Final Cut Pro 11: Apple Shares List of All New Features and Bug Fixes

Apple on Wednesday released Final Cut Pro 11 for the Mac, with key new features including AI-generated captions, spatial video editing, and a Magnetic Mask tool for isolating people and objects in videos. The update also includes some smaller new features, changes, and bug fixes, as outlined in the full release notes on Apple's website.

Final Cut Pro 11
Many of these features were already outlined in Final Cut Pro 11's release notes on the App Store, but the notes on Apple's website are a little more comprehensive, revealing some specific new keyboard shortcuts and a list of bug fixes.

Apple also highlighted some new features in the Final Cut Pro user guide.

The full release notes:

Final Cut Pro 11.0 includes the following enhancements:

  • 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 (a Mac with Apple silicon recommended).
  • 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 (Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia or later required).
  • 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 (Mac with Apple silicon required).
  • Edit in the timeline at 90, 100, and 120 fps.
  • Reduce clutter in the browser by automatically hiding original clips when creating synced clips or multicam clips.
  • Speed up your creative flow with new Picture in Picture and Callout effects.
  • Create interesting visual reveals with new Modular transitions.
  • Use Vertical Zoom to Fit to scale clip heights to fit in the timeline.
  • Change the order of vertically stacked clips with a new keyboard shortcut.
  • Quickly navigate clips in list view and edit clip text with a new keyboard shortcut.
  • Increase efficiency with additional new keyboard shortcuts including Rename Clip, Show/Hide Audio Lanes, Expand/Collapse Subroles, Play Half Speed Forward/Reverse, Consolidate Motion Content, Paste Timecode, and Show Horizon.
  • Install third-party Media Extensions to support playback and editing of more video formats (macOS Sequoia or later required).

Additional support and bug fixes:

  • Improves performance in timelines that contain a high number of markers.
  • Fixes an issue that caused the alert badge on an event to not disappear after all missing media was relinked.
  • Fixes an issue that caused the Clouds generator to be partially transparent.
  • Fixes an issue that caused the Collapse to Connected Storyline command to trim audio if the audio was leading video.
  • Adds support for exporting uncompressed or ProRes MXF video with 32 kHz audio.
  • Adds support for exporting directly to the Photos library.
  • Updates FCPXML to version 1.13.

Final Cut Pro 11 is available now as a free update for existing users of the app. In the U.S., the app remains priced at $299.99 on the Mac App Store for new users. Some of the new features require a Mac with an M1 chip or newer.

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Top Rated Comments

LogicalApex Avatar
5 hours ago at 08:55 am

I have no doubt that if they were in a position like Adobe is in, that FCP11 would be subscription based. I wonder how much money Apple has lost due to the transition from Final Cut Pro 7 to Final Cut Pro X, and what metric they track that is telling them that they still shouldn't turn it into a subscription model.
Apple's primary goal with their software products is to sell you their hardware products. I'm sure there is a lot of data that users are more sticky with FCP than without it. Making it a subscription would make it easier for users to become less sticky (they'll weigh the cost of the sub vs another cross platform sub and may be pulled out of the ecosystem as a result).

I'm also sure apps like FCP and its workflow leads to increased take rates on Mac upgrades as well like CPU, RAM, and Storage which are massively overpriced by Apple.

They were able to do a sub for the iPad versions simply because those are more companion apps to the Mac based workflow.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Spidder Avatar
5 hours ago at 09:20 am

Still lacking, fcpx desperately needs monthly updates with features to catch up.
And then people complain about too many bugs. You cant have your cake and eat it too.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
FCX Avatar
3 hours ago at 10:57 am

ALL they changed was Final Cut Pro?? What about Motion?? Compressor ??
FCP, Motion, Compressor, Logic, and iMovie all got updates, in addition to a new Pro Video Formats system update.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Mr. Incandenza Avatar
3 hours ago at 11:49 am
I've switched to Resolve but parts of me still heavily miss my time with Final Cut. I may take a look again.

Magnetic timeline, using the favorites function to find highlights, intuitive speed ramps... It's just easier to tell a story quickly with Final Cut IMO. The cut page and a speed editor have made Resolve easier to work with but the complexity is still overwhelming a few years in, and there are a ton of small usability quirks that drive me mad.
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