Final Cut Pro reimagines video creation for iPad with a touch-first interface for creators, professionals, and students. Capture with the built-in pro camera using manual controls to dial in your shot or seamlessly connect, record, and sync up to four iPhones or iPads with Live Multicam. Navigate complex projects with Multi-Touch and edit with precision using the jog wheel and Magnetic Timeline. Add a personal touch with Live Drawing to create handwritten animations directly on top of your footage. Choose from a vast library of graphics, effects, and music to polish your projects. Final Cut Pro for iPad puts the power of a production studio at your fingertips.
Creative Interface Optimized for iPad
• Navigate the Magnetic Timeline and complex projects with intuitive Multi-Touch gestures
• View, edit, and move your media with frame accuracy using the jog wheel
• Draw, highlight, and write directly on top of your footage with Live Drawing using Apple Pencil or Apple Pencil Pro
• Skim your footage without ever touching the screen with Apple Pencil hover*
• Create stunning videos with an HDR workflow on the Liquid Retina XDR or Ultra Retina XDR display**
• Connect a keyboard to access powerful key commands and make precise edits with Apple Pencil or Apple Pencil Pro
Live Multicam
• Quickly start a Live Multicam session and connect up to four iPhones or iPads running the Final Cut Camera app
• Remotely preview and initiate recording on all your connected devices right in Final Cut Pro for iPad
• Dial in each angle’s ISO, shutter speed, white balance, manual focus, and more directly on iPad
• Monitor your video with focus peaking, audio meters, and zebras to ensure your multicam clips look and sound great
• Instantly edit your multicam clips with preview media that is automatically synced in the media browser
• Save time in post with background media transfer that seamlessly replaces preview media with originals as you work
Powerful Intelligence
• Automatically improve the color and brightness of your videos with Enhance Light and Color
• Remove the background behind a subject without using a green screen with Scene Removal Mask
• Intelligently analyze and adjust footage for vertical, square, and other aspect ratios with Auto Crop
• Reduce or remove background noise with Voice Isolation
Spectacular Pro Content
• Customize your video with dynamic titles, lower thirds, bumpers, and transitions
• Apply beautiful color presets to dial in the perfect look
• Score your videos with soundtracks that dynamically adjust to the length of your edit
Take Projects to the Next Level
• Send your project to Final Cut Pro for Mac for additional tools including Magnetic Mask, advanced color correction, and third-party content options***
• Import projects created in iMovie for iOS to take advantage of the advanced editing tools in Final Cut Pro for iPad****
Upgrading to the latest iPadOS is recommended
* Requires iPad models with M2 chip or later, or iPad mini (A17 Pro)
** Requires iPad Pro (M5), iPad Pro (M4), or iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation or later)
*** Requires Final Cut Pro 12.0
**** Requires iMovie for iOS 3.0 or later
I have used a lot of different video editing software programs for over 20 years. Most recently I have been using Premiere Pro. It has been a good program but there have been a lot of issues I have had with it. I have really been looking forward to the release of Final Cut Pro and now that it is finally here, it did not disappoint. In fact it is way better than I expected. Since most of the video I shoot is with an iPhone I wanted a video editing app that was designed specifically for these videos. I can now shoot at 4K and 60fps without having to worry about compatibility issues to video format conversions. But it not only handles iPhone videos well, it also handles videos from my GoPro, DJI gimbal, and older videos shot with old hand held camcorders. The app is very user friendly and extremely easy to pick up and use right away, even without going through a tutorial. It is intuitive and user friendly even for people who have never used video editing software. Yet it still retains much of the functionality that is expected from professional video editing software. The more I use this program the more I learn what it is capable of. I look forward to apple to continue to add features to the app. Final Cut Pro is way cheaper than Premiere Pro and yet it still can do everything that I was doing in Premiere Pro. In fact it is better than Premiere pro in a lot of its functionality. I will be canceling my Premiere Pro subscription and switch to Final Cut Pro.
It does the job, but frustratingly
jac1828
It does the job but has many quirks and bugs. In the previous round it would crash randomly which was intolerable but this seems to be fixed now I am waiting to be sure. Unfortunately there are still many quirks that hold it back from being great. This is a skilled middle schooler not a heavy hitting pro. Although its possible to copy and paste your settings, it is not possible to apply them to all the clips in your project so as with many tasks in FCP for iPad you are forced into highly manual and iterative workflows. It does not support timelapse, i.e. setting single frame duration on a photo, as is done on the desktop version. The export process is extremely painful and frequently fails. The export is understandably long. This process needs to be maximized on your ipad screen so if it is 10 minutes or 1 hour that’s the time that your ipad will be locked up and useless for you. If you try to use “multitasking” with stage manager to add another window the export dialog will frequently close on you. In fact the swipe to close on the export dialog is a HORRIBLE misunderstanding of how anyone uses FCP. I don’t want swipe to close after my app has been grinding on a video for 45 minutes. If I bump my ipad and it is interpreted as a swipe I have lost all my work. If the job finishes and it pops the dialog the ipad can go to sleep, then swiping up to wake the ipad will close the export dialog. If the export saving process fails for any reason the popup does not come back it just disappears and your only option is to restart the whole process from scratch. Zero resilience. For a pay app, $60 a year they need to do better. This app should not be competing with the desktop for lesser functionality, it should be as good or better. If I can’t use it like a pro, then it is not pro.
My iPad Pro is finally useful
Miotch!
I don’t know why apple dragged their feet for so long on this, being that the iPad with M1 & M2 chips have been more than capable of running Final Cut, but that being said, I can finally take my video edit workflows over to my iPad Pro and get some use out of it. I was really regretting the purchase when I realized there weren’t many apps (until recently) that really fit my needs and utilized the processing power of the iPad Pro.I’m so glad its finally here. The interface is familiar and intuitive. I haven’t found the ability to make compound clips yet, but maybe that’s not available or coming in a future update. Also, I’ve only been using it for about an hour — so maybe its there somewhere. But I’m really glad to see that I can easily make mulitcam clips, as that’s what I primarily use it for. I saw that LumaFusion added multi cam for an additional purchase, which I would have begun to use if this didn’t come out. Glad its here. Great work Apple!
Its good but has some hiccups
Perriertastelikepiss
It feels a bit clunky at times. Trimming clips is a bit odd because for some reason you can’t just cut a clip (the controls for trimming clips is not intuitive in any way, it’s honestly unnecessarily annoying), it adds a “Gap” in place of the clip you deleted and it’s completely unnecessary. Also separating audio from clips is nonexistent. Instead you have to use a work around by expanding the audio and deleting the video, but if you get rid of the “gap” clip it deletes the audio. If you add clips above the audio it messes up the timeline and you can’t adjust it effectively. With some streamlining of basic features this really could be a great substitute for desktop editing software. It’s usable and a lot better than imovie, but I still use iMovie for basic sequencing of footage and separating/adding audio from clips. I’m definitely going to use Final Cut for a while, but until basic functions are less tedious to execute ill be using iMovie in tandem. I’d say give it a shot, but not to expect a direct substitute for Mac or desktop Final Cut or premiere pro.
Final Cut Pro is now part of Apple Creator Studio, an amazing collection of Apple’s most powerful creative apps designed to help you bring your ideas to life. The suite includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage — plus premium content and intelligence features in Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform*, all in one simple plan.
Powerful Intelligence
• Use Transcript Search to quickly find spoken words or phrases in your footage by searching for exact matches or using natural language descriptions (Requires iPadOS 26)
• Discover Visual Search, a fast and easy way to locate moments in your footage, including objects and actions, using natural language (Requires iPadOS 26)
• Let Beat Detection analyze any song to reveal its bars and beats, enabling you to easily align your video edits to the music’s rhythm
Get Started Fast
• Effortlessly create visual highlights videos set to your music with Montage Maker, ready to share or use as a creative starting point for your edits (Requires iPadOS 26)
• Dive into editing with a special demo project featuring the talented singer-songwriter Allie Sherlock, and explore the exciting new features of Final Cut Pro firsthand
• Elevate your videos with dynamic titles, add a personal flair with customizable graphic elements, and set the perfect pace with countdowns and timers
Workflow Enhancements
• Streamline your workflow with multiple selection support in the inspector, allowing you to make batch adjustments and changes to several clips at once
• Keep your projects moving with background exports and track their progress in Live Activities, perfect for multitasking across apps (Requires iPad models with M3 or later and iPadOS 26)
• Extend your workspace by connecting an external monitor to view and play back your edits with ease
* Premium content and features in Freeform are not currently available and are expected to be included in the Apple Creator Studio subscription later this year.
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Information
Seller
Apple Inc.
Size
1.5 GB
Category
Photo & Video
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later and a device with an M-series or A16 or later chip.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.6 or later and a device with an M-series or A16 or later chip. • iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) • iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) • iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air (5th generation) • iPad Air (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) • iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) • iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M2) • iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M2) • iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) • iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) • iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad mini (A17 Pro) • iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad (A16) • iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M3) • iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M3) • iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) • iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) • iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 11-inch (M4) • iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular • iPad Air 13-inch (M4) • iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
