November 13, 2024
UPDATE
Closing Reduce Professional 11 begins a brand new chapter for video enhancing on Mac
Clever new options, timesaving instruments, and new artistic choices come to Closing Reduce Professional throughout Mac, iPad, and iPhone, plus enhancing for spatial video
Right this moment, Apple unveiled Closing Reduce Professional 11 — supercharged with clever new options — together with highly effective updates to Closing Reduce Professional for iPad, Closing Reduce Digicam, and Logic Professional. Providing new instruments like Magnetic Masks and the extremely anticipated Transcribe to Captions, Closing Reduce Professional 11 for Mac1 additionally helps the import, edit, and supply of spatial video tasks on to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.2
Closing Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1 advances the touch-first enhancing expertise with assist for Improve Gentle 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 Closing Reduce Digicam 1.1, the intuitive professional recording app for iPhone, provides assist for 4K120 fps recording on iPhone 16 Professional, the flexibility 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 Reduce Professional for Mac and iPad, Closing Reduce Digicam, and Logic Professional for Mac and iPad can be found at the moment on the App Retailer.
“Our artistic apps give artists, producers, administrators, and editors all over the world the instruments they should specific themselves and understand their inventive imaginative and prescient,” stated 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, Closing Reduce Professional and Logic Professional are quicker and extra clever than ever. These newest updates give artistic professionals extra stylistic interpretations to discover — whether or not that’s with fine-tuned masking for coloration grading or wonderful sound processing — and larger versatility and effectivity of their workflows.”
Closing Reduce Professional 11
Closing 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 characteristic that gives quick and correct closed captions; spatial video enhancing; and a variety of timesaving instruments and workflow optimizations.
AI-Powered Options
In Closing 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 automated evaluation offers further flexibility to customise backgrounds and environments. Editors may mix Magnetic Masks with coloration correction and video results, permitting them to exactly management and stylize every challenge. And with Transcribe to Captions, closed captions could be routinely generated within the timeline utilizing an Apple-trained giant language mannequin that transcribes spoken audio.
Magnetic Masks and Transcribe to Captions be part of current AI-powered options made attainable by Apple’s Neural Engine, together with:
- Sensible Conform to simply make social media-friendly variations of tasks in sq. or vertical codecs.
- Improve Gentle and Shade to routinely enhance the colour, coloration steadiness, 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 decreasing background noise from audio captured within the discipline.
Spatial Video Modifying for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional
Spatial video permits customers to seize life’s treasured moments and relive them on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Closing 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 can be adjusted through the enhancing course of. Spatial video clips could 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 R7.7
Customers can select from numerous viewing modes to preview the left- and right-eye angles on their Mac show. And with Mac Digital Show,8 they will convey their edit into Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, creating an unlimited, non-public, and moveable show that’s perfect for advanced workflows. Later this yr, customers will be capable to develop 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 could be exported on to a consumer’s Photographs library, considered 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 Reduce Professional options superior enhancing instruments to assist streamline artistic workflows even additional and save time:
- Magnetic Timeline, a trackless method to enhancing footage, gives a fluid strategy to trim and edit a challenge. Editors can add and rearrange clips seamlessly, making changes whereas maintaining video and audio completely in sync.
- With multicam enhancing, customers can immediately sync a number of angles of a challenge and swap between pictures throughout playback. And new keyboard shortcut choices enable customers to regulate the view of their timeline and reposition clips.
- Optimizations for Apple silicon enable 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 enhancing expertise.
- Utilizing Movement, customers can create gorgeous 2D and 3D titles, mills, and superior visible results which can be accessible inside Closing Reduce Professional.
Closing Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1
Closing Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1 brings beloved options to the touch-first enhancing expertise. Powered by Apple silicon, Improve Gentle and Shade is an clever approach to enhance coloration, coloration steadiness, 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 develop or reduce clip top within the timeline; the flexibility to dynamically regulate the dimensions 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 Reside 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 flexibility to simply spotlight and overlay visuals with Image in Image and Callout results.
Closing Reduce Digicam
Closing Reduce Digicam 1.1 brings intuitive professional controls for aspiring {and professional} administrators. The replace gives customers the flexibility to seize Log-encoded HEVC video in standalone or Reside Multicam classes, so customers can benefit from the wonderful dynamic vary of Log whereas benefitting from lowered file sizes and much more recording time. Closing Reduce 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 file stunning and crisp 4K120 fps footage for even smoother cinematic sluggish movement, import it into Closing Reduce Professional for iPad, and start their edit.
A brand new superior stage helps customers exactly compose pictures with roll and tilt indicators, and for top-down pictures, Closing Reduce 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 Reduce Professional editors. Right this moment, 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 essentially 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 expertise is a good instrument for video editors who need to add natural-sounding areas to dialog, foley, and music.
“The Quantec Room Simulator has been a key component to my sound for a few years, showing on information like Ardour and Us. I additionally used it to construct harmonic drones to begin my reside set, which then advanced into songs like ‘Throughout the River,’” stated musician Peter Gabriel. “It’s fantastic that Apple is bringing the Quantec QRS again to life as a plug-in for Logic customers all over the world.”
With Reorder Mixer Channels, customers can rearrange channel strips by dragging them, and might even choose a number of channel strips to reorder them collectively. To make it simpler to search 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
- Closing Reduce Professional 11 is obtainable at the moment as a free replace for current customers and for $299.99 (U.S.) for brand new customers on the Mac App Retailer. New customers can obtain a free 90-day trial of Closing Reduce Professional.
- Closing Reduce Professional for iPad 2.1 is obtainable at the moment as a free replace for current customers, and obtainable on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) monthly or $49 (U.S.) per yr, with a one-month free trial for brand new customers.
- Closing Reduce Digicam 1.1 is obtainable at the moment as a free standalone app on the App Retailer.
- Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 is obtainable at the moment as a free replace for current customers and for $199.99 (U.S.) for brand new customers on the Mac App Retailer. Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 requires macOS 14.4 or later. For extra info, go to apple.com/logic-pro.
- Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 is obtainable at the moment as a free replace for current customers, and obtainable on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) monthly or $49 (U.S.) per yr, with a one-month free trial for brand new customers. Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 requires iPadOS 18.1 or later. For extra info, go to apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.
- Closing Reduce Professional 11 requires macOS 14.6 or later, 8GB of RAM (16GB really useful), and 5.9GB of obtainable disk house; some options require a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia.
- Spatial video edited in Closing Reduce Professional could be exported and saved on to Photographs to be considered later in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
- Closing 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.
- Closing Reduce 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 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 obtainable 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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