Closing Lower Professional 10.4 introduced and demoed with VR, HDR workflow assist, enhanced colour instruments, and extra GL-NEWS

At present was the primary day of the third-annual Final Cut Pro X Creative Summit in Cupertino, CA. The occasion is geared in direction of skilled video editors utilizing Final Cut Pro X. Talks, demonstrations, together with a go to to the Apple campus is concerned. There’s additionally communication with the product staff behind the favored NLE.

The primary day of the occasion began off with fairly a bang, as Apple took the wraps off of the subsequent huge version of Closing Lower Professional X, model 10.4. Though there isn’t any designated date for launch, the replace can be pushed someday earlier than 12 months’s finish and consists of enhanced colour instruments, assist for VR and HDR workflows, customized LUTs, HEVC, and much extra.

These in attendance obtained a primary hand have a look at a number of the new options in Closing Lower Professional X, and pictures from the occasion, with Apple’s permission, are being posted to Twitter.

Based mostly off of photographs, and several other first-hand accounts, listed here are a number of the enhancements and options you could anticipate from the brand new model of Closing Lower Professional X:

• Help for VR workflows
• 360 titles and transitions
• HDR workflow assist
• Enhanced/redesigned colour instruments
• Coloration wheels
• HEVC assist
• Auto White Picker
• Customized LUT loading
• Direct import of iOS iMovie timelines

Alex Gollner from Alex4D posted a wealth of data to Twitter about his expertise. He notes that Apple demonstrated Closing Lower Professional X 10.4 on a brand new iMac Professional driving an 8K timeline:

He additionally posted movies demonstrating VR assist and the brand new iOS (iMovie) to Closing Lower Professional workflow:

Peter Wiggins, who’s behind the wonderful Closing Lower Professional useful resource FCP.co, was in attendance, and tweeted about a number of the new options. I additionally encourage you to read his full roundup of all the pieces introduced right this moment.

FCPX.TV’s Richard Taylor additionally shared some details about the much-anticipated replace by way of Twitter.

For sure, model 10.4 is shaping as much as be the largest replace within the historical past of Closing Lower Professional X. The Artistic Summit goes on till the twenty ninth, and we’ll remember to replace this submit with any further options that we find out about.

Image credit: PeterWiggins

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