Final Cut Pro combines revolutionary video editing with powerful media organization and incredible performance to let you create at the speed of thought.

With optimizations for Apple silicon and the power of its Metal engine, Final Cut Pro allows you to edit more complex projects and work with larger frame sizes, higher frame rates, and more effects - all at incredible speeds. And it is built to harness the extreme power of Mac Pro, Mac Studio or MacBook Pro for next-level performance.

Optimized for Apple silicon

  • Final Cut Pro features breathtaking performance and efficiency on Mac computers with Apple silicon. Tap into superfast unified memory shared across the CPU, the GPU, and the Apple Neural Engine to play back more high-resolution video streams and render your movie in record time.

Revolutionary Video Editing

  • The Magnetic Timeline uses advanced metadata for faster, easier editing
  • Enhanced Timeline Index lets you drag and drop audio roles to rearrange the layout of your timeline
  • Use Clip Connections to attach B-roll, sound effects, and music to the timeline
  • Reduce clutter by grouping clips into a Compound Clip
  • Edit multicamera projects with automatic syncing and support for up to 64 camera angles
  • Automatically transform projects for square or vertical delivery with Smart Conform
  • Import and edit 360° equirectangular video in a wide range of formats and frame sizes
  • Create, edit, and deliver closed captions from within Final Cut Pro
  • Extend the capabilities of Final Cut Pro with third-party workflow extensions

Powerful Media Organization

  • Organize your work within libraries for efficient media management and collaboration
  • Create proxy copies of your media for portability and performance
  • Content Auto-Analysis captures camera metadata and analyzes shots in the background
  • Create and apply custom keywords or favorites on the fly as you select clip ranges
  • Smart Collections dynamically organize content for you to quickly find any shot in a few clicks

Incredible Performance

  • Improved performance and efficiency on Mac computers with Apple silicon
  • Harness the power of the Mac Pro and Afterburner for realtime 8K editing
  • Modern Metal engine improves playback, rendering, and compositing on all Macs
  • Final Cut Pro uses all the GPUs in your Mac for superior real-time playback performance and fast background rendering
  • Work with a broad range of formats including ProRes, RED, XAVC, AVCHD, Avid DNxHR, Avid DNxHD, H.264, HEVC, and more

Compelling, Customizable Effects

  • Beautifully animated, easily customizable 2D and 3D titles
  • Change the look of titles, transitions, and effects using intuitive controls
  • Choose from an ecosystem of third-party FxPlug plug-ins with custom interfaces

Integrated Audio Editing

  • Assign roles during import to easily track and organize your project
  • Expand and edit multichannel audio files directly in the timeline
  • Apply intuitive Logic-based effects and reduce background noise to isolate voices
  • Sync video with separate audio in a single step with instant audio waveform matching

Intuitive Color Grading

  • Import, edit, and deliver video in standard color spaces, or in Rec. 2020 and HLG color spaces
  • Powerful color wheels and curves for precise adjustments with keying and masks
  • Automatically tone-map clips to match HDR or SDR color space
  • Take advantage of log-encoded video shot on iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max for even more grading flexibility
  • Accurately view HDR on MacBook Pro and Pro Display XDR

One-Step, Optimized Output

  • Incredibly fast export for playback on Apple devices and upload to websites such as Vimeo and YouTube
  • Export audio stems and multiple versions of a finished video using roles metadata
  • Import and export XML for third-party workflows like color grading and sound mixing

System Requirements:

  • macOS 14.6 or later
  • 8GB of memory (16GB recommended)
  • Metal-capable graphics card (Intel-based Mac computers only)
  • 6.5GB of available disk space
  • Some features require macOS Sequoia and a Mac with Apple silicon. Some features require internet access; fees may apply.

What's New

New in Final Cut Pro 12.0

  • Final Cut Pro 12.0 includes the following features, enhancements, and fixes:
  • Use Transcript Search to quickly find spoken words or phrases in your footage by searching for exact matches or using natural language descriptions. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon.)
  • Discover Visual Search, a fast and easy way to locate moments in your footage, including objects and actions, using natural language. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon.)
  • Let Beat Detection analyze any song to reveal its bars and beats, enabling you to easily align your video edits to the music's rhythm.
  • Accelerate your next edit with in-app guides on how to create a new library, import media, and add clips to a new timeline.
  • Use the new toolbar menu to quickly create new projects, events, and libraries.
  • Dive into editing with a special demo project featuring the talented singer-songwriter Allie Sherlock, and explore the exciting new features of Final Cut Pro firsthand.
  • Fixes an issue that could cause an adjustment clip to disappear when using Overwrite to Primary Storyline to move a connected clip to the primary storyline.
  • Resolves an issue that could cause role colors to change when upgrading a library from a previous version.
  • Addresses an issue that could cause Paste Attributes to not allow pasting spatial conform on a single clip.
  • Updates FCPXML to version 1.14.

Get complete step-by-step how-to instructions and information on all features in Final Cut Pro. For a list of recent enhancements in Final Cut Pro, refer to What's New in Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro 11.2 includes the following enhancements, changes, and bug fixes:

  • Unlock even more controls for ProRes RAW video shot on iPhone, so you can adjust exposure, color temperature, tint, and demosaicing. (ProRes RAW capture requires supported iPhone models.)
  • Edit and play back your Apple Log 2 footage with the vibrancy of the original scene by applying the Apple Log 2 LUT.
  • Fixes an issue that caused recordings made with the Voiceover tool to not be saved when media storage was set to a location outside the library.
  • Improves stability when adjusting sliders in the ProRes RAW Settings window.
  • Fixes an issue that caused Final Cut Pro to quit when RED RAW clips were selected in the timeline while the RED RAW Settings window was open.
  • Removes support for FireWire-connected devices on macOS Tahoe. (On macOS Sequoia, FireWire capture is supported, but the playback controls for FireWire-connected devices are no longer available.)
  • Includes stability and performance improvements.

Get complete step-by-step how-to instructions and information on all features in Final Cut Pro. For a list of recent enhancements in Final Cut Pro, refer to What's New in Final Cut Pro.

Final Cut Pro 11.1.1 includes these improvements:

  • Addresses an issue that could cause MXF media to play back incorrectly.
  • Improves reliability when adding video to drop zones in the inspector.
  • Fixes an issue when sharing with the "Allow export segmentation" setting that caused inconsistent frame rates.

Final Cut Pro 11 is faster and smarter than ever. Leverage new AI-enhanced tools, work faster with time-saving workflow improvements, and edit spatial video.

  • Expand your creative freedom with the revolutionary AI-powered Magnetic Mask, and isolate people, objects and shapes in any footage without a green screen or time-consuming manual rotoscoping.
  • Use Transcribe to Captions to automatically create captions from spoken audio in the timeline with a powerful AI language model built for speed and accuracy. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia or later.)
  • Import and edit spatial video clips from Apple Vision Pro or iPhone 15 Pro or later; add titles, color correction, and effects; and share captivating spatial projects that can be viewed on Apple Vision Pro. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon.)
  • Reduce clutter in the browser by automatically hiding original clips when creating synced clips or multicam clips.
  • Use Vertical Zoom to Fit to scale clip heights to fit in the timeline.
  • Speed up your creative flow with new Picture in Picture and Callout effects.
  • Create amazing visual reveals with new Modular transitions.
  • Increase efficiency with new keyboard shortcuts for common tasks in the browser and timeline.
  • Install third-party Media Extensions to support playback and editing of more video formats. (Requires macOS Sequoia or later.)