Apple’s Mac mini announcement video highlighted all the benefits of the tiny new M4-powered beast, and also gave us a first look at the upcoming version of Final Cut Pro. As Mac mini product manager Shloka Kini pointed out, this update includes a new ability to transcribe audio to captions, which is useful for transcribing voice-overs to captions and sharing them on the web.
Powered by both the M4 and M4 Pro chips, Apple’s new Mac mini is positioned as a machine capable of handling Apple Intelligence and other machine learning tasks. The new Final Cut Transcribe to Captions feature will definitely benefit from the enhancements provided by M4.
Of course, there are other ways to transcribe captions within Final Cut Pro using third-party software. MotionVFX includes an option called mCaptions that works really well. The downside to third-party options is that they usually cost more. This is the first time we’ve had native transcription capabilities within Final Cut Pro, and since captions are a big part of the success of short-form videos, it couldn’t come at a better time.
To put this in perspective, Apple says tasks like voice-to-text processing are up to 13 times faster than Intel-based Macs when compared to the M4. In other words, AI-based tasks like transcribing captions should be more or less instantaneous, and Apple’s Mac mini video shows that.
Apple’s new Final Cut Pro teaser clip also briefly teases a new, currently unannounced feature called Magnetic Mask. If I had to guess, this seems like a solution that takes advantage of the snapping feature to make unfolding masks easier. High contrast area.
The magnetic mask feature looks promising and I can’t wait to try it out. But as someone who’s been engaging more with short-form videos on YouTube lately, I’d be a very happy customer if all Apple offered was the ability to transcribe to captions.
We’ll probably get our first look at the new version of Final Cut Pro in just a few weeks at the FCP Creative Summit in Cupertino, hosted by Future Media Conferences. In official collaboration with Apple, attendees traditionally get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at unreleased versions of Apple’s two major creative apps, Logic Pro and Final Cut, during special visits to the Apple Park campus. has been provided to.
What do you think about using a Mac mini as a Final Cut Pro machine? Based on my past experience using Apple Silicon-powered Mac minis for editing, I think the M4-powered version would be a great option for video editors. Masu.
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