Share a film with Final Cut
It’s time to share the results of your editing efforts online and on disc
It’s time to share the results of your editing efforts online and on disc
When your video has been cut, tidied up and embellished with titles and effects, you can publish it directly to a variety of social networks direct from Final Cut Pro – there’s no need to export the movie to a file first.
Final Cut can share to YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo, with extra quality settings that iMovie lacks. If those still lack the flexibility you need, you can export a Master File to process in another app that offers greater control of its output, such as Apple’s Compressor (£34.99 / $49.99 from the Mac App Store) or HandBrake.
Final Cut can export any frame of your film at full quality in a range of image formats, which may be needed to accompany a submission to an amateur competition or a film festival. Still images are also useful for tailoring a video’s presentation on YouTube; when signed in to the site in your web browser, you can replace the automatically picked still image that’s shown to viewers when the video isn’t playing with a better one.
Most modern Macs don’t have a builtin optical drive, but you only need to connect a writer using a USB cable for Final Cut to be able to put your movie onto a disc, complete with chapter markers and menus.
Final Cut isn’t limited to writing DVDs, though; it can write HD video to Blu-ray discs, though you’ll need a separate player to watch it because OS X still can’t play Blu-ray films. Alan Stonebridge
Final Cut can share to YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo, and write Blu-rays and DVDs