Final Cut Pro
Reel intelligence.
Final Cut Pro makes it easy to create polished, pro-quality videos across Mac and iPad. It’s packed with powerful intelligence features, helping you turn every frame into something unforgettable.
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A complete video playground for editing, audio, motion graphics, and color grading.
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Edit quickly. Work smoothly. Create endlessly.
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Powerful AI features that build on Apple Intelligence, right in your workflow.2
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A library of titles, transitions, soundtracks, and effects that inspire and ignite.
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Advanced audio editing so your videos sound as good as they look.
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Your artistic vision realized — across your Apple devices, apps, and accessories.3
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Magnetic Timeline for fast, flexible editing.
Experiment with different edits and story ideas by moving and trimming clips, all while keeping everything in sync.
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Isolate with Magnetic Mask.
Separate people and objects from the background without a green screen or complicated rotoscoping.
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Automatic captions.
By analyzing spoken audio, Final Cut Pro creates captions with lightning-fast, accurate results.
Search visual moments. With Visual Search, locating clips is effortless. Just type what you’re looking for and it pinpoints objects and actions in seconds.4
Grab the perfect sound bite. No more sifting through hours of footage. Transcript Search analyzes speech to instantly find spoken phrases, whether by exact match or by related words.5
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Automatically track movement.
Object Tracker maps the movement of people, objects, or faces so you can attach effects and titles or make adjustments as they move through the shot.
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One-click color grading.
Automatically enhance the color balance, contrast, and brightness of video or still images with the Enhance Light and Color effect, powered by machine learning.
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Turn video into slow motion.
Smooth Slo-Mo intelligently generates and blends video frames to provide the highest-quality movement and add more drama to a project.
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Automatically reframe a clip.
Your videos adjust seamlessly to fit every aspect ratio, so that they’re ready to share on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and all your favorite social platforms.
Get in the groove with Beat Detection.
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Graphics and transitions.
Tap into an extensive library of dynamic video content options, designed for flexibility and customization for both portrait and landscape.
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Dynamic titles.
Customize themed titles, lower thirds, and bumpers to enhance your project.
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Powerful effects.
Create amazing visuals just by dragging and dropping. And you can expand your options with thousands of third‑party tools.
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Perfect your color grading.
Professional tools like color curves, hue/saturation curves, a color inspector with color wheels, and the ability to apply LUTs help your projects look their best.
Stunning effects,
set in Motion.
Motion
All the right moves.
Easily design cinematic 2D, 3D, and 360° titles, smooth transitions, and realistic effects in real time. Optimized for Apple silicon and the Neural Engine, Motion lets you create and play back stunning visuals with incredible speed and precision.
Quickly find and organize assets, then build motion graphics with layers, a full timeline, and a keyframe editor, using a modern and easily customizable interface.
Create titles, transitions, generators, and filters. Save and publish them to Final Cut Pro, and instantly jump back to Motion at any time for more advanced changes.
Design Smart Motion Templates that include USDZ 3D models. Publish any parameter or create rigs that can control several at once. Set up templates with multiple aspect ratios, and Final Cut Pro automatically uses the correct layout.
Access thousands of third-party plug-ins and templates for tracking, 3D object creation, titles, transitions, and effects.
Thanks to the speed and efficiency of Metal architecture, Motion can play back what you create in real time. The Media Engine in Apple silicon accelerates ProRes playback and export, freeing up power for particle rendering and complex behaviors. And the Neural Engine makes object and face tracking lightning fast.
Build captivating 2D, 3D, and 360° compositions by choosing from more than 1,900 Apple-designed, royalty-free graphics including vector artwork, images, animations, and 60 USDZ 3D models.
Easily fine-tune timing and movement with intuitive keyframe tools. Use curve interpolation for smooth changes or draw curves using a freehand tool. Or move, stretch, and condense groups of keyframes using the Transform box.
Add natural motion with preset effects like Gravity, Throw, and Vortex — or combine them for more advanced animations.
Build custom animated backgrounds with generators you can style, texture, or apply to 3D text.
Create text with your favorite fonts and adjust position, opacity, and rotation. Manipulate vector-based characters with pristine sharpness, and use presets to easily add complex animations.
Build 3D titles from scratch, start from templates, or instantly convert any 2D title to 3D. Customize your 3D text with over 90 Apple-designed organic and artificial materials. You can even use lighting rigs or depth-of-field effects to make titles perfectly match their environments.
Choose from more than 100 animation presets, including Type On, Blur Out, and Text-on-a-Path. Animate text on or off the screen in a snap, or create unique animations by moving letters exactly where you want.
Automate tasks that would otherwise take hours to complete. With generators, you can count up or down, randomize text, and add timecode sequences.
Quickly set up scrolling credits, even for long lists. Import a text file or type credits directly into your project, then use presets to automatically animate the speed of the credits.
Machine learning automatically detects and tracks faces or objects. Attach images, particles, filters, paint strokes, or text to create eye-catching visuals.
From smoke to sparkles, explore more than 200 particle presets or create your own designs. Arrange them into striking 2D and 3D patterns with replicators, then add 3D objects for extra impact.
Choose from over 140 brush presets, or craft your own using gradients or moving video textures. Paint with pressure-sensitive brushstrokes and make vector-based strokes that flow naturally in 3D space.
Image stabilization lets you quickly smooth shaky footage. And SmoothCam removes jitters and bumps while retaining pans, tilts, and zooms.
Create an accurate chroma key with the drag-and-drop Keying filter. Adjust uneven lighting with advanced tools like the color wheel. And preview results instantly without rendering.
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Audio editing tools.
Choose from a library of plug-ins for audio compression, EQ, and more adventurous effects. Or export to a pro audio app like Logic Pro for advanced audio mixing.
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Use effects from Logic Pro.
No need to switch apps. Final Cut Pro includes a range of powerful audio plug-ins from Logic Pro, along with third-party audio plug‑ins.6
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Voice Isolation.
Eliminate background noise and improve clarity of speech so your edit sounds pristine.
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Fit the music to the cut with iPad.
Soundtracks dynamically adjust to fit the length of your project — expanding, shifting, and staying in sync as a scene evolves.
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Optimize files.
Transcode video to Apple ProRes for better performance while editing, faster render times, and enhanced color quality for compositing.
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Share in high quality.
Export your completed project as a professional-quality file that can be used for the final stages of post-production or broadcast and distribution.
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Batch export.
Export multiple projects, clips, or clip ranges simultaneously for different destinations, such as mobile devices or social media.
Compressor. Expand your encoding options.
Compressor
Export like an expert.
Compressor works seamlessly with Final Cut Pro, letting you add custom output settings for HDR, HEVC, MXF, and 360° and spatial video. Designed for Apple silicon, it’s the most powerful and flexible way to export and deliver your projects.
Optimized for Apple silicon. No matter which Mac you’re using, Compressor delivers lightning-fast encoding up to 8K and significantly faster ProRes, HEVC, and H.264 processing, thanks to the Apple Media Engine.
Connect up to four iPhone or iPad devices, control their settings remotely, and automatically sync all your footage. Easily record music videos, podcasts, and interviews.
Capture professional‑level footage on your iPhone or iPad with powerful manual controls including ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and more.7
Make frame-accurate edits with just a tap of your finger. Or spin the lightning-fast jog wheel to zip through footage and fine-tune your clips.
Draw, highlight, and write directly on footage with touch or Apple Pencil to create unique, animated titles and illustrations.
Montage Maker automatically selects the best visual highlights from your footage and cuts them to the beat of any song. Then you can fine-tune the pacing, make a few tweaks, and share away.
Export your iPad project to Mac to access features like advanced color grading, Magnetic Mask, and more.
Final Cut Camera lets you capture in ProRes RAW for maximum flexibility in shaping your video’s look and extending detail in highlights and shadows. ProRes RAW delivers RAW quality with faster rendering and export.
The industry-leading Liquid Retina XDR and Ultra Retina XDR displays provide amazing brightness, contrast, and colors — perfect for HDR editing, grading, and delivery with Final Cut Pro.
Easily import your iMovie project into Final Cut Pro and start exploring all of its advanced features.