Apple Unveils Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad: The Ultimate Mobile Studio for Video and Music Creators
Apple has announced the availability of its professional video and music editing software, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, respectively, for the iPad. The company has introduced touch interfaces and powerful tools for enhancing workflows with immediacy and intuitiveness of multi-touch to unlock new workflows for video and music creators. We are unable to test Final Cut Pro on the iPad until its release later in May but it seems like a fully capable version with some limitations in color grading.
Interface and features
Final Cut Pro for iPad introduces a new jog wheel, enabling users to navigate the magnetic timeline, move clips, and make fast frame-accurate edits with just the tap of a finger. Users can draw and write directly on top of video content using Apple Pencil, apply color grades with accuracy using reference mode and view and edit stunning HDR video. The Logic Pro for iPad comes with a massive collection of realistic-sounding instruments and powerful synths, and creators can shape the sonic qualities of their music with over 100 powerful instruments and effects plug-ins in Logic Pro.
Video creators can shoot high-quality video in portrait or landscape orientation, monitor audio and available recording time and manually control settings like focus, exposure, and white balance with Pro Camera Mode. Additionally, they can capture, edit, and publish from a single device while in the field, and on iPad Pro with M2, users can even record in ProRes. Final Cut Pro for iPad has machine learning-powered tools to speed up time-consuming editing tasks such as removing or replacing the background behind a subject in a clip without using a green screen and adjusting footage for vertical, square, and other aspect ratios with Auto Crop.
Users can choose from a vast library of professional graphics, effects, and audio to enhance their storytelling, such as stunning HDR backgrounds, customizable animated patterns, and professional soundtracks that automatically adjust to the length of a video. Editors can import supported media from Files or Photos, save it directly inside a Final Cut Pro project, and export projects to Mac.
Logic Pro for iPad combines the power of Logic Pro with the portability of iPad to unlock an all-in-one professional music creation app, allowing creators to play software instruments, capture voice or instrument recordings, and make precision edits and draw detailed track automation with Apple Pencil. An all-new sound browser uses dynamic filtering to help music creators discover the perfect sound whenever inspiration strikes, displaying all available instrument patches, audio patches, plug‑in presets, samples, and loops in a single location.
Supported Devices and Requirements
Final Cut Pro is compatible with M1 chip iPad models or later, and Logic Pro will be available on A12 Bionic chip iPad models or later. Final Cut Pro for iPad and Logic Pro for iPad require iPadOS 16.4. Currently, the following devices will support this:
Final Cut Pro
11-inch 2021 M1 iPad Pro
12.9-inch 2021 M1 iPad Pro
11-inch 2022 M2 iPad Pro
12.9-inch 2022 M2 iPad Pro
2022 M1 iPad Air
Logic Pro
11-inch 2021 M1 iPad Pro
12.9-inch 2021 M1 iPad Pro
11-inch 2022 M2 iPad Pro
12.9-inch 2022 M2 iPad Pro
2022 M1 iPad Air
iPad mini 6th generation
iPad mini 5th generation
iPad Air 4th generation
iPad Air 3rd generation
iPad 10th generation
iPad 9th generation
iPad 8th generation
Pricing and availability
Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad will be available on the App Store as subscriptions starting Tuesday, May 23. Subscription for each application costs either $4.99 / month or $49 / year since Apple is offering a discount for the annual subscription.
