Overview
- Apple’s support document says Mac users can keep both standalone and subscription versions installed, with distinct icons to differentiate them.
- Apple’s Bryan O’Neil Hughes says Final Cut Pro’s current intelligent tools—Visual Search, Transcript Search, and Beat Detection—will be in both editions, while future parity is not guaranteed.
- Final Cut Pro’s Mac buyout remains $299.99, reflecting Apple’s hybrid model that keeps one-time purchases alongside the new subscription bundle.
- Apple Creator Studio launches January 28 on the App Store with pricing set at ¥38 per month or ¥380 per year in Greater China and a cited $12.99 per month for iPad.
- New iPad users must subscribe to Creator Studio to use Final Cut Pro, existing single‑app subscribers keep their plans, Logic Pro and MainStage retain full parity, and some apps like Pixelmator Pro add subscriber‑only tools such as Warp.