This $49 Final Cut Pro Plugin Pack Has EVERYTHING

I've owned hundreds of Final Cut Pro plugins. Not every plugin obviously, but a huge amount, since my channel is dedicated to Final Cut. So I'm going to go on record and say that this is the greatest plugin pack you can buy as an FCP editor. And I'm not being clickbaity here.

It's called the Absolute Pack from LenoFX. It comes with 175 plugins, which comes out to a total of 7,050 presets, for the crazy price of $49. You're probably thinking "that's a scam, Dylan, you dummy." And apparently other people have thought this as well, because on the website Leno, the creator of the pack, explains why he's essentially giving it away. Turns out it's because he's just a really great guy.

I don't blame anyone for wondering though, because it almost seems too good to be true. And since I've never given out a "greatest plugin pack" award before, let me walk you through what's inside to prove it.

Installing it (read this before you panic)

I know a few of you might think the installation is tricky, but it's simple once you know the steps. Once you buy it, you'll see all the different plugins the pack comes with. What you'll do is type Easy Installer into the search bar, and that brings up an installer that quickly and easily downloads all the plugins for you. On that same page you can also download the sound effects and LUTs that come with the pack. Yes, it comes with those too, and there are tutorials if you need them.

Once you open Final Cut, you'll see a huge list of plugins in your titles browser, your effects browser, and your transitions browser. Whichever preset you grab and throw on your timeline, they're all easy to adjust in the inspector window.

The titles browser highlights

Auto Resizing titles are killer. As you type in what you want your title to say, the background boxes adjust in size automatically. That doesn't always happen with title presets from other plugin makers, where you often have to resize the box yourself. Super useful.

Bullet points. I gotta admit, these feel hard to find in plugin packs, but Leno delivers with a huge variety.

The Callouts pack is awesome for real estate videos and social media content. They're simple, they're animated well, and there's a wide variety of styles.

The camera movement pack adds extra motion to your videos without the annoying process of keyframing. You just drag the presets over your footage, so it's a no brainer. Unbelievably handy across all kinds of videos.

Need a countdown pop-up or anything that shows a number changing? You're set there too.

The freeze frames impressed me a bunch. They're so well designed and easy to use. I've tried freeze frame packs from other manufacturers and they're a bit too labor intensive for my liking. These you just drag over your footage and move the on-screen controls to position things. Frankly, this pack alone should cost $49.

If you make gaming content or like futuristic pop-ups, you'll love the glitch and HUD plugin. HUD Title 10 is one of my favorites. Well animated, has a glow I like, and I love the design.

The standard grid options are okay, but the creative grids blow me away. Come on, man, look at the detail in some of these. A while back someone in my comments gave me crap for using a plugin instead of building something like this from scratch in Apple Motion. And while I agree it's great to create things yourself, the time you save for a small fee like this is staggering.

I'm such a fan of the two highlighter packs, especially for educational or news content, or any video where you need to highlight things on screen. I wish I'd known about this pack a long time ago.

The marketing and sales pack is going to be so useful for corporate, business, and real estate videos. Once again, this alone should be worth $49, so getting the whole bundle at that price honestly feels like we're robbing LenoFX.

The multiscreen FX pack has cool grids with light leaks built directly into them, plus titles and some cinematic overlays I really love. There's also a large amount of picture-in-picture options, and a great quotes and captions section that's a no brainer whenever you need a quote to show up with style. You could even use those as openers and titles, because everything is customizable.

And then there's a titles pack that might be the coolest one in the whole browser. Each preset works with your footage by pushing your video to a certain part of the frame, and you just drag them on. No keyframing or animation skills needed. It was put together with so much detail and care that if LenoFX sold this pack alone for $100, I'd still call it a great value.

The text presets pack is another smorgasbord of animated text options. Basically any text animation you can think of is in here, and each preset gives you on-screen controls in the viewer so you can easily reposition your text.

Here's another one that should cost over $100 on its own: the titles and lower thirds pack. Basic titles, holiday and celebration titles, modern and clean titles, neon titles. It even has intros which are insanely good. I personally love the paragraph titles toward the bottom.

Oh, you thought we were done with titles? The trendy and colorful titles pack is one of my favorites too. The creative execution on all these presets is insane, and keep in mind I'm barely adjusting anything. I'm changing the text, swapping pictures, and maybe adjusting colors, all easily done in the inspector.

The tutorial pack comes with note pop-ups, mockups, lower thirds, revealers, titles, and pointers. As someone who's made tutorials for 7 years, I approve. So useful.

And if you have a YouTube channel, the YouTube booster pack will be a big help. I'm a big fan of the little info bar pop-ups, but there are tons of options from lower thirds to calls to action.

The effects browser

The prism pack adds a dreamy touch to your videos. I can see it being great for wedding films.

There are also two solid picture-in-picture effect packs. I actually prefer applying picture-in-picture as an effect instead of a title, because you apply the effect directly to the footage you want in the frame rather than loading it into a drop zone.

You can animate footage or pictures in, out, and through with a couple of presets, and there's a text presets effect pack that adds glow, shake, and movement to your text. Double click one of the included shapes to create a background so your text stands out from the footage.

The transitions browser

I'll do a lump sum overview here, because these packs have basically every transition you might need no matter what you're making. Cinematic transitions. Glitch transitions. Ink transitions. Dramatic cut transitions, which I really like. The whole Fast Transitions pack is awesome. A lot of them scale into your footage and move it around so it looks like tedious keyframing was done to get the motion.

And it keeps going: cyberpunk transitions, wedding transitions, geometric transitions, unique glass transitions, quirky hand transitions, slide and zoom transitions, light transitions, tons of transitions with text included, and video cam transitions that are basically camera whip pans and zooms. Want to transition with a microscope? You can do that too.

The verdict

In all my years of creating Final Cut content, I have never seen a more generous bang-for-your-buck offer. If you want to be fully covered no matter what video you're creating, buy the Absolute Pack. It should cost a minimum of $500, but because Leno is a great guy, he's giving it away for $49. Tell Leno he's the man, and enjoy. Because it really is amazing.