Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to the iPad. Both apps will likely be available for $4.99/month or $49/12 months on iPad starting May 23. By comparison, Logic Pro on a Mac costs $199.99 to buy, while Final Cut Pro typically costs $299.99 to buy.
Video and music editing apps will include enhancements specifically for iPads. Final Cut Pro, for instance, will feature a recent spinner designed to make the editing process “easier than ever”, allowing you to maneuver across the magnetic timeline, move clips around, and make edits along with your finger and multi-touch gestures.
A recent feature called Live Drawing means that you can draw and write with Apple Pencil directly on video. If you could have an iPad Pro with an M2 chip, you should utilize the Apple Pencil hover feature to browse and preview footage without having to the touch the screen.
Meanwhile, Logic Pro on iPad comes with among the same touch-friendly features, allowing you to make use of multi-touch gestures to play software instruments and interact with controls. It also has a recent sound browser that uses “dynamic filtering” to enable you to discover various kinds of sounds, with options for instrument patches, audio patches, plug-in presets, samples, and loops.
In addition, Apple is introducing a time and pitch changer plug-in for Logic Pro called Beat Breaker, which means that you can swipe and pinch to “reshape and shuffle sounds.” The app also supports Apple Pencil, supplying you with the flexibility to “draw detailed path automation.”
A one-month free trial will likely be available for each Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro. Apple notes which you can pair apps with Magic Keyboard or Smart Keyboard Folio to make use of keyboard commands. You can even transfer any projects in Logic Pro between the app on Mac and iPad, and export songs to Final Cut Pro for iPad. Logic Pro on iPad also helps you to open projects created in GarageBand for iOS.
Putting Final Cut Pro on the iPad puts Apple in direct competition with Davinci’s popular video editing tool Resolve, which just released an iPad-optimized app last 12 months. While the fundamental version of this app is free, you too can purchase the premium version for a one-time fee of $94.99.
