Apple Creator Studio Gets New AI Features

[MacRumors]

Apple today updated its Creator Studio apps, adding new AI features to Pixelmator Pro, Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and more.

Apple is integrating Pixelmator Pro with Final Cut Pro, Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. Final Cut Pro users can send a frame to Pixelmator Pro to create thumbnails and social graphics. In Keynote, Numbers, and Pages, users can select an image in a document and open it in Pixelmator Pro to edit, with changes saved to the original document.

The three office apps support generating vector shapes using AI, and Pixelmator Pro is getting advanced image generation and a Content Hub. Users can generate AI images directly in Pixelmator Pro with natural language, and browse a curated collection of images in Content Hub. Freeform also integrates with Pixelmator Pro in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate.

Final Cut Pro is getting Generate Captions, an on-device AI feature that automatically adds subtitles to videos based on audio. Subtitles can have animations and custom fonts, colors, and positions.

Edit Detection is a new AI feature that analyzes rendered video and splits it back into the original clips on the timeline. Apple says editors can use the tool for edit refinements or assembling a cut-down highlight clip for social media.

On the Mac, Final Cut Pro has an Auto Mask feature that isolates and refines video elements like skin, hair, sky, foliage, and clothing. Users can hover over a clip and make precise adjustments with no manual tracking. Color Match now produces more accurate and natural color matches in different lighting conditions, plus Advanced Trimming lets users fine-tune incoming and outgoing frames one-by-one.

Motion gains native support for scaling vector graphics without affecting quality, and Compressor has an Immersive Metadata Viewer for the Vision Pro. Final Cut Camera is getting expanded ProRes Support, an option to disable digital zoom, and Clean HDMI Out for sending a pristine video signal to external monitors and recorders.

Logic Pro's Chord ID feature has been rebuilt and it is more accurate than before. Apple says Session Players will respond and perform chord changes more quickly. Both Logic Pro and MainStage have a new granular sync mode in Alchemy to open up "new dimensions of sound design."

More information on the updates can be found on Apple's website. Creator Studio Pro includes all of Apple's creative software, and it is priced at $12.99 per month or $129 per year. Up to six people can share a single membership.

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[Astuces iOS]

Still no Pixelmator Pro one time purchase update

 

[963852741]

Apple itself is financing this AI bubble and then raising prices on the other end for loyal customers. Magical ...

 

[MrSnirf]

Apple itself is financing this AI bubble and then raising prices on the other end for loyal customers. Magical ...

Yup. Same companies crying about increased cost of memory are the ones creating the demand and then increasing the price to justify it.

 

[ch1ptune]

Subtitles in US English only. But why?

 

[TheBeverage]

It's all so tiresome.

 

[cjsuk]

New AI so you can AI while you AI then AI when you AI.

 

[Asarien]

Still no Pixelmator Pro one time purchase update

Never going to happen at this point. The standalone suite will gradually lose compatibility with newer systems and features, until only the subscription is left.

 

[svish]

Good to know about all these changes. Disappointing that the one time purchase version misses out on these features.

 

[neuropsychguy]

This looks like a good set of updates. Generating captions automatically in Final Cut Pro will be great. Currently I've been using a combination of yap (https://github.com/finnvoor/yap), which was featured on MacRumors a while ago and ChatGPT to clean up the subtitles. That works well, but it will be good to have it in FCP. I'll likely have to clean them up in an external tool, given the uncommon words I use (lecture videos and other demonstrations for my courses).

 

[rm5]

Logic Pro's Chord ID feature has been rebuilt and it is more accurate than before. Apple says Session Players will respond and perform chord changes more quickly. Both Logic Pro and MainStage have a new granular sync mode in Alchemy to open up "new dimensions of sound design."

Feel free to throw as many angry reactions at this post as you want, but I'm not completely happy about these updates.

Band-in-a-box has existed for probably close to 40 years now and is INFINITELY better in every way than Session Players, and is so much more capable. Session Players seem like a (poor) attempt to replicate another program (BIAB) that has existed forever and will always be better. Of course BIAB does have its issues, it has a terrible UI and is pretty slow, but for anyone wanting to make good-sounding backing tracks, it's the way to go I think. And it's a one-time purchase.

Chord ID really bothers me, because it takes away from true musicianship. Any good musician should be able to, without any issue, analyze a progression themselves without the assistance of a computer. In that, they should also be able to decide which scales fit best over which chords (in order to improvise over the progression or write good melodic lines). Real, human analysis of chord progressions and music in general also allows for greater depth of study, which, if you are going to conduct, need to have the score memorized and know precisely where entrances are for different parts. Also need to know the shaping of phrases and come up with your own interpretations of how those phrases are shaped. None of these things can be done by AI.

 

[richinaus]

Never going to happen at this point. The standalone suite will gradually lose compatibility with newer systems and features, until only the subscription is left.

yep pisses me off but will eventually have to go to the subscription like everything else.

 

[963852741]

Never going to happen at this point. The standalone suite will gradually lose compatibility with newer systems and features, until only the subscription is left.

If I was them I would have included standalone version without subscriptions as a requirement if Apple wanted to buy the company. Sadly these two MFers from my village did not care about this.

 

[Dr McKay]

Yup. Same companies crying about increased cost of memory are the ones creating the demand and then increasing the price to justify it.

It’s like Microsoft, investing hundreds of millions into copilot, helping cause the AI bubble and then crying that they failed to secure enough memory pre-price raises and are now losing money on each Xbox