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 with intuitive Multi-Touch gestures
• View, edit, and move your media with frame accuracy using the jog wheel
• Draw 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
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
• 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
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 ISO, shutter speed, white balance, manual focus, and more
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
• Send your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac for additional tools including Object Tracker, advanced color correction, and third-party content****
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
** 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 10.8 or later
***** Requires iMovie for iOS 3.0 or later
What’s New
Version 2.0
Final Cut Pro for iPad 2.0 includes the following features and enhancements:
• Connect to Final Cut Camera on iPad or iPhone to record up to four angles at once using Live Multicam.
• Easily create and edit projects on a connected external storage device.
• Dial in your exposure with shutter speed and ISO controls in pro camera mode.
• Enable focus peaking to ensure your footage is sharp while recording.
• Polish your videos with 12 new color grading presets, 6 dynamic glitch backgrounds, 20 soundtracks, 8 basic text titles, and more.
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!
Its good but has some hiccups
It feels a bit clunky at times. Trimming clips is a bit odd because for some reason you can’t just cut a clip (the controls for trimming clips is not intuitive in any way, it’s honestly unnecessarily annoying), it adds a “Gap” in place of the clip you deleted and it’s completely unnecessary. Also separating audio from clips is nonexistent. Instead you have to use a work around by expanding the audio and deleting the video, but if you get rid of the “gap” clip it deletes the audio. If you add clips above the audio it messes up the timeline and you can’t adjust it effectively. With some streamlining of basic features this really could be a great substitute for desktop editing software. It’s usable and a lot better than imovie, but I still use iMovie for basic sequencing of footage and separating/adding audio from clips. I’m definitely going to use Final Cut for a while, but until basic functions are less tedious to execute ill be using iMovie in tandem. I’d say give it a shot, but not to expect a direct substitute for Mac or desktop Final Cut or premiere pro.
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Information
- Seller
- Apple Inc.
- Size
- 897.1 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later and a device with the M1 chip or later.
- 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.