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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
Video Editing
Storytelling, simplified.
Whether you’re new to editing or a seasoned pro, Final Cut Pro makes it easy to move and trim clips, isolate without a green screen, and create captions. With smart, intuitive tools that smooth your workflow, video editing has never been this effortless.
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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
Intelligence
Scene smarts.
Edit with AI features that build on Apple Intelligence.2 Final Cut Pro transforms video creation, from streamlining complex tasks to enhancing visuals. It helps you move quickly from first cut to final delivery, all with pro‑quality results.
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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.
All-new Beat Detection automatically analyzes music so you can map out song parts, bars, and beats in a grid. Then just drop in your clips and snap them to the rhythm. Your edits hit right on time, and manual syncing is a distant memory.
Titles, Transitions, and Effects
Show-stealing graphics.
Final Cut Pro gives creators a powerful set of tools for titles, transitions, and effects. Elevate your visuals with drag-and-drop effects, pro-level color grading, and a wide range of customizable content designed for social media.
Learn more about the Final Cut Pro Ecosystem
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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 gives you the tools to design cinematic titles, elegant transitions, and jaw-dropping effects in 2D, 3D, and 360°. Magnetic Mask lets you instantly isolate people and objects from the background. And because Motion is built for Apple silicon and the Apple Neural Engine, you can create and preview complex graphics and animation in real time.
Sound Editing
Easier audio? That tracks.
It’s easy to get your audio sounding just right. With sound editing tools for cleaning up dialogue, customizing soundtracks, and adding pro-level effects, Final Cut Pro lets you shape your sound directly in the timeline — or use Logic Pro for even more control. Whether it’s a quick fix or a full mix, your audio is always in good hands.
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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.
Workflows
Fast Floward.
Thanks to advanced workflows, your process goes faster with less effort. From high-performance editing to powerful export options, projects move smoothly all the way to delivery. No slowdowns. No bottlenecks. Just flow.
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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.
Create custom export settings, apply filters, and take full control of your video output. Compressor expands on high-performance encoding options with support for multiple industry-standard formats like HDR, HEVC, 360° video, and MXF. It’s the most powerful and flexible way to deliver your Final Cut Pro projects, no matter where they’re headed.
iPad
Your studio. To go.
Final Cut Pro brings powerful video editing to iPad, combining pro features with the freedom of a touch-first experience. Whether you’re capturing content on the go or editing on set, turning inspiration into creation is just a tap away.
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.
Apply precise edits using Apple Pencil.8 And with Apple Pencil Pro,9 you can squeeze to open the tool palette and use barrel roll to rotate your brush tip in Live Drawing.
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.
Video Creation with Apple
A stellar ensemble.
Fueled by the power of Apple silicon, Final Cut Pro rockets through edits and complex tasks. It also works with other Apple Creator Studio apps and Apple accessories.
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.
Questions? Answers.
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Apple Creator Studio is an all-in-one subscription to a suite of creative apps with powerful AI features that build on Apple Intelligence. Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor give you smarter, faster ways to craft and cut videos. Pixelmator Pro lets you easily edit images and create striking graphics. Logic Pro and MainStage help you produce, perform, and perfect your music. And while Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform remain free for everyone, an Apple Creator Studio subscription offers premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features.
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On your Mac or iPad, you can download Apple Creator Studio, which includes Final Cut Pro (Mac and iPad), Motion (Mac only), and Compressor (Mac only), from the App Store. You can also get Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor as one-time-purchase Mac apps on the App Store.
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Final Cut Pro is included in your subscription to Apple Creator Studio, which also includes Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage. In addition, Apple Creator Studio comes with enhanced versions of Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform that include premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features.
You can try Apple Creator Studio free for 30 days. After your free trial, new subscribers pay
$12.99 per month or
$129 per year. Educator and student subscriptions are
$2.99 per month or
$29.99 per year. Final Cut Pro is also available as a one-time purchase for $299.99.
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A subscription to Apple Creator Studio bundles Apple’s powerful creative apps for one low monthly payment.
A one-time purchase will still be available, but access to some of the premium content is available only to Apple Creator Studio subscribers. If you already own Final Cut Pro, it will continue to be updated.
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No, Final Cut Pro is a full-featured video editing application with all the power professionals need, yet it’s intuitive enough for editors who are just beginning their creative journeys.
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Yes. You can import an iMovie project that you created on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone to Final Cut Pro and use the full range of powerful tools.
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For the optimal experience, full functionality is available with macOS 26, iPadOS 26, and iOS 26. Apple Creator Studio requires an Apple Account and an internet connection to subscribe. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.
Final Cut Pro for Mac requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), a Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), and 7.2GB of available disk space. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.
Final Cut Pro for iPad requires iPadOS 18.6 or later and an iPad with Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16), or iPad mini (A17 Pro).
Motion requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), a Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), and 5.2GB of available disk space.
Compressor requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory, and 1.2GB of available disk space. Apple Immersive Video processing requires 32GB of memory (64GB recommended). Storage read speed of 2GB/s or faster is recommended. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon.
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