Final Cut Pro X is a rebuild of the 12-year-old software, according to Apple‘s Peter Steinauer and Randy Ubillos. It’s the first 64-bit version for the software, capable of utilizing all eight cores and more than 4 GB of RAM of the Mac for professional video editing. Apple revealed the new version of Final Cut Pro at an event at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in Las Vegas.
Final Cut Pro X will be available for download via the Mac App Store in June for $299 (We don't yet know if that's just the editor itself, or also includes the capabilities of Motion and Color... but we're inclined to believe the former), far less than the Final Cut Studio’s $999 price tag.
Final Cut Pro X comes with a slew of new features, including:
- Final Cut X is a full rebuild from scratch
- 64 bit – Crowd: “finally!” “thank you!”
- Cocoa, Core Animation, Open CL, Grand Central Dispatch support
- Fully color managed
- Resolution independent playback/timeline all the way up to 4K
- Features people detection, single or in groups
- Non-destructive auto color balance
- Automatic audio cleanup (option to auto noise reduce audio, more)
- Features “smart collections”: a lot like the smart folders found in OS X
- Editing can start immediately during importing of AVCHD and other media, switches silently to local media as it ingests
- Uses every available cpu cycle to keep things rendered. Also highly scalable. Will even work on a Macbook
- No interruption for rendering. No transcoding, EVERYTHING native. (incl DSLR footage–assume this means AVC)
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