Sync&Link and FCP's Smart keywords are an incredible help when dealing with multi-day, non-chronological shoots of multicamera and/or dual system audio.
What would take me a full day or more of carefully categorizing in other NLEs I just did inside a single hour - syncing, making multicams and synced clips AND categorizing by Episode.
Cool long-standing bug in #FCP: Apply Custom Name - Original name from camera doesn't do anything. If you custom rename your clips, you can't rename them back to the original filenames.
I have a new, massive issue in #FCP 12.x.
Playback in the Viewer doesn't follow the active panel (Browser or Timeline) when in List view. If I match frame ("Reveal in Browser") from TL, or switch to it with keyboard shortcut, the Viewer continues displaying what's in the Timeline instead playing what's in the Browser. Unless I physically move the cursor into the Browser area, Viewer doesn't play its content.
Trashing FCP prefs didn't fix the issue. FCP 12.2 on Tahoe 26.4.1.
Anyone else?
I really would love to get *SOME* notifications from my Mac on my iPhone.
Namely #FCP and #Compressor
Pretty detailed writeup on video editing with #FCP on Macbook Neo
https://volatileinputs.com/2026/04/some-notes-on-editing-4k-video-on-the-macbook-neo/
I edited my video review of the MacBook Neo using Final Cut Pro on the Neo itself. It felt like the correct thing to do. My usual video editing machine is my 16" MacBook Pro running the M1 Pro chip with 16 gigs of RAM. Here are some notes on editing on the MacBook Neo: I edited
For whatever reason the name Kanen Flowers popped up to my mind - a former prominent VFX artist and #FCP evangelist, later a finance bro, now arrested for AI and crypto schemes and fraud.
Heh.
Hmm that's surprising. Used #dvgrab to capture some footage from DV Tapes. There are several formats to choose from. One of them is QuickTime mov. You would've thought #Apple could handle that. But apparently the codec DV/DVCPRO is unsupported by both QuickTime and #FinalCutPro. #Compressor can't handle it either.
The raw format is being handled just fine.
This is not the first time I find Apple stuff to have zero support for some codecs. Yet #HandBrake and #ShutterEncoder do.
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