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Sep 29, 2023

‎Final Cut Pro for iPad on the App Store

Final Cut Pro for iPad is a professional video creation app that puts the power

Final Cut Pro for iPad is a professional video creation app that puts the power of Final Cut at your fingertips. Final Cut Pro 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 editorSpeed 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 IsolationCapture 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 shootingFinish 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 videoShare 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)**** Requires Final Cut Pro 10.6.6***** Requires iMovie for iOS 3.0 or later

Version 1.0.1

Fixes an issue where the validation of third-party Audio Unit Extensions prevented Final Cut Pro for iPad from opening.

126 Ratings

Apple has finally ventured into designing pro-level production apps for the iPad with the release of Final Cut Pro for iPad, which is a solid first software release. The overall performance and functionality are impressive and make it worth the investment. However, there is a glaring omission - the inability to record voiceovers directly within the app. As a workaround, I used Logic Pro for iPad to record voiceovers while playing the video on Final Cut Pro. This method is somewhat cumbersome and requires owning Logic Pro as well. Additionally, managing two applications simultaneously can be challenging, especially when most other video editing software options include built-in voiceover features.In conclusion, this first release is a good start, but the lack of voiceover capabilities prevents it from being perfect and fully suitable for professional use. Adding this feature would undoubtedly earn it a 5-star rating. Despite this shortcoming, I still recommend giving it a try.

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!

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.

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