Apple Updates Final Cut Pro, Motion & Compressor

This morning, Oct. 25, Apple updated Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor. Here are the details.

FINAL CUT PRO

Version 10.6.5

• Supports faster exporting of H.264 or HEVC on Macs with Apple silicon.
• Increases stability when disconnecting a Sidecar display on Intel Mac computers.
• Improves performance when editing on a Mac with an ambient light sensor.
• Fixes an issue where adding images from the Photos browser to a new project may cause additional media to be appended before the last clip.

Release Notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201237

MOTION

Version 5.6.3

• Includes stability and performance improvements.
• Addresses an issue in the Save As panel, where the Save and
• Cancel buttons were unreadable in certain languages.

Release Notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202203

COMPRESSOR

Version 4.6.3

• Adds file support for HEVC 8-bit 4:2:2 encoding.
• Adds support for multi-pass HEVC 4:2:2 encoding. (Requires macOS Ventura – 13.x)
• Changes the default HEVC encoder type to Faster.
• Adds support for previewing the transparency of an HDR video. (Requires macOS Ventura – 13.x)
• Fixes an issue where you may be unable to submit a batch when certain directories don’t have read/write permission.

Release Notes: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202204

SUMMARY

4:2:2 codecs provide more color information than 4:2:0, which was the standard for both H.264 and HEVC. Defaulting Compressor to “Faster” means that the compression default uses hardware acceleration.

All these fixes are good news, however, it would be even better to see features added from the long list of Final Cut requests.