– Elastic Aspect (stretches the pixel data in your 4:3 content to fill a 16:9 space so video on your widescreen isn’t stretched or shown with bars etc.

– ND Gradient Filter (great for adding a rich sky look to your work).

when you don’t have the time to stack and matte video layers to achieve the same effect)

– Region Blur (if you’ve ever worked in news you’ll like this one gives you the ability to actually blur out faces etc.

Most should install into the plugins folder located on the HD>library>application support>final cut pro system support folder or the like (and as I stated above, probably won’t work in the new 64 bit version). If you encounter problems, let me know what version you’re running because as things advance, I may need to take them off the list etc. These are just some of the more useful ones I have found and like. Please feel free to post updates if you know of others you would like to recommend. If you are looking for FCPX Plugins, here is an aggregated list of over 300 free fx: and there is also the site. These will not work on FCPX but some users are still on previous versions like FCP6/7. So we're doing the best we can to get it out asap.*This post was originally created in 2011 and updated in 2016 its links and content are outdated and may no longer workįeatured below are a collection of free plugins for Apple’s Final Cut Pro nonlinear editing software that are bound to improve/enhance your production workflow & quality. We're keen on getting this out but it's not a small undertaking.

Please contact us at to get the beta version of the plugins (please let us know what you own) or be put on the waitlist if it's not ready yet. Hopefully we'll have at least a beta of Flicker Free, Beauty Box Video, and Samurai Sharpen by early December

In the case of Flicker Free, much sooner.

We expect to have plugins that support both Metal and FxPlug4 before the end of the year. So we're trying to roll both technologies into one update. We're busy working on the FxPlug4 versions of our plugins, but we also want to support Metal, Apple's new GPU architecture that is also needed for Apple Silicon. And even on Intel Macs, Apple may eventually drop support for FxPlug 3. If you're on Apple Silicon, you need a version of our plugins that support FxPlug4.

For Intel Macs, the current plugins (FxPlug3) will work just fine for the foreseeable future. Final Cut Pro X is moving to a new plugin architecture (FxPlug4) with the latest release.

Free fcpx plugins