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Following the launch of M4-powered Macs on November 8, Apple today is rolling out Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac. It brings several new AI-powered features, like Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions.
Final Cut Pro for iPad and iPhone are also getting an update with multiple enhancements.
Final Cut Pro for Mac gains a handy Magnetic Mask
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Using AI, Final Cut Pro 11 lets you isolate people and objects in a video using the Magnetic Mask. The feature does away with using a green screen, saving your hours in production and editing work. You can use the Magnetic Mask with color correction and video effects.
Another major new feature is Transcribe to Captions. Powered by an Apple-trained large language model, the tool generates and adds closed captions for the video in the timeline.
If you are a Vision Pro user, you’ll be happy to know Final Cut Pro 11 adds spatial video editing support. So, you can import spatial videos shot from your iPhone, edit them, add effects, make color corrections, and more. It is also possible to adjust the “depth position of titles and captured footage” while editing.
Brent Chiu-Watson, Apple’s senior director of Worldwide Product Marketing for Apps, said in Apple’s announcement, “With the power of Apple silicon and state-of-the-art machine learning capabilities, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro are faster and more intelligent than ever. These latest updates give creative professionals more stylistic interpretations to explore — whether that’s with fine-tuned masking for color grading or amazing sound processing — and greater versatility and efficiency in their workflows.”
Final Cut Pro for iPad and Final Cut Camera get new features, too
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Final Cut Pro for iPad is gaining several workflow-related improvements. One of them is a handy Enhance Light and Color option. With a tap, this option tweaks the video’s color, contrast, color balance, and brightness.
When using the Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard, you’ll get haptic feedback when navigating the timeline, resizing clips to snapping points, etc.
Other changes include a new vertical pinch gesture to adjust a clip’s height in the timeline and support for iPhone 16 Pro‘s 90/100/120fps footage on the timeline. The Live Drawing tool gains new inks, like watercolor, crayon, fountain pen, and monoline pen. Lastly, there are new transitions, color-grading presets, and dynamic soundtracks. It is also possible to overlay visuals using Picture in Picture and Callout effects.
Final Cut Camera for iPhone’s latest update adds support for capturing Log-encoded HEVC video. Plus, you can now get an LUT preview while recording in Log.
If you own an iPhone 16 Pro, you can now use Final Cut Camera to shoot cinematic 4K120fps slow-motion footage.
Alongside Final Cut, Logic Pro for Mac and iPad received an update featuring a new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in. It allows “users to tap into the legendary sound of the most acoustically accurate reverb ever created, built using the original schematics, algorithms, and code from Quantec founder and inventor Wolfgang Buchleitner.”
Updates to Final Cut Pro 11, Final Cut Pro for iPad, Final Cut Camera and Logic Pro are rolling out through the App Store.