Apple Creator Studio update – Summer 2026

Yesterday saw the appearance of an update to Final Cut Pro 12.3, Motion 6.3 and Compressor 5.3 alongside updates to most of the applications in the Apple Creator Studio service.

Apple’s press release.

Posts covering the news on Apple-friendly websites were only retreads of the press release: Cult of Mac, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, MacTech and 9To5Mac.

Iain Anderson wrote a detailed article for Pro Video Coalition about the Final Cut Pro for Mac and Final Cut Camera for iPhone updates based on actual use of the new versions with information not shared in the official press release.

Apple Documentation

Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro for Mac release notes

What’s new in Final Cut Pro for Mac

Updated list of keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro for Mac:

  • Detach Audio – Control-Shift-S
  • Detect Edits – Shift-E
  • Move selected connected clips up – Option-Up Arrow
  • Move selected primary storyline clips to the left – Option-Left Arrow
  • Move selected primary storyline clips to the right – Option-Right Arrow
  • Move selected connected clips down – Option-Down Arrow
  • Select all clips connected to the selected item – Control-Command-A
  • Add Auto Mask – Control-Command-K
  • Transcribe spoken words as subtitles – Shift-Command-S
  • Show/Hide 2-Up When Trimming – Option-U

Final Cut Pro for Mac 12.3 User Guide

In Final Cut Pro 12.o documentation…

Apple Creator Studio is a service mark of Apple Inc.

In Final Cut Pro 12.3 documentation:

Apple Creator Studio, Apple Intelligence, Final Cut Camera, Image Playground, and Multi-Touch are trademarks of Apple Inc.

Final Cut Pro on Mac requires macOS 15.6 or later.

 

What’s new in Final Cut Pro for iPad

Updated list of keyboard shortcuts for Final Cut Pro for iPad:

  • Detect Edits – Shift-E
  • Split All – Shift-Command-B
  • Raise Volume by 1 dB – Control-=
  • Lower Volume by 1 dB – Control-Hyphen (-)
  • Generate Captions – Shift-Command-S
  • Detach Audio – Control-Shift-S
  • Play Selection – /
  • Position Mode – P
  • Increase Clip Height – Shift-Command-=
  • Decrease Clip Height – Shift-Command-Hyphen (-)

Final Cut Pro for iPad 3.3 User Guide

Final Cut Pro for iPad requires iPadOS 18.6 or later and an iPad, iPad Pro, or iPad Air with an Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16), or iPad mini (A17 Pro).

 

Apple Motion for Mac 6.3

Motion release notes

What’s new in Motion

Motion for Mac 6.3 User Guide

Motion 6.3 requires macOS 15.6 or later.

 

Apple Compressor for Mac  5.3

Compressor release notes

What’s new in Compressor

The minimum system requirement for Compressor 5.3 is macOS Sequoia 15.6.

 

Final Cut Camera for iPhone 2.3

Final Cut Camera release notes

What’s new in Final Cut Camera

  • Clean HDMI output (requires iPhone 17 Pro or later)
  • ProRes 422 LT, 422 and 422 HQ recordings
  • Disable digital zoom
  • Improved access to individual clips on connected Mac

Final Cut Camera 2.3 User Guide

Final Cut Camera for iOS requires iPhone XS or later running iOS 18.6 or later, with some features requiring iOS 26 or iPhone 17 Pro.

 

Logic Pro

What’s new for Logic Pro for Mac 12.3

What’s new in Logic Pro for iPad 3.3

Same as for Mac version plus

Logic Pro for Mac 12.3 user guide
Logic Pro for iPad 3.3 user guide

 

Pixelmator Pro

Pixelmator Pro for Mac release notes
Pixelmator Pro for iPad release notes

What’s new in Pixelmator Pro on Mac
What’s new in Pixelmator Pro on iPad
(includes what was new since the introduction of Apple Creator Studio)

Pixelmator Pro for Mac requires macOS 26 or later.

Pixelmator Pro for iPad requires iPadOS 26 or later and an iPad, iPad Pro, or iPad Air with an Apple M1 chip or later, iPad (A16), or iPad mini (A17 Pro).

 

Keynote

What’s in new in Keynote 15.3 for Mac:

  • New transitions and builds
  • Create custom, editable shapes from a text description – for Apple Creator Studio subscribers
  • Edit placed images in Pixelmator Pro, updates in presentation – for Apple Creator Studio subscribers

 

Apple Creator Studio

About Apple Creator Studio
Apple support document including how to subscribe, how to share your subscription with other family members, hardware and operating system requirements.

Apple’s rules for using the royalty free content that comes as part of an Apple Creator Studio subscription:

Content. Apple may make content available to you through the Service, or through the Creator Studio Apps, such as images, themes, templates, audio, video, and 3D assets, that is owned by Apple or by third parties (“Content”).

Title and intellectual property rights in and to Content displayed by or accessed through the Service or the Creator Studio Apps belong to the respective Content owner and may be protected by copyright or other intellectual property laws and treaties and may be subject to terms of use of the third party providing such Content.

Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Apple Media Services Terms, the Additional Terms, or in the Service you may use Content on a royalty-free basis to create your own original projects for personal and commercial use.

You may not:
(i) republish, retransmit, reproduce, or otherwise use Content solely as standalone files outside of the Service or the Creator Studio Apps;
(ii) incorporate Content into a logo, corporate ID, trademark, or service mark;
(iii) use Content in a pornographic, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful manner, whether directly or in context or juxtaposition with other material or subject matter;
(iv) use Content for training, testing, or evaluating, any machine learning or artificial intelligence models, tools, algorithms, image generators, or other software programs.

Shows that the rules allow Apple to have different rules for third-party content that is displayed by or accessed through the Service or the Creator Studio Apps. Paves the way for Apple to add a third-party content store to Apple Creator Studio.

 

Apple Creator Studio news since the update

New Apple Creator Studio warning about it sending text prompts to Google Cloud – Apple Insider

Bug fix updates have been released for Keynote – to version 15.3.1 (on 4 August) and Logic Pro 12.3.1 (on 13 August).

 

Final Cut Pro, Motion and Compressor videos

These Final Cut Pro YouTube Creators uploaded videos within minutes of the update:

POST-PROfessionals
Final Cut Pro Can Finally GENERATE SUBTITLES! (12.3 Deep Dive) (25:41)
As the Apple feature only works in US English, the video shows how to make them in other languages.

Apple’s New Auto Mask Is Smarter Than You Think (19:31)
Auto Mask recognises people, cats, dogs, hair, sky, foliage. Pick some and the masks will automatically track them as they move. nNot just a demo. A detailed tutorial with useful tips.

Jenn Jager Pro Tutorials
HUGE updates for Final Cut Pro! (9:43)
FCP for iPad Update | AI Tools, New Workflows and More! (3:03)
Apple Motion Update! What’s in Version 6.3 (4:04)
New Titles, Generators and Effects for FCP 12.3 (23:54)
– recording of a stream discovering new Final Cut content

Dylan Bates • The Final Cut Bro
Final Cut Pro UPDATE 12.3 // It FINALLY Happened! (14:04)

Dylan John
Final Cut Pro 12.3 | Every New Feature in 3 Minutes (2:26)
Final Cut Pro 12.3 Is Here… And It’s Actually Good (13:28)

Brad West
Final Cut Pro 12.3 is Here! Everything You Need to Know! (14:33)

Ripple Training
Final Cut Pro 12.3 Deep Dive (22:15)
FCP for iPad 3.3 Deep Dive (8:21)

This creator who didn’t get Final Cut sent to them in advance, or took a little while to upload the video they prepared in advance:

Rafael Ludwig
You’re Gonna Want To Update for This ONE (8:06)

That’s seven Final Cut-focussed creators with a total of over 478,000 subscribers combined.

Color Grading Central
Did Final Cut Pro Just Crack AI Color Grading? (7:14)
Not just useful workflow tips, a proper review – including how the improved Color Match feature compares with Premiere and Resolve.

A colour grading creator with over 468,000 subscribers.

Videos uploaded since 1 July:

Matthew O’Brien
Apple Finally Did it! One 12.3 Feature That SAVES Final Cut Pro! (14:03)
9 Tips For Worry Free Updates to Final Cut Pro (9:52)

Dylan Bates • The Final Cut Bro
Apple Motion UPDATE 6.3 // Motion is So Much Better Now (7:12)
Final Cut Pro for iPad 3.3 is here! // Biggest Update Yet! (9:45)
5 Ways I am using the NEW Auto Mask tool in Final Cut Pro (10:57)
Everything you need to know about Automatic Subtitles in Final Cut Pro (16:51)
Final Cut Pro FINALLY Got THIS Feature! – Subtitles (0:42)
Everything new in FCP 12.3 as fast as possible – YouTube short
Add Automatic Subtitles in ANY Language to Final Cut Pro (3:30)
Final Cut Camera 2.3 is HERE! // Everything that’s new (3:31)

Dylan John
Final Cut Pro Just Made Teeth Whitening Embarrassingly Easy | No Plugins (2:26)
Try This SKIN SMOOTHING HACK in Final Cut Pro (No Plugins) (2:34)

Jenn Jager Pro Tutorials
Transform Appearances with FCP’s New Auto Mask! (10:01)

Brad West
Finally… Editable AUTOMATIC CAPTIONS / SUBTITLES in Final Cut Pro (14:33)
5 PRACTICAL Ways to Use the NEW Auto Masks in Final Cut Pro 12.3 (13:36)

Stupid Raisins YouTube Shorts:
Final Cut Pro Auto Captions Are More Powerful Than You Think (Tricks You Should Know #26)
Swap Clips in Final Cut Pro Without Dragging (Tricks You Should Know #27)

Simon Ubsdell
NEW Distribute Layers Feature in Apple Motion (1:16)
NEW SVG Import in Apple Motion (1:05)
NEW Export to Pixelmator Feature for Apple Motion (0:27)

Stephen Robles – Instagram
Two new features in Final Cut Pro 12.3

Dana Itani – Instagram
I actually couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw how fast (Auto Mask feature) (0:49)

SlatePad
Everything New in Final Cut Pro 3.3 for iPad (13:36)

Mattia Antonelli – Italian – Auto-dubbed to your language
APPLE CHANGES FINAL CUT PRO! Here’s what’s NEW (7:29)

I discovered an unreported feature in Final Cut Pro 12.3.

If you have multiple titles selected, and you go to the inspector, if the same parameter is shared across all the titles and you change its value, then the parameter value is changed for all the titles. Previously only one of the selected titles would change.

A feature probably added to improve the new subtitle workflow.

Logic Pro videos

Why Logic Pro Rules (135K subscribers)
Logic Pro 12.3 Update: Here’s What’s New! (16:48)

imamusicmogul (371K subscribers)
Logic Pro 12.3 adds something we’ve all wanted and more… (7:03)

Pete Johns – Studio Live Today (158K subscribers)
NEW UPDATE! | Logic Pro for iPad 3.3 (13:08)
UPDATES! | Logic Pro & Apple Creator Studio (1:13:41)
– Livestream recording

The GarageBand Guide (180K subscribers)
Apple Just Added These FREE Sounds To Logic Pro (8:00)

Videos uploaded after launch:

Catherall Audio
Logic Pro 12.3 Update (10:56)

Beat Making Basics
THIS NEW LOGIC PRO 12.3 UPDATE IS NICE!! (10:27)
LOGIC PRO 12.3 UPDATE – THIS BEAT BREAKER PLUGIN IS INSANE! (13:35)

Verysickbeats
Logic Pro 12.3’s Chord ID Got ‘Enhanced’… I Tested It (6:50)

MusicTechHelpGuy
Logic Pro 12.3 Update: Everything NEW in Beat Breaker! (15:34)
Logic Pro 12.3 Update: Grid Lines ON TOP OF Regions! (4:47)

Jono Buchanan Music
Logic Pro: Beat Breaker 12.3 update – whats new ? (17:13)
Actually explaining the feature from first principles.

Pete Johns – Studio Live Today
Beat Breaker is RAD! | Logic Pro for iPad (10:26)
Granular Alchemy | NEW Sound Pack in Logic Pro for iPad (9:20)

Pixelmator Pro video

Joseph Slinker (18K subscribers)
Pixelmator Pro now touches EVERYTHING (16:48)

Joseph shows that AI can create vector shapes and coloured graphics. Motion 6.3 can now import these SVG graphics.

Pages/Keynote/Numbers video

macmostvideo (505K subscribers)
New In Apple Creator Studio: AI Shapes (8:13)

Shows how Pages 15.3 – the Apple Creator Studio version – can create vector-based shapes using AI. Which can be ungrouped and edited in Pages. These shapes can also be generated using the ACS subscriber versions of Keynote and Numbers. Once created, these shapes can be used in Pages and Numbers.

 

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