Apple has rolled out a comprehensive update to its Creator Studio suite, revolutionising its flagship Final Cut Camera app with pro controls, new editing tools, and expanded support for the iPhone 18 Pro, signalling a major shift in mobile video creation.
Apple has begun rolling out a broad update to its Creator Studio suite, with the most significant changes centred on Final Cut Camera, the company’s free video capture app for serious mobile filming. According to Apple’s announcement and reporting from MacRumors, the app has been redesigned to make pro controls easier to reach, while adding tools such as RGB parade, a histogram, false colour and clipping indicators to help videographers judge exposure and colour more precisely.
The update also brings deeper support for the iPhone 18 Pro. MacRumors reported that Final Cut Camera now works with the device’s variable aperture system and offers aperture priority, shutter priority and fully manual shooting modes. Apple has also added support for Cinematic effects in regular video, allowing those effects to be adjusted later in Final Cut Pro. The app’s interface has been rebuilt around quicker access to settings including shutter angle, ISO and white balance, while focus peaking now includes sensitivity control. Other additions include a tally light during recording and a two-finger tap gesture that clears the viewfinder.
Apple is pairing the camera update with changes to Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor so that creators can edit and convert the new Cinematic-style footage more easily. Final Cut Pro and Motion now support adjustment of the effects in post-production, while Compressor can convert clips carrying those effects back into the earlier format. That fits with Apple’s broader push, outlined in its June Creator Studio announcement, to make the suite more tightly connected across capture, editing and export.
Elsewhere in the bundle, Freeform has gained a dark mode-aware board layout, folder organisation and Shortcuts automation for adding content. Apple also says devices with Apple Intelligence can summarise handwritten notes, while the visionOS version now allows users to lift items from boards and inspect them together in a group setting. In the iWork apps, users can now request access to shared presentations, Pages adds a Screen View mode aimed at reading and writing, Keynote can generate images through its slide tools, and Numbers gains new trigonometry and statistics functions.
Pixelmator Pro is also expanding within the suite, with Select and Mask now available on iPad for the first time, alongside new templates for sports and podcasts. Apple says the latest updates are available now through the App Store, with Keynote, Pages, Numbers and Freeform remaining free, although some features are reserved for subscribers. Apple’s Creator Studio subscription costs $12.99 a month or $129 a year in the US, while students pay $2.99 a month or $29.99 a year.
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