Plug-ins are cool. They enhance your production, make your workflow faster, fix little bugs and nuances and enhance your video visually.

Here are some free (or low cost) plug-ins for various versions of Final Cut Pro- to version 3 all the way up to Studio- everything from eye popping effects to money savers you can’t believe are really free.

If we forgot any let us know in the comments section below.

1z1 Screenworks – 5 things for you…
50 Point Bezier Matte - Curves, Curves, Curves…
Andy’s Plugins ease control, basic filter, blur extreme

Aperture to Final Cut Pro
ArtMetic - A free plug-in trapped inside the body of a demo download…
BorisFX
Buena Software - Free gradients to drop into your image wells…
CGM Aged Film
CHV Silk and Fog – Similar but superior to Eureka’s Silk Stocking…
Closing Credits Plugin
Conoa
Coremelt’s VU plugin
Deep Magic Studios – A better Lower Third generator and an FCP Leader…
Digital Heaven’s list of Plugins
DFT Fast Blur - Faster than FCP’s blur…
Eureka - Back with a vengeance…
Final Cut Express Plugins
Final Touch Pro – three cool effects
Graeme Nattress - Free: 7 filters & 3 Transitions for FCP…
Haiku Productions - Vignette & Facelight…
Izotope Vinyl - Audio Unit for the old skool vibe…
Industrial Revolution’s Freebie pack 1.0.3
Joe’s Filters
Lyric - Shadow & contrast…
Move – A generator that takes a clip and animates it from one place to another. It defaults to moving the clip from off the bottom of the canvas to off the top.
Nattress Big Box of Tricks

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Noise Industries – Pan and Zoom, Star TitlerPatrick Sheffield’s Color Plugins
Paul Crisp’s Grain and Garbage Mattes – Have 64 points you’d like to make…
Paul Sheffield’s Plugins
Quicktime render Plugin
Rainer’s Final Cut Pro Wiggle Plug-In – Need wiggles…
Red River Rock – Jitters, glows and night vision…
Simon Kirby’s lunchtime Pro
Spherico- Text & Jiggler…
Stib’s Free Plugins
Steppy Edges - Fixes for DV’s colourspace from Adam Wilt…
Stib’s Generators – Generators & filters…
Too Much Too Soon – Some fine looking plug-ins for nix…
YouSendIt Plugin: Convenient file sending right from Final Cut Pro
YUVtool : adjust levels, gamma and position of all YUV channels independently
Zeitankar’s plugins

Wait! There’s More

Automatic Duck Plug-ins
Lumiere HD Plug-ins
GenArts Sapphire
StageTools
Red Giant Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro
Free Final Cut Pro and Motion plug-ins
Plug-ins for FCP by Eiperle
FCP Rescue for FCP6 and FCP5
Noise Industries- FX Pack, Star Wars Titler plus more.
Belle Nuit Subtitler – add subtitles to your projects
Tool Farm offers hundreds more here

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