Apple announces Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad

Apple will start offering Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad on May 23, 2023. The two well-respected software will both be available on the App Store for $4.99 per month or $49 per year. A one-month free trial is also available.

Final Cut Pro for iPad

Final Cut Pro for iPad introduces an all-new touch interface and intuitive tools. The new jog wheel simplifies the editing process and allows users to interact with content in entirely new ways. With the tap of a finger, users can navigate the magnetic timeline, move clips, and quickly make frame-accurate edits. It also supports intuitive and instant Multi-Touch gestures.

With Live Drawing, users can draw or write directly on video content with Apple Pencil. With the M2-equipped iPad Pro, users can quickly skim and preview footage without ever touching the screen with the Apple Pencil Point function.

Users can also speed up your workflow by adding a Magic Keyboard or Smart Keyboard Folio to take advantage of key commands. Creators can take advantage of the Liquid Retina XDR display on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro to view and edit HDR video and use reference mode for accurate color grading.

A professional camera mode gives you more control over the creative process on your iPad. Filmmakers can shoot high-quality video in portrait or landscape orientation, monitor audio and available recording time, and manually control settings such as focus, exposure and white balance. Creators can shoot, edit and publish on-site from one device, and M2-equipped iPad Pros allow users to record in ProRes. With multicam video editing, clips are automatically synced and edited together, allowing users to switch angles of multicam clips at their fingertips.

Final Cut Pro for iPad harnesses the power of Apple silicon and machine learning to speed up time-consuming editing tasks. Scene Removal Masks allow creators to quickly remove or replace the background behind the subject of a clip without using a green screen. Auto Crop adjusts your footage to portrait, square, or other aspect ratios, and Separate Voice easily removes background noise from on-site recorded audio.

Filmmakers can choose from an extensive library of graphics, effects and audio to enhance their storytelling. This includes HDR backgrounds, customizable animated display patterns, a professional soundtrack that automatically adjusts to the length of your video, and more.

Editors can import supported media from files or photo applications and save directly within Final Cut Pro projects. Final Cut Pro for iPad also supports importing projects created in iMovie for iOS4, and iPad users can export Final Cut Pro projects to Mac.

Logic Pro for iPad

Logic Pro for iPad combines the processing power of Logic Pro with the portability of iPad into an all-in-one professional music production application. Multi-Touch gestures allow music creators to play software instruments and interact with controls naturally, while pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-scroll gestures work through complex projects.

Plug-in Tiles put the most useful controls at the creator’s fingertips, making it easy and fast to shape sounds.

Users can capture voice and instrument recordings using iPad’s built-in microphones, and iPad Pro’s five studio-quality microphones can turn nearly any space into a recording studio.

Creators can also make precise edits, draw detailed track automation with Apple Pencil, and leverage key commands to accelerate music production by connecting a Smart Keyboard Folio or Magic Keyboard.

A new sound browser helps music creators find sounds whenever inspiration strikes them through dynamic filtering. The Sound Browser displays all available instrument patches, audio patches, plug-in presets, samples, and loops in one place, allowing users to tap to preview sounds before loading them into a project, saving time. is saved, and the production flow is not interrupted.

Creators can shape the sound quality of their music with over 100 powerful instrument and effect plug-ins in Logic Pro. Vintage EQs, compressors, reverbs and other effects allow users to fine-tune their tracks. Creators can play musical instruments with Multi-Touch on the screen for various performances. Logic Pro on iPad features a huge collection of realistic-sounding instruments and powerful synths, including Sample Alchemy, a new sample-manipulating instrument that lets you transform any audio sample with the tap of a finger. ing.

Producers can chop and rearrange samples, type beats and basslines, and create their own drum kits with a beat creation and production toolset. Beat Breaker, a plugin for timing and pitch morphing, allows music creators to radically reshape and shuffle sounds with a swipe and a pinch.

Quick Sampler lets you chop up and transform audio samples into new playable instruments. A step sequencer also allows users to type in drum patterns, basslines, melodies, and even automate plug-ins in just a few steps.

Drum Machine Designer lets you create custom drum kits by applying samples and your own plug-ins to any drum pad. With Live Loops, users can mix and match musical loops to get inspired and quickly build arrangements.

With channel strips, volume faders, pan controls, plug-ins, sends and precision automation, the full-featured mixer gives users everything they need to create professional mixes on their iPad alone. Creators can mix intuitively with Multi-Touch, move multiple faders at once, and get a quick overview of track levels with the mixer meter bridge, all from their iPad.

Logic Pro for iPad supports round-trip compatibility, so projects can be moved between Logic Pro for Mac and Logic Pro for iPad. iPad users can export finished songs in a variety of compressed lossless audio formats, as well as individual audio track stems.

Music creators can create soundtracks in Logic Pro for iPad and import them in Final Cut Pro for iPad, providing greater flexibility when working across music and video. Logic Pro for iPad can also open projects created in GarageBand for iOS, allowing users to take their music to the next level with professional features and workflows.