Final Cut Pro
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
4warn against
Dec 19, 2025first mention
Oct 29, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use both the base M4 Mac mini and an M4 MacBook Air for Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Fusion”
edits 4K ProRes and H.265 footageon “Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra”
“FCP is just faster to edit and has a smoother end-to-end workflow.”
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“I edited my 30-45 min long 4k race videos in FCP on that air just fine.”
Caveats and dissent
“Final Cut Pro on MacOS now regularly advertises iPadOS Final Cut Pro”
pro audio/video useron “Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's dr…”
“I felt that FCP was underpowered for compositing and grading”
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“it’s clearly not a priority anymore”
Used Final Cut Pro professionally 2011-2020on “Apple Creator Studio”
“exports are cancelled if you so much as switch to another app during the process”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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All comments 15
“Historically, I've been using Recordly and Finalcut”
“LittleSnitch, Jetbrains IDe, Plex, Final Cut Pro, etc”
“Final Cut Pro on MacOS now regularly advertises iPadOS Final Cut Pro”
“I use both the base M4 Mac mini and an M4 MacBook Air for Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Fusion”
“On Mac I haven't decided between Davinci Resolve and FinalCut”
“I'm often moving between the browser and editor (typically Final Cut)”
“I felt that FCP was underpowered for compositing and grading”
“FCP is just faster to edit and has a smoother end-to-end workflow.”
“Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro”
I do most of my work remotely on a little Raspberry Pi 4 server attached to my home ISP: https://fatcity.it/ But I'm planning to do a big jump: Soon I will switch to a 2012 Mac Mini as my primary linux server!
“I edited my 30-45 min long 4k race videos in FCP on that air just fine.”
“Final Cut Pro is going to keep getting updates”
“which comes with a Final Cut Pro plugin”
“it’s clearly not a priority anymore”
“exports are cancelled if you so much as switch to another app during the process”