IT Home On October 27, Apple announced major updates for the Apple Creative Studio, providing creators with professional-level tools. The Mac version of Final Cut Pro now includes MotionVFX, integrating features such as visual effects, plugins, transitions, templates, and motion graphics tools. Additionally, Pixelmator Pro, Keynote presentations, Pages documents, and Numbers spreadsheets have several new AI features available in Beta.
Apple Create Workshop will be launched through the App Store in November this year in a free update format.
Video Workflow
IT Home has learned that the Mac version of Final Cut Pro for iPad offers a range of new features for video editors, content creators, and film professionals. The Mac version of FCP now integrates MotionVFX directly into the app. Editors can use thousands of elements, including templates, graphics, title fonts, and transitions, as well as tracing, tracking, and color correction tools. Editors can also access the content library directly within Final Cut Pro. They can use Apple’s selected video, photos, and backgrounds to fill in gaps and enhance the footage without leaving their current workflow.
The cross-app workflow and visual creation experience in Final Cut Pro have also been upgraded. Editors can directly open any image in the timeline within Pixelmator Pro, use editing tools, and have changes automatically saved back to the project without re-importing. Final Cut Pro has also introduced workflow optimization features, including more keyframe adjustment options, to provide more precise animation control; it allows segments to be disconnected from the main storyline and placed anywhere in the timeline.
Motion also comes with a MotionVFX plugin that enables film-grade color grading, 3D camera tracking, and one-click selection features to create stunning visual effects. Additionally, Compressor supports encoding for videos shot in film mode using the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo for the first time.
Music creation
The Logic Pro for Mac and iPad bring a variety of intuitive new tools to help users create beats, compose songs, mix tracks, and produce music. The interface is designed with Liquid Glass in a new style, featuring a translucent interface and higher contrast to highlight waveforms and audio tracks.
The redesigned browser for Mac will integrate loops, instruments, and sound Patchs to help users find the perfect sound more quickly. Thanks to the powerful audio analysis tool Music Understanding on the device, Logic Pro can automatically analyze, categorize, and tag added sounds, allowing creators to easily search through the entire library or drag a loop to display matching audio.
The Logic Pro Big Splitter feature has been further upgraded, allowing separation, replacement, or rebalancing of drum parts without the original multi-track. The legendary musician Sergio George, who has won 20 Grammy Awards, is widely regarded as the king of modern Salsa music. Users can now unlock his new producer package. In this producer package, George shared his toolkit, bringing a piano tone with his personal characteristics, as well as authentic Latin jazz and Salsa dance rhythmic sections. This includes a complete Salsa percussion section, brass band, and bass.
Using the recording studio sound effect function of Voice Memos, when users record on iPhone models that support this feature, they can reduce indoor ambient noise and background noise, and also use Logic Pro to further fine-tune the sound.
More creative options and formats
In Keynote presentations, Pages documents, and Numbers spreadsheets, the content library has added Apple-sourced video materials, providing creators with dynamic visual elements to make presentations, reports, and spreadsheets more impressive.
Subscribers can also obtain a range of innovative professional design templates and themes. Keynote presentations now support the Keynote Interchange Format (.keyx) format, which is an open-formatted package file based on JSON, readable and usable by external tools, developer workflows, and AI agents. With the new MCP support, external AI agents and tools can directly read content, perform editing, and carry out automation tasks in Keynote presentations, Pages documents, and Numbers spreadsheets.
The Banyuji app now features a text style that can be set up in one step and reused across dashboards; customizable and preset dashboard background colors; and the ability to edit images directly in Pixelmator Pro (released in December).
Price and Launch Date
Apple Create Studio will release a free update through the App Store in November this year. New subscribers pay 38 yuan per month, or 380 yuan per year. All new subscribers can try Apple Create Studio for free for one month; customers who purchase a new Mac or a qualifying iPad can enjoy a three-month free trial.
High school students and faculty members can enjoy discounted educational prices, which are 18 yuan per month or 180 yuan per year.
Apple Create Studio is available for download on the App Store in a general purchase format.
Through family sharing, up to 6 family members can share all the apps and content in Apple Creative Suite.
Users can purchase Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage all at once from the Mac App Store: 1,998 yuan for Final Cut Pro, 1,298 yuan for Logic Pro, 328 yuan for Pixelmator Pro, 328 yuan for Motion, 328 yuan for Compressor, and 198 yuan for MainStage.
The free version of Pages documents, Numbers spreadsheets, Keynote presentations, and Notes app is available continuously and integrated into all new iPhones, Macs, and iPads.