New Features in Apple Final Cut Pro 12.3

On June 30, 2026, Apple released Final Cut Pro 12.3. Based on Apple’s Release Notes, here’s what’s new.

Powerful intelligence features:

• Use Generate Captions to quickly add subtitles and easily customize their look to create accessible, ready-to-share content for social media and video platforms. (Requires a Mac with Apple silicon, available in U.S. English only).
• Isolate recognized objects with Auto Mask to effortlessly color correct or enhance your video, eliminating the need for manual tracking.
• Match your video’s color across different cameras, lighting conditions, and cinematic styles with the all-new Match Color tool, unifying the look of your timeline.
• Analyze any rendered video with Edit Detection to reveal its shot changes and automatically split it into separate clips with just a click.

Workflow Enhancements:

• Accurately fine-tune your edits with a persistent two-up display that stays locked in view while you’re trimming in the timeline using keyboard shortcuts or with the Precision Editor.
• Send any frame directly to Pixelmator Pro with one click, streamlining your workflow for custom thumbnails and social media graphics.
• Instantly swap clip positions in the primary storyline with a new keyboard shortcut for faster editing.
• Easily copy and paste complex edits across timelines with a new option to select a primary storyline clip and all its connected media simultaneously.
• Proxy media is now generated using HEVC instead of H.264, for improved compression efficiency and HDR support.
• Background rendering is now set to Off by default.
• Easily convert existing closed captions to subtitles.
• Quickly select all subtitles with a single command.
• Adjust the position, rotation, scale, alignment, and other parameters for multiple selected subtitles at once from the inspector.

Bug fixes:

• Fixes an issue that could cause segmented RAW media files to not open if the original media was copied into the library first.
• Fixes an issue that caused mixed photo and video assets recorded in a different time zone to be sorted incorrectly by creation date in the browser.
• Fixes an issue that could cause Final Cut Pro to quit when exporting more than one project using the Export File preset.
• Fixes an issue that could cause a damaged library alert to appear.
• Fixes an issue that caused proxies generated from Canon Log and other log-encoded formats to have a noticeable color tint.

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