Final Cut Pro
Professional post-production
Only for Mac
USD 299.99
Final Cut Pro combines revolutionary video editing with powerful media organisation and incredible performance to let you create at the speed of thought.
Revolutionary Video Editing
• The Magnetic Timeline uses advanced metadata and Clip Connections for faster, easier editing
• Transcribe to Captions uses AI to generate closed captions in the timeline by analysing spoken audio
• AI-powered Magnetic Mask automatically tracks and isolates people, objects and shapes in any footage
• Automatically transform projects for square or vertical delivery with Smart Conform
Powerful Media Organisation
• Organise your work within libraries for efficient media management
• Apply custom keywords or favourites on the fly as you select clip ranges
• Smart Collections dynamically organise content for you to quickly find any shot in a few clicks
Incredible Performance
• Unrivalled speed and efficiency with optimisations for the latest generation of Apple silicon
• Work with a broad range of formats including ProRes, ProRes RAW, RED, XAVC, AVCHD, Avid DNxHR®, Avid DNxHD®, H.264, HEVC and more
Compelling, Customisable Effects
• Beautifully animated, easily customisable 2D and 3D titles
• Change the look of titles, transitions and effects using intuitive controls
• Choose from an ecosystem of third-party FxPlug plug-ins with custom interfaces
Integrated Audio Editing
• Assign roles during import to easily track and organise your project
• Expand and edit multichannel audio files directly in the timeline
• Apply audio effects and reduce background noise to isolate vocals using powerful plug-ins and technology from Logic Pro
Intuitive Colour Grading
• Powerful colour wheels and curves for precise adjustments with keying and masks
• Automatically tone-map clips to match HDR or SDR colour space
• Take advantage of ProRes RAW video shot on iPhone 17 Pro or later for even more grading flexibility
One-Step, Optimised Output
• Incredibly fast export for playback on Apple devices and upload to platforms such as Instagram and YouTube
• Export audio stems and multiple versions of a finished video using roles metadata
• Import and export XML for third-party workflows like colour grading and sound mixing
System Requirements: macOS 15.6 or later, 8 GB of memory (16 GB recommended), Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), 7.2 GB of available disk space. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.
more • This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Also Recently Added:
Powerful Intelligence
• Use Transcript Search to quickly find spoken words or phrases in your footage by searching for exact matches or using natural language descriptions*
• Discover Visual Search, a fast and easy way to locate moments in your footage, including objects and actions, using natural language*
• Let Beat Detection analyse any song to reveal its bars and beats, enabling you to easily align your video edits to the music’s rhythm
Get Started Fast
• Dive into editing with a special demo project featuring the talented singer-songwriter Allie Sherlock, and explore the exciting new features of Final Cut Pro first-hand
• Accelerate your next edit with in-app guides on how to create a new library, import media and add clips to a new timeline
* Requires a Mac with Apple silicon
12.2 9 Apr
Powerful Intelligence
• Use Transcript Search to quickly find spoken words or phrases in your footage by searching for exact matches or using natural language descriptions*
• Discover Visual Search, a fast and easy way to locate moments in your footage, including objects and actions, using natural language*
• Let Beat Detection analyse any song to reveal its bars and beats, enabling you to easily align your video edits to the music’s rhythm
Get Started Fast
• Dive into editing with a special demo project featuring the talented singer-songwriter Allie Sherlock, and explore the exciting new features of Final Cut Pro first-hand
• Accelerate your next edit with in-app guides on how to create a new library, import media and add clips to a new timeline
* Requires a Mac with Apple silicon
12.0 28 Jan
Final Cut Pro 11.2 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
* Unlock even more controls for ProRes RAW video shot on iPhone, so you can adjust exposure, colour temperature, tint and demosaicing. (ProRes RAW capture requires supported iPhone models.)
* Edit and play back your Apple Log 2 footage with the vibrancy of the original scene by applying the Apple Log 2 LUT.
* Includes stability and performance improvements.
11.2 19/09/2025
Final Cut Pro 11.1.1 includes these improvements:
• Addresses an issue that could cause MXF media to play back incorrectly.
• Improves reliability when adding video to drop zones in the inspector.
• Fixes an issue when sharing with the “Allow export segmentation” setting that caused inconsistent frame rates.
11.1.1 22/05/2025
Final Cut Pro 11.1 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
• Add colour corrections and effects to an adjustment clip above the timeline to apply them to a range of clips at once.
• Get inspired with Image Playground and use Apple Intelligence to quickly create stylised images based on a description, suggested concepts or people from your Photos library. (Requires macOS 15.2 or later on Mac models with M1 or later.)
• Speed up your Magnetic Mask workflows with important bug fixes, performance improvements, and a new keyboard shortcut to show or hide the Magnetic Mask Editor.
• Use the Quantec QRS (Quantec Room Simulator) effect to create natural and transparent audio reverbs that simulate real acoustic spaces.
• Stay organised by renaming audio effects in the inspector.
• Reveal the source of a multicam angle or synced clip in the browser.
• Move markers in the timeline by dragging them in a clip, or remove markers by dragging them out of a clip.
11.1 27/03/2025
Final Cut Pro 11.0.1 includes the following bug fixes:
• Addresses an issue that caused Custom Overlays to not be visible in the viewer.
• Fixes an issue that caused errors when using Send to Compressor from a timeline that included Magnetic Mask effects.
• Improves reliability of the Show Horizon command in the viewer.
• Improves performance when pressing and holding the H key to scroll the timeline manually.
11.0.1 03/02/2025
Final Cut Pro 11 is faster and smarter than ever. Leverage new AI-enhanced tools, work faster with time-saving workflow improvements and edit spatial video.
• Expand your creative freedom with the revolutionary AI-powered Magnetic Mask, and isolate people, objects and shapes in any footage without a green screen or time-consuming manual rotoscoping.
• Use Transcribe to Captions to automatically create captions from spoken audio in the timeline with a powerful AI language model built for speed and accuracy. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia or later.)
• Import and edit spatial video clips from Apple Vision Pro or iPhone 15 Pro or later; add titles, colour correction and effects; and share captivating spatial projects that can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon.)
• Reduce clutter in the browser by automatically hiding original clips when creating synced clips or multicam clips.
• Use Vertical Zoom to Fit to scale clip heights to fit in the timeline.
• Speed up your creative flow with new Picture in Picture and Callout effects.
• Create amazing visual reveals with new Modular transitions.
• Increase efficiency with new keyboard shortcuts for common tasks in the browser and timeline.
• Install third-party Media Extensions to support playback and editing of more video formats. (Requires macOS Sequoia or later.)
11.0 13/11/2024
Final Cut Pro 10.8.1 includes the following bug fixes:
• Fixes an issue that prevented audio playback when stepping through timeline clips with the left and right arrow keys.
• Fixes an issue that could cause some MTS files to play back without audio.
• Fixes an issue that could cause Final Cut Pro to stop responding when three-finger gestures were used on a trackpad.
10.8.1 13/08/2024
Final Cut Pro 10.8 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
• Automatically improve the colour, colour balance, contrast and brightness of video or still images using the new Enhance Light and Color effect, powered by machine learning.
• Enable Smooth Slo-Mo to create amazing slow-motion visuals with an AI-enhanced algorithm on Mac models with Apple silicon.
• Stay organised by renaming colour corrections and video effects in the inspector.
• Drag effects straight from the inspector to other clips in the timeline or viewer.
• Use new filters in the timeline index to quickly identify clips with audio effects, video effects, retiming changes, missing media or missing effects.
• Search in the timeline index by reel, scene, camera angle, camera name, custom metadata or effect name.
• Search for clips in the browser using new “Starts With” and “Ends With” search criteria.
• Improves timeline scrolling behaviour during reverse playback.
10.8 20/06/2024
• Improves stability on Intel-based Mac models when using Color Wheels or Color Curves on H.264 video clips.
• Fixes an issue with some default keyboard shortcuts working incorrectly on non-English keyboards.
10.7.1 21/12/2023
Final Cut Pro 10.7 includes the following enhancements:
• Automatically scroll the timeline to keep your clips in view under the playhead during playback.
• Increase editing efficiency by combining a selected group of connected clips into a connected storyline.
• View both video and audio role colours to easily see the organisation of the timeline at a glance.
• See improved results when using the Object Tracker’s all-new machine-learning model to analyse the movement of faces and other objects on Mac computers with Apple silicon.
• Use the enhanced Reveal in Browser feature to easily locate a clip in the browser without losing your selected Keyword Collection or Smart Collection.
• Export HEVC and H.264 files faster by simultaneously processing video segments across available media engines (requires macOS Sonoma or later and a Mac with Apple M1 Max, M1 Ultra, M2 Max, M2 Ultra or M3 Max).
10.7 30/11/2023
• Fixes an issue that could cause an FxPlug-based title that analysed a clip to result in an incomplete analysis.
• Fixes an issue that could cause a Motion template with an applied Align To behaviour to display an incorrect animation.
10.6.10 05/10/2023
Final Cut Pro 10.6.9 includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:
• Take advantage of the flexibility and dynamic range of log-encoded video shot on iPhone 15 Pro.
• Enhance the look of footage shot on popular Fujifilm, DJI and ARRI cameras using new log profiles.
• Fixes an issue that could cause Motion templates to not respond to the Opacity setting.
10.6.9 19/09/2023
• Fixes an issue where video could freeze in the viewer
10.6.8 01/08/2023
Final Cut Pro 10.6.7 includes the following bug fixes:
• Addresses an issue where audio effects would not be reset during playback.
• Fixes an issue where an Audio Units effect could have incorrect values when importing using FCPXML.
• Improves waveform redrawing on expanded audio components when adjusting volume with the Touch Bar.
• Resolves an issue where the Voice Isolation Amount slider would snap to 0% when trying to set a value less than 7%.
• Improves reliability when retiming a clip with the Scene Removal Mask applied.
• Fixes an issue where the Control Range setting in the Color Adjustments effect would be incorrectly set to SDR when importing using FCPXML.
10.6.7 18/07/2023
• Import your project from Final Cut Pro for iPad, and take advantage of incredible performance, advanced colour-correction tools and more.
• Use automatic colour management to easily edit HDR and SDR clips in the same project, with intelligent tone mapping of video to match your colour space.
• Choose from a new collection of professionally designed titles, effects, transitions and generators to enhance the look of your videos.
• Improve your colour correction workflow with the Color Adjustments effect, and apply new colour presets to give your clips a particular look.
• Use Scene Removal Mask to remove and replace the background behind a subject without using a green screen.
Final Cut Pro also includes these additional fixes and enhancements:
• Use the new ProRes RAW Settings window for easy access to ProRes RAW ISO, colour temperature and exposure offset.
• Install an Apple ProRes RAW plug-in from a camera manufacturer to view and adjust settings optimised for that camera’s sensor.
• Export to HEVC at up to 8K resolution with hardware acceleration on Mac computers with Apple silicon.
• Fixes an issue where multi-cam clips would sometimes turn black.
• Export to EXR now includes an alpha channel.
• Fixes an issue where adding video clips from the Photos browser would result in lower-resolution files being placed in the timeline.
• Fixes an issue where Final Cut Pro could not read Sony FX9 clips with embedded LUTs.
• Fixes an issue where Final Cut Pro would fail to open while an exFAT-formatted SD card with Canon clips was mounted.
10.6.6 23/05/2023
• Supports faster exporting of H.264 or HEVC on Macs with Apple silicon
• Increases stability when disconnecting a Sidecar display on Intel Macs
• Improves performance when editing on a Mac with an ambient light sensor
10.6.5 24/10/2022
• Fixes an issue where video frames may be out of order during playback or export
10.6.4 09/08/2022
• Improves reliability when using drag and drop to replace a transition
• Improves reliability when dragging a transition onto a connected clip
• Fixes an issue where custom sound effects do not always appear in the Sound Effects browser
10.6.3 19/05/2022
• Quickly locate media that appears more than once in a project using highlighted clip ranges or the Timeline Index
• Improve the clarity of speech by adjusting the level of background noise using machine learning (Requires macOS Monterey version 12.3 or later)
• Optimized playback and graphics performance for M1 Max and M1 Ultra on the new Mac Studio
• Import Magic Movie and Storyboard projects created with iMovie for iOS version 3.0 into the timeline
• Adds Korean language support
• Includes stability improvements and bug fixes
10.6.2 12/04/2022
• Fixes an issue that could prevent successful import of FCPXML 1.9 and 1.10 files
• Fixes an issue where the Command-Z keyboard shortcut would not perform an Undo if Language was set to Spanish in System Preferences
• Fixes an issue in the Export File share destination where the Video Codec setting was unavailable after choosing Computer as the format
• Improves reliability during playback of AC3 audio
10.6.1 15/11/2021
Automatically track objects in a scene, edit videos recorded in Cinematic mode, and experience workstation-class performance on the new MacBook Pro.
Object Tracker
• Drag effects, titles, or generators into the viewer to automatically detect, track, and match the movement of faces or objects using machine learning
• Manually add a tracker from the inspector, adjust its mask shape, and choose between different tracking analysis types
• Use the Tracking Editor in the timeline to quickly delete or re-analyze segments of an existing track
• Attach additional titles or generators to existing tracks using the tracker source drop-down in the viewer
• Object tracking uses the Apple Neural Engine to accelerate video analysis on Macs with Apple silicon
Cinematic Mode
• Edit videos recorded on iPhone 13 in Cinematic mode (requires macOS Monterey)
• Use Cinematic controls in the inspector to modify the intensity of the depth effect, and add keyframes to change the effect over time
• Choose to focus on faces or other objects by selecting them with the Cinematic tool in the viewer
• Use the Cinematic Editor in the timeline to view or delete focus points
10.6 18/10/2021
• Improves stability when exporting with certain macOS Language & Region preferences
• Improves stability when playing H.264 or HEVC media
10.5.4 08/07/2021
• Create and edit custom column views with the new column editor
• Search for media in the browser using expanded criteria including clip names, markers, and notes
• Sort clips in the browser according to type, including proxy, optimized, and missing media
• Includes stability improvements
10.5.3 17/06/2021
• Includes stability and reliability improvements
10.5.2 04/03/2021
• This update includes stability improvements and bug fixes
Also Recently Added:
Powerful Intelligence
• Use Transcript Search to quickly find spoken words or phrases in your footage by searching for exact matches or using natural language descriptions*
• Discover Visual Search, a fast and easy way to locate moments in your footage, including objects and actions, using natural language*
• Let Beat Detection analyse any song to reveal its bars and beats, enabling you to easily align your video edits to the music’s rhythm
Get Started Fast
• Dive into editing with a special demo project featuring the talented singer-songwriter Allie Sherlock, and explore the exciting new features of Final Cut Pro first-hand
• Accelerate your next edit with in-app guides on how to create a new library, import media and add clips to a new timeline
* Requires a Mac with Apple silicon
more Version 12.2 9 Apr
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