Backlight integrates iconik media management solution with Final Cut Pro

Backlight is making video creation workflows easier and faster with a new integration between its cloud-native media management and collaboration hub, iconik, and Apple’s Final Cut Pro (FCP). The integration aligns iconik’s media management, search and collaboration tools with FCP’s editing workflows.

The iconik x Final Cut Pro integration accelerates the creative process for video editors, making it easy for them to search their iconik media library and open assets on any storage in FCP for editing. Post-editing, their rendered projects can be easily returned to iconik for archival, collaboration and reuse.

“With this integration, we’re extending iconik’s powerful and accessible search and retrieval tools and ‘bring your own storage’ capabilities to Final Cut Pro users,” said Mike Szumlinski, EVP of product for Backlight. “Editors using FCP can now spend more time editing and less time wrangling files because together iconik and Final Cut Pro present a fast, simple way to deliver media where it needs to be and to the people who need to see it.”

The iconik x Final Cut Pro integration mitigates several common video production pain points. Iconik looks beyond file and folder names and offers more ways to find footage with rich metadata, time-based and AI-generated tags. As iconik can index any existing storage location, users can quickly locate assets wherever they live, be it on the cloud or on-premise, vastly reducing the time it takes to find the right assets.

Iconik indexes media across any storage in the cloud, presenting users with scannable proxy files that allow users to quickly preview and identify media. When they want to bring their selected assets into FCP for editing, there are no lengthy download times, egress fees, or transferring from file-sharing platforms that aren’t optimised for video – users can choose to open their iconik media in FCP and start editing. It also reduces the number of tools needed to manage media and collaboration. Users can easily export from the FCP share menu to iconik for a full-circle workflow between the platforms.

Iconik also offers an integration with Adobe Premiere Pro, empowering users to access, collaborate on and manage their iconik assets via the native Adobe Panel.