A major competitor to Adobe Pro, Final Cut Pro today unveils its eleventh version, with new additions that are very useful for fans of the editing software.
The news broke last night: Apple has just released the eleventh version of its Final Cut Pro editing software. Available on iPad, iPhoneMac and even on the Vision Pro headset, Adobe Pro’s competitor is adorned with new AI-boosted features that will make video editing easier.
New tools powered by AI on Mac
Mac support is unsurprisingly the one benefiting from the most significant update, with the addition of several AI tools intended to facilitate and optimize video editing. Two new features are appearing in the software:
- Transcribe to Captions: This feature, very practical for editors, greatly facilitates subtitling videos by analyzing the sound and automatically transcribing the words that have been spoken. For now, the tool would only work in English, but it is very likely that other languages will be included in the near future.
- Magnetic Mask: This tool allows you to isolate subjects and objects within a clip, without having to resort to green screen or rotoscoping. The contours are automatically detected, making it easier to detach elements appearing in the image. Once selected, these can be edited on their own or incorporated into a stylized background.
Some other functions have been integrated into Final Cut Pro 11, such as Smart Conform, allowing automatic cropping, Smooth Slo-Mo, optimizing slow motion effects on a video, Enhance Light and Color, correcting light and colors, or even voice isolation.
Optimized iPad access
Final Cut on iPad becomes more accessible thanks to its new version in 2.1. It is now easier to navigate the software and apply features to your videos. In a single gesture, the Apple user can, for example, apply Enhance Light and Color. Manipulating on the touch screen becomes more precise and faster, enough to delight iPad owners.
Final Cut Pro on iPad also supports Live Drawing, useful if you want to draw on your image, thanks to a panel of various brushes and pencils. Users also benefit from a “Picture in Picture” display option, an interface that could not be more useful for experienced editors.
The Vision Pro is not spared
The much-maligned Vision Pro also welcomes new features on Final Cut Pro 11, for improved 3D video editing. It will now be possible for VR enthusiasts to make montages with spatial videos captured by the headset (but also by the iPhone 15 Pro and 16).
All of these new features are available free of charge for users who already have a Final Cut Pro license. For those who do not have the software but would like to obtain it, you will have to go to the Appstore and pay €349.99 for the Mac version, compared to €4.99 per month for the iPad version (or otherwise €49 per year).