New in Final Cut Pro 10.8

Released June 20, 2024

Final Cut Pro 10.8 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

• Automatically improve the color, color balance, contrast, and brightness of video or still images using the new Enhance Light and Color effect, powered by machine learning.
• Enable Smooth Slo-Mo to create amazing slow-motion visuals with an AI-enhanced algorithm on Mac models with Apple silicon.
• Stay organized by renaming color corrections and video effects in the inspector.
• Drag effects right from the inspector to other clips in the timeline or viewer.
• Use new filters in the timeline index to quickly identify clips with audio effects, video effects, retiming changes, missing media, or missing effects.
• Search in the timeline index by reel, scene, camera angle, camera name, custom metadata, or effect name.
• Search in the timeline index for user-created roles.
• Search for clips in the browser using new “Starts With” and “Ends With” search criteria.
• Enable or disable timeline scrolling using a new toolbar button.
• Improves timeline scrolling behavior during reverse playback.
• Fixes an issue where captions would sometimes flicker when timeline scrolling is enabled.
• Fixes an issue where browser items would be appear to be renamed when naming a folder.
• Fixes an issue that caused disabling the audio roles of a clip to make the video roles appear disabled.
• Accurately tone-maps HDR video content in 360° view for 360° projects.
• Fixes an issue that could cause ProRes RAW clips to be displayed incorrectly in the viewer on Intel-based Mac models.
• Fixes an issue that caused a freeze frame from a log-encoded clip to appear too bright in an HLG timeline.
• Fixes an issue that caused a disabled Color Board effect to be incorrectly enabled after exporting and reimporting an FCPXML of the timeline.
• Fixes an issue that caused the Space Designer audio effect to show presets as missing.
• Fixes an issue that could cause Final Cut Pro to stop responding when rendering with another app active.
• Fixes an issue that caused switching between the angle viewer and the video scopes to change the angle viewer selection back to “Enable video and audio switching.”
• Fixes an issue that caused Final Cut Pro to stop responding when both a folder and an enclosed item were selected in the browser.
• Adds support for sharing 8K ProRes MXF files.
• Improves support for Canon C2 AVC media.
• Adds support for Canon XF-AVC 1920x1080 59.94i/50i H.264 25Mbps.
• Removes support for disc burning.
• Updates FCPXML to version 1.12.