November 13, 2024
UPDATE
Closing Lower Professional 11 begins a brand new chapter for video modifying on Mac
Clever new options, timesaving instruments, and new inventive choices come to Closing Lower Professional throughout Mac, iPad, and iPhone, plus modifying for spatial video
As we speak, Apple unveiled Closing Lower Professional 11 — supercharged with clever new options — together with highly effective updates to Closing Lower Professional for iPad, Closing Lower Digicam, and Logic Professional. Providing new instruments like Magnetic Masks and the extremely anticipated Transcribe to Captions, Closing Lower Professional 11 for Mac1 additionally helps the import, edit, and supply of spatial video initiatives on to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.2
Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2.1 advances the touch-first modifying expertise with assist for Improve Gentle and Shade; new Stay Drawing inks; haptic suggestions; much more built-in content material, together with color-grading presets and dynamic soundtracks; and different significant workflow enhancements.3 Closing Lower Digicam 1.1, the intuitive professional recording app for iPhone, provides assist 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 assist for a brand new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in.
The brand new variations of Closing Lower Professional for Mac and iPad, Closing Lower Digicam, 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,” stated Brent Chiu-Watson, Apple’s senior director of Worldwide Product Advertising for Apps. “With the ability of Apple silicon and state-of-the-art machine studying capabilities, Closing Lower Professional and Logic Professional are sooner 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 colour grading or superb sound processing — and higher versatility and effectivity of their workflows.”
Closing Lower Professional 11
Closing Lower 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 characteristic that gives quick and correct closed captions; spatial video modifying; and a variety of timesaving instruments and workflow optimizations.
AI-Powered Options
In Closing Lower Professional 11, editors can entry two all-new AI-powered instruments: Magnetic Masks and Transcribe to Captions. With Magnetic Masks, editors can effortlessly isolate folks and objects in a video clip with out the necessity for a inexperienced display or extra time-consuming rotoscoping. This highly effective and exact automated evaluation offers further flexibility to customise backgrounds and environments. Editors also can mix Magnetic Masks with colour 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 a part of current AI-powered options made doable by Apple’s Neural Engine, together with:
- Sensible Conform to simply make social media-friendly variations of initiatives in sq. or vertical codecs.
- Improve Gentle and Shade to routinely enhance the colour, colour stability, distinction, and brightness of video or nonetheless pictures.
- Easy 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 lowering background noise from audio captured within the subject.
Spatial Video Modifying 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. Closing Lower Professional 11 now helps spatial video modifying, permitting editors to import their footage and add results,6 make colour corrections, and improve their initiatives with titles. The depth place of titles and captured footage will also be adjusted throughout the modifying course of. Spatial video clips may be captured instantly 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 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 will deliver their edit into Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, creating an infinite, personal, and transportable show that’s perfect for complicated workflows. Later this yr, customers will be capable of broaden Mac Digital Show to a brand new panoramic measurement, 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 consumer’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
Closing Lower Professional options superior modifying instruments to assist streamline inventive workflows even additional and save time:
- Magnetic Timeline, a trackless method to modifying footage, gives a fluid technique to trim and edit a undertaking. Editors can add and rearrange clips seamlessly, making changes whereas preserving video and audio completely in sync.
- With multicam modifying, customers can immediately sync a number of angles of a undertaking and change between pictures 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, lowering file sizes to make switch instances 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 modifying expertise.
- Utilizing Movement, customers can create gorgeous 2D and 3D titles, mills, and superior visible results which can be accessible inside Closing Lower Professional.
Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2.1
Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2.1 brings beloved options to the touch-first modifying expertise. Powered by Apple silicon, Improve Gentle and Shade is an clever means to enhance colour, colour stability, distinction, and brightness in video or nonetheless pictures 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 light-weight 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 decrease clip peak within the timeline; the power to dynamically modify the scale and place of the viewer in Image in Image mode; and timeline assist for recordings at 90 fps, 100 fps, and 120 fps on iPhone 16 Professional.
New inks for the Stay Drawing characteristic 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.
Closing Lower Digicam
Closing Lower Digicam 1.1 brings intuitive professional controls for aspiring {and professional} administrators. The replace gives customers the power to seize Log-encoded HEVC video in standalone or Stay Multicam classes, so customers can reap the benefits of the superb dynamic vary of Log whereas benefitting from lowered file sizes and much more recording time. Closing Lower Digicam 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 lovely and crisp 4K120 fps footage for even smoother cinematic sluggish movement, import it into Closing Lower Professional for iPad, and start their edit.
A brand new superior degree helps customers exactly compose pictures with roll and tilt indicators, and for top-down pictures, Closing Lower Digicam 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 wonderful companion for Closing Lower 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 house to music whereas preserving sonic character, or the fashionable Quantec Yardstick for improved readability and element. The Quantec QRS know-how is a superb software for video editors who need to add natural-sounding areas to dialog, foley, and music.
“The Quantec Room Simulator has been a key factor to my sound for a few years, showing on information like Ardour and Us. I additionally used it to construct harmonic drones to start out my reside set, which then developed into songs like ‘Throughout the River,’” stated 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 instantly 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 instantly from the built-in Sound Browser proper from iPad, exterior storage, and iCloud Drive.
Pricing and Availability
- Closing Lower Professional 11 is on the market immediately as a free replace for current 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 Closing Lower Professional.
- Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2.1 is on the market immediately as a free replace for current 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.
- Closing Lower Digicam 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 current 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 current 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.
- Closing Lower Professional 11 requires macOS 14.6 or later, 8GB of RAM (16GB really useful), and 5.9GB of accessible disk house; some options require a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia.
- Spatial video edited in Closing Lower Professional may be exported and saved on to Images to be seen later in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
- Closing Lower Professional for iPad 2.1 requires iPad with Apple M1 chip or later, or iPad mini (A17 Professional) with iPadOS 17.6 or later.
- Closing Lower Digicam 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 laptop 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 cupboard space for minimal set up, or 72GB of cupboard space 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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