FCP Rescue
http://fcprescue.andersholck.com/

This FREE OSX helper application to assist you when Apple Final Cut Pro crashes and corrupts it's preference files.

It backs up, trashes and restores your FCP settings & preferences. Bravo. Available in three flavours - FCE2, FCP 5, FCP4 & HD.

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Automatic Duck
http://www.automaticduck.com/ | see also After Effects & Beyond

Free XML Exporter NEW

THis Free XML Exporter will export a Final Cut Pro sequence to XML and make the use of XML2Text or XML2Title even easier.

August 20, 2006

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Spherico
http://www.spherico.com/

BWF2XMLNEW

BWF2XML looks like a weird license plate but is actually the awkward name for a utility that allows the transport of metadata from Broadcast Wave Format files into FCP.

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FREE - FCP Record TimerNEW

FCP Record Timer allows for scheduled recordings with Final Cut Pro.

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Playlist2FCPNEWish

A utility for the automated XML transfer of iTunes playlist's into Final Cut Pro.If you use iTunes to convert temp music CDs into uncompressed AIFF or WAV files in order to import the music tracks into FCP, you can use Playlist2FCP to reference the current media files, copy or move those tracks to your Final Cut Pro media folder or drive.

October 11, 2004

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TitleExchange Lite for FCPNEW

TitleExchange Lite is a basic tool for easy and fast transfer of subtitles from FCP to DVD Studio Pro. There is also a shareware version available which allows bi-directional conversion from STL to XML and other formats.

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XML TitleCleanerNEW

TitleCleaner is a tool, which makes use of the Final Cut Pro XMLs to clean text from subtitles much easier and faster than it can be done within FCP.

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XML2TextNEW

XML2Text is reads FCP sequence XMLs and extracts and converts useful information in different formats.

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XML4DailiesNEW

The easy way to bring some subtitling for dailies into FCP. Export your sequence to a XML file convert it with XML2Title, bring it back into FCP just with a double click and you are ready to go. The new beta allows better control of the XML output, i.e. the appearance of the titles in FCP.

August 20, 2006

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Gallery
http://www.gallery.co.uk/

Picture Ready http://www.pictureready.com/ NEW

“...PictureReady! is the latest revolution from Gallery, offering the ability to record picture into a QuickTime movie, but with that movie available immediately for editorial as soon as recording begins. Additional picture becomes available to editors in the background automatically as the recording progresses. Applications include Sports/OB recording, News, Telecine, AudioPost and much more... ”

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XML-Pro NEWISH

No working demo available. Seamlessly translates FinalCut Pro XML into Pro Tools Sessions, and AES-31-3 ADLs, referencing source media, and including clip volume level automation.

XML-Pro is designed for Final Cut Pro workflows for large scale projects such as motion pictures. In such workflows, there is a strong requirement for turnover from picture to sound departments to utilise compositions which reference original source files. Final Cut's own OMF export functionality uses an embeded media technique which does not refer back to original sources, and as such is not suitable for use in these types of workflow. Additionally, there is a strong demand to preserve level automation defined by the picture editor across to audio post production, but this is also omitted from FCP's OMF export.

December 10, 2004

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Live Cut
http://livecut.sourceforge.net/NEWISH

This open source beta is an external application that allows you to line up video streams, switch between them and then export an XML file that is imported into FCP. Very nice.

December 07, 2004

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Traffic http://www.xmedit.com/ NEW

Downloadable Demo available. Traffic is still in beta but promises to dramatically change the workflow of editors who master it.

With Traffic, you export your timeline as XML and then manipulate the XML inside the Traffic enviroment . E.g.: allowing you to universally & automatically apply & change variables like text & font characteristics to a generator depending on the name of the clip below it.

When you're done, the manipulated XML sequence is imported back into your FCP project to view (or render) the results. The possibilities look endless and, he says with a nerdy flourish, rather powerful.

“... Traffic presents a new model in the non-linear editing school of thought. It utilizes whats called a dependency graph, and it’s the same interface that high-end visual effects software like Apple's Shake™ uses. Operators connect “nodes” together to form a chain of events they want to perform on a clip. Traffic employs this node-based interface and has infused it with an editor's mindset. Changes and tweaks which seemed too tedious or even impossible to do can now be done in a matter of seconds... ”

October 11, 2005

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