask, using AI, my Apple Silicon M1 Max chip/etc...but I find it quite stupid to record the background scene first, then add the product with my 2 arms/hands, position it exactly in the center (while recording) and finally opening the project on FCP...... I haven't try this process yet (I will, as soon as I get back to my studio) but for the moment I just uploaded the project followed your steps and it's pretty damn bad, the subject is not even detected, I'm crying..............thank you for your video, if you have a better suggestion for this process please let us know.

[@rippleguys]

Unfortunately the effect was not designed for 360 videos - but glad you found us!

[@ppstudios]

Excellent tutorial as usual. Although I'm disappointed at Apple's slow adoption of AI tech compared to Adobe & Blackmagic, I have to agree it's better that they're finally getting around to it. Perhaps, they've held back as a number of third parties are producing AI capabilities for FCP. I've been using Keyper which Steve introduced to us a while back. I think it has a bit of an edge compared to scene removal. The color conform feature is terrific.

[@cat_157]

Guys what should I do if some plug ins dont work now that i have updated fcpx?

[@markspencer1203]

the update dropped support for plugins using the old FxPlug 3 architecture - FxPlug4 replaced it a couple years ago. If you have old plugins contact the developer asking about an updated version. If they don't have one, hopefully you saved a copy of your 10.6.5 FCP by zipping it up as we always recommend so you can go back if needed.

[@darrendowler]

I have a clip from inside a car facing the back from the dash in front of the drivers, both drivers in frame. The windows are black and I'd like to add moving scenery outside the windows. Had a guy trace the windows and add green so I could key it out but he did a poor job and there are these flares of black bleeding onto the scene. How can I trace the window areas cleanly so I don't have these flares in my green screen area?

[@rippleguys]

The windows need to be roto-masked frame by frame - there is no tool that will do the job automatically

[@MostlyDrones]

I bought FCP 2 years ago and used it 4 times. I got tired of even a few minutes of editing would fill up my hd with files that i had to delete afterward.

[@GameSack]

Sounds like you had Import to Library enabled, but were using it as an app that leaves the files in place.

[@MostlyDrones]

@@GameSack What should i do to avoid it?

[@whisperblabla]

How do we have to export a HDR project to be properly viewed on HDR screens but also on SDR ones?

[@markspencer1203]

The HLG flavor of HDR normally tone maps to SDR screens so you should be fine using the HDR export option.

[@whisperblabla]

@@markspencer1203 thanks, Mark. I shall try it tomorrow. It is dead night over here. Thanks again!