Final Cut Pro: Create Video

Final Cut Pro is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform, all in one simple plan.

Final Cut Pro reimagines video creation for iPad with a touch-first interface for creators, professionals, and students. Capture with the built-in pro camera using manual controls to dial in your shot or seamlessly connect, record, and sync up to four iPhones or iPads with Live Multicam. Navigate complex projects with Multi-Touch and edit with precision using the jog wheel and Magnetic Timeline. Add a personal touch with Live Drawing to create handwritten animations directly on top of your footage. Choose from a vast library of graphics, effects, and music to polish your projects. Final Cut Pro for iPad puts the power of a production studio at your fingertips.

Creative Interface Optimized for iPad

• Navigate the Magnetic Timeline and complex projects with intuitive Multi-Touch gestures

• View, edit, and move your media with frame accuracy using the jog wheel

• Draw, highlight, and write directly on top of your footage with Live Drawing using Apple Pencil or Apple Pencil Pro

• Skim your footage without ever touching the screen with Apple Pencil hover*

• Create stunning videos with an HDR workflow on the Liquid Retina XDR or Ultra Retina XDR display**

• Connect a keyboard to access powerful key commands and make precise edits with Apple Pencil or Apple Pencil Pro

Live Multicam

• Quickly start a Live Multicam session and connect up to four iPhones or iPads running the Final Cut Camera app

• Remotely preview and initiate recording on all your connected devices right in Final Cut Pro for iPad

• Dial in each angle’s ISO, shutter speed, white balance, manual focus, and more directly on iPad

• Monitor your video with focus peaking, audio meters, and zebras to ensure your multicam clips look and sound great

• Instantly edit your multicam clips with preview media that is automatically synced in the media browser

• Save time in post with background media transfer that seamlessly replaces preview media with originals as you work

Powerful Intelligence

• Quickly find the perfect soundbite or visual with intelligent search tools

• Analyze any song to reveal its bars and beats using Beat Detection and easily snap your edits to the music’s rhythm

• Effortlessly create visual highlights videos set to your music with Montage Maker

• Automatically improve the color and brightness of your videos with Enhance Light and Color

• Intelligently analyze and adjust footage for vertical, square, and other aspect ratios with Auto Crop

Spectacular Pro Content

• Customize your video with dynamic titles, lower thirds, bumpers, and transitions

• Apply beautiful color presets to dial in the perfect look

• Score your videos with soundtracks that dynamically adjust to the length of your edit

Take Projects to the Next Level

• Send your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac for additional tools including Magnetic Mask, advanced color correction, and third-party content options***

• Import projects created in iMovie for iOS to take advantage of the advanced editing tools in Final Cut Pro for iPad****

Upgrading to the latest iPadOS is recommended

* Requires iPad models with M2 chip or later, or iPad mini (A17 Pro)

** Requires iPad Pro (M5), iPad Pro (M4), or iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation or later)

*** Requires Final Cut Pro 12.0

**** Requires iMovie for iOS 3.0 or later