With optimisations for Apple silicon and the power of its Metal engine, Final Cut Pro allows you to edit more complex projects and work with larger frame sizes, higher frame rates and more effects — all at incredible speeds. And it’s built to harness the extreme power of Mac Pro, Mac Studio or MacBook Pro for next‑level performance.
Final Cut Pro features breathtaking performance and efficiency on Mac computers with Apple silicon. Tap into superfast unified memory shared across the CPU, the GPU and the Apple Neural Engine to play back more high-resolution video streams and render your movie in record time.
With great features and an intuitive design, Final Cut Pro accelerates post-production. So editors can create and deliver at the speed of thought.
Quickly display any audio or video that appears more than once in your project with highlighted clip ranges in the timeline. Or you can list all matches in the Timeline Index. Select a clip to show its duplicates and use keyboard shortcuts to instantly navigate between them.
The industry’s most advanced multicam editing lets you automatically sync up to 64 angles of video with different formats, frame sizes and frame rates. View up to 16 angles at once in the Angle Viewer. And open the Angle Editor timeline to move, sync, trim, add effects or colour-grade individual clips.
Create stunning effects and sweeping graphics with Motion, including studio-quality 2D and 3D titles you can open and adjust in Final Cut Pro. Use Compressor to create custom export settings and streamline delivery of your movie to the iTunes Store. And because Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor all share the same Metal architecture, you’ll experience blazing performance and consistent rendering across applications.
Professional colour-grading tools are built into Final Cut Pro, including a dedicated colour inspector with colour wheels, colour curves and hue/saturation curves. Use keyframes to adjust corrections over time, and apply camera and creative Look Up Tables (LUTs) for the perfect look. All colour-grading tools and scopes support High Dynamic Range (HDR) video.
Work closer to reality than ever before with HDR video. Import, edit, grade and deliver incredibly lifelike images with Final Cut Pro. Shoot on industry-standard cinema cameras, or in stunning Dolby Vision with the latest iPhone models. High-resolution scopes reflect HDR brightness levels as you edit. And the new Automatic Color Conform feature lets you instantly tone-map video, still images, generators and Motion titles — from SDR to HDR or from HDR to SDR.
The industry-leading Liquid Retina XDR display delivers 1,000 nits of sustained brightness and 1,600 nits of peak brightness, amazing contrast and vivid colours — perfect for HDR editing, grading and delivery with Final Cut Pro. Or connect the Pro Display XDR to your Mac for a full 6K HDR playback and finishing solution.
Import, edit and grade original, untouched footage with RAW data straight from your camera sensor — without sacrificing any speed or smoothness. Create native ProRes RAW files using Atomos recorders and the DJI Inspire 2 drone, and experience all the creative advantages of RAW with the real-time performance of ProRes.
Remarkably smooth playback and real-time, multi-stream editing are part of the ProRes RAW package. The format is optimised for macOS and the latest Mac computers, allowing you to render and export faster than with other RAW formats. And if you’re working on Mac Studio or MacBook Pro, the M1 Ultra, M2 Pro and M2 Max chips further accelerate ProRes RAW performance. As ProRes RAW files are smaller than standard formats, you can fit more footage on every card.
View the Apple ProRes RAW White PaperWork with untouched image data directly from your camera sensor. RAW files provide maximum flexibility for adjusting the look of your video while extending brightness and shadows — an ideal combination for HDR workflows. The new ProRes RAW Settings window in Final Cut Pro provides enhanced options for ISO, colour temperature and exposure offset from supported devices for an even deeper level of control. And now camera makers can enable their native colour processing with the new ProRes RAW plug-in architecture.
Final Cut Pro includes a complete toolset for importing, editing and delivering both monoscopic and stereoscopic 360° video.
Import and edit 360° equirectangular footage in Final Cut Pro. Open the 360° viewer to visualise a headset view of your footage, and take advantage of simple tools for changing orientation, straightening the horizon, removing camera rigs and more.
Easily add 2D and 3D titles to your 360° video, and apply blurs, glows and other 360° effects. Or create more advanced 360° motion graphics in Motion, then add them directly to your Final Cut Pro project. You can even add 360° video to standard projects, using the Tiny Planet effect to create spherical looks and animations.
Final Cut Pro includes an intuitive, comprehensive set of tools for closed captioning in a variety of formats, without the need for expensive third-party software or services. You can create, view and edit captions within Final Cut Pro, and deliver them as part of your video or as a separate file.
The extensive third-party ecosystem for Final Cut Pro delivers best-in-class media asset management, review and approval, effects, graphic templates and much more — right at your fingertips while you edit.
Extend your workflow with powerful third-party applications right inside Final Cut Pro. Browse and select stock photos, video and music for your edit with services like Shutterstock and APM Music, or use Frame.io to simplify review and approval. You can even browse and preview hundreds of text styles at once with Font Audition, all without leaving your edit.
Learn more about workflow extensionsCreate amazing visuals with simple drag-and-drop effects. Enhance your project with incredible lighting filters from Boris FX Continuum FCP 2021, or create beautiful abstract particle universes with Yanobox Nodes. Use ProAnimation from Pixel Film Studios to easily create kinetic logos without keyframing, or browse a rich ecosystem of plug-ins with the FxFactory app.
Learn more about third-party effectsAdd professionally designed, customisable motion graphics to your project without the need for additional software. Adjust colours, fonts and animation styles directly in the timeline, and see the changes instantly. Create beautiful visualisations of your data with mInfographics from MotionVFX, or easily add social media branding with Instagram Stories from LenoFX. Take your creativity even further by making your own custom graphics using Motion.
Learn more about third-party templatesWhether you’re a social media creator, a film and television editor or a post-production expert, the pro video training and certification programme — developed by Future Media Concepts in partnership with Apple — covers everything from editing basics to advanced colour correction. You can get certified and demonstrate your Final Cut Pro capabilities while gaining a competitive edge in an ever-changing industry.
Learn moreFinal Cut Pro for iPad lets you record, edit, finish and deliver professional video — all on iPad. It’s everything you need to create vlogs, social content, music videos, shorts and more, anywhere you go.
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