It has also made inroads with film and television editors who have traditionally used Avid Technology's Media Composer. Since the early 2000s, Final Cut Pro has developed a large and expanding user base, mainly video hobbyists and independent filmmakers. The fully rewritten Final Cut Pro X was introduced by Apple in 2011, with the last version of the legacy Final Cut Pro being version 7.0.3.

The software allows users to log and transfer video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats.

The most recent version, Final Cut Pro 10.5.4, runs on Mac computers powered by macOS Catalina 10.15.6 or later. Final Cut Pro is a series of non-linear video editing software programs first developed by Macromedia Inc.