Apple Inc. unveiled Final Cut Pro 11 – loaded with smart new features – along with powerful updates to Final Cut Pro for iPad, Final Cut Camera and Logic Pro. Featuring new tools such as Magnetic Mask and the highly anticipated Transcribe to Captions, Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac also supports importing, editing and delivering spatial video projects directly into Apple Vision Pro. Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 advances the touch editing experience with support for Enhance Light and Color, new Live Drawing inks, haptic feedback, even more built-in content including color grading presets and dynamic soundtracks, as well as other significant workflow improvements.
Final Cut Camera 1.1, the intuitive professional recording app for iPhone, adds support for 4K120 fps recording on iPhone 16 Pro, the ability to apply a preview table (LUT) while recording and capturing logarithmically encoded HEVC videos to reduce file sizes. And to enhance songwriting, beat creation, production, and mixing, Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1 support a new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in. New versions of Final Cut Pro for Mac and iPad, Final Cut Camera, and Logic Pro for Mac and iPad are available in the App Store.
Final Cut Pro 11 takes full advantage of Apple’s M-series chips, introducing the powerful and intuitive Magnetic Mask; Transcribe toCaptions, a highly requested feature that provides fast and accurate closed captions; spatial video editing; and a suite of time-saving and workflow-optimizing tools. In Final Cut Pro 11, editors have access to two new AI-powered tools: Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions. With Magnetic Mask, editors can effortlessly isolate people and objects in a video clip without resorting to a green screen or more tedious rotoscoping.
This powerful and accurate automatic analysis provides additional flexibility to customize backgrounds and environments. Editors can also combine Magnetic Mask with color correction and video effects, allowing them to control and style each project with precision. And with Transcribe to Captions, closed captions can be automatically generated in the timeline using an extensive language model trained by Apple that transcribes spoken audio.
Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions add to existing AI-powered features enabled by Apple’s Neural Engine, including: Smart Conform to easily create social media-friendly versions of projects in square or vertical formats. Enhanced Light and Color to automatically improve color, color balance, contrast and brightness of videos or still images. Smooth Slo-Mo to generate and merge video frames, including footage captured on iPhone 16 Pro.
including footage captured on the iPhone 16 Pro in 4K120 fps? for the highest quality movements. Voice isolation to enhance speech and optimize sound levels while reducing background noise from audio captured in the field.
Spatial video allows users to capture the precious moments of their lives and relive them on Apple Vision Pro. Final Cut Pro 11 now supports spatial video editing, allowing editors to import their footage and add effects, make color corrections, and enhance their title projects. The depth position of titles and captured sequences can also be adjusted during the editing process.
Spatial video clips can be captured directly with Vision Pro, or on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Pro and Canon’s new DUAL RF-S7.8mm F4 STM lens paired with the Canon R7. Users can choose from different viewing modes to preview the left eye and right eye angles on their Mac screen. And with Mac Virtual Display, they can integrate their edit into Apple Vision Pro, creating a massive, private, portable display ideal for complex workflows.
Later this year, users will be able to expand Mac Virtual Display to a new panoramic size, creating a massive 32:9 ultra-wide curved display, equivalent to two 5K monitors side-by-side. Spatial videos can be exported directly to the user’s Photos library, viewed immediately on Vision Pro, or shared with others by uploading them to the visionOS native Vimeo app. Final Cut Pro offers advanced editing tools that further streamline creative workflows and save time: Magnetic Timeline, a trackless approach to editing, provides a seamless way to cut and edit a project.
Editors can add and rearrange clips seamlessly, making adjustments while maintaining perfect synchronization between video and audio. With multicam editing, users can instantly sync multiple angles of a project and switch between shots during playback. New keyboard shortcut options allow users to adjust their timeline view and reposition clips.
Optimizations for Apple Silicon allow editors to play more streams of ProRes 4K and 8K video in full quality, add playback effects, and share their work with others at blazing speeds. Editors can create a lightweight copy of their library using enhanced proxy tools, reducing file sizes and shortening transfer times. Using Compressor, editors can create custom export settings to deliver their work in a wide range of file formats, and import previous stereoscopic footage to reformat and pair with spatial video footage for a seamless experience. integrated mounting.
With Motion®, users can create 2D and 3D titles, generators and advanced visual effects that are accessible in Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 brings popular features to the touch editing experience. Optimized for SDR, HDR, RAW and Log-encoded media, Enhance Light and Color is a smart way to improve the color, color balance, contrast and brightness of videos and photos in one step.
With haptic feedback for Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard, users will feel a gentle pulsation when trimming clips, moving media, navigating the timeline, and resizing clips in the viewer based on snap points. Other significant improvements to the workflow include a new vertical pinch gesture that allows the height of the clip to be enlarged or reduced in the timeline, the ability to dynamically adjust the size and position of the viewer in mode Picture in Picture and Timeline support for 90fps, 100fps, and 120fps recordings on iPhone 16 Pro. New inks for Live Drawing on iPad allow users to add even more animation to videos with expressive new options like watercolor, pencil, fountain pen, and monoline pen.
The content library is enriched with new modular transitions, color grading presets and dynamic soundtracks, as well as the ability to easily highlight and overlay visual elements with Picture in Picture and Callout effects.
