The nifty new automatic masking-plus-motion-tracking feature in Final Cut Pro 11 looks impressive. Apple also updates the iPad and iPhone apps.
For over a decade, Apple has offered Final Cut Pro 10, releasing only version-number updates along the way, several of which added major new features. But it’s time for an upgrade.
The leap to Final Cut Pro 11 comes with a gaggle of new capabilities. Three of them stand out: Magnetic Mask, Transcribe to Captions, and support for “spatial video” (aka 3D, aka VR) for Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset. The update also brings new capabilities to the iPad and iOS versions of Final Cut and to the Final Cut Camera app for those two platforms.
Apple separately announced updates for its pro audio editing software, Logic Pro, with a Quantec Room Simulator plug-in and Reorder Mixer Channels via drag and drop. Magnetic Mask in Final Cut Pro
This is an impressive-looking tool: It automatically selects a person or object in your video clip and changes the mask based on how the object moves. Magnetic Mask lets you do things like chroma-keying without a green screen and making selective lighting and color adjustments and video effects just for the masked person or object.
