14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has released updated editions for its audio and video production applications, with a focus on performance and stability fixes. Moreover, the new Final Cut Pro now comes with built-in support for the Sony XAVC-L and Panasonic AVC-Intra 4:4:4 devices, up to and including multimedia content in 4K resolutions.
Apple's Motion application, the tool used by video editors on the Mac platform for creating video visual effects, titles and motion graphics, now features enhanced 3D text rendering when you're using reflective materials in your titles or transitions and it also allows you to export with no errors any title templates featuring text layout parameters.
Compressor, the third app updated today by Apple, is a Final Cut helper tool designed to make it easier to encode your content and to streamline the encoding process by distributing the load between multiple workstations, and it has also been improved with newly added support for exporting to interlaced H.264 files.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that syncing closed captions and subtitles with audio and video tracks has also been enhanced and using I-frame placement markers when exporting to H.264 has now been restored.
Pro Video Formats also updated with extra support for MXF content
Furthermore, as a bonus, Apple has also released a new version of its professional Pro Video Formats codec pack that now comes with additional support for MXF (Material eXchange Format) files.
As described on Apple's support website, "This update also adds the following MXF support: Native import, edit, and share of MXF files with Final Cut Pro X and Motion, MXF share presets for Compressor, MXF OP1a export."
Given the fact that all these apps come with multiple performance and stability bug fixes, you should make sure that you're running the latest available Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and Apple Compressor versions by downloading them right now from our website.
