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Are you looking for Plugins for Final Cut Pro?

Final Cut Pro is one of the popular video editing tools. It enables you plugins and free effects for better editing experience. Below we will show you 20 cool, free Final Cut Pro plugins and effects. You can also find the best alternative to Final Cut Pro, which allows you to edit your Videos with mutilple cool effects.

Now let's get started!

Part 1. Best Alternative to Final Cut Pro with 1000+ Cool Effects (Recommended)

Filmora Video Editor for Mac (or Filmora Video Editor for Windows) is a popular video editing tool that allows users, even video editing beginners, to export a great looking video easily. Like Final Cut Pro, it offers you everything you need for editing a video. Unlike Final Cut Pro, Filmora Video Editor is a simple tool that video editing beginners can make use of fully. It has a separate verson for Windows PC and Mac.

Now, let's check the detailed features of this powerful Alternative to Final Cut Pro:

Filmora Video Editor for Mac

• There are over 1000 cool effects, 300 types of text, intro/credit, filters, overlays, motion graphic, etc.
• You can crop, trim, cut, split, merge, rotate, adjust video and audio track.
• It also offers multiple fabulous special effects: green screen, split screen, face-off, mosaic, and more.
• And newly Filmstockvideo effects are added for holidays and big events. Update every moth.
• ...

Filmora Video Editor for Mac comes with advanced but also easy to use editing tools. You can easily use those tools to create fancy and cool video story by your self and share it with the friends all over the world. New coming Filmstockprovides you multiple video effects, which will make your videos more attractive. Following is the details that will guide you to access to Filmstockeffects store and show you how to apply cool effects to your videos with ease.

Part 2: 20 Free and Paid Final Cut Pro Plugins and Effects

1: Alex4D Blurred Coloured Glass

Alex G. has made a fantastic and easy to use Final Cut Pro X effect that blurs, colours and changes the contrast of a rectangular part of a clip. You can use it to place a modern layering to your video material, to overlay logos, text, other clips, faces.

Price: FREE

Developer: Alex Gollner

2: Manifesto

It is a free static title and title roll/crawl generators. You create titles with a specific effect in a very simple way by adjusting the duration of the Manifesto text generator. The plugin will automatically animate the roll or crawl to the duration of the generator. Manifesto will also apply motion blurring and deflickering to the text motion, making it clean.

Price: FREE

Developer: Noise Industries

3: XEffects Big Text Drop

This plugin has been made free to download, being a template generator plugin for Final Cut Pro X that drops three lines (or less) of text on to a shiny reflective floor. Big Text Drop will do for you the entire animation. All you need is to add it on your timeline, adjust for content and then render. You have a full control over the text lines by adjusting the font, weight, fill and edge colour, by choosing the background`s colour and the floor`s colour.

Price: FREE

Developer: Idustrial Revolution

4: Effect: ASCII Art

It is free and the license is included in the effect, downloadable from link above. In principle, it is capable to produce awesome black & white effect from a colored video material, but it has interesting side effects available.

Price: FREE

Developer: Fox Mahoney

5: DaVinci Resolve Lite, for color correction

You can use it for color correction, power windows and effects of each node. The nodes are similar to layers, but more powerful because you can join unlimited nodes sequentially or in parallel. Thus you can combine grades, effects, mixers, keys and plug-ins to create limitless color effects and amazing looks. More details here.

Price: FREE

Developer: Blackmagic Design

6: Too Much Too Soon

It is a free plugin iwith very powerful filter for sharpening without creating any halos. You can use for your photo or video material, and also for cartoons, by increasing the sharpness of upscaled or out of focus images. Be careful to not go too high on the amount because it has artifacts.

Price: FREE

Developer: Mattias Sandstr?m

7: FCPX Titel – freeze, by KlickVideo.tv

As the name of this free plugin, you can freeze your title with this powerful app. It is easy to set up, just need to download and copy to Macintosh HD> Libary> Application Support> Final Cut Pro> Vorlagen> Titels. Another way to setup, is that you can copy it to Macintosh HD> User> your username> Motion Templates> Titel. Best to know that light points and other atributes can be changed.

Price: FREE

Developer: KlickVideo.tv

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8: Normality

You can use this plugin to light 3D objects and scenes directly by using the normal passes and advanced relighting techniques. The shading quality is very high and you can light single objects or even whole scenes in real-time. It is very easy to apply to your objects or scenes.

Price: FREE

Developer: Stefan Minning

9: Magic Bullet Colorista Free

This free tool it is a colorful vocabulary for everyone. You can use the Magic Bullet Colorista Free very simple as it has elegant color corrector. You receive what you need with basic controls designed by experienced colorists, like the 3-Way wheels from the popular Colorista II and numeric sliders for precise numerical accuracy.

Price: FREE

Developer: Red Giant

10: NormaliZe

NormaliZe is the first free Taronite after effects filter to reformat and normalize vectors as they are found in common maps (RGB = XYZ). You can tilt and invert each axis or a global inversion. For any image, you can use it also to normalize the color vector, which means it maximizes the saturation of any color.

Price: FREE

Developer: Philipp Sp?th

11: Lock & Load X - Stabilizer for FCP 7/X, Premiere Pro and After Effects

Lock & Load is a fast and robust stabilizer for FCP X, FCP 7, Premiere Pro and After Effects. It can be used on Mac only. Also it gives better quality results with less zooming and blurriness with SmartZoom feature and has a better ability to reduce Rolling Shutter Artefacts from CMOS cameras including DSLR cameras (Canon 5D Mark III and 7D).

Price: $99.00

Developer: CoreMelt

12: Sapphire Edge for Apple Final Cut Pro

You can use the plugin Sapphire Edge without documentation as it has intuitive controls. In your video material, you can include high-quality artistic visual effects, fast rendering, amazing images. Also, this plugin provide about 600 preset visual effects and transitions displayed in a visual browser. Thus you can use more effective your creation time.

Price: New license $299.00

Developer: Genarts

13: X2ProLE Audio Convert

You can use X2ProLE Audio Convert for delivering Final Cut Pro X projects to Avid Pro Tools for audio finishing. You will move audio projects into Avid Pro Tools via AAF with embedded audio media, by converting an FCP X XML into an AAF file and a smoth integrating between the two applications.

Price: $59.99

Developer: Marquis Broadcast

14: Pro Maintenance Tools

Description: Pro Maintenance Tools supports Final Cut Studio, Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer or Symphony and Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac. It keep your editing system running smoothly so you can quickly get back on track. You can use the diagnosis tools to determine the cause of the issue by analyzing crash logs or locating corrupt media files, then use the repair tools to fix the issue.

Price: $139 for Single License

Developer: Digital Rebellion

15: Smoke

This video effects software provide amazing editing and effects, like 3D effects, video editing timeline, acceleration of the effects workflow, flexible and intuitive way to manage the media in your project. System requirements for Autodesk Smoke 2015 are: Mac OS version 10.7.5 or later, 64-bit Intel multi-core processor, at least 8 GB of RAM and 3 GB free disk space for download and installation.

Price: Monthly $ 195 SRP? (Online store only)

Developer: Autodesk

16: 7toX for Final Cut Pro

You can use it for translation, by bringing your Final Cut Pro (7 or 6) XML forward to Final Cut Pro X. Thus you can use Apple’s new professional editing tools to update or finish your older projects. The application is simple to use, with drag-and-drop support and progress information. You will receive also a detailed reporting after translation.

Price: Price: $9.99

Developer: Intelligent Assistance

17: MultiCam Plugin

You can use it for simultaneously log data and notes for up to 26 cameras. It has a very simple setup, by taping the edit button to set operator names, and optional colors used to quickly identify cameras. The plugin includes a dedicated MultiCam report, and data export to Final Cut Pro X.

Price: $49.99

Developer: MovieSlate

18: X-Wiper

It is a tool to prepar your disc, folder or SAN location for archiving, by deleting all files that you do not need anymore for recreating the project at a later stage. In your video project, you don’t need to archive: projects render files, events render files, proxy files, transcoded files as these are files that eat harddisk space.

Price: 35,00 kr

Developer: Helge Tjelta

19: Final Cut Library Manager

You can use this app to all of your FCP libraries, and they are displayed together in one window. You can choose which sources (on disk or folders) to include, and you can sort them also by name, size, date. You will keep track of your Libraries and you will find quickly your missing libraries.

Price: €7.99

Developer: Artic Whitness

20: PROLAROID?, Professional Instant Photo Effects for FCPX

You can use for creating a timeless or vintage touch for your images and videos. Your creations can be easily made with this app by integrating easy in Final Cut Pro X. You can choose any from the 30 photo looks, with customizable frames, artifacts, and film textures.

Price: $29.95

Developer: Pixel Film Studios?

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