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Apple Updates Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro With These New Features

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Apple today updated its Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro apps, and there are many new features in both the one-time purchase and Apple Creator Studio versions.

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Here is what is new in all versions of Final Cut Pro on the Mac, regardless of whether you have an active Apple Creator Studio subscription:
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*
• Discover Visual Search, a fast and easy way to locate moments in your footage, including objects and actions, using natural language*
• 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

• 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
• Accelerate your next edit with in-app guides on how to create a new library, import media, and add clips to a new timeline

* Requires a Mac with Apple silicon
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Here is what is new in Final Cut Pro on the iPad, which is now only available with an Apple Creator Studio subscription for new customers:
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
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Here is what is new in all versions of Logic Pro on the Mac, regardless of whether you have an active Apple Creator Studio subscription:
AI Session Players

• Transform your tracks with the all-new Synth Player, and create keyboard and bass performances with intuitive controls
• Generate dynamic synth performances that play notes and manipulate instruments
• Use Simple Pad to add lush harmonic layers to your song, or add movement and dynamics with Modulated Pad and Rhythmic Chords
• Explore popular synth bass styles including 808 Bass, Pump Bass, and Sequenced Bass to dial in the low end
• Use Chord ID to identify chords from any part of your song and Session Players will automatically follow along

Sound Library

• Explore a free, expanding collection of premium sound packs with the brand new Sound Library
• Listen to audio previews of any sound packs and install your favorites
• Free up storage space by easily deleting packs you are no longer using
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Here is what is new in Logic Pro on the iPad, which is now only available with an Apple Creator Studio subscription for new customers:
AI Session Players

• Transform your tracks with the all-new Synth Player, and create keyboard and bass performances with intuitive controls
• Generate dynamic synth performances that play notes and manipulate instruments
• Use Simple Pad to add lush harmonic layers to your song, or add movement and dynamics with Modulated Pad and Rhythmic Chords
• Explore popular synth bass styles including 808 Bass, Pump Bass, and Sequenced Bass to dial in the low end
• Use Chord ID to identify chords from any part of your song and Session Players will automatically follow along

Quick Swipe Comping

• Assemble the perfect performance by selecting the best moments from several takes
• Organize takes using Take Folders and quickly compare different comps
• Use Apple Pencil for even more precision when editing and selecting your best takes

Music Understanding

• Quickly and intuitively search for loops in the Browser using natural language phrases, like “dreamy electric piano”
• Pick a loop, and the Browser uses machine learning to help you quickly discover similar loops from the Sound Library
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If you were already subscribed to Final Cut Pro and/or Logic Pro on the iPad for $4.99 per month, you can continue to pay that price for access to the Apple Creator Studio versions of the apps on the iPad. If you want all of the other Mac and iPad apps that are included in Apple Creator Studio, you must pay the full $12.99 per month.

On the Mac, Final Cut Pro companion apps Motion and Compressor and Logic Pro companion app MainStage were all updated today with the same set of new features across both the one-time purchase and Apple Creator Studio versions of the apps.

Two other Apple apps updated today are iMovie on the Mac, and Final Cut Camera on the iPhone. Those apps are not part of Apple Creator Studio.

Editor's Note: Confusing, we know.

Article Link: Apple Updates Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro With These New Features
 
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“Powerful Intelligence” only available through subscription ( ie….rental) and using iOS 26
(ie…perpetual dumpster fire beta)
 
I don’t get it. What are the Final Cut Pro (Mac) features I only get by subscription to creator studio?
 
TheBeverage said:
I love Logic, but the absolute last thing I want in my music is AI “players”.
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Genuinely asking here, because I am no fan of AI generated music at all and think it is a total waste of time…
But how is this really any different than the “Session players” that have existed in logic and GarageBand for 15 years now?
To me this doesn’t really seem that different, it just has the word AI attached now because… Of course it does.
You have always been able to use loops, session players and things like “drummer” to quickly throw something together without actually playing instruments or drums.
To me this actually seems quite useful and not the type of generative AI music making you see on YouTube and such where it’s just “make song that sounds like The Beatles”.
If I’m understanding this correctly, you still at least have to have a basic knowledge of the music you are trying to make to get these new session players to actually do anything useful, and as someone said above, it’s probably extremely useful for quickly making demos.
It’s no different than Rihanna’s “Umbrella” being almost entirely made with GarageBand loops 20 years ago, or the intro to Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” literally just being a demo sample from a new synthesizer at the time they thought just sounded cool so stuck it on the front of the song.
 
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I bought standalone versions of fcp and lp long ago and studio features ARE available for me. I don’t have studio bundle
 
MacRumors said:


Apple today updated its Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro apps, and there are many new features in both the one-time purchase and Apple Creator Studio versions.

Final-Cut-Pro-2026.jpg

Here is what is new in all versions of Final Cut Pro on the Mac, regardless of whether you have an active Apple Creator Studio subscription:Here is what is new in Final Cut Pro on the iPad, which is now only available with an Apple Creator Studio subscription for new customers:Here is what is new in all versions of Logic Pro on the Mac, regardless of whether you have an active Apple Creator Studio subscription:Here is what is new in Logic Pro on the iPad, which is now only available with an Apple Creator Studio subscription for new customers:If you were already subscribed to Final Cut Pro and/or Logic Pro on the iPad for $4.99 per month, you can continue to pay that price for access to the Apple Creator Studio versions of the apps on the iPad. If you want all of the other Mac and iPad apps that are included in Apple Creator Studio, you must pay the full $12.99 per month.

On the Mac, Final Cut Pro companion apps Motion and Compressor and Logic Pro companion app MainStage were all updated today with the same set of new features across both the one-time purchase and Apple Creator Studio versions of the apps.

Two other Apple apps updated today are iMovie on the Mac, and Final Cut Camera on the iPhone. Those apps are not part of Apple Creator Studio.

Editor's Note: Confusing, we know.

Article Link: Apple Updates Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro With These New Features
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Logic 12 is def not a "major version" release. More like 11.5. the bug fixes are great but this is just marketing at this point.
 
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Logic Pro:
No ARA integration, no analog console simulation (studio one has some good rendering of these), midi automation still not working properly when rendering tracks. I see no reason to upgrade to subscription plan, although pricing is not that bad.
 
TheBeverage said:
I love Logic, but the absolute last thing I want in my music is AI “players”.
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I'll bite. Do you use loops from the library? Are those not just static versions of the AI players? At least with the AI session players you have *some* degree of control over the contents of your loops and how they are played, if you are unable or unwilling to play or program them yourself. I suspect the primary use case for these tools is for putting together a quick score to accompany something you're editing in FCP. For people who are actually producers or musicians, I don't think these are meant to replace people actually playing their instruments. It's a tool, you can choose to use it or not.
 
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With some of those features dos it make more sense to store your videos in Final Cut as a viewer and not just an editor?

I just have my family videos but I feel like they get lost in Apple photos app and currently I just have them in finder which doesn’t really promote/encourage me to view them and they just get lost..
 
Good to know. Disappointing that some features are available only on a subscription basis. Would have been great if one time payment option also provides these features.
 
Next up, animated titles to catch up with the rest of the industry. Hopefully it won't take an entire year.
 
svish said:
Good to know. Disappointing that some features are available only on a subscription basis. Would have been great if one time payment option also provides these features.
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My understanding is that for these apps in particular, nothing is exclusive to the subscription.
 
TheBeverage said:
I love Logic, but the absolute last thing I want in my music is AI “players”.
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They've been in Logic for a while, as you may know. (But not nearly as long as automatic accompaniment in 20th-century electronic keyboards. Evidently they were among the first things some people wanted.)
 
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amancalledsun said:
I notice that they haven't updated the icons (at least on Mac) to that horrid pizza cutter wheel. First image is what shows after update on my Mac. Second it the Marketing Artwork for Creator Studio.

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Now there are 2 seperate apps for each program. i love feel and consistency of new icons so I’m not happy they didn’t update icons in original apps
 
Pomidorowameba said:
Now there are 2 seperate apps for each program. i love feel and consistency of new icons so I’m not happy they didn’t update icons in original apps
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Ew. You're right, and it's even worse than I thought. They actually changed the name too for Creator Studio.

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