Back in the late 1990s, Macromedia (remember them?!) hired the development team behind Adobe Premiere, including Randy Ubillos, to create KeyGrip. This app was later renamed Final Cut, and when Apple saw it, they bought the team, renamed it Final Cut Pro (FCP) and launched it as one of their own. Since then, FCP has gone through many changes, none more drastic than FCP X (10) in 2011, which introduced radical new editing concepts, including the ‘magnetic timeline’, which annoyed many editors (including myself), but now, would you believe it, many of us can’t live without. In 2024, Apple (finally) made the jump to FCP 11. I consider it one of the best software for video editing, which performs particularly well on a laptop that can handle video editing workflows. Let’s check out version 11.1.
