Apple on Wednesday announced the release of Final Cut Pro 11, its video editing software for the Mac. The update brought several cool features, including spatial video editing, AI-generated captions, and a Magnetic Mask tool to isolate object and people in videos. Today, Apple published the full release notes on its website.
The full release notes are as follows:
Final Cut Pro 11.0 includes the following enhancements:
- Expand your creative freedom with the revolutionary AI-powered Magnetic Mask, and isolate people, objects, and shapes in any footage without a green screen or time-consuming manual rotoscoping (a Mac with Apple silicon recommended).
- Use Transcribe to Captions to automatically create captions from spoken audio in the timeline with a powerful AI language model built for speed and accuracy (Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia or later required).
- Import and edit spatial video clips from Apple Vision Pro or iPhone 15 Pro or later; add titles, color correction, and effects; and share captivating spatial projects that can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro (Mac with Apple silicon required).
- Edit in the timeline at 90, 100, and 120 fps.
- Reduce clutter in the browser by automatically hiding original clips when creating synced clips or multicam clips.
- Speed up your creative flow with new Picture in Picture and Callout effects.
- Create interesting visual reveals with new Modular transitions.
- Use Vertical Zoom to Fit to scale clip heights to fit in the timeline.
- Change the order of vertically stacked clips with a new keyboard shortcut.
- Quickly navigate clips in list view and edit clip text with a new keyboard shortcut.
- Increase efficiency with additional new keyboard shortcuts including Rename Clip, Show/Hide Audio Lanes, Expand/Collapse Subroles, Play Half Speed Forward/Reverse, Consolidate Motion Content, Paste Timecode, and Show Horizon.
- Install third-party Media Extensions to support playback and editing of more video formats (macOS Sequoia or later required).
Additional support and bug fixes:
- Improves performance in timelines that contain a high number of markers.
- Fixes an issue that caused the alert badge on an event to not disappear after all missing media was relinked.
- Fixes an issue that caused the Clouds generator to be partially transparent.
- Fixes an issue that caused the Collapse to Connected Storyline command to trim audio if the audio was leading video.
- Adds support for exporting uncompressed or ProRes MXF video with 32 kHz audio.
- Adds support for exporting directly to the Photos library.
- Updates FCPXML to version 1.13.
Apple also highlighted some of the new features in the Final Cut Pro user guide.
Final Cut Pro 11 is available today as a free update for existing users and for $299.99 (U.S.) for new users on the Mac App Store. New users can download a free 90-day trial of Final Cut Pro. Some of the new features require a Mac with an M1 chip or newer.