Apple Launches Final Cut Pro 11 With Big AI Features

After 10 years of Final Cut Pro X, Apple finally launched Final Cut Pro 11, filled with AI masking, auto-generated captions, and more.

Apple’s Final Cut Pro is a single-solution tool for some of the greatest video editors in the world. From low-budgeted movies to high-budgeted animation series, Apple Final Cut Pro has been an essential part of the video editing teams. After retaining the X version for over a decade, Apple launches Final Cut Pro 11, adding impressively huge AI features that take video editing to another level of excellence.

The update includes new AI masking tools, direct caption generation capabilities to a timeline, spatial video features, and multiple workflow improvements. The new Final Cut Pro 11 version is available for free to all existing Final Cut Pro users. For new customers, the updated version comes at a one-time purchase price of $299. 

These updates have already arrived on computer devices but will take a day or two to arrive on iPads and Final Cut-compatible Cameras. One of the newly added features to the desktop version is Magnetic Mask. It has made object isolation, background removal, and color correction on specific objects a single-click job. The efficiency and accuracy of isolation cuts are at par with the best editor skills. 

Aggressive fast footage still required manual intervention after testing the magnetic mask feature in various scenarios. But the fine-tuning sees to be minimal as compared to the significant reduction in production timelines. The new version eliminates the hard labor of manually rotoscoping in After Effects.

The autogenerated captions are a good addition but need a few updates before being useful to the professionals. In some instances, the autogenerated captions made minor grammar mistakes, mispronounced rare words, and ignored slang words. There are currently no options for stylizing captions to match the footage’s vibe. But the tool allows good third-party pug-ins, which can help till an update makes the feature in-house.

Apple Final Cut Pro 11 is set to join the ranks of the best video editing software as it launches AI-enhancement capabilities to color and light. Though the feature was already released in Final Cut Pro 10.8 for Mac desktops, the new version has a much cleaner impact.