Apple unveils new AI features for Creator Studio subscribers

Macworld

Apple on Tuesday announced several new AI-based features for Apple Creator Studio, its suite of creative apps geared towards professionals. The apps getting the new features include Pixelmator Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Logic Pro.

“Featuring new AI capabilities that are dynamic enough for every creative discipline, these updates make Apple Creator Studio even more connected, capable, and intelligent,” Apple said in a press release. Here are summaries of the new features for each app.

Final Cut Pro

• Generate Captions: audio is automatically transcribed, and subtitles are placed directly in the timeline. They style, font, color, and text position can be customized.
• Edit Detection: can take rendered video, analyze it, and automatically split it back into the original clips on the timeline.
• Auto Mask (Mac): Ai is used to recognize items such as skin, hair, sky, and clothing without the need for manual tracking.
• Magnetic Mask (Mac): editors have complete control over exactly what to identify, track, and mask.
• Match Color (Mac): this feature has been revised so that it produces more accurate and natural color matches across a wider range of footage and lighting conditions.
• Advanced Trimming: fine-tune incoming and outgoing frames one at a time.
• Direct connection to Pixelmator Pro: users can send a frame and edit it for thumbnails, social media, etc.

Motion

• Native support for SVG files: Also SVG scaling to any size while maintaining image quality
• Distribute Layers: faster setup of complex animations.
• New timeline controls: stagger, cascade, or reverse clips to build complex animations in seconds

Compressor

• Immersive Metadata Viewer: view immersive, temporal, and dynamic metadata before encoding.
• 180-degree Apple Projected Media Profile: for Apple Vision Pro
• Anaglyph View for Stereoscopic Video Preview

Final Cut Camera

• Clean HDMI Out: sends a pristine video signal to external monitors and recorders.
• Expanded ProRes support: includes ProRes LT.
• Disable digital zoom option: for using optical zoom

Pixelmator Pro

• iWork integration: an image can be selected in a Pages, Keynote, or Numbers document, then opened directly in Pixelmator Pro for editing.
• Generate Shapes simplifies creating vector shapes needed to fit a project, where shapes are fully editable and can be saved to a dedicated collection for use later. 

Logic Pro

• Chord ID: rebuilt so its harmonic analysis is more accurate.
• Producer Project “Shoulda Never”: complete session produced by Khris Riddick-Tynes.
• Granular sync mode: opens up entirely new dimensions of sound design (also available in Mainstage). Also, a new Granular Alchemy Sound Pack.
• Beat Breaker: new filter and pan modes and intuitive randomization controls.

iWork updates

Apple has also updated Pages, Keynote, and Numbers:

• Keynote: new transitions and builds.
• Pages on iPhone and iPad: adds Auto-Hyphenate and Show Invisibles.
• Numbers: adds ability to hide or color-code individual sheets.