Final Cut Pro 11 Starts A New Mac Video Editing Chapter

Apple released Final Cut Pro 11 today, which is packed with strong improvements for Final Cut Pro for iPad, Final Cut Camera, and Logic Pro, as well as clever new features. Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac allows spatial video projects to be imported, edited, and delivered straight to Apple Vision Pro, along with new features like Magnetic Mask and the much awaited Transcribe to Captions.

Enhance Light and Color support, new Live Drawing inks, haptic feedback, even more built-in material, such as color-grading presets and dynamic soundtracks, and other significant workflow enhancements are just a few of the ways that Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 enhances the touch-first editing experience. The user-friendly professional recording program for iPhone, Final Cut Camera 1.1, now supports 4K 120 fps recording on the iPhone 16 Pro, allows you to use a preview lookup table (LUT) while recording, and allows you to capture log-encoded HEVC video for lesser file sizes. Additionally, Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1 integrate a new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in to enhance songwriting, beat-making, producing, and mixing.

The App Store now offers the latest versions of Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac and iPad, Final Cut Camera, and Logic Pro for Mac and iPad.

Final Cut Pro 11 and Logic Pro are quicker and smarter than ever with the power of Apple silicon and cutting-edge machine learning capabilities. With improved color grading masking, incredible sound processing, and more workflow agility and efficiency, these new improvements provide creative pros with additional stylistic interpretations to experiment with.

Final Cut Pro 11

With features like spatial video editing, the much-anticipated Transcribe to Captions feature that offers quick and precise closed captions, the robust and user-friendly Magnetic Mask, and a number of time-saving tools and workflow enhancements, Final Cut Pro 11 makes the most of Apple’s M-series chips.

AI-Powered Features

Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions are two brand-new AI-powered features available to editors in Final Cut Pro 11. Without a green screen or more laborious rotoscoping, editors may quickly separate individuals and objects in a video clip with Magnetic Mask. More customization options for backdrops and surroundings are made possible by this strong and accurate algorithmic analysis. In order to properly manage and style every project, editors may now combine Magnetic Mask with color correction and video effects. Additionally, Transcribe to Captions uses a big language model developed by Apple to transcribe spoken audio, allowing closed captions to be automatically created in the timeline.

Together with other AI-powered capabilities made available by Apple’s Neural Engine, Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions include:

• Smart Conform makes it simple to create square or vertical project versions that are social media-friendly.
• To automatically enhance a video or still image’s color, color balance, contrast, and brightness, choose Enhance Light and Color.
• For the best movement, use Smooth Slo-Mo to create and combine video frames, including 4K120 fps video from an iPhone 16 Pro.
• Voice Isolation reduces background noise from field-captured audio while improving speech and sound levels.

Spatial Video Editing for Apple Vision Pro

With Apple Vision Pro, customers may record and replay life’s priceless moments using spatial video. With the addition of spatial video editing capabilities in Final Cut Pro 11, editors may now import their footage, apply effects, adjust color, and add titles to their projects. During the editing process, titles and recorded video may also have their depth positions changed. Direct recording of spatial video clips is possible with Vision Pro, the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, and Canon’s new RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL lens in conjunction with the Canon R7.

Users may examine the left- and right-eye angles on their Mac display by selecting from a variety of viewing modes. Additionally, they may import their edit into Apple Vision Pro using Mac Virtual Display, which enables them to create a massive, private, and portable display that is perfect for intricate processes. Users will be able to enlarge Mac Virtual Display to a new panoramic scale later this year, resulting in a huge 32:9 ultra-wide curved display that is comparable to two 5K displays placed side by side. Users may watch spatial films instantly on Vision Pro, export them straight to their Photos collection, or share them with others by uploading them to the native Vimeo app for visionOS.

Timesaving Features, Blazing Speeds, and Pro Creative Tools

Advanced editing capabilities in Final Cut Pro assist further optimize creative operations and save time:

• A trackless method of editing video, Magnetic Timeline provides a smooth way to cut and edit a production. Editors may easily add and rearrange clips, making changes while maintaining perfect synchronization between audio and video.
• Users may move between shots while a project is playing back and rapidly sync several views using multicam editing. Additionally, users may move clips and change the timeline’s display using additional keyboard shortcut options.
• Editors can add playback effects, share their work with others at lightning speed, and play back additional streams of 4K and 8K ProRes video at full quality with optimizations for Apple hardware.
• With improved proxy tools, editors may produce a lightweight version of their library, reducing file sizes to further reduce transfer times.
• Compressor allows editors to import previously stereoscopic film to reformat and connect with spatial video footage for an integrated editing experience, as well as establish custom export settings to publish file types for their job.
• Motion can create gorgeous 2D and 3D titles, generators, and advanced visual effects in Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1

Favorite features are added to the touch-first editing experience in Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1. Enhance Light and Color, powered by Apple silicon, is a clever method that optimizes SDR, HDR, RAW, and log-encoded data and allows you to easily increase color, color balance, contrast, and brightness in still photographs or videos. Users will experience a gentle pulse as they move media, trim clips, explore the timeline, and resize viewer clips to snapping points with haptic feedback for the Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard.

The ability to dynamically change the viewer’s size and position in Picture in Picture mode, a new vertical pinch gesture that can increase or decrease clip height in the timeline, and timeline support for recordings at 90, 100, and 120 frames per second on the iPhone 16 Pro are additional significant workflow enhancements.

With expressive new watercolor, crayon, fountain pen, and monoline pen choices, users can add even more animations to films using new inks for the iPad’s Live Drawing function. Additionally, new modular transitions, color-grading presets, dynamic soundtracks, and the capability to effortlessly highlight and overlay images using Picture in Picture and Callout effects are added to the content collection.

Final Cut Camera

For both novice and experienced filmmakers, Final Cut Camera 1.1 offers user-friendly pro controls. The upgrade allows users to record Log-encoded HEVC video in standalone or Live Multicam sessions, allowing them to benefit from smaller file sizes and even longer recording times while using Log’s incredible dynamic range. Additionally, users may activate a LUT preview in Log when recording with Final Cut Camera, displaying the original scene’s vibrancy in SDR or HDR using the Apple Log LUT. For even more fluid cinematic slow motion, users may capture stunning and clear 4K 120 fps video with the iPhone 16 Pro, upload it into Final Cut Pro for iPad, and start editing.

Roll and tilt indications in a new advanced level assist users in accurately composing pictures, while Final Cut Camera adds a crosshairs indicator for top-down views.

Logic Pro for Mac 11.1 and Logic Pro for iPad 2.1

Songwriting, beat-making, production, and mixing are all enhanced by Logic Pro for Mac and iPad, which also works well with Final Cut Pro editors. The new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in, which was developed using the original schematics, algorithms, and code of Quantec founder and inventor Wolfgang Buchleitner, enhances that experience even further. It lets users access the renowned sound of the most acoustically accurate reverb ever produced. Customers may choose between the current Quantic Yardstick for enhanced clarity and detail or the classic Quantec QRS to offer organic acoustic space to music while maintaining sound character. For video editors who want to include realistic-sounding locations into dialogue, foley, and music, the Quantec QRS technology is an excellent tool.

Users may move channel strips about using Reorder Mixer Channels, and they can even choose several channel strips to reorder them all at once. Users of Logic Pro for Mac may now search by category, business name, or even a portion of a plug-in name to make it simpler to locate and add any plug-in directly using a keyboard command. Additionally, Logic Pro for iPad adds Sample Folders, which allow users to access their own sample collection via iCloud Drive, external storage, and the built-in Sound Browser on the iPad.

Final Cut Pro 11 Pricing and Availability