Final Cut Pro 11 Releases Today: What's New in This Apple Update ?

Adobe Pro's major competitor, Final Cut Pro, today unveiled its eleventh version, with new additions that are very useful for fans of the editing software.

The news broke last night: Apple has just released the eleventh version of its Final Cut Pro editing software. Available on iPad, iPhone, Mac and even on the Vision Pro headset, Adobe Pro's competitor is getting new features boosted to AI that will make video editing easier. 

New AI-powered tools on Mac

Mac support is unsurprisingly the one benefiting from the most significant update, with the addition of several AI tools designed to facilitate and optimize video editing. Two new features appear on the software:

• Transcribe to Captions: This feature, very useful for editors, greatly facilitates the subtitling of videos by analyzing the audio and automatically transcribing the spoken words. For now, the tool would only work in English, but it is very likely that other languages ​​will be included in the near future.
• Magnetic Mask: This tool allows you to isolate subjects and objects within a clip, without resorting to green screen or rotoscoping. The edges are automatically detected, allowing you to more easily detach the elements appearing in the image. Once selected, these can be edited in isolation or incorporated into a stylized background.

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A few other features have é been integrated into Final Cut Pro 11, such as Smart Conform, allowing automatic cropping, Smooth Slo-Mo, optimizing slow motion effects on a video, Enhance Light and Color, correcting light and colors, or even vocal isolation. 

Optimized access on iPad

Final Cut on iPad becomes more accessible thanks to its new version in 2.1. It is now easier to navigate the software and apply features to your videos. In a single gesture, the Apple user can, for example, apply Enhance Light and Color. Manipulating on the touch screen becomes more precise and faster, which will delight iPad owners.

Final Cut Pro on iPad also welcomes Live Drawing, useful if you want to draw on your image, thanks to a range of different brushes and pencils. Users also benefit from a “Picture in Picture” display option, an interface that is extremely useful for experienced editors.

The Vision Pro is not spared

The much-maligned Vision Pro also welcomes new features in Final Cut Pro 11, for improved 3D video editing. It will now be possible for VR enthusiasts to create montages with spatial videos captured by the headset (as well as by the iPhone 15 Pro and 16).

All these new features are available free of charge to users who already have a Final Cut Pro license. For those who do not have the software but would like to get it, you will have to go to the Appstore and pay €349.99 for the Mac version, compared to €4.99 for the Mac version. per month for the iPad version (or else 49 euros per year).