Apple released Final Cut Pro 11 for the Mac, and Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1. (Photo: Apple)
Apple just announced major updates for the Final Cut Pro suite of video editing apps for the Mac and iPad.
Final Cut Pro 11
Designed to take full advantage of the M-series chips, Final Cut Pro 11 brings several new features, including Magnetic Mask, Transcribe to Captions, and spatial video editing for the Apple Vision Pro:
- Magnetic Mask - AI-powered tool to isolate people and objects in a video without the need for a green screen or rotoscoping, and offers additional flexibility to customise backgrounds and environments
- Transcribe to Captions - AI-powered tool that automatically generates closed captions with an Apple-trained large language model that transcribes spoken audio
- Spatial video editing for the Apple Vision Pro - allows users to import footage and add effects, make colour corrections, and enhance their projects with titles. The depth position of titles and footage can also be tweaked during the editing process.
With Mac Virtual Display, users can bring the edit to the Vision Pro on a huge, private and portable display. Mac Virtual Display will be updated later this year to support a new panoramic size (32:9 ultra-wide curved display) that is similar to having two 5K monitors side by side.
Final Cut Pro 11 also helps users streamline their workflow processes, save time and be more efficient via:
- Magnetic Timeline - add and rearrange clips seamlessly while keeping video and audio in sync
- Multi-cam editing - sync multiple angles of a project and switch between shots during playback. New keyboard shortcuts also allow users to adjust view of the timeline and reposition clips
- Optimisations for Apple Silicon - users can play back more streams of 4K and 8K ProRes videos at full quality, insert playback effects, and collaborate on projects faster
- Enhanced Proxy Tools - help to minimise file sizes so that transfer times are shorter
- Compressor - offers the ability to create custom export settings in a wide range of formats, and import previous stereoscopic footage to reformat and pair with spatial video footage
- Motion - to create 2D and 34D titles, generators, and visual effects
For those who've not yet considered hopping on the Final Cut Pro 'bandwagon', these new features certainly make it even more approachable and improve several facets of video editing.
Beginner's Tip: Not sure where to begin your journey? Fast-track your learning journey with our tutorial highlighting five useful features of Final Cut Pro.
Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1
As the update to the Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 which was released in May this year, the Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 lets users boost colour, colour balance, contrast and brightness in video or still images in one simple step with Enhance Light and Colour tool. The tool is also optimised for SDR, HDR, RAW and Log-encoded media.
There is also haptic feedback support for the Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard to provide a light pulse when users trim clips, move media, navigate the timeline, and resize viewer clips to snapping points.
Users can also make use of a new vertical pinch gesture to expand or minimise clip height in the timeline, with timeline support for video recording at 90fps, 100fps and 120fps on the iPhone 16 Pro.
The Living Drawing feature on iPad has four new inks (watercolour, crayon, fountain pen, monoline pen) to add more animations to videos.
Availability and Pricing
For existing Final Cut Pro Mac users and Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 users, you will get Final Cut Pro 11 and Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 as a free update from today.
New Final Cut Pro 11 users can purchase it for S$399.98 on the Mac App Store while new Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 users can get it for S$6.98/month or S$69/year on the App Store.
Source: Apple
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