November 13, 2024
UPDATE
Last Lower Professional 11 begins a brand new chapter for video modifying on Mac
Clever new options, timesaving instruments, and new artistic choices come to Last Lower Professional throughout Mac, iPad, and iPhone, plus modifying for spatial video
Right now, Apple unveiled Last Lower Professional 11 — supercharged with clever new options — together with highly effective updates to Last Lower Professional for iPad, Last Lower Digicam, and Logic Professional. Providing new instruments like Magnetic Masks and the extremely anticipated Transcribe to Captions, Last Lower Professional 11 for Mac1 additionally helps the import, edit, and supply of spatial video tasks on to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.2
Last Lower Professional for iPad 2.1 advances the touch-first modifying expertise with help for Improve Gentle and Coloration; 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 Last Lower Digicam 1.1, the intuitive professional recording app for iPhone, provides help 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 help for a brand new Quantec Room Simulator plug-in.
The brand new variations of Last Lower Professional for Mac and iPad, Last Lower Digicam, and Logic Professional for Mac and iPad can be found at present on the App Retailer.
“Our artistic apps give artists, producers, administrators, and editors around the globe the instruments they should categorical themselves and notice their creative imaginative and prescient,” mentioned 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, Last Lower 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 shade grading or superb sound processing — and larger versatility and effectivity of their workflows.”
Last Lower Professional 11
Last 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 function that gives quick and correct closed captions; spatial video modifying; and a variety of timesaving instruments and workflow optimizations.
AI-Powered Options
In Last 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 individuals 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 gives further flexibility to customise backgrounds and environments. Editors may mix Magnetic Masks with shade correction and video results, permitting them to exactly management and stylize every venture. And with Transcribe to Captions, closed captions could be robotically generated within the timeline utilizing an Apple-trained giant language mannequin that transcribes spoken audio.
Magnetic Masks and Transcribe to Captions be part of present AI-powered options made potential 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 Coloration to robotically enhance the colour, shade stability, distinction, and brightness of video or nonetheless photographs.
- Clean 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 boost 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. Last Lower Professional 11 now helps spatial video modifying, permitting editors to import their footage and add results,6 make shade corrections, and improve their tasks with titles. The depth place of titles and captured footage may also be adjusted through the modifying 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’ll carry their edit into Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, creating an unlimited, non-public, and moveable show that’s ideally suited for advanced workflows. Later this yr, customers will be capable of 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 aspect by aspect. Spatial movies could be exported on to a person’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
Last Lower Professional options superior modifying instruments to assist streamline artistic workflows even additional and save time:
- Magnetic Timeline, a trackless method to modifying footage, provides a fluid approach to trim and edit a venture. Editors can add and rearrange clips seamlessly, making changes whereas retaining video and audio completely in sync.
- With multicam modifying, customers can immediately sync a number of angles of a venture and swap between photographs 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 beautiful 2D and 3D titles, turbines, and superior visible results which can be accessible inside Last Lower Professional.
Last Lower Professional for iPad 2.1
Last Lower Professional for iPad 2.1 brings beloved options to the touch-first modifying expertise. Powered by Apple silicon, Improve Gentle and Coloration is an clever method to enhance shade, shade stability, distinction, and brightness in video or nonetheless photographs 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 lightweight pulse as they trim clips, transfer media, navigate the timeline, and resize viewer clips to snapping factors.
Different significant workflow enhancements embrace a brand new vertical pinch gesture that may develop or decrease clip peak within the timeline; the power to dynamically regulate the scale and place of the viewer in Image in Image mode; and timeline help for recordings at 90 fps, 100 fps, and 120 fps on iPhone 16 Professional.
New inks for the Stay Drawing function 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.
Last Lower Digicam
Last Lower Digicam 1.1 brings intuitive professional controls for aspiring {and professional} administrators. The replace provides 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 diminished file sizes and much more recording time. Last 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 file stunning and crisp 4K120 fps footage for even smoother cinematic gradual movement, import it into Last Lower Professional for iPad, and start their edit.
A brand new superior degree helps customers exactly compose photographs with roll and tilt indicators, and for top-down photographs, Last 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 Last Lower Professional editors. Right now, 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 trendy Quantec Yardstick for improved readability and element. The Quantec QRS know-how is a good instrument for video editors who wish 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 dwell set, which then advanced into songs like ‘Throughout the River,’” mentioned musician Peter Gabriel. “It’s great that Apple is bringing the Quantec QRS again to life as a plug-in for Logic customers around the globe.”
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 seek out and add any plug-in straight utilizing a keyboard command, Logic Professional for Mac customers can now search by class, firm identify, and even a part of a plug-in identify. 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
- Last Lower Professional 11 is on the market at present as a free replace for present 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 Last Lower Professional.
- Last Lower Professional for iPad 2.1 is on the market at present as a free replace for present customers, and obtainable on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per thirty days or $49 (U.S.) per yr, with a one-month free trial for brand new customers.
- Last Lower Digicam 1.1 is on the market at present as a free standalone app on the App Retailer.
- Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 is on the market at present as a free replace for present 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 data, go to apple.com/logic-pro.
- Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 is on the market at present as a free replace for present customers, and obtainable on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per thirty days 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 data, go to apple.com/logic-pro-for-ipad.
- Last Lower 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 Last Lower Professional could be exported and saved on to Images to be seen later in Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.
- Last 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.
- Last Lower Digicam requires iPhone or iPad with iOS 17.6 or iPadOS 17.6 and later.
- Transcribe to Captions requires macOS Sequoia.
- Some results might not be 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 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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