Apple debuts Final Cut Camera app for professional video creation

Apple continues to make the case the iPhone and iPad are suited for professional video content with the release of Final Cut Camera app. The app offers live multicam session by connecting up to four devices running Final Cut Camera to preview, record, and sync video angles in Final Cut Pro for iPad.

Other features:

• Capture professional footage with full manual control
• Easily record in a range of resolutions, frame rates, and codecs including ProRes and Log color encoding
• Set your exposure with ISO and shutter speed controls
• Adjust your white balance with common presets or set your color temperature
• Pull focus to follow the action and keep subjects sharp
• Precisely zoom to emphasize the most important elements of the video
• Lock orientation to ensure your framing is consistent regardless of device position
• Reduce shakiness and movement during capture by enabling stabilization
• Preview, record, and sync up to four devices with Live Multicam in Final Cut Pro for iPad
• Quickly start a Live Multicam session by connecting your device to Final Cut Pro for iPad
• Remotely preview, adjust pro controls, and initiate recording on all your connected devices right in Final Cut Pro
• Instantly edit your multicam clips with preview media that is automatically synced in the Final Cut Pro browser
• Save time in post with background media transfer that seamlessly replaces preview media with originals as you work
• Confirm videos look and sound perfect with monitoring tools
• Enable focus peaking to ensure footage looks sharp
• Properly expose videos using zebra indicators
• Compose and frame your shot with aspect ratio guides or grid overlays
• Monitor available recording time and audio levels
• Easily review and transfer media right in the browser
• Save videos to Files or record onto a connected external storage device
• Browse and review your footage directly in the Final Cut Camera browser
• Quickly connect to Final Cut Pro for iPad and transfer media directly into a project
• Conveniently pause and resume media transfers

In other news, Apple released Final Cut Pro for iPad  and Final Cut Pro for Mac 10.8 with important artificial intelligence-driven organizational updates that make workflows more efficient.

Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 ties into new Live Multicam feature, users can wirelessly connect and preview up to four cameras at once, all in one place.

For more storage flexibility while working with large files, Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 now supports external projects. Users can create new projects or open an existing project without taking up internal storage space. Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 also supports the new Apple Pencil Pro, leveraging barrel roll for more precise control of Live Drawing tools, and squeeze to quickly pull up brushes and settings.

With Final Cut Pro for Mac 10.8, users can take their professional workflow to the next level. Harnessing the power of the Neural Engine in Apple silicon, new AI features come to Final Cut Pro: Enhance Light and Color, and Smooth Slo-Mo. Enhance Light and Color automatically adjusts video for color correction, while Smooth Slo-Mo intelligently blends video frames for the highest-quality movement.