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Creativity On the Go: Apple Unveils Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad
By Shubhendu Vatsa - News Published:
In a bid to enable iPad users to make the most out of their devices, Apple is finally bringing two of its top-rated creative apps to its ultra-powered tablets. The Cupertino giant recently revealed that both its video-editing app, Final Cut Pro, and its music and audio creation software, Logic Pro, will be available for a monthly or yearly subscription fee on iPad starting from May 23. Instead of simply porting the apps over, the iPhone manufacturer has made some subtle yet significant changes to both applications to better go with their touch-enabled tablets.
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Final Cut Pro for iPad | Image: Apple
Both these iPad apps are slated to come with a touch-friendly UI and other iPad-centric enhancements and will have support for Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard. Final Cut Pro for the iPad will get a new jog wheel to make the entire editing process “easier than ever.” The jog wheel will let you navigate the magnetic timeline, move clips, and make “fast frame-accurate edits” with just the touch of your fingers and multi-touch gestures.
Apple has even introduced a brand new feature called Live Drawing that takes full advantage of the Apple Pencil, letting users draw and write right on top of video content. If you own an M2-powered iPad Pro, you will be able to use the Apple Pencil’s hover feature to “quickly skim and preview footage” without even having to touch the screen.
In addition to this, users will even be able to “speed up their workflow” by adding a Magic Keyboard or Smart Keyboard Folio and using the key commands directly. To expedite/accelerate time-taking editing tasks, Final Cut Pro for iPad will leverage the power of Apple silicon and machine learning, making those long drawn-out edits a breeze. There’s also a Scene Removal Mask feature, using which creators can effortlessly “remove or replace the background behind a subject in a clip without using a green screen.”
Logic Pro for iPad | Image: Apple
On the other hand, Logic Pro gets some much-needed iPad-focused improvements too. One of them is multi-touch gestures using which you can play software instruments, interact with controls with your fingertips and even “navigate complex projects with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-scroll.” The built-in mics on iPad enable users to easily record their voice or instruments, and “with five studio-quality mics on iPad Pro, users can turn virtually any space into a recording studio.”
There’s also a brand new sound browser that uses “dynamic filtering” to help you discover different types of sounds and shows you all available instrument patches, audio patches, plug‑in presets, samples and loops in one single location. Apple will even introduce a new pitch-morphing plug-in for Logic Pro called Beat Breaker, which lets you swipe and pinch to “reshape and shuffle sounds.”
With Apple Pencil support, you can easily “draw detailed track automation” or make super accurate edits. You can even hook up your Smart Keyboard Folio or Magic Keyboard to utilize keyboard commands. There’s even the freedom to transfer any projects in Logic Pro between the app on Mac and iPad or export your tracks into Final Cut Pro for iPad.
Logic Pro for iPad | Image: Apple
During the big announcement, Bob Borchers, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said, “We’re excited to introduce Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, allowing creators to unleash their creativity in new ways and in even more places. With a powerful set of intuitive tools designed for the portability, performance and touch-first interface of iPad, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro deliver the ultimate mobile studio.”
The minimum specs required for running these apps are pretty high, which isn’t surprising considering the super hardcore nature of these media software. Logic Pro will work with any A12-equipped iPad or above, while you’ll need at least an M1-powered iPad to run the Final Cut Pro. Moreover, Apple is even shifting to a subscription-based model with these new softwares instead of the familiar one-time purchases on the Macs. F
From May 24, both Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad will be available on the Apple App Store and interested users will have to buy the subscriptions by either shelling out AUD $7.99 per month or AUD $59 per year. As a complimentary launch bonus, a one-month free trial will be offered.
Final Cut Pro for iPad | Image: Apple
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