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Final Cut Pro X is a professional editing software which allows user to import video, and then edit it, organize, process, color-grade, deliver and output the plain video, 360° video and audio files to a wide variety of formats.

Final Cut Pro X is a non-linear video editing software originally developed by Macromedia Inc. and later by Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X 10.6.6, runs on both Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computers powered by macOS version 12.6 Monterey or later.

The software allows users to log and transfer plain video or 360° video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats.

Detailed information can be get on Wiki Final Cut Pro X.

It has got some standard XML Interchange Format, termed as FCP XML which provides extensive access to the contents of Final Cut Pro X projects, including edits and transitions, effects, layer-composition information, and organisational structures.

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what programming languages are used for making medium sized softwares?

please excuse the stupidity of my question.. Things like Adobe After Effects, Apple final cut, Pro tools, photoshop.. also, things like Windows media player, real player What programming languages are used to build those? I'm really interested in…
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Can you control the speed of a video clip playing in Quartz Composer?

Is there a way to manipulate the speed of the video playback? I'm especially interested in a way to slow down with frame blending, exactly like the function in Final Cut Pro.
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Calculating Final Cut Pro X xml sequence duration

Final Cut Pro X xml (fcpxml documentation, page 19) elements have duration attributes like these "duration=264100/2400s". Denumerator should mean frame rate (24 frames per second). How can I calculate item duration in frames or in seconds and…
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What is the "creator code" for Final Cut Pro X?

I'm working on sending Apple Events to Final Cut Pro X. At the moment I have the trial (free is always nice for experimenting). However, looking at the .plist in the package, the creator code is specified as "????" and its bundle ID is…
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Programmatically Controlling Playback in FCP

I ran the Unix "strings" command on the Final Cut Pro binary and it returns some stuff like this: nextEdit: previousEdit: stepForward: stepBackward: playPause: Is there any way that I can tell Final Cut to run these functions while it's running? …
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Final Cut Pro X with Apple script (export projects)

Trying to make a script with whom will launch FCPX and will export one project after another (per day need to export 24 videos). So far were able to make this script: tell application "Finder" open ("/Volumes/UpNext/Final Cut…
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Editing a clips duration and start point on a timeline in a Final Cut XML document

I am trying to understand Final Cut's timeline XML file (fcpxmld). I want to be able to adjust a clips duration and where it starts on the timeline. I can't find this in the documentation. In the code sample and the image from my timeline (where…
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Final cut pro custom shares to my scriptable application which is not responded

I'm trying to develop osx application that is respond final cut pro custom share. I have been looking for references a lot for 2 weeks. And I did followings. Createed sdef …
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Creating Final Cut Pro/Professional-like interfaces

I'm in the process of creating an OSX application to be used by professionals, and want to adopt the dull/gray look of Final Cut Studio and other professional-use applications. I want the interface to be toned down, to be less distracting while…
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Read metadata added by Apple Final Cut

I am editing some videos in Final Cut and I would like to make these available on my website. I have added some keywords to the videos. Is there a way I can extract/read these keywords using php scripts? Is this metadata stored in the same way as…
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Scripting/Parsing Apple Motion 5 .motn files

I'm new to animating and I've started using Apple Motion 5 http://www.apple.com/au/final-cut-pro/motion/ The interface can be a bit annoying by not letting me do things in bulk or automate things. Since it saves files in a nice xml format I've been…
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Are FxPlugs sandboxed inside Final Cut Pro X?

I'm working with plugins for Final Cut Pro X and need to send data out to another program. So far I was able to do it by using NSDistributedNotificationCenter but that is not supposed to work. According to its Apple Developer page: Important:…
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"AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'find'" when converting with OpenTimelineIO

I have video projects that I want to convert from Final Cut Pro to KdenLive. I found the OpenTimelineIO project and it would solve all my problems. I installed with $ python3 -m pip install opentimelineio ... $ $ python3 -m pip show…
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fatal error: cstddef: No such file or directory #include

Help please I am assembling the rpm package of the final cut program https://github.com/gansm/finalcut When assembling, I get an error In the file included from…
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Final Cut Pro X: Is there a way to create a project using an automated script?

I am working on a desktop video file manager app. The app is designed to manage video clips by renaming and organizing them into appropriate folders. It is being used by people that range from modest to high level of technical skills. This…
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