Hands-On With Apple's New Final Cut Pro 11 Update

Earlier this week, Apple released Final Cut Pro 11, a major update to the company's professional video editing software. There are quite a few new features in Final Cut Pro 11, so we thought we'd go over them for those who are considering picking up the software.


Apple didn't bring Apple Intelligence to Final Cut Pro 11, but there are new AI-powered features. Magnetic Mask makes it super quick to isolate people or objects in a video, and then you can remove them or do object-specific color grading.

A one-click transcribe to captions feature can be used to create closed captions without the need for a plug-in or third-party app, but unfortunately, you can't edit the look of the captions. If you have spatial video you've recorded for Vision Pro, it can now be edited in Final Cut Pro.

There's a picture-in-picture effect, and a new callout option for drawing attention to a specific part of a video. Apple also updated Final Cut Pro for iPad, which gains haptic feedback, new inks for Live Drawing, and the Enhance Light and Color feature for quick color grading.

What do you think of Final Cut Pro 11? Let us know in the comments below.

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123 Avatar
20 weeks ago
Stopped watching when you complained that the worst invention ever, annoying TikTok captions, aren't available.
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Darren.h Avatar
20 weeks ago
I still prefer using Premiere or Resolve. They feel more Pro to me

Every time I use Final Cut it feels like iMovie with a bunch of Extra features

Final Cut Pro 7 always felt PRO. Not the redesigned X or 11.

Creators use it because it is fast and easy. Not hard to learn
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
TechnoMonk Avatar
20 weeks ago
I bought the educational bundle a decade ago, that gives me perpetual license for FCP. Planning to upgrade this weekend and test it out.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nostaws Avatar
20 weeks ago

Stopped watching when you complained that the worst invention ever, annoying TikTok captions, aren't available.
Hour for hour people are consuming way more video/motion content on social media than in the cinemas (maybe even television - depending on how we want to define TV).

If editors of all types want to make content for where people are consuming media, then, yeah... these are missing features
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
BGPL Avatar
20 weeks ago
Hard to believe it's still a one-time license fee for FCP and Logic Pro. It recently was raised to $299, but for $199 it was a no brainer.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
miniyou64 Avatar
20 weeks ago
Plus all the bugs of FCP X!
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