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Ulmi Author

Level 1

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iOS 16 breaks cinematic mode in Final Cut Pro (and iMovie)

After spending an hour wondering why I can't activate the cinematic editing in FCP with footage I shot on my iPhone 14 Pro Max in cinematic mode, I stumbled over a several Reddit threads discussing this issue. It seems that iOS 16 broke this feature in FCP, which will show a "The cinematic effect cannot be activated" error (and according to other users the latest iOS 16.1 and macOS Ventura betas also don't resolve the issue). So an update for FCP (and iMovie) is needed in order to fix the issue. I already contacted support and filed a bug report, but are there other ways to bring this to Apple's attention? I'm working on corporate footage shot with cinematic mode that needs to go live next week, so it is rather urgent for me to get this feature working again.

MacBook Pro Apple Silicon

Posted on Sep 23, 2022 2:10 AM

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Tom Wolsky

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Oct 30, 2022 8:35 AM in response to AndieMoepse

iOS 16 shot media and imported into Monterey prior to the Ventura release. Unfortunately I no longer have those clips on the phone so I can't test the importing process using Ventura if that was the cause of the problem did not allow the Cinematic metadata to be brought in correctly, which the updated macOS and FCP corrected.

Dec 1, 2022 9:20 PM in response to Ulmi

iPhone 14 Pro shoot video on iOS 16.1.1 cinematic mode importing into FCP 10.6.5 on Ventura 13.0.1. Just upgraded macOS from Monterey just to get the option to edit. Still not working regardless of how I import cinematic mode videos. Super frustrating given I'm due to give a presentation on video editing at a conference in a couple of months. Would have been nice to show off these features.