Final Cut Pro 12.3, Compressor 5.3, and Motion 6.3

Apple has released maintenance updates for its professional video apps: Final Cut Pro 12.3, Compressor 5.3, and Motion 6.3. Final Cut Pro receives a few intelligence boosts, including the Generate Captions feature to add subtitles and customize their appearance quickly, the Auto Mask feature to isolate recognized objects for color correction, and the Match Color tool to match video color across different cameras, lighting conditions, and cinematic styles. The update also enables you to fine-tune edits with a persistent two-up display that stays locked in view, lets you swap clip positions in the primary storyline with a new keyboard shortcut, resolves an issue that could prevent segmented RAW media files from opening, and avoids a crash caused by exporting more than one project using the Export File preset.

Compressor now allows you to view immersive, temporal, and dynamic metadata before encoding with the new immersive metadata viewer, adds support for data rate limits when encoding to HEVC with Apple silicon devices, adds a 5.1 AAC audio option to Apple Device export settings, and resolves an issue where changes to the camera log menu in the inspector could not be undone. Motion adds support for importing SVG files, adds new controls that allow you to stagger, cascade, or reverse clips, resolves an issue where 3D Motion templates appeared flat in Final Cut Pro, and fixes a bug where some color correction filters rendered visibly brighter on macOS 26 Tahoe than on previous releases. All three apps are bundled with the Apple Creator Studio subscription, which costs $12.99 per month or $129 per year, and are also sold as standalone one-time purchases. (Free updates. Final Cut Pro, $299.99 new, 7.73 GB, release notes, macOS 14.6+; Compressor, $49.99 new, 241.7 MB, release notes, macOS 14.6+; Motion, $49.99 new, 4.27 GB, release notes, macOS 15.6+)