Unleash the Power of the Ultimate Mobile Studio
Apple has taken a monumental step in revolutionizing mobile creativity with the introduction of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad. These powerful video and music creation tools will be available as subscriptions on the App Store starting May 23, offering all-new touch interfaces and cutting-edge features that cater to the iPad’s portability, performance, and touch-first capabilities.
Final Cut Pro for iPad: A New Touch Interface for Enhanced Video Editing
Final Cut Pro for iPad brings an innovative touch-first interface to the video editing world, allowing creators to unlock new workflows and push their creativity to new heights. The app includes a jog wheel that simplifies the editing process and enables users to interact with content in unprecedented ways. By using Multi-Touch gestures, creators can navigate the Magnetic Timeline, move clips, and make fast, frame-accurate edits with just a tap of a finger.
Live Drawing with Apple Pencil adds another layer of interactivity to the editing process, allowing users to draw and write directly on top of video content. On the iPad Pro with M2, Apple Pencil hover functionality enables users to quickly skim and preview footage without touching the screen. To further enhance workflows, creators can add a Magic Keyboard or Smart Keyboard Folio to utilize key commands. The Liquid Retina XDR display on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro enables stunning HDR video viewing and editing, while Reference Mode ensures accurate color grading.
Pro Camera Mode and Multicam Video Editing: Greater Control and Streamlined Workflows
Final Cut Pro for iPad offers Pro Camera Mode, giving video creators even more control over their projects. Users can shoot high-quality video in portrait or landscape orientation, monitor audio and available recording time, and manually control settings like focus, exposure, and white balance. With iPad Pro and M2, creators can even record in ProRes. Multicam video editing allows clips to be automatically synchronized and edited together, with users able to switch angles in a multicam clip using just a touch of a finger.
Machine Learning for Faster Editing: Scene Removal Mask, Auto Crop, and Voice Isolation
Final Cut Pro for iPad takes advantage of Apple silicon and machine learning to accelerate time-consuming editing tasks. Scene Removal Mask enables creators to quickly remove or replace the background behind a subject in a clip without using a green screen. Auto Crop adjusts footage for vertical, square, and other aspect ratios, while Voice Isolation allows for easy removal of background noise from audio captured in the field.
Enhance Storytelling with Pro Graphics, Effects, and Audio
Final Cut Pro for iPad provides a vast library of professional graphics, effects, and audio to help creators enhance their storytelling. Stunning HDR backgrounds, customizable animated patterns, and professional soundtracks that automatically adjust to the length of a video are all available to users.
Logic Pro for iPad: All-In-One Professional Music Creation
Logic Pro for iPad combines the power of Logic Pro with the portability of iPad to create an all-in-one professional music creation app. With Multi-Touch gestures, music creators can play software instruments, interact naturally with controls, and navigate complex projects with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-scroll. Plug-in Tiles put essential controls at the creator’s fingertips, making it easy to quickly shape sounds. The built-in mics on iPad enable users to capture voice or instrument recordings, while the five studio-quality mics on iPad Pro turn virtually any space into a recording studio.
All-New Sound Browser, Professional Instruments, and Effects Plug-Ins
The all-new sound browser in Logic Pro for iPad uses dynamic filtering to help music creators find the perfect sound whenever inspiration strikes. The browser displays all available instrument patches, audio patches, plug-in presets, samples, and loops in a single location, allowing users to audition sounds before loading them into a project. This saves time and helps maintain creative flow.
Logic Pro for iPad boasts over 100 powerful instruments and effects plug-ins to shape the sonic qualities of music. Effects such as vintage EQs, compressors, and reverbs let users tweak and fine-tune their tracks. Multi-Touch gestures offer a variety of play surfaces for interacting with instruments. The app comes with a massive collection of realistic-sounding instruments and powerful synths, including Sample Alchemy, a new sample manipulation instrument that can transform any audio sample with a tap of a finger.
Beat Making and Production Tools for Advanced Music Creation
Logic Pro for iPad includes a suite of beat-making and production tools, allowing producers to chop and flip samples, program beats and basslines, and craft custom drum kits. Beat Breaker, a new time and pitch-morphing plug-in, lets creators swipe and pinch to reshape and shuffle sounds. Quick Sampler can chop and transform audio samples into new playable instruments, while Step Sequencer allows users to program drum patterns, basslines, melodies, and even automate plug-ins with just a few taps. Drum Machine Designer enables custom drum kit creation by applying samples and unique plug-ins to any drum pad. Live Loops lets users capture inspiration and build arrangements by mixing and matching musical loops.
Pro Mixer: Create a Professional Mix Entirely on iPad
Logic Pro for iPad features a full-featured mixer, complete with channel strips, volume faders, pan controls, plug-ins, sends, and precise automation, giving users everything they need to create a professional mix on the iPad. Multi-Touch enables intuitive mixing, allowing creators to move multiple faders at once, while the mixer meter bridge offers a quick overview of track levels.
Seamless Import and Export for Cross-Platform Compatibility
Both Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad support seamless import and export capabilities, making it easy to move projects between devices and apps. Users can export their finished songs in various compressed and lossless audio formats, as well as individual audio track stems. Music creators can produce a soundtrack in Logic Pro for iPad and export it to Final Cut Pro for iPad, providing incredible flexibility for working across music and video. Both apps also support opening projects created in iMovie for iOS and GarageBand for iOS, enabling users to elevate their creations with professional features and workflows.
Pricing and Availability: Get Started with a One-Month Free Trial
Starting Tuesday, May 23, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad will each be available on the App Store for $4.99 (US) per month or $49 (US) per year, with a one-month free trial for new subscribers. Final Cut Pro is compatible with M1 chip iPad models or later, and Logic Pro will be available on A12 Bionic chip iPad models or later. Final Cut Pro for iPad and Logic Pro for iPad require iPadOS 16.4. For more information, visit apple.com/final-cut-pro-for-ipad and apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.
