Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPads

Today Apple announced that it's officially brining its video and music creation tools to iPads. Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro will both become available on May 23, the former on iPads with the M1 or M2 chipset, the latter on devices powered by the A12 Bionic and later chips.

They will each cost either $4.99 per month or $49 per year through an App Store subscription, with a one-month free trial.

For Final Cut Pro, a new jog wheel makes editing easier and lets you interact with your content in new ways. Live Drawing lets you draw and write directly on top of video content with the Apple Pencil, and on iPads with M2, Pencil hover lets you quickly skim and preview footage without touching the screen.

You can view and edit HDR video on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro and apply color grades with accuracy using Reference Mode. With Pro camera mode you can shoot high-quality video in portrait or landscape, monitor audio, and manually control focus, exposure, and white balance, so you can capture, edit, and publish from a single device in the field - if you feel like recording video with an iPad is practical in any way, that is. If your iPad is powered by the M2 chip, you can even record in ProRes. Multicam video editing automatically synchronizes and edits clips together, and lets you switch angles with one touch.

Scene removal mask lets you remove or replace the background behind a subject in a clip, Auto crop adjusts for vertical, square, and other aspect ratios, and Voice isolation removes background noise. Of course you also get a vast library of graphics, effects, and audio, including "stunning" HDR backgrounds, customizable animated patterns, and professional soundtracks that adjust to the video's length.

Logic Pro gets multi-touch gestures unsurprisingly, letting you play software instruments and interact naturally with controls, as well as navigate projects with pinch-to-zoom and swipe-to-scroll. You can capture voice or instrument recordings with your iPad's built-in mics, and make precision edits with the Apple Pencil.

The sound browser stores all available instrument patches, audio patches, plug-in presets, samples, and loops in one location, with dynamic filtering and the ability to hear any sound before loading it into a project. You get over 100 instruments and effects plug-ins, and you can chop and flip samples, program beats and bass lines, as well as craft custom drum kits.

The full-featured mixer gives you everything you need to create a professional mix entirely on your iPad, and with multitouch you can move multiple faders at the same time.

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