Ultimate Reduce Professional 11 begins a brand new chapter for video enhancing on Mac

November 13, 2024

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Ultimate Reduce Professional 11 begins a brand new chapter for video enhancing on Mac

Clever new options, timesaving instruments, and new inventive choices come to Ultimate Reduce Professional throughout Mac, iPad, and iPhone, plus enhancing for spatial video

As we speak, Apple unveiled Final Cut Pro 11 — supercharged with clever new options — together with highly effective updates to Ultimate Reduce Professional for iPad, Ultimate Reduce Digital camera, and Logic Professional. Providing new instruments like Magnetic Masks and the extremely anticipated Transcribe to Captions, Ultimate Reduce Professional 11 for Mac¹ additionally helps the import, edit, and supply of spatial video tasks on to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.²

Ultimate Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1 advances the touch-first enhancing expertise with help for Improve Mild and Shade; new Reside Drawing inks; haptic suggestions; much more built-in content material, together with color-grading presets and dynamic soundtracks; and different significant workflow enhancements.³ Ultimate Reduce Digital camera 1.1, the intuitive professional recording app for iPhone, provides help for 4K120 fps recording on iPhone 16 Professional, the power to use a preview lookup desk (LUT) whereas recording, and seize of Log-encoded HEVC video for smaller file sizes.⁴ And to supercharge songwriting, beat-making, producing, and mixing, Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 and Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 add help for a brand new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in.

The brand new variations of Ultimate Reduce Professional for Mac and iPad, Ultimate Reduce Digital camera, and Logic Professional for Mac and iPad can be found immediately on the App Retailer.

“Our inventive apps give artists, producers, administrators, and editors world wide the instruments they should categorical themselves and understand their creative imaginative and prescient,” mentioned Brent Chiu-Watson, Apple’s senior director of Worldwide Product Advertising and marketing for Apps. “With the ability of Apple silicon and state-of-the-art machine studying capabilities, Ultimate Reduce Professional and Logic Professional are quicker and extra clever than ever. These newest updates give inventive professionals extra stylistic interpretations to discover — whether or not that’s with fine-tuned masking for coloration grading or wonderful sound processing — and higher versatility and effectivity of their workflows.”

Ultimate Reduce Professional 11

Ultimate Reduce Professional 11 takes full benefit of Apple’s M-series chips, introducing the highly effective and intuitive Magnetic Masks; Transcribe to Captions,⁵ a extremely requested function that gives quick and correct closed captions; spatial video enhancing; and a spread of timesaving instruments and workflow optimizations.

AI-Powered Options

In Ultimate Reduce Professional 11, editors can entry two all-new AI-powered instruments: Magnetic Masks and Transcribe to Captions. With Magnetic Masks, editors can effortlessly isolate individuals and objects in a video clip with out the necessity for a inexperienced display screen or extra time-consuming rotoscoping. This highly effective and exact computerized evaluation supplies further flexibility to customise backgrounds and environments. Editors may also mix Magnetic Masks with coloration correction and video results, permitting them to exactly management and stylize every undertaking. And with Transcribe to Captions, closed captions may be routinely generated within the timeline utilizing an Apple-trained massive language mannequin that transcribes spoken audio.

Magnetic Masks and Transcribe to Captions be part of present AI-powered options made potential by Apple’s Neural Engine, together with:

Good Conform to simply make social media-friendly variations of tasks in sq. or vertical codecs.

Improve Mild and Shade to routinely enhance the colour, coloration steadiness, distinction, and brightness of video or nonetheless photographs.

Clean Slo-Mo to generate and mix collectively frames of video — together with footage captured on iPhone 16 Professional in 4K120 fps — for the highest-quality motion.

Voice Isolation to reinforce speech and optimize sound ranges whereas decreasing background noise from audio captured within the discipline.

Spatial Video Enhancing for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional

Spatial video permits customers to seize life’s valuable moments and relive them on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Ultimate Reduce Professional 11 now helps spatial video enhancing, permitting editors to import their footage and add results,⁶ make coloration corrections, and improve their tasks with titles. The depth place of titles and captured footage may also be adjusted throughout the enhancing course of. Spatial video clips may be captured straight with Imaginative and prescient Professional, or on iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Professional, and Canon’s new RF-S7.8mm F4 STM DUAL lens paired with Canon EOS R7.⁷

Customers can select from varied viewing modes to preview the left- and right-eye angles on their Mac show. And with Mac Digital Show,⁸ they’ll carry their edit into Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, creating an infinite, personal, and transportable show that’s supreme for complicated workflows. Later this yr, customers will be capable of broaden Mac Digital Show to a brand new panoramic dimension, creating a large 32:9 ultra-wide curved show that’s equal to having two 5K displays facet by facet. Spatial movies may be exported on to a person’s Images library, seen instantly on Imaginative and prescient Professional, or shared with others by importing them to the native visionOS Vimeo app.

Timesaving Options, Blazing Speeds, and Professional Inventive Instruments

Ultimate Reduce Professional options superior enhancing instruments to assist streamline inventive workflows even additional and save time:

Magnetic Timeline, a trackless method to enhancing footage, affords a fluid technique to trim and edit a undertaking. Editors can add and rearrange clips seamlessly, making changes whereas conserving video and audio completely in sync.

With multicam enhancing, customers can immediately sync a number of angles of a undertaking and change between photographs throughout playback. And new keyboard shortcut choices permit customers to regulate the view of their timeline and reposition clips.

Optimizations for Apple silicon permit editors to play again extra streams of 4K and 8K ProRes video at full high quality, add playback results, and share their work with others at blazing speeds.

Editors can create a light-weight copy of their library with enhanced proxy instruments, reducing file sizes to make switch occasions even shorter.

Utilizing Compressor, editors can create customized export settings to ship their work in a variety of file codecs, and import earlier stereoscopic footage to reformat and pair with spatial video footage for an built-in enhancing expertise.

Utilizing Movement, customers can create beautiful 2D and 3D titles, turbines, and superior visible results which are accessible inside Ultimate Reduce Professional.

Ultimate Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1

Ultimate Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1 brings beloved options to the touch-first enhancing expertise. Powered by Apple silicon, Improve Mild and Shade is an clever approach to enhance coloration, coloration steadiness, distinction, and brightness in video or nonetheless photographs in a single easy step, and is optimized for SDR, HDR, RAW, and Log-encoded media. With haptic suggestions for Apple Pencil Professional and Magic Keyboard, customers will really feel a lightweight pulse as they trim clips, transfer media, navigate the timeline, and resize viewer clips to snapping factors.

Different significant workflow enhancements embody a brand new vertical pinch gesture that may broaden or reduce clip peak within the timeline; the power to dynamically regulate the scale and place of the viewer in Image in Image mode; and timeline help for recordings at 90 fps, 100 fps, and 120 fps on iPhone 16 Professional.

New inks for the Reside Drawing function on iPad let customers add much more animations to movies with expressive new watercolor, crayon, fountain pen, and monoline pen choices. And the content material library expands with new modular transitions, color-grading presets, and dynamic soundtracks, together with the power to simply spotlight and overlay visuals with Image in Image and Callout results.

Ultimate Reduce Digital camera

Ultimate Reduce Digital camera 1.1 brings intuitive professional controls for aspiring {and professional} administrators. The replace affords customers the power to seize Log-encoded HEVC video in standalone or Reside Multicam periods, so customers can benefit from the wonderful dynamic vary of Log whereas benefitting from lowered file sizes and much more recording time. Ultimate Reduce Digital camera additionally permits customers to allow a LUT preview whereas recording in Log, showcasing the vibrancy of the unique scene in SDR or HDR with the Apple Log LUT. With iPhone 16 Professional, customers can document stunning and crisp 4K120 fps footage for even smoother cinematic gradual movement, import it into Ultimate Reduce Professional for iPad, and start their edit.

A brand new superior degree helps customers exactly compose photographs with roll and tilt indicators, and for top-down photographs, Ultimate Reduce Digital camera introduces a crosshairs indicator.

Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 and Logic Professional for iPad 2.1

Logic Professional for Mac⁹ and iPad¹⁰ supercharge songwriting, beat-making, producing, and mixing, and are a superb companion for Ultimate Reduce Professional editors. As we speak, that have will get even higher with the brand new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in, which permits customers to faucet into the legendary sound of probably the most acoustically correct reverb ever created, constructed utilizing the unique schematics, algorithms, and code from Quantec founder and inventor Wolfgang Buchleitner. Customers can choose the classic Quantec QRS so as to add pure acoustic area to music whereas preserving sonic character, or the trendy Quantec Yardstick for improved readability and element. The Quantec QRS know-how is a good software for video editors who need to add natural-sounding areas to dialog, foley, and music.

“The Quantec Room Simulator has been a key ingredient to my sound for a few years, showing on data like Ardour and Us. I additionally used it to construct harmonic drones to begin my dwell set, which then advanced into songs like ‘Throughout the River,’” mentioned musician Peter Gabriel. “It’s great that Apple is bringing the Quantec QRS again to life as a plug-in for Logic customers world wide.”

With Reorder Mixer Channels, customers can rearrange channel strips by dragging them, and may even choose a number of channel strips to reorder them collectively. To make it simpler to seek out and add any plug-in straight utilizing a keyboard command, Logic Professional for Mac customers can now search by class, firm title, and even a part of a plug-in title. Logic Professional for iPad additionally introduces Pattern Folders, giving customers entry to their private assortment of samples straight from the built-in Sound Browser proper from iPad, exterior storage, and iCloud Drive.

Pricing and Availability

Ultimate Reduce Professional 11 is on the market immediately as a free replace for present customers and for $299.99 (U.S.) for brand spanking new customers on the Mac App Retailer. New customers can obtain a free 90-day trial of Ultimate Reduce Professional.

Ultimate Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1 is on the market immediately as a free replace for present customers, and out there on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days or $49 (U.S.) per yr, with a one-month free trial for brand spanking new customers.

Ultimate Reduce Digital camera 1.1 is on the market immediately as a free standalone app on the App Retailer.

Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 is on the market immediately as a free replace for present customers and for $199.99 (U.S.) for brand spanking new customers on the Mac App Retailer. Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 requires macOS 14.4 or later. For extra data, go to apple.com/logic-pro.

Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 is on the market immediately as a free replace for present customers, and out there on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days or $49 (U.S.) per yr, with a one-month free trial for brand spanking new customers. Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 requires iPadOS 18.1 or later. For extra data, go to apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.

Ultimate Reduce Professional 11 requires macOS 14.6 or later, 8GB of RAM (16GB beneficial), and 5.9GB of accessible disk area; some options require a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia.
Spatial video edited in Ultimate Reduce Professional may be exported and saved on to Images to be seen later in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
Ultimate Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1 requires iPad with Apple M1 chip or later, or iPad mini (A17 Professional) with iPadOS 17.6 or later.
Ultimate Reduce Digital camera requires iPhone or iPad with iOS 17.6 or iPadOS 17.6 and later.
Transcribe to Captions requires macOS Sequoia.
Some results is probably not appropriate with spatial video.
Requires processing with Canon’s EOS VR Utility v1.5.
Mac Digital Show 5K requires a Mac pc and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional with software program launch coming later this yr.
Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 requires macOS Sonoma 14.4 or later, and 6GB of accessible space for storing for minimal set up, or 72GB of space for storing for full Sound Library set up.
Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 requires iPadOS 18.1 or later, and an iPad with Apple A12 Bionic chip or later. Stem Splitter requires an iPad with M1 or Apple A17 Professional chip or later.

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