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Final Cut Pro makes it easy to create polished, pro-quality videos across Mac and iPad. It’s packed with powerful intelligence features, helping you turn every frame into something unforgettable.

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Final Cut Pro for Mac is also available as a one-time purchase on the App Store

Get to know Final Cut Pro. Video Creation Video Editing AI features that build on Apple Intelligence Titles, Transitions and Effects Audio Editing Workflows

A complete video playground for editing, audio, motion graphics and colour grading.

Edit quickly. Work smoothly. Create endlessly.

Powerful AI features that build on Apple Intelligence, right in your workflow.2

A library of titles, transitions, soundtracks and effects that inspire and ignite.

Advanced audio editing so your videos sound as good as they look.

Your artistic vision realized — across your Apple devices, apps and accessories.3

Video Editing

Storytelling, simplified.

Whether you’re new to editing or a seasoned pro, Final Cut Pro makes it easy to move and trim clips, isolate without a green screen and create captions. With smart, intuitive tools that smooth your workflow, video editing has never been this effortless.

Magnetic Timeline for fast, flexible editing. Experiment with different edits and story ideas by moving and trimming clips, all while keeping everything in sync.

Isolate with Magnetic Mask. Separate people and objects from the background without a green screen or complicated rotoscoping.

Automatic captions. By analyzing spoken audio, Final Cut Pro creates captions with lightning-fast, accurate results.

Find any shot in a snap. Visual Search Transcript Search Search visual moments. With Visual Search, locating clips is effortless. Just type what you’re looking for and it pinpoints objects and actions in seconds.4

Grab the perfect sound bite. No more sifting through hours of footage. Transcript Search analyzes speech to instantly find spoken phrases, whether by exact match or by related words.5

Intelligence

Scene smarts.

Edit with AI features that build on Apple Intelligence.2 Final Cut Pro transforms video creation, from streamlining complex tasks to enhancing visuals. It helps you move quickly from first cut to final delivery, all with pro‑quality results.

Automatically track movement. Object Tracker maps the movement of people, objects or faces so you can attach effects and titles or make adjustments as they move through the shot.

One-click colour grading. Automatically enhance the colour balance, contrast and brightness of video or still images with the Enhance Light and Color effect, powered by machine learning.

Turn video into slow motion. Smooth Slo-Mo intelligently generates and blends video frames to provide the highest-quality movement and add more drama to a project.

Automatically reframe a clip. Your videos adjust seamlessly to fit every aspect ratio, so that they’re ready to share on Mac, iPhone, iPad and all your favorite social platforms.

Get in the groove with Beat Detection.

All-new Beat Detection automatically analyzes music so you can map out song parts, bars and beats in a grid. Then just drop in your clips and snap them to the rhythm. Your edits hit right on time, and manual syncing is a distant memory.

Titles, Transitions and Effects

Show-stealing graphics.

Final Cut Pro gives creators a powerful set of tools for titles, transitions and effects. Elevate your visuals with drag-and-drop effects, pro-level colour grading and a wide range of customizable content designed for social media.

Learn more about the Final Cut Pro Ecosystem Graphics and transitions. Tap into an extensive library of dynamic video content options, designed for flexibility and customization for both portrait and landscape.

Dynamic titles. Customize themed titles, lower thirds and bumpers to enhance your project.

Powerful effects. Create amazing visuals just by dragging and dropping. And you can expand your options with thousands of third‑party tools.

Perfect your colour grading. Professional tools like colour curves, hue/saturation curves, a colour inspector with colour wheels and the ability to apply LUTs help your projects look their best.

Stunning effects,
set in Motion.

Motion gives you the tools to design cinematic titles, elegant transitions and jaw-dropping effects in 2D, 3D and 360°. Magnetic Mask lets you instantly isolate people and objects from the background. And because Motion is built for Apple silicon and the Apple Neural Engine, you can create and preview complex graphics and animation in real time.

Get moving with Motion Motion

All the right moves.

Easily design cinematic 2D, 3D and 360° titles, smooth transitions and realistic effects in real time. Optimized for Apple silicon and the Neural Engine, Motion lets you create and play back stunning visuals with incredible speed and precision.

Motion Graphics

More wow. Less work.

Designed with editors in mind, the streamlined interface and remarkable performance of Motion let you create and play back titles, transitions and effects — all in real time.

Interface Effects Templates Ecosystem Performance Quickly find and organize assets, then build motion graphics with layers, a full timeline and a keyframe editor, using a modern and easily customizable interface.

Create titles, transitions, generators and filters. Save and publish them to Final Cut Pro, and instantly jump back to Motion at any time for more advanced changes.

Design Smart Motion Templates that include USDZ 3D models. Publish any parameter or create rigs that can control several at once. Set up templates with multiple aspect ratios, and Final Cut Pro automatically uses the correct layout.

Access thousands of third-party plug-ins and templates for tracking, 3D object creation, titles, transitions and effects.

Thanks to the speed and efficiency of Metal architecture, Motion can play back what you create in real time. The Media Engine in Apple silicon accelerates ProRes playback and export, freeing up power for particle rendering and complex behaviours. And the Neural Engine makes object and face tracking lightning fast.

Design Tools

Real‑time animation. A real time‑saver.

Motion features a real-time design engine that lets you see your work instantly, along with a deep set of tools and content for creating and animating complex motion graphics.

Content libraries Keyframe editing Behaviours Generators Build captivating 2D, 3D and 360° compositions by choosing from more than 1,900 Apple-designed, royalty-free graphics, including vector artwork, images, animations and 60 USDZ 3D models.

Easily fine-tune timing and movement with intuitive keyframe tools. Use curve interpolation for smooth changes or draw curves using a freehand tool. Or move, stretch and condense groups of keyframes using the Transform box.

Add natural motion with preset effects like Gravity, Throw and Vortex — or combine them for more advanced animations.

Build custom animated backgrounds with generators you can style, texture or apply to 3D text.

2D and 3D Text

Effortless titles. Spread the word.

Make beautiful 2D and 3D titles that you can animate with drag-and-drop actions and intuitive text animation tools.

2D titles 3D titles Text animations Text generators Credit rolls Create text with your favourite fonts and adjust position, opacity and rotation. Manipulate vector-based characters with pristine sharpness, and use presets to easily add complex animations.

Build 3D titles from scratch, start from templates or instantly convert any 2D title to 3D. Customize your 3D text with over 90 Apple-designed organic and artificial materials. You can even use lighting rigs or depth-of-field effects to make titles perfectly match their environments.

Choose from more than 100 animation presets, including Type On, Blur Out and Text-on-a-Path. Animate text on or off the screen in a snap, or create unique animations by moving letters exactly where you want.

Automate tasks that would otherwise take hours to complete. With generators, you can count up or down, randomize text and add timecode sequences.

Quickly set up scrolling credits, even for long lists. Import a text file or type credits directly into your project, then use presets to automatically animate the speed of the credits.

Effects

Drag. Drop. Delight.

With over 200 filters and effects built into Motion, you can quickly and easily assemble impressive animations and fine-tune your work with precise controls.

Tracking Particles and replicators Paint Stabilization Chroma key Machine learning automatically detects and tracks faces or objects. Attach images, particles, filters, paint strokes or text to create eye-catching visuals.

From smoke to sparkles, explore more than 200 particle presets or create your own designs. Arrange them into striking 2D and 3D patterns with replicators, then add 3D objects for extra impact.

Choose from over 140 brush presets, or craft your own using gradients or moving video textures. Paint with pressure-sensitive brushstrokes and make vector-based strokes that flow naturally in 3D space.

Image stabilization lets you quickly smooth shaky footage. And SmoothCam removes jitters and bumps while retaining pans, tilts and zooms.

Create an accurate chroma key with the drag-and-drop Keying filter. Adjust uneven lighting with advanced tools like the colour wheel. And preview results instantly without rendering.

FxPlug in. Stand out.

A powerful Apple-designed plug-in architecture for filters and effects, FxPlug features more than 130 built-in options along with a wide range of third-party choices for Motion and Final Cut Pro. The FxPlug ecosystem continues to grow, with FxPlug 4 plug-ins running seamlessly on both Intel- and Apple silicon–based Mac computers.

Sound Editing

Easier audio? That tracks.

It’s easy to get your audio sounding just right. With sound editing tools for cleaning up dialogue, customizing soundtracks and adding pro-level effects, Final Cut Pro lets you shape your sound directly in the timeline — or use Logic Pro for even more control. Whether it’s a quick fix or a full mix, your audio is always in good hands.

Audio editing tools. Choose from a library of plug-ins for audio compression, EQ and more adventurous effects. Or export to a pro audio app like Logic Pro for advanced audio mixing.

Use effects from Logic Pro. No need to switch apps. Final Cut Pro includes a range of powerful audio plug-ins from Logic Pro, along with third-party audio plug‑ins.6

Voice Isolation. Eliminate background noise and improve clarity of speech so your edit sounds pristine.

Fit the music to the cut with iPad. Soundtracks dynamically adjust to fit the length of your project — expanding, shifting and staying in sync as a scene evolves.

Workflows

Fast Floward.

Thanks to advanced workflows, your process goes faster with less effort. From high-performance editing to powerful export options, projects move smoothly all the way to delivery. No slowdowns. No bottlenecks. Just flow.

Optimize files. Transcode video to Apple ProRes for better performance while editing, faster render times and enhanced colour quality for compositing.

Share in high quality. Export your completed project as a professional-quality file that can be used for the final stages of post-production or broadcast and distribution.

Batch export. Export multiple projects, clips or clip ranges simultaneously for different destinations, such as mobile devices or social media.

Compressor. Expand your encoding options.

Create custom export settings, apply filters and take full control of your video output. Compressor expands on high-performance encoding options with support for multiple industry-standard formats like HDR, HEVC, 360° video and MXF. It’s the most powerful and flexible way to deliver your Final Cut Pro projects, no matter where they’re headed.

Unpack more about Compressor Compressor

Export like an expert.

Compressor works seamlessly with Final Cut Pro, letting you add custom output settings for HDR, HEVC, MXF, and 360° and spatial video. Designed for Apple silicon, it’s the most powerful and flexible way to export and deliver your projects.

Performance

Efficient to its core.

With standout performance and optimizations for the latest generation of Mac computers, Compressor is the perfect companion for custom encoding.

High-performance encoding. A powerful Metal engine takes advantage of the CPU, GPU and memory in your Mac to accelerate encoding of high-resolution video. Compressor leverages hardware acceleration for H.264 and HEVC encoding, spreads work across CPU cores and uses the GPU to speed up demanding tasks.

Optimized for Apple silicon. No matter which Mac you’re using, Compressor delivers lightning-fast encoding up to 8K and significantly faster ProRes, HEVC and H.264 processing, thanks to the Apple Media Engine.

Features

Industry standards come standard.

With support for a wide range of popular device outputs as well as professional video and audio formats, Compressor expands on the encoding options built into Final Cut Pro.

HDR. View HDR footage on any Mac that displays an extended range of brightness, and see the video right in the viewer before starting a batch export.

HEVC. Export in HEVC for high-quality files that are up to 40 percent smaller than H.264 videos. Adjust output parameters, then save your settings and access them directly in Final Cut Pro.

Closed captions. Easily view, adjust and export captions in multiple formats. Embed caption metadata or deliver separate sidecar files for flexible workflows.

Audio descriptions. Embed audio descriptions into MOV, MP4, M4V or MXF formats to make your videos accessible to more audiences.

360 VR export. Export 360° video with industry‑standard spherical metadata embedded in the files.

Encode for all platforms. Use built-in presets to deliver optimized files for iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, or customize settings to your liking. Export files for social media platforms, including YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Vimeo.

Camera log conversion. Convert log footage to HDR or SDR using manufacturer LUTs. And with batch export, you can process hundreds of dailies with just a few clicks.

Custom LUTs. Add a stylized look to your footage using custom LUTs. Work in .cube, .mga and .m3d formats, all available on stock sites or generated from apps like Pixelmator Pro.

MXF encoding. Create MXF files with codecs, including AVC‑Intra, D‑10/IMX, ProRes and XDCAM HD. Adjust parameters and choose from a variety of frame rates and resolutions.

Broad format support. Quickly encode in multiple industry-standard formats, including MPEG-2, H.264, HEVC, QuickTime and MXF. Transcode Sony X-OCN or Canon Cinema RAW Light using a third-party plug-in, add captions and package HLS-ready files for online streaming.

iTunes Store Package

From your screen to seen.

Compressor makes it simple to package your film for submission to the iTunes Store.

Add content. Import and organize movies, trailers, captions and subtitles. Use the inspector to view details and add metadata.

Audition. Preview video with any audio, caption or subtitle. Continuous playback lets you switch tracks while checking sync.

Package. Easily assemble all your assets with the option to use your ProRes source files without additional compression. Reassign audio and add metadata with automatic subtitle detection.

Accessibility. Add captions and audio descriptions so your videos can reach a wider audience.

Validate. Built-in error detection flags issues. Select the error or warning to jump directly to its source.

Submit. Compress your package and send it to an Apple‑certified partner for iTunes Store distribution and sale.

iPad

Your studio. To go.

Final Cut Pro brings powerful video editing to iPad, combining pro features with the freedom of a touch-first experience. Whether you’re capturing content on the go or editing on set, turning inspiration into creation is just a tap away.

Live Multicam Final Cut Camera Touch-first interface Apple Pencil Live Drawing Montage Maker Share to your Mac Connect up to four iPhone or iPad devices, control their settings remotely and automatically sync all your footage. Easily record music videos, podcasts and interviews.

Capture professional‑level footage on your iPhone or iPad with powerful manual controls, including ISO, shutter speed, white balance and more.7

Make frame-accurate edits with just a tap of your finger. Or spin the lightning-fast jog wheel to zip through footage and fine-tune your clips.

Apply precise edits using Apple Pencil.8 And with Apple Pencil Pro,9 you can squeeze to open the tool palette and use barrel roll to rotate your brush tip in Live Drawing.

Draw, highlight and write directly on footage with touch or Apple Pencil to create unique, animated titles and illustrations.

Montage Maker automatically selects the best visual highlights from your footage and cuts them to the beat of any song. Then you can fine-tune the pacing, make a few tweaks and share away.

Export your iPad project to Mac to access features like advanced colour grading, Magnetic Mask and more.

Video Creation with Apple

A stellar ensemble.

Fuelled by the power of Apple silicon, Final Cut Pro rockets through edits and complex tasks. It also works with other Apple Creator Studio apps and Apple accessories.

ProRes RAW HDR on Apple displays iMovie import Final Cut Camera lets you capture in ProRes RAW for maximum flexibility in shaping your video’s look and extending detail in highlights and shadows. ProRes RAW delivers RAW quality with faster rendering and export.

The industry-leading Liquid Retina XDR and Ultra Retina XDR displays provide amazing brightness, contrast and colours — perfect for HDR editing, grading and delivery with Final Cut Pro.

Easily import your iMovie project into Final Cut Pro and start exploring all of its advanced features.

Questions? Answers. What is Apple Creator Studio? Apple Creator Studio is an all-in-one subscription to a suite of creative apps with powerful AI features that build on Apple Intelligence. Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor give you smarter, faster ways to craft and cut videos. Pixelmator Pro lets you easily edit images and create striking graphics. Logic Pro and MainStage help you produce, perform and perfect your music. And while Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform remain free for everyone, an Apple Creator Studio subscription offers premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features.

How do I download Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor? On your Mac or iPad, you can download Apple Creator Studio, which includes Final Cut Pro (Mac and iPad), Motion (Mac only) and Compressor (Mac only), from the App Store. You can also get Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor as one-time-purchase Mac apps on the App Store.

How much does Final Cut Pro cost? Final Cut Pro is included in your subscription to Apple Creator Studio, which also includes Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor and MainStage. In addition, Apple Creator Studio comes with enhanced versions of Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform that include premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features.

You can try Apple Creator Studio free for 30 days. After your free trial, new subscribers pay $17.99 per month or $179 per year. Educator and student subscriptions are $3.99 per month or $39 per year. Final Cut Pro is also available as a one-time purchase for $399.99.

What is the difference between the subscription version and a one-time purchase of Final Cut Pro? A subscription to Apple Creator Studio bundles Apple’s powerful creative apps for one low monthly payment.

A one-time purchase will still be available, but access to some of the premium content is available only to Apple Creator Studio subscribers. If you already own Final Cut Pro, it will continue to be updated.

Is Final Cut Pro just for professional video editors? No, Final Cut Pro is a full-featured video editing application with all the power professionals need, yet it’s intuitive enough for editors who are just beginning their creative journeys.

Can I open an iMovie project in Final Cut Pro? Yes. You can import an iMovie project that you created on your Mac, iPad or iPhone to Final Cut Pro and use the full range of powerful tools.

Which hardware and software do I need to use Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor? For the optimal experience, full functionality is available with macOS 26, iPadOS 26 and iOS 26. Apple Creator Studio requires an Apple Account and an internet connection to subscribe. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.

Final Cut Pro for Mac requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), a Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only) and 7.2GB of available disk space. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.

Final Cut Pro for iPad requires iPadOS 18.6 or later and an iPad with Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16) or iPad mini (A17 Pro).

Motion requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), a Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only) and 5.2GB of available disk space.

Compressor requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory and 1.2GB of available disk space. Apple Immersive Video processing requires 32GB of memory (64GB recommended). Storage read speed of 2GB/s or faster is recommended. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon.

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