Apple today updated Apple Creator Studio and Final Cut Camera for the iPhone. The updates bring several new features.
Final Cut Camera is Apple’s professional filming app, and the update brings several new features to the app, including support for the variable aperture feature on the iPhone 18 Pro.
What’s New
- Explore a beautiful new design featuring easy-to-access settings, customizable overlays, two-finger tap to put focus on the viewfinder, a tally light to indicate recording, and more
- Capture stunning video using the 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture from F1.48 to F4, with aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual modes*
- Monitor your video with the RGB parade and histogram**
- Dial in your exposure with false color and clipping indicators with threshold settings
- Nail focus using improved focus peaking with sensitivity control
- Get Cinematic mode effects from regular video, including support for ProRes and Apple Log, to achieve beautiful bokeh you can adjust in Final Cut Pro***
- Send a clean video signal using an HDMI-to-SDI converter for broadcast quality streams****
- Set your genlock frame delay to compensate for image artifacts from a recorded display or latency differences between your iPhone and other genlocked cameras*****
Also Recently Added:
- Use Clean HDMI Out to send a clean video feed without overlays to an external monitor or recorder so you can stay focused on the image being captured*****
- Choose from ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 422, or ProRes 422 LT for incredible video fidelity and editing performance, with more options to balance image quality and file size******
- Disable digital zoom to to ensure every shot records at full optical resolution
- Easily connect your iPhone to your Mac and import your media from Final Cut Camera into Final Cut Pro
- Requires iPhone 18 Pro
- * Requires iOS 27
- ** Requires iPhone 18 Pro or iPhone Duo
- *** Requires iPhone 17 Pro or later and iOS 27
- **** Requires iPhone 17 Pro or later
- ***** Requires iPhone 13 Pro or later
Apple says the app was also redesigned from the ground up to give creators easy access to pro settings like shutter angle, ISO, and white balance.
Pages, Numbers, and Keynote all have new templates and themes to choose from, along with better tools for collaboration. Keynote now supports intelligent slide generation. Numbers adds trigonometry, statistics, and logic functions for solving complex problems. Pages for Mac adds a Screen View that optimizes content for reading and writing.
Pixelmator Pro for iPad brings new template collections on both the Mac and iPad. A Podcasts category includes cover artwork options. The iPad app also adopts Select and Mask from the Mac app for precise mask and selection refinements.
Final Cut Pro and Motion on Mac add an option to add Cinematic mode effects to video captured on the iPhone 18 Pro. Compressor adds support for converting video with Cinematic mode effects back into the previous Cinematic mode format, and there are new HEVC and MPEG–4 export presets.
Freeform adds automatic Dark Mode support for boards, folders for better organization, and support for Writing Tools. With Writing Tools, Apple Intelligence is able to rewrite, proofread, and summarize handwritten notes.
All of the updates are available today. Apple Creator Studio is priced at $12.99 per month and provides access to all of Apple’s creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro. It also includes free apps like Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, all of which offer premium features that are not available in the free versions of the apps. Final Cut Camera is free for the iPhone in the App Store.