Final Cut Pro for iPad 4+
Professional video creation
Apple
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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.
Unleash your creativity with a touch-first 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 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 Pro
Preview, record, and sync up to four iPhones or iPads with Live Multicam
• Quickly start a Live Multicam session by connecting to any iPhone or iPad 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 levels, and zebras to ensure your multicam clips look and sound great
• Instantly edit your multicam clips with preview media that is automatically synced
• Save time in post with background media transfer that seamlessly replaces preview media with originals
Capture the perfect shot with the built-in pro camera mode
• Easily record in a range of video resolutions, frame rates, and formats including ProRes***
• Capture individual clips or add your iPad as an additional camera angle in Live Multicam
• Set your exposure with ISO and shutter speed controls
• Adjust your white balance with common presets or set your color temperature
• Accurately pull focus and capture sharp footage with focus peaking
Speed up workflows with Fast Cut AI features powered by the Apple Neural Engine
• Remove the background behind a subject without using a green screen with 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 Isolation
Finish videos with a spectacular library of 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
Share 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
• Send your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac for additional tools including Object Tracker, advanced color correction, and third-party content options****
Unlock pro editing tools to take your iMovie for iOS projects to the next level
• 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 (M4 chip) or iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation or later)
*** Requires iPad Pro (M4 chip), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation or later), or iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation or later)
**** Requires Final Cut Pro 11 or later
***** Requires iMovie for iOS 3.0 or later
What’s New
Version 2.1
Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.1 includes the following features and enhancements:
• Automatically improve the color, color balance, contrast, and brightness of video or still images using the new Enhance Light and Color effect, powered by machine learning.
• Add personalized Live Drawing animations to your video with new watercolor, crayon, fountain pen, and monoline inks.
• Highlight visuals with new Reframe effects, add video overlays with Modular transitions, and polish your content with even more color grading presets and soundtracks.
• Edit high-frame-rate media with timeline support for 90, 100, and 120 fps settings.
• Experience instant haptic feedback as you edit and navigate your projects using Apple Pencil Pro.
• Increase efficiency with new keyboard shortcuts for common tasks in the browser and timeline.
• Dynamically adjust the size and position of the viewer in Picture in Picture mode.
Ratings and Reviews
Couldn’t Stay Angry at FCP for IP
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.
My iPad Pro is finally useful
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!
After 2 years, I have given up
FCP for iPad is a tremendous disappointment. It was a sorely needed product, but sadly it falls down at any obstacle thrown in front of it. My problems started last year with the 1.3 update (which broke compatibility for media types already being used in my projects, setting me back a significant amount of time and requiring reshoots of certain footage) and have continued ever since. Apple support dropped the ball numerous times attempting to “help” me after my last negative review and only succeeding in taking up literal hours of my time. As of the latest 2.1 update, I’m no longer even able to successfully get a complex project to export (which had previously been successful on 2.0) and the stability of the product has gotten significantly worse and freezes up on me frequently. At this point, I cannot trust this product ever again. After 2 years, I have cancelled my subscription that has been in place since day 1, and I won’t be back. If you are a professional video editor, I strongly recommend trialing this product with a low-stakes project to test your workflows before tackling anything large, or risk being shackled to a bad product for the duration.
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Information
- Seller
- Apple Inc.
- Size
- 984.3 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later and a device with an M-series or A17 Pro chip.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Final Cut Pro for iPad $49.00
- Final Cut Pro for iPad $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.