Apple today announced that it is officially bringing its video and music creation tools to iPad. Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro will both be available on May 23, the former on iPads with M1 or M2 chipsets, the latter on devices powered by the A12 Bionic chips and later.
They’ll each cost $4.99 a month, or $49 a year via an App Store subscription, with a one-month free trial.
For Final Cut Pro, a new jog wheel simplifies editing and lets you interact with your content in new ways. Live Drawing lets you draw and write directly over video content with Apple Pencil, and on iPads with M2, Pencil hover lets you quickly scroll and preview footage without touching the screen.
You can view and edit HDR video on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and apply color grading accurately using Reference Mode. With Pro camera mode you can shoot high-quality video in portrait or landscape orientation, monitor audio and manually control focus, exposure and white balance, so you can capture, edit and publish from a single field device, if you feel like recording video with an iPad is practical in every way, that is. If your iPad is powered by the M2 chip, you can even record in ProRes. Multicam video editing automatically syncs and edits clips together and lets you change angles with a single tap.
Scene Removal Masking lets you remove or replace the background behind a subject in a clip, Auto Crop adjusts vertical, square, and other aspect ratios, and Voice Isolation removes background noise. Of course, you also get a huge library of graphics, effects and audio, including “stunning” HDR backgrounds, customizable animated templates and professional soundtracks that adjust to the length of the video.
Unsurprisingly, Logic Pro gets multi-touch gestures, letting you play software instruments and interact naturally with the controls, as well as navigate projects with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-scroll. You can capture vocal or instrument recordings with your iPad’s built-in microphones and make precision edits with Apple Pencil.
The Sound Browser stores all available instrument patches, audio patches, plug-in presets, samples and loops in one place, with dynamic filtering and the ability to audition any sound before loading it into a project. You get over 100 instrument and effect plug-ins, and you can cut and flip samples, program beats and bass lines, as well as create your own drum kits.
The comprehensive mixer gives you everything you need to create a professional mix entirely on your iPad, and with multitouch you can move multiple faders at the same time.
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