Final Cut Pro for iPad 4+
Professional Video Creation
Apple
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Final Cut Pro for iPad is a professional video creation app that reimagines video editing for iPad with an all-new touch interface, so you can record, edit, finish, and share your content–all from one portable, powerful device. Get closer to your footage than ever with Multi-Touch to trim and move clips, navigate the Magnetic Timeline, and adjust your video with just a tap of your finger. Record with the built-in pro camera using manual controls to dial in your shot. Speed up your workflows with powerful new tools like the jog wheel and Fast Cut machine learning features, and polish your projects with a pro content library of graphics, effects, and music. Final Cut Pro gives you everything you need to create a professional video entirely on iPad.
Unleash your creativity with a touch-first interface optimized for iPad
• Skim, edit, and move your media with frame-accuracy using the all-new jog wheel
• Navigate the Magnetic Timeline and complex projects with intuitive Multi-Touch gestures
• Draw, highlight, and write directly on top of your footage with Live Drawing using your fingertip or Apple Pencil
• Preview and skim your timeline and footage without ever touching the screen with Apple Pencil hover*
• Configure and resize your editing layout depending on your workflow
• Create stunning videos with an HDR workflow on the Liquid Retina XDR display**
• Connect a Magic Keyboard to access powerful key commands and make precise edits with Apple Pencil
Sync and edit your best angles with multicamera video editing
• Quickly and easily create a multicam clip by automatically syncing up to four media sources
• Cut between your best angles and audio with a tap using the multicam switcher
• Add and remove angles or clips, adjust sync, monitor audio, and make basic edits in the angle editor
Speed up your workflows with Fast Cut machine learning features powered by Apple silicon
• Remove and replace the background behind a subject without using a green screen with the Scene Removal Mask
• Intelligently analyze and adjust footage for vertical, square, and other aspect ratios with Auto Crop
• Reduce or remove background noise with Voice Isolation
Capture the perfect shot with the built-in pro camera mode
• Record in a range of video resolutions, frame rates, and formats including ProRes***
• Adjust your white balance, manual focus, zoom, and exposure with precision control
• Shoot in both landscape and portrait orientations
• Monitor available recording time and audio levels
• Save your footage directly into your project when you’re finished shooting
Finish your videos with a spectacular library of pro content
• Customize your video with themed dynamic titles, lower thirds, bumpers, and transitions
• Apply beautiful color presets to dial in the perfect look for your footage
• Score your videos with soundtracks that dynamically adjust to the length of your edit
• Choose the perfect effect to enhance your audio and video
Share your final video or send your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac
• Export using popular presets or customize settings with control over resolution, color space, and codecs such as ProRes and HEVC
• Send your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac for additional tools including Object Tracker, advanced color correction, and expanded third-party content options
Unlock pro editing tools to take your iMovie for iOS projects to the next level
• Import movie projects created in iMovie for iOS to take advantage of the advanced editing tools in Final Cut Pro for iPad
* Requires iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation or later) or iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation or later) and Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
** Requires iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation or later)
*** Requires iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation or later) or iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation or later)
What’s New
Version 1.3
Final Cut Pro for iPad 1.3 includes the following features and enhancements:
• Record voiceover and live audio directly in the timeline using the built-in iPad microphones or external microphones.
• Dial in the perfect look with stunning new color-grading presets.
• Choose from a selection of new titles and generators.
• Increase editing efficiency by grouping connected clips into a connected storyline.
• Control stabilization in the pro camera mode.
New keyboard shortcuts:
• Group clips into a connected storyline: Command-G
• Ungroup clips from a connected storyline: Shift-Command-G
• Show or hide the Record Voiceover panel: Shift-V
• Start or stop recording audio from the Record Voiceover panel: Shift-Option-R
• Play full screen: Shift-Command-F
• Enter or exit Picture in Picture: Command-3
Ratings and Reviews
Couldn’t Stay Angry at FCP for IP
I’m a commercial editor who can’t resist working on an occasional project on the iPad. Had high hopes for FCP/IP until I discovered editing from external drives and round-tripping with FCP/Mac wasn’t enabled. But I started playing with the app anyway. Despite it’s lack of features available on FCP/Mac, FPC/IP is a pleasure to use. When I need to include corporate artwork, e.g. lower third supers, I can create them in a vector app, e.g. Illustrator, Affinity Designer, saving as PNG, them import them to FCP. That’s a big deal.
In the mean time, you CAN export your FCP/IP projects (Libraries) created on your iPad to an external drive — then delete the original off the iPad — and later, re-import your library to your iPad and keep working. The process is an extra step, but so far, it works well.
In the mean time, here’s hoping Apple will continue to develop features for FCP/IP at a far, far faster rate than they did for FCP/Mac.
My iPad Pro is finally useful
I don’t know why apple dragged their feet for so long on this, being that the iPad with M1 & M2 chips have been more than capable of running Final Cut, but that being said, I can finally take my video edit workflows over to my iPad Pro and get some use out of it. I was really regretting the purchase when I realized there weren’t many apps (until recently) that really fit my needs and utilized the processing power of the iPad Pro.
I’m so glad its finally here. The interface is familiar and intuitive. I haven’t found the ability to make compound clips yet, but maybe that’s not available or coming in a future update. Also, I’ve only been using it for about an hour — so maybe its there somewhere. But I’m really glad to see that I can easily make mulitcam clips, as that’s what I primarily use it for.
I saw that LumaFusion added multi cam for an additional purchase, which I would have begun to use if this didn’t come out. Glad its here. Great work Apple!
Its good but has some hiccups
It feels a bit clunky at times. Trimming clips is a bit odd because for some reason you can’t just cut a clip (the controls for trimming clips is not intuitive in any way, it’s honestly unnecessarily annoying), it adds a “Gap” in place of the clip you deleted and it’s completely unnecessary. Also separating audio from clips is nonexistent. Instead you have to use a work around by expanding the audio and deleting the video, but if you get rid of the “gap” clip it deletes the audio. If you add clips above the audio it messes up the timeline and you can’t adjust it effectively. With some streamlining of basic features this really could be a great substitute for desktop editing software. It’s usable and a lot better than imovie, but I still use iMovie for basic sequencing of footage and separating/adding audio from clips. I’m definitely going to use Final Cut for a while, but until basic functions are less tedious to execute ill be using iMovie in tandem. I’d say give it a shot, but not to expect a direct substitute for Mac or desktop Final Cut or premiere pro.
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Information
- Seller
- Apple Inc.
- Size
- 858.5 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.6 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2023 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Final Cut Pro for iPad $49.00
- Final Cut Pro for iPad $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.