Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro

120 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Final Cut Pro	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Apple offers Final Cut Pro, a video editing platform featuring optimized for a high performance machines and supporting a wide range of quality effects.	$299.99 per license

Pricing

Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro X: $299.99
per license

Pricing Offerings
Final Cut Pro
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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	Final Cut Pro
Considered Both Products	Apple François Lavallée president in Human Resources at Aliter Concept (Education Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Adobe Premiere is similar to Final Cut Pro in terms of quality and usability. Several of my friends and partners use Adobe Premiere, and we all agree they are identical. The fact that I use Apple computers made the choice easy, as Final Cut is fully integrated with the other … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Dancy video editor in Marketing at Think Video (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Price, price, price. DaVinci may be free, but the learning grade is a bit higher, and you need a high-end machine to make it sing. Premier Pro is a subscription service bloated with tools you'll never use. FCPX is priced decently and is easy to learn. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Final Cut Pro The magnetic timeline, live previews of effects, and general ease of editing. In other words, I think it works. Incentivized Helpful? Josh Meeder Owner in Marketing at Great Things LLC (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro iMovie is great for rapid editing of videos taken with your iPhone. It is lightweight, fast and simple. However it is extremely limited. You can not layer videos or images. The titles, Transitions and Effects are basic and there are only a few of them. You really can't … Incentivized Helpful? Shubham Verma Video Editor in Information Technology at SpiceUp Media (Media Production, 11-50 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro X is a one time purchase and Adobe Premiere Pro has monthly subscription. Final Cut Pro X takes less time to arrange your clips and Adobe Premiere Pro takes most time to arrange your clips. A beginner can do work easily on Final Cut Pro X, but a beginner can not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Final Cut Pro I've used iMovie and Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro is iMovie on steroids. Incentivized Helpful? Hilary Hobbs Senior Video Editor at Spear Education (Entertainment, 201-500 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Premiere and Final Cut are very similar is usage. Final Cut has less crashing and lag, but does not work well with Adobe products. You'd basically have to use all different softwares to use it best. Davinci is a different beast with a color grading portion that is unmatched by … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Final Cut Pro I have used both Final Cut Pro X and iMovie and Final Cut Pro just seems to be my go-to. Final Cut Pro X just seems to have more tools, features, functionality, and more. It also integrates with Compressor which helps when reducing file sizes. There seems to be more extras that … Incentivized Helpful? Brendon Brown Marketing Technologist in Information Technology at Island City Media (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro I find that many users have some iMovie experience when approaching Final Cut Pro X, and thus segue quickly to it. Premiere is also a good product, timeline-based, with a very mature expansion market, possibly with a cluttered interface. DaVinci Resolve is the free product from … Incentivized Helpful? Alex Pegg Owner at Alex Pegg Photography (Photography, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut [Pro X] has way more features in a much better layout. Although it is more expensive, I believe the improved performance and advanced level of features is worth it if you are serious about video production and professionalism. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Muller Executive Vice President in Corporate at Stevens Advertising (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro X stakes up well against the main competitors such as Adobe Premier Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Each has their strengths but Final Cut Pro X provides a competitive set of features but is optimized for the Macintosh environment. With the new M1 chips, Final Cut Pro … Incentivized Helpful? Rob Gokee Composer in Professional Services at Rob Gokee Music (Entertainment, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro X is basically the professional upgrade of iMovie - if you're familiar with that product, stepping up to FCPX is a natural progression. Avid Media Composer and Adobe Premiere Pro are both industry standard products - in all honestly, if you're an editor, you … Incentivized Helpful? Frankie Heath Director of Social Marketing in Marketing at Mid-America Christian University (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro X has all the same features that the other two have. The price point for both Final Cut Pro X and Premier Pro are very comparable and DaVinci Resolve is a free software but I found it to not be very user friendly. We have access to both Premier Pro and Final Cut … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Final Cut Pro I briefly experimented with Adobe Premiere but wasn't crazy about the user interface. I'm so used to Final Cut Pro X and it's become such a mainstay for me that I saw no need to pursue an alternative. Final Cut Pro X certainly delivers worlds above your customary free editing … Incentivized Helpful? Michelle Green Arnson Marketing and Communications Manager in Marketing at Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (Non-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro I have hated iMovie since its inception. This probably says more about me, but I've never been able to figure out how such a simple piece of software can make me feel like such a dope! It's certainly improved over the years, and I have even used it in a pinch when I didn't have … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro X is much easier to navigate and more user-friendly than Adobe Premiere. It is something a beginner can pick up and have an easy time editing, and then an experienced pro can really dig in and make something amazing out of it. Premiere can be a train wreck from … Incentivized Helpful? Seth Paine Web & Media Developer at The Coming Home Network International (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro I have used Adobe Premiere Pro but I keep going back to Final Cut Pro X because it is easier to use. At some point, I will learn Premiere Pro because from what I have heard it is much more powerful, but I am staying with Final Cut Pro for now because it is much easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Joel McAfee Producer in Professional Services at lilDRAGON (Media Production, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro I first learned to edit on Adobe Premiere Pro, and then FCP7. Comparatively, FCP7 just worked. Adobe crashed all the time (back in the day). Apple clearly also had the edge on the user interface - not just doing what NLEs had been doing for years but making improvements to the … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Wittmaak Creative Designer & Content Specialist in Marketing at National Aviation Academy (Consumer Goods, 51-200 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Ease of use and intuitive menus systems a no brainer. Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Epstein Executive Producer in Social Media at Firefilm Productions, LLC (Motion Pictures and Film, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro FCPX is very similar to Premiere Pro, and the two software are locked in a competition. Some years Premier is better, some years FCPX is better. I would say FCPX is more stable with fewer crashes, but Premier sometimes lets you customize the view a bit more. Flash is good for … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Trail Training Content Developer at DH Pace Company, Inc. (Building Materials, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro There's no comparison really. They're all non-linear editors, but FCPX is in a league of it's own. Above the rest. Incentivized Helpful? Dave Becker Content Manager in Marketing at The Next Street (Education Management, 51-200 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro Final Cut Pro X is just as good as Adobe Premier Pro but doesn't require a subscription to keep using. The one time cost was a plus for us. Although Final Cut Pro X is only available for Apple, everyone in our department uses Macs so it wasn't a problem. We've found it easier … Incentivized Helpful? Julio Ahumada MBA President - Partner in Marketing at DNA Digital Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro I cut my teeth on Media Composer and Adobe Premier. When I had a budget of nothing to start a creative services department for a Warner Bros. television affiliate, I took a chance on Final Cut (the first version). Now Final Cut X is very robust and is a killer editor. Even the … Incentivized Helpful? Dan Talvi Teaching Assistant at GST BOCES (Primary/Secondary Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Final Cut Pro When compared to other video editing software, Final Cut Pro X falls in the middle in terms of difficulty and functionality. iMovie (another Apple / Mac video editing software) provides many of the basic functions and features of Final Cut Pro X, while Adobe Premiere Pro CC … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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User Ratings
	Final Cut Pro
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (5 ratings)
In-Person Training	9.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	10.0 (1 ratings)