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 inventive choices come to Last Lower Professional throughout Mac, iPad, and iPhone, plus modifying for spatial video
At present, Apple unveiled Last Lower Professional 11 — supercharged with clever new options — together with highly effective updates to Last Lower Professional for iPad, Last Lower Digital camera, 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 initiatives 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 Mild and Colour; new Dwell 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 Digital camera 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 Digital camera, and Logic Professional for Mac and iPad can be found at present on the App Retailer.
“Our inventive apps give artists, producers, administrators, and editors world wide the instruments they should categorical themselves and notice their inventive 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 inventive professionals extra stylistic interpretations to discover — whether or not that’s with fine-tuned masking for coloration grading or superb sound processing — and better 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 spread 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 folks and objects in a video clip with out the necessity for a inexperienced display or extra time-consuming rotoscoping. This highly effective and exact computerized evaluation gives further flexibility to customise backgrounds and environments. Editors may also mix Magnetic Masks with coloration correction and video results, permitting them to exactly management and stylize every undertaking. And with Transcribe to Captions, closed captions will 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 attainable by Apple’s Neural Engine, together with:
- Good Conform to simply make social media-friendly variations of initiatives in sq. or vertical codecs.
- Improve Mild and Colour to robotically enhance the colour, coloration 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 discipline.
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 coloration corrections, and improve their initiatives with titles. The depth place of titles and captured footage will also be adjusted through the modifying course of. Spatial video clips will be captured instantly 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 varied viewing modes to preview the left- and right-eye angles on their Mac show. And with Mac Digital Show,8 they will carry their edit into Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, creating an unlimited, personal, and moveable show that’s best for complicated workflows. Later this 12 months, customers will be capable to increase Mac Digital Show to a brand new panoramic dimension, creating an enormous 32:9 ultra-wide curved show that’s equal to having two 5K displays facet by facet. Spatial movies will be exported on to a consumer’s Images library, considered 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 Artistic Instruments
Last Lower Professional options superior modifying instruments to assist streamline inventive workflows even additional and save time:
- Magnetic Timeline, a trackless method to modifying footage, affords a fluid solution to trim and edit a undertaking. Editors can add and rearrange clips seamlessly, making changes whereas conserving video and audio completely in sync.
- With multicam modifying, customers can immediately sync a number of angles of a undertaking 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 occasions 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, mills, and superior visible results which are 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 Mild and Colour is an clever approach to enhance coloration, coloration 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 light-weight 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 increase or decrease clip top within the timeline; the power to dynamically modify the dimensions 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 Dwell 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 Digital camera
Last Lower Digital camera 1.1 brings intuitive professional controls for aspiring {and professional} administrators. The replace affords customers the power to seize Log-encoded HEVC video in standalone or Dwell Multicam periods, so customers can reap the benefits of the superb dynamic vary of Log whereas benefitting from decreased file sizes and much more recording time. Last Lower Digital camera 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 report lovely 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 Digital camera 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 superb companion for Last Lower Professional editors. At present, 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 essentially 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 fashionable Quantec Yardstick for improved readability and element. The Quantec QRS know-how is a superb instrument for video editors who wish to add natural-sounding areas to dialog, foley, and music.
“The Quantec Room Simulator has been a key aspect to my sound for a few years, showing on data like Ardour and Us. I additionally used it to construct harmonic drones to begin my dwell set, which then developed into songs like ‘Throughout the River,’” mentioned musician Peter Gabriel. “It’s fantastic that Apple is bringing the Quantec QRS again to life as a plug-in for Logic customers world wide.”
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 search out and add any plug-in instantly utilizing a keyboard command, Logic Professional for Mac customers can now search by class, firm title, and even a part of a plug-in title. Logic Professional for iPad additionally introduces Pattern Folders, giving customers entry to their private assortment of samples instantly from the built-in Sound Browser proper from iPad, exterior storage, and iCloud Drive.
Pricing and Availability
- Last Lower Professional 11 is out there at present as a free replace for present customers and for $299.99 (U.S.) for brand spanking 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 out there at present as a free replace for present customers, and out there on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days or $49 (U.S.) per 12 months, with a one-month free trial for brand spanking new customers.
- Last Lower Digital camera 1.1 is out there at present as a free standalone app on the App Retailer.
- Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 is out there at present as a free replace for present customers and for $199.99 (U.S.) for brand spanking new customers on the Mac App Retailer. Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 requires macOS 14.4 or later. For extra info, go to apple.com/logic-pro.
- Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 is out there at present as a free replace for present customers, and out there on the App Retailer for $4.99 (U.S.) per 30 days or $49 (U.S.) per 12 months, with a one-month free trial for brand spanking new customers. Logic Professional for iPad 2.1 requires iPadOS 18.1 or later. For extra info, 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 accessible disk house; some options require a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS Sequoia.
- Spatial video edited in Last Lower Professional will be exported and saved on to Images to be considered 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 Digital camera 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 12 months.
- Logic Professional for Mac 11.1 requires macOS Sonoma 14.4 or later, and 6GB of accessible cupboard space for minimal set up, or 72GB of cupboard space 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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