Apple Likely to Announce Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac Today

[MacRumors]

In its Mac mini announcement video last month, Apple briefly mentioned an "upcoming" version of Final Cut Pro for the Mac. We believe that Apple will likely announce the update later today, as the annual Final Cut Pro Creative Summit conference begins today and involves a visit to Apple Park starting at 2 p.m. Pacific Time today. Final Cut Pro version 10.7 was shown off during the same Apple Park day of the conference last year.

Final Cut Pro received its most recent feature update to version 10.8 in June. New features included an Enhance Light and Color effect, a Smooth Slo-Mo option for slow-motion visuals, advanced search and filtering in the timeline index, and more.

Following a bug-fix update in August, Final Cut Pro is now on version 10.8.1. It is quite possible that the next version will be Final Cut Pro 11, rather than 10.9, given that Logic Pro went from version 10.8.1 to 11.0 earlier this year.

We recently recapped three new features that Apple already said are coming to Final Cut Pro for the Mac later this year, including spatial video editing, AI-generated video effects, and automatic AI-generated captions. An image of Final Cut Pro in the Mac mini announcement video last month also showed an unreleased "Magnetic Mask" feature that will likely allow users to isolate moving objects in the foreground of videos.

Final Cut Pro's upcoming auto-caption feature​

At least some of these features will likely extend to an updated version of the Final Cut Pro app for iPad. There could also be updates to the Final Cut Pro companion apps Compressor and Motion for the Mac, and to the Final Cut Camera app for the iPhone.

In the U.S., Final Cut Pro currently costs $299.99 on the Mac, while the iPad version is a subscription-based app priced at $4.99 per month or $49 per year.

Article Link: Apple Likely to Announce Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac Today

 

[infinitedreams]

Hope it‘s not a subscription…

 

[dadiy]

Hope intel still gets support.

 

[robgreene]

Wonder if a full version number release (X to 11) indicates a change in pricing? Either subscription like iPad, or separate purchase from X?

 

[iLilana]

I just dropped 400 CDN on a copy. I might be a bit concerned. I hope it at least supports Live Multicam with Final Cut camera like the iPad version. I don't need an iPad with all the computers here.

 

[vertsix]

Hope it‘s not a subscription…

SHHHHHHH don't jinx it!

 

[Amazing Iceman]

I hope it's not a new purchase. That would be awful.

 

[hovscorpion12]

I'm 99.9% sure it's going to be all Apple Intelligence focused. Same price.

 

[Amazing Iceman]

I'm 99.9% sure it's going to be all Apple Intelligence focused. Same price.

They may make it a subscription if there's AI involved. That would be their justification.

 

[jayducharme]

The change from 10 (the X in FCPX) to 11 does seem to indicate that there won't be a free upgrade. But we'll have to wait and see.

 

[muddygun]

I am fine with an upgrade price, but no subscription is what makes FCPX and Motion stand out in the industry. Would love to see a big update on Motion. Very excited for this update....although in Apple fashion, should probably tame my expectations

 

[andrewxgx]

can they also anounce they bring back Aperture with Pixelmator team? pretty please?

 

[FasterQuieter]

It will be very depressing if this is a subscription. Especially if you only just paid $299.

 

[WestonHarvey1]

I thought the entire industry stopped using Final Cut in 2011

 

[guzhogi]

Hope it‘s not a subscription…

We'll see. If not, I wonder if it'll be a free upgrade for those who have v10.X, or a paid upgrade? Haven't really checked in a while so not sure if it's done already, but I would love for Apple to allow upgrade pricing on apps. Instead of having MyApp v1, a separate MyApp v2 and so on, and having to pay full price for each one, have a single MyApp. It'll see that you already have v1, so v2 could be x% off or do $X for full purchase, and $Y for upgrade.

 

[stiligFox]

If there’s a new, paid, version, I’ll be pretty annoyed as my Mac mini M4 just arrived today and I paid extra to have the Pro apps bundle added…

 

[guzhogi]

can they also anounce they bring back Aperture with Pixelmator team? pretty please?

Somewhat unrelated, but I've seen comments a while ago that people really wished Apple would bring back the Dark Skies features in the weather app. Hoping they do better with the Pixelmator team.

 

[ipedro]

can they also anounce they bring back Aperture with Pixelmator team? pretty please?

That’s at least a year away. The Pixelmator acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and then Apple is going to want to integrate it into its strategy, probably with Photomator features in the Photos app and a new Apple Creative Pro app built from Pixelmator.

 

[Orange Bat]

I very much doubt Apple will make people pay for an update nor move to subscription. Doing so would just push people to move to DaVinci Resolve and Apple won’t want to risk losing Final Cut users.

 

[DrRadon]

I just dropped 400 CDN on a copy. I might be a bit concerned. I hope it at least supports Live Multicam with Final Cut camera like the iPad version. I don't need an iPad with all the computers here.

That would be nice. iMac (stacked out but intel) receiving from iPhone and iPad would be a nice setup free of headaches.

 

[Kylo83]

how do they know its today

 

[Charliebird]

The final Final Cut.

 

[reygza]

Hope it‘s not a subscription…

Logic Pro for Mac didn't go sub so I expect the same for FCP. I wish Apple would consider selling a perpetual license to FCP iPad to users who already own the macOS version.

 

[canyonblue737]

how do they know its today

Today is the keynote address of the annual Final Cut Pro users conference at which Apple typically announces new revisions to the software. This change has been rumored for a long time (to 11) and was hinted at in the launch video for the iMac and Mac mini just weeks ago.

 

[iamgalt]

how do they know its today

Read the second sentence of the article. They’re speculating based on event schedules.