This is nothing new from any software developer, and yet we still have a large and thriving market for add-ons and plugins. Some will argue that a lot of what Apple has added in version 10.4 was already available through the use of third-party plugins, and Apple is merely seeing what’s popular and cannibalising the independent market. We tested it on a three-year-old 2.5GHz Intel Core i7 MacBook Pro, and aside from editing 360-degree footage which it struggled to do in real-time, it performed perfectly. The whole program has been fully optimized to take advantage of the raw power offered by Apple’s latest hardware, but FCPX will also work extremely well on older machines.
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Speaking of different types of camera, FCPX can now handle full 8K resolution footage – as long as you’ve got an iMac Pro to work on. If you started your editing steps in iMovie for Mac, that migration path is still there. As you’d expect, FCPX caters for many different types of cameras, but as the old saying goes, often the best camera in your arsenal is the one you have with you, and now, not only can you shoot with your iPhone, you can start your edit with iMovie on that device and move your project to FCPX once you get back to your Mac. Another puzzling ‘why did it take so long’ moment comes with the introduction of easy importing of iOS iMovie projects.