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Final Cut Pro to Gain 'Transcribe to Caption' AI Feature

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In today's Mac mini announcement video, Apple showed off some new capabilities that are coming to the Final Cut Pro video editing software in the future.

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Final Cut Pro will soon incorporate AI for generating captions for videos without having to use additional software. Current versions of Final Cut Pro allow you to import captions from another app, use a plug-in, or write them yourself, but soon the software will generate them natively.

The mention of the Final Cut Pro capability is at about 3:50 in the announcement video below.


Apple didn't highlight any other features coming to Final Cut Pro, but there was a short clip of the caption option that also suggests that a new "Magnetic Mask" function is coming, as well as a mention of AI effects.

The 2024 FCP Creative Summit is set to take place in November, and it's likely that we'll hear about new AI features coming to Final Cut Pro at the event.

Article Link: Final Cut Pro to Gain 'Transcribe to Caption' AI Feature
 
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Captions are nice, but they need some form of text based editing if they want to remain competitive with Resolve, Premiere and AI specific tools like DeScript. Text based editing is a game changer for making video editing more accessible and speeds things up even for experienced editors. I have hardly touched Final Cut in the past year because the transcription based editing in Resolve is such a time saver.
 
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Good to see it's catching up to Premier Pro. But the choice still heavily leans towards Adobe for most users.
 
dadiy said:
I wish they would use AI for extending music tracks. They would be far more useful.
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I just want an assistant that can do things like “hey make my copies of this transition all this length or change this colour on all of them”.

Edited something the other day then changed a colour and had to go along to each time I’d pasted it and make the same change.
 
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This is loooooooong overdue. I have switched to capcut.
Fcpx didn’t have enough caption style customization baked in as well
And I doubt Apple’s model is good enough. Their siri’s voice to text sucks.

Also they need multi lingual support and translation baked into the transcript.

Apple’s stance in AI is to not tamper with creativity. But AI features save so much time. If Apple insists, they are just going to lose their customers to 3rd party softwares
 
This is a great use of AI! This will save small-time videographers lots of time on their projects while making their videos more accessible.

I'm also glad Apple is flexing their ML capabilities some more. Looking forward to see what else they come up with.
 
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Hopefully this is independent of OpenAI's transcription process which has been getting some VERY BAD research outcomes re: accuracy/hallucinations.
 
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Spock said:
Does anyone use Final Cut aka iMovie Pro anymore?
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Final Cut is still my preferred editor for working in, though Premiere and Resolve have added some impressive features.

As for Final Cut Lite (iMovie), it's fun to periodically check it out so that I can support friends and family who don't have those applications or want the learning curve.
 
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That couched announcement blew my mind – the one "Intelligence" feature I'm ready to embrace. (And it wasn't even branded as such.)
 
Choosing the next clip to transition to can take an age when you have hours of footage to look through.

I would quite like an additional spoken interface : "Display all the clips when I am panning vertically down a model on my left screen; create a temporary In Point starting that the hips and an Out Point after 1 second; Only show clips that are not already used in the timeline; Display them in a grid all playing at 1/4 real time speed on a loop so that I can decide which clip I want to cut to"
 
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Honestly, Apple has the potential to make FCPX incredible, but it still really feels like iMovie Pro and has had no substantial development over the last decade.

They could, for example, build all of the features of Motion directly into FCPX, so you would be able to do it all in one platform - like DaVinci Resolve has done with Fusion. Instead, we get a bunch of clunky tools that are sufficient for YouTube videos, but not for anything professional.

They could have really impressive speed controls of footage, and use AI tools to help smooth clips out without them going mushy or like jello - especially with ramping.

They could build their own customizable Lens Flare tools or Rotoscoping tools. But they don't. Honestly, those types of powerful tools built directly into FCPX without the need for 3rd parties would justify the purchase of an M4 Mac.

What is the point of paying such a premium for a high-end mac when apple no longer has exclusive software to take advantage of it? A mid-range PC can do more with video in DaVinci or Premiere than the highest-spec Mac can do with FCP and Motion. It's not the hardware that is the bottleneck, it's the software.
 
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