A new interface designed especially for editors.Smart templates for making changes on the fly during editing. And easy-to-use motion graphics tools for creating eye-catching titles, transitions, and effects. Motion is the perfect companion to Final Cut Pro.

Revolutionary Video Editing

• Assemble clips in the Magnetic Timeline without clip collisions or sync problems

• Use Clip Connections to attach B-roll, sound effects, and music to the timeline

• Reduce clutter by grouping clips into a Compound Clip. Easily expand it back to single clips

• Perfect your pacing right in the timeline with the Inline Precision Editor

• Cycle through different shots, graphics, or effects at one place in the timeline with Auditions

• Edit multi-camera projects with automatic sync and support for up to 64 camera angles

Powerful Media Organization

• Work natively with a broad range of formats including RED, AVCHD, H.264 from DSLRs, and more

• Content Auto-Analysis captures camera metadata and analyzes shots in the background

• Choose analysis options for stabilization, rolling shutter correction, and audio enhancement

• Create and apply custom keywords on the fly as you select ranges in clips

• Smart Collections let you dynamically organize content and find any shot in a few clicks

Incredible Performance

• New 64-bit architecture uses all the RAM in your system for larger projects and richer effects

• Final Cut Pro taps the GPU on the graphics card and all the cores in your Mac for speed

• Background processing lets you keep working without interruption

• A ColorSync-managed color pipeline produces accurate, consistent color across applications

• Broadcast quality monitoring lets you route video and audio through third-party PCIe and Thunderbolt I/O devices (Requires OS X v10.7.2)

Compelling, Customizable Effects

• Preview effects to see how they look with your footage before applying them

• Change the look of titles, transitions, and effects using intuitive controls

• Control effects with precision using a keyframe editor that appears directly in the timeline

• Adjust the Ken Burns effect with simple onscreen arrows for start and end points

Integrated Audio Editing

• Expand and edit multichannel audio files directly in the timeline

• Let Final Cut Pro repair significant audio problems such as hum, excessive noise, and more

• Sync DSLR video with separate audio in a single step, with instant audio waveform matching

• Enrich your soundtrack with a library of royalty-free sound effects and audio effect plug-ins

Intuitive Color Grading

• Improve the look of any clip with the single-click Balance Color feature

• Apply the Match Color feature to match the looks of two clips shot under different conditions

• Manipulate color, saturation, and exposure with the Color Board

• Fine tune color for a specific color range or area of the screen using keying and masks

One-Step, Optimized Output

• Deliver projects for playback on Apple devices and websites such as Vimeo, YouTube, and Facebook

• Use themed menus to quickly author and burn a DVD or Blu-ray disc

• Export customized audio and video stems using Roles metadata

• Import and export XML to support third-party workflows