Final Cut Pro - NFHN Reader

Reel intelligence.

Final Cut Pro makes it easy to create polished, pro-quality videos across Mac and iPad. It’s packed with powerful intelligence features, helping you turn every frame into something unforgettable.

Search visual moments. With Visual Search, locating clips is effortless. Just type what you’re looking for and it pinpoints objects and actions in seconds.⁴

Grab the perfect sound bite. No more sifting through hours of footage. Transcript Search analyzes speech to instantly find spoken phrases, whether by exact match or by related words.⁵

Connect up to four iPhone or iPad devices, control their settings remotely, and automatically sync all your footage. Easily record music videos, podcasts, and interviews.

Capture professional‑level footage on your iPhone or iPad with powerful manual controls including ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and more.⁷

Make frame-accurate edits with just a tap of your finger. Or spin the lightning-fast jog wheel to zip through footage and fine-tune your clips.

Apply precise edits using Apple Pencil.⁸ And with Apple Pencil Pro,⁹ you can squeeze to open the tool palette and use barrel roll to rotate your brush tip in Live Drawing.

Draw, highlight, and write directly on footage with touch or Apple Pencil to create unique, animated titles and illustrations.

Montage Maker automatically selects the best visual highlights from your footage and cuts them to the beat of any song. Then you can fine-tune the pacing, make a few tweaks, and share away.

Export your iPad project to Mac to access features like advanced color grading, Magnetic Mask, and more.

Final Cut Camera lets you capture in ProRes RAW for maximum flexibility in shaping your video’s look and extending detail in highlights and shadows. ProRes RAW delivers RAW quality with faster rendering and export.

The industry-leading Liquid Retina XDR and Ultra Retina XDR displays provide amazing brightness, contrast, and colors — perfect for HDR editing, grading, and delivery with Final Cut Pro.

Easily import your iMovie project into Final Cut Pro and start exploring all of its advanced features.

Questions? Answers.

Apple Creator Studio is an all-in-one subscription to a suite of creative apps with powerful AI features that build on Apple Intelligence. Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor give you smarter, faster ways to craft and cut videos. Pixelmator Pro lets you easily edit images and create striking graphics. Logic Pro and MainStage help you produce, perform, and perfect your music. And while Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform remain free for everyone, an Apple Creator Studio subscription offers premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features.
On your Mac or iPad, you can download Apple Creator Studio, which includes Final Cut Pro (Mac and iPad), Motion (Mac only), and Compressor (Mac only), from the App Store. You can also get Final Cut Pro, Motion, and Compressor as one-time-purchase Mac apps on the App Store.
Final Cut Pro is included in your subscription to Apple Creator Studio, which also includes Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage. In addition, Apple Creator Studio comes with enhanced versions of Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform that include premium templates, a library of high-quality, royalty-free photos and graphics, and powerful intelligence features.

You can try Apple Creator Studio free for 30 days. After your free trial, new subscribers pay $12.99 per month or $129 per year. Educator and student subscriptions are $2.99 per month or $29.99 per year. Final Cut Pro is also available as a one-time purchase for $299.99.
A subscription to Apple Creator Studio bundles Apple’s powerful creative apps for one low monthly payment.

A one-time purchase will still be available, but access to some of the premium content is available only to Apple Creator Studio subscribers. If you already own Final Cut Pro, it will continue to be updated.
No, Final Cut Pro is a full-featured video editing application with all the power professionals need, yet it’s intuitive enough for editors who are just beginning their creative journeys.
Yes. You can import an iMovie project that you created on your Mac, iPad, or iPhone to Final Cut Pro and use the full range of powerful tools.
For the optimal experience, full functionality is available with macOS 26, iPadOS 26, and iOS 26. Apple Creator Studio requires an Apple Account and an internet connection to subscribe. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.

Final Cut Pro for Mac requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), a Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), and 7.2GB of available disk space. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.

Final Cut Pro for iPad requires iPadOS 18.6 or later and an iPad with Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16), or iPad mini (A17 Pro).

Motion requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), a Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only), and 5.2GB of available disk space.

Compressor requires macOS 15.6 or later, 8GB of memory, and 1.2GB of available disk space. Apple Immersive Video processing requires 32GB of memory (64GB recommended). Storage read speed of 2GB/s or faster is recommended. Some features require a Mac with Apple silicon.