Free fcp software for mac

FCP Rescue is a handy utility that will help you backup your FCP files, restore and removal of Final Cut Pros preference files.

Boris Calligraphy is a set of four title generator for Final Cut Pro. Calligraphy uses Boris FX core technology to create vector-based titles directly inside Final Cut Pro. Boris Calligraphy is included free with Final Cut Pro version 3.0 and later.
The Boris Calligraphy title generator for Final Cut Pro uses Boris FX core technology to create vector-based titles directly inside Final Cut Pro.
Boris Calligraphy includes two Final Cut Pro Generators, Title Crawl and Title 3D. Title Crawl allows users to easily animate a text page. Title 3D allows you to create vector-based text that you can animate in 3D space. Static titles play in real time on systems with the RTMac board as long as no keyframes are created in the Controls tab.
Both Calligraphy Generators use the controls in the Text window to affect text on a character basis, allowing users to assign different styles, colors, drop shadows, borders, and fill to individual characters. In addition, Calligraphys Style Palette can be used to apply style presets or create and save styles settings for future use. In addition, the Gradient Editor allows you to create and map custom gradients to text. Then use Final Cut Pros Motion tab to animate the text.
Enhancements:
- Localized user interface when working with the French, German, or Japanese version of Final Cut Pro 3.0.2
- Multi-byte text input
- Support for using OTF Fonts for creating titles in Final Cut Pro 3
- The FCP Help menu no longer disappears after launching Boris Calligraphy
- Fonts managed by Adobe Type Manager now consistently render for Mac OS 9
- Overlapping text style shadows now appear correctly.

Too Much Too Soon Plugins 1.0 is a professional and smart set of plugins for Apple FCP.

Major Features:

1. Smart Anamorphic (New June 2005)
   Stretches 4:3 footage to 16:9 without cropping. Make sure you remove any automatically added distortions in the motion tab before you apply this. Currently in beta so please send all the feedback you got. Features that are coming up include thew ability to add cropping as well for a less dramatic effect as well as definable "center of action" to avoid stretching areas with movement.
2. Flashframe (Updated June 2005)
   A flashframe transition. Now with optional gradual pre and (!) post blur and luma clamping for legal levels.
3. Color Balance (New May 2005)
   Adjusts color balance without changing the luminance. Works a little like the built in color balance filter as well as the Quicktime RGB filter, but much better and more intuitive than both.
4. Color Balance 3-way (New May 2005)
   As above but with separate controls for shadows, midtones and highlights. Similar to the color balance tool found in many image manipulation tools for stills.
5. Clock (Updated May 2005)
   Generates a digital clock, for countdowns or whatever. The update adds milliseconds to the display. I suggest you crop the frame to select the number of decimals you need. The clock doesn't animate on its own, so you have to keyframe the "seconds" slider. I thought that would be the most flexible way of handling this...
6. Scratch Removal (New April 2005)
   Removes vertical scratches from old and damaged film. Move the sliders (you can enter fractions by hand for fine tuning) until the guide covers the scratch and then uncheck the guide box. Scratches like these are often stationary but otherwise the filter is completely keyframeable.
7. Anamorphic Squeeze (New September 2004)
   The benefit of doing this using a filter is that the letterbox area becomes usable for other filters applied to the same clip, such as Timecode Reader. This is not the case when you use the anamorphic checkbox or the motion settings. Make sure you undo any other squeeze before applying this.
8. Shadow/Highlight Gamma (New August 2004)
   Applies gamma correction to the highlights and shadows independently. Originally designed to correct the excessive contrast often found in film material transfered on a film chain, but feel free to use it whichever way you want.
9. Black & White
   Offers more control over the conversion to black & white than simple desaturation. Use it to emulate different b&w filmstocks as well as camera filters. I like to use 50% red and 50% green and lose the blue altogether for that orange filter look.
10. Chroma Resample
    Resamples the chroma channel using FCP's bicubic interpolation instead of Quicktime's built in nearest neighbor algorithm. Makes keying a lot easier and generally improves the image, especially if used with the Black & White or Fast Deinterlace filters.
11. Diffusion
    Silk stocking, Soft Filter, ProMist, LoCon, Diffusion and so on -- this filter does it. Just experiment with the settings. Normal, Overlay and Screen seems to be the most useful transfer modes, but don't let that stop you.
12. Speeder III
    Speed ramping tool. Ramps by keyframing the frame number or progress percentage. Works on the clip it's applied to, but if you want to change the duration you can apply it to a scrap clip and drop the clip to ramp in the source clip box.
13. Fast Deinterlace
    Same as the built in, but it renders more than twice as fast. And now it shouldn't destroy the last line of video as it sometimes did before.
14. Black Restore
    If you've lost the blacks for some reason, like video noise, bad telecine or dirty VHS heads, or even because of some filter you applied, this one's for you. It gives the image its punch back, with deeper blacks and better saturation in dark colors, without changing the brightness of the rest of the image.
15. Blend Fields
    This does the exact same thing as the famous "double deinterlace filmlook method," but it renders *a lot* faster.
16. Mosaic
    
17. Noise Reduction
    Removes video noise and grain by averaging pixels where there's no detail. Aside from giving you a cleaner image, this can really improve the results you'd get from most compression schemes, like Sorenson and MPEG.
18. Reduce Flicker
    Same as Blend Fields, but only blends where there's interlace artifacts. Useful for removing flicker in text and still images while preserving as much sharpness as possible.
19. RGB Gamma
    A simple but effective color corrector.
20. Typewriter
    Types the letters one at a time. Uses keyframes to control the speed, which allows for a more "real" and "natural" typing look. Try it with the Harting font.
21. Wind Blur/Cross
    This is a regular wind blur that is much, much faster than the built in one, due to the slight limitation that it only supports two directions, vertical and horizontal. It works both as a filter and as a transition.

CoverFlux 1.0.3 is known as a free FxPlug plugin that reproduces the gorgeous scrolling image effect for still images by producing movies & project files for FCP, FCE4 & Motion. CoverFlux takes a folder of up to 25 images and automatically displays them in the 3D fan style of Cover Flow.

The reflection, preview stack, and displayed stack is all calculated automatically. You are not limited to a 'tempo' of display either, just keyframe your picture changes. Also you can start and stop at any image, even skip pictures forwards or backwards - complete flexibility to match music or script timings.

The plugin is fully customisable. Adjust the scale, number of images on deck, add the filename. The composition can be viewed from any angle in 3D and the viewpoint animated. Resolution independent, this plugin works in DV right the way up to pin sharp 1080 HD.

Enhancements:

• Automatic scanning of image structure in selected folder.
• If an image is added, removed or the order changed then CoverFlux will display the change without having to reload manually.

Requirements: The free FxFactory plugin management system is required

TitleExchange is a basic tool for easy and fast transfer of subtitles from FCP to DVD Studio Pro.
Simply export your FCP timeline with the subtitles as XML and open this XML with TitleExchange. It could be a good idea to use TitleCleaner to spell check and clean your subtitles before you convert them.
Title Exchange Pro includes some more features like bidirectional conversion of titles, more settings and options.
Enhancements:
- Unicode
- Windows STL files change to Mac automatically.

CHV iSilhouette is a free plugin for Final Cut Pro (all versions) and Final Cut Express (all versions).

Silhouette is a video filter that colorizes the silhouette of an object. You can define up to 4 colors that iSilhouette will add up and use for the creation of a shape. The shape and the surrounding areas will be colorized by two defineable colors. Additionally the borders of the shape can be colorized.

iSilhouette also comes as a completely keyframeable version especially made for Final Cut Express thanks to the unmatched Keyframe-system of CHV. Keyframes make it possible to make effects change over time. Originally Final Cut Express does not support keyframes and therefore all plugins would be doomed to be motionless. iSilhouette V1.0 of CHV is different, because all keyframe functionality is already included within the plugin itself.

You might also want to take a look at our other products for Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express:

• The Clone and Paint-collection: 18 fresh plugins with new functions for FCP and FCE.
• The Bezier-Garbage Matte Pro: Create a Garbage Matte WITH Bezier-handles.
• The MotionTracker-collection: 5 plugins for automatic content-tracking.
• The Time-Collection: Time-bending tools for precise Time- and Speed-Manipulation.
• The 3D-collection: A set of several 3D-animation tools. (Take a look at the spectacular 3D-Matrix!)
• The Morph-collection: The first and only native morphing tool!
• The Distortion-collection: A great collection of distortion tools.
• The Color-collection: A set of color manipulating tools.
• The Text-collection: A variety of plugins to create animated text.
• The Film-filter: The professional tool to make your film look old!
• The Starters-collection: Two inexpensive plugins for beginners.

These two AppleScripts will go to either Weather.com or AccuWeather and download the most current Animated weather maps.
The maps from Weather.com are actually a series of 5 images, so this eliminates the need for one to go to 5 different URLs and download the maps individually. The maps from AccuWeather are layered, so that the overlays (roads, names, markers) are each seperate image files from the actual map.
This downloads all the necessary image files so that you can put them together in an image/video editor (Photoshop, FCP).
Enhancements:
- Added satellite from AccuWeather as well as Weather.com

Preference Manager 2.0.3 offers you a wonderful tool which is designed to allow you to trash, backup and restore your Final Cut Studio preference files. Preference files store information about user preferences, window and toolbar placements, and launch settings. Sometimes these can become corrupted, causing problems.

Preference Manager allows you to trash corrupted preferences and keep backups of working preference files in order to quickly restore your settings.

Major Features:

1. Works for all applications in Final Cut Studio, not just Final Cut Pro. A
2. lso backs up FCP button bars, keyboard layouts, column layouts, window layouts, track layouts, custom settings and user plugins.
3. Unlimited backups, completely free, assign custom backup locations, assign backup names, and works with Final Cut Pro 4 and above.

Enhancements :

• Features backups are now stored in compressed files with the extension .PMB.