By Aharon Rabinowitz
Published on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Hey folks – you probably caught the fact that Apple posted a ridiculously feature-rich update to Final Cut Pro X. It includes things like:
- XML 1.2 featuring metadata import and export for richer integration with third-party apps
- RED camera support with native REDCODE RAW editing and optional background transcode to Apple ProRes
- MXF plug-in support that allows you to work natively with MXF files from import through delivery using third-party plug-ins
- Dual viewers, each with a video scope display, let you compare shots to match action and color
- Enhanced Audio workflows
- Lots more.
We know what you’re thinking – you want it NOW!!!! But you also might be wondering if Red Giant FCPX plug-ins are compatible with the latest version of Final Cut Pro.
Well… They already are, and you don’t have to do a thing.
Rest assured – You can update FCPX with confidence. We worked closely with Apple as we tested our products for compatibility. Those products include:
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to some last minute changes in XML formatting for FCPX 10.0.6 that we did not catch right away, if you update to 10.0.6, you will encounter issues while using PluralEyes. Our engineers are hard at work to get an out to you as soon as possible that solves this problem. We’ll let you know as soon as the fix is ready. We are currently testing and re-evaluating other performance issues with Magic Bullet Looks in Final Cut Pro X and will post updates when we have more information from our Engineering Team.
Get the FCPX update HERE.
Tags: FCPX, Magic Bullet, PluralEyes
October 23rd, 2012 at 1:07 pm
I know that was one of my first thoughts. Thanks for the update.
October 23rd, 2012 at 5:08 pm
when is Toonit going to work on FCX???
October 24th, 2012 at 12:06 am
Great update! I hope you’re still pressing Apple to build better support for non-square video material because now Looks and Mojo are unusable for example with anamorphic SD because all material gets blurred. It seems FCPX feeds video material to motion templates as square pixel so there’s lot of not wanted scaling happening back and forth.
October 24th, 2012 at 9:19 am
Have noticed green flashing glitches when using Magic bullet looks
and FCPX 10.0.6. Was working fine on the footage I had edited using 10.0.5 and Looks.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Glenn
October 24th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Glenn,
Please contact our support team regarding this issue:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/company/contact-us/support/
Please also include your video card/vram information and your system specs.
Thank you so much!
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
October 24th, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Nathan,
We do not have any current plans on supporting Toonit with FCPX.
I would be happy to fill out a feature request regarding this compatibility on your behalf.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
October 24th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
“Have noticed green flashing glitches when using Magic bullet looks
and FCPX 10.0.6. Was working fine on the footage I had edited using 10.0.5 and Looks.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Glenn”
I had the same problem with FCPX 10.0.6 and MBL… I have a Mac Pro mid 2010 16 gb of ram and ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB….. no problem with the 10.0.5 release…
October 24th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Enea,
This would be information that our support team would need to look into.
Please contact us!
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/company/contact-us/support/
Thank you!
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
October 24th, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Any plans on offering LUT Buddy for FCPX now?
October 25th, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Conor,
We have no current plans for supporting Lut Buddy for FCPX.
I would be happy to fill out a feature request on your behalf regarding this compatibility.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
October 26th, 2012 at 12:10 am
I’ve got warning FCPX when I push Export button ” no declaration for attribute videoAngleID of element mc-clip”
With pluraleyes 2.0 the same result .
If I don’t check ” create multicam ” and open XML manually from FCPX , file from Mark III looks like still image. In FCPX 10.0.5 everything was OK .
And in pluraleyes 3 futage from mark III ( all-I compression) paint with red color
Fcpx 10.0.6
Pluraleyes 3.0.3
Camera futage from Canon mark III , canon D60
Sorry my bad English …
October 26th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Krystal,
Please contact our support team so we can look further into this:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/company/contact-us/support/
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
October 29th, 2012 at 6:21 am
FCPX 10.0.6 update causes the causes upside down MBL viewer, is there a fix for this?
October 30th, 2012 at 9:02 am
This is a known issue with Magic Bullet Looks and the recent update with FCPX 10.0.6. We are diligently working with Apple to resolve this issue.
Thank you for your patience.
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
November 2nd, 2012 at 1:13 am
Come on Red Giant MBL mojo etc completely unusable in fcpx 10.0.6 – green blocking glitches, crashes etc. please sort I have important project to finish. Really not good enough that its taking this long to sort!
November 2nd, 2012 at 2:14 pm
We are closely working with Apple to resolve these known issues.
We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:33 am
Hi
I’m having flashy issues as well. I’m not getting green flashes I’m getting purple flashes and inverted frames on almost every clip. Using MBP 13 inch retina, 10.8.2
November 3rd, 2012 at 10:37 am
my platform is FCP X with the recent update
November 5th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
Alfred,
Although you are getting different colored flashes, this is still part of the known issue. Please feel free to start a support case if you would like:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/company/contact-us/support/
We can add you to our database and notify you when we release an update.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
November 11th, 2012 at 8:55 am
I certainly hope this is high on your priority list! FCPX 10.0.6 will have been out 3 weeks in a just a couple more days. This bug makes Looks completely unusable. Additionally, why in the world you don’t change the information on the top of this page is beyond me. Why would you recommend people to go ahead and upgrade to FCPX 10.0.6 stating that Looks is compatible, when it’s clearly not? How about giving us some type of update on how close you are to fixing this issue? It would be greatly appreciated.
November 13th, 2012 at 4:37 am
You seem to have one sentence added (“We are currently testing and re-evaluating other performance issues…”) to this announcement which I guess is a reference to the green/purple flash problem but can I suggest it should be clearer & specifically mention flashes – or whatever the best terminology is to describe it.
Especially because this affects output (unlike last time this bug surfaced). So I’m basically waiting for this so I can render a particular project (it’s not that important and I’m too lazy to rollback to 10.0.5 to do it).
November 13th, 2012 at 7:18 am
Is there a fix/update coming in the near future?!?
November 13th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Also getting the green glitches in mojo. Makes me very wary of buying plugins anymore.
November 14th, 2012 at 12:56 pm
Does anyone have any kind of workaround for this? Occasionally it solves the issue when I cut the clip with the blade tool and it has to re-render. Although recently this has just caused more green/purple artefacts to appear.
Thanks
November 14th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
Rupert,
There is no workaround at this time. We are currently waiting on an update on Apple.
We will make an announcement when this has been resolved.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
November 15th, 2012 at 2:24 am
OK thanks Kaylinn, any idea on timescale? Or is there any way to downgrade either bullet looks or final cut pro x to get back to work in the meantime?
Thanks again
November 15th, 2012 at 2:28 pm
It seems to be specific to certain mac models? On my mid 2010 MacBook Pro with nvidia 330m I haven’t seen any issues with magic bullet and fcpx.. Yet anyway (crosses fingers)
November 16th, 2012 at 10:32 am
Ron,
This is a known issue within FCPX 10.0.6. Apple is aware of this issue and we are currently waiting for them to release an update.
Rest assured, we are as eager as our customers for this to be resolved.
Thank you for your patience.
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
November 16th, 2012 at 10:34 am
Greg,
Apple is aware of this issue and we are currently waiting for them to release an update.
Rest assured, we are as eager as our customers for this to be resolved.
Thank you for your patience.
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
November 16th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
others have releassed updates to their plugins to work with 10.0.6 – when are you guys going to? i can work with everything else but MBL…
November 20th, 2012 at 11:40 am
What “Others?” Different tools are designed differently and that means that how they interact with Apple’s technolgy varies. Would love to know what products you are referring to.
The issue we’re facing seems to be an FCPX issue – not an issue with our specific Plug-ins. We’re working with Apple to isolate and troubleshoot – so we can get our tools back in there.
November 20th, 2012 at 11:55 am
This does appear to be an fcpx issue, as I’ve had the same issue with other plugins as well.
November 21st, 2012 at 7:38 pm
No offense, I love what you guys create but I would think that it’s more reasonable to expect that the plug-ins are made compatible with the NLE, not the other way around. One function I would love to see that probably WOULD require Apple part would be that your plug-in would be underneath the initial color board. That way you could actually see the balanced shot in the MBLooks interface. Having MBLooks on top of the Color Board makes balancing and matching shots very tedious. Anyway, I hope you can figure this “cat and mouse” game out with Apple, as it seems to break after every update. Cheers
November 21st, 2012 at 9:51 pm
There are definitely serious 10.0.6 compatibility issues on my Mac Pro, these inverted frames and green and magenta frames have made Looks unusable on my system and has badly delayed a client delivery that had to be repeatedly re-renered. Very disappointing.
November 26th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
One final note is that the color wheel inside the looks builder for the Hue/Saturation and Saturation tools appears to be non functional. For some reason the guider is positioned all the way into the greens, and when moved throughout the color wheel no changes are made to the actual video. I’ve tried it on a couple of systems and the problem has been consistent.
November 27th, 2012 at 9:05 am
This is Bull! Red Giant is being as deceitful as Adobe. It makes no difference who’s problem it it, MB Looks is not compatible with FCP X and you need to state that fact of the product overview page instead of holding your breath waiting on Apple to release a fix and only talking about the problem here in a thread that no one is going to read until after they have purchased Looks and banged their head agains the wall for a month wasting their time troubleshooting a known issue.
November 28th, 2012 at 7:17 am
can please tell me where you can download the update for magic bullet looks (final cut pro x 10.0.6) Tthanks
December 3rd, 2012 at 9:21 pm
I have recently updated to FCPX 10.0.6. When I grade footage using Magic Bullet Looks 2.0, some frames of the footage are flash with purple and green colors. Additionally, some frames are flipped upside down.
December 4th, 2012 at 9:15 am
This is part of the issue that we are currently waiting on Apple to release an update. We are hoping that this will be resolved soon.
Here is some further information: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/support/faq/product-specific/magic-bullet-looks/276/
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
December 4th, 2012 at 9:17 am
Monica,
Here is a link to the download page: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/product-downloads/
Also please note that there are current issues with FCPX with Looks and Mojo. Here is some further information: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/support/faq/product-specific/magic-bullet-looks/276/
We are hoping that Apple will release an update with a fix as soon as they can.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
December 4th, 2012 at 9:23 am
Matt,
This is part of the known FCPX 10.0.6 issue. Here is some further information: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/support/faq/product-specific/magic-bullet-looks/276/
We are hoping that Apple will release an update with a fix as soon as they can.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
December 6th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Looks like FCPX 10.0.7is out. Lets hope that fixed the above issues. Anyone try it out yet?
December 6th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Greg,
Unfortunately this is not the update we are waiting for.
We are just as anxious as our customers to get this resolved.
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
December 6th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
On you’re support page you state: “We have found it difficult to reproduce the issue in Compressor 4 and for those of you who own it, this might be a good workaround while we wait for a full fix in FCP X.”
Anyone there at Red Giant care to explain what you mean by this statement?
December 8th, 2012 at 2:52 am
Ouch, 10.0.7 came out so fast too and being only bug fixes, you’d think it would have been the one!
December 8th, 2012 at 8:07 am
I can confirm that using Compressor (4) renders videos that don’t exhibit any purple or green flashes (that otherwise plague the same video when using FCPX’s output options eg Share). It’s a good enough workaround for me.
For Ron, I’m not RedGiant but basically, if you “Send to compressor”, and render your video that way, then you don’t get this bug. Which is obviously confirmation that the underlying fault is with FCPX and what it’s doing. And why RedGiant seems to be simply “waiting” for FCPX to fix the issue.
(that’s all my understanding)
December 10th, 2012 at 9:16 am
Does anyone know if the new 10.0.7 version fixes the issue?
December 10th, 2012 at 11:33 am
Ver 10.0.7 might even be a little worse for me. MBL is pretty much unusable now.
December 15th, 2012 at 4:52 pm
Any progress with the fixing Magic Bullet Looks flashing glitches in FCPX? Spent good money with Red Giant and I can’t even use my software.
December 17th, 2012 at 10:19 am
Ralph,
Unfortunately we are waiting for Apple to release a fix of this 3rd party issue. Here is some further information: http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/support/faq/product-specific/magic-bullet-looks/276/
I’m sorry that we do not have any other information at this time.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
December 24th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Hey Everyone,
I found that if I disabled the “COSMO” plugin via Looks, and re-rendered, it seemed to fix my issue with the flashing of colors or black frames. Try going one by one disabling effects and see which one the culprit is. Hope this helps.
January 8th, 2013 at 3:25 am
Hi, are there any updates on this issue?
Thanks
January 9th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Very frustrating! MB is simply unusable! Spending huge amounts of time trying to use work from former projects. FAIL!
January 12th, 2013 at 8:18 am
very convenient to blame this glitch on apple.. meanwhile you are still advertising this product as fully compatible with FCPx.. excepts ITS NOT COMPATIBLE.. I’ve got upside down frames in my videos. Unacceptable. Refund please.
January 17th, 2013 at 11:20 am
Steven,
Final Cut Pro X has a serious bug that is effecting many developers – not just Red Giant. We are all relying on Apple for a fix as we are unable to access the area causing the bug. Until that fix comes none of us can do anything about it. Here is a link to our refund form if you would like:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/support/buyers-guide/return-policy/
We are just as anxious as our customers for this fix to be released. We appreciate everyone’s understanding and patience.
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
January 17th, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Now MB causes my FCPX to shut down completley. In the middle of a project ( WHICH I GET PAID FOR ITS MY JOB ) I get an error saying Final Cut Pro Quit Unexpectedly while using the LS3RendererCPU Plug – in. Guess what thats the MB looks. UNBELIEVABLE
January 17th, 2013 at 2:51 pm
Jake,
Please contact our support team so we can help you with this error:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/company/contact-us/support/
Thank you,
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
January 22nd, 2013 at 6:35 pm
MB Looks is pretty much unusable for me as well. Renders randomly exhibit flashing frames throughout the project. Lousy support guys, sorry. Any ETA on when this will be resolved?
January 24th, 2013 at 10:22 am
Ralph,
Unfortunately with this known Apple issue there is very little our support team can do. Please check out this post for more information and a possible workaround:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/blog/2013/01/24/looks-mojo-fcpx-10-0-7/
Thank you so much for your patience and understanding. We really appreciate it.
Kaylinn
RedGiant.com
March 12th, 2013 at 11:15 am
Please stop offering this product to FCP X users until this issue is resolved. Totally dishonest to do otherwise, regardless of who wants to blame who as to why it’s not working.
March 29th, 2013 at 2:55 am
Issue was fixed today. Fcpx update available! Yeah!