Final Cut Camera 2.4 adds variable aperture control on iPhone 18 Pro

Apple released Final Cut Camera 2.4 on September 29, a free update that adds support for the variable aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro and a redesigned interface. The app is the company’s professional filming tool for iPhone, and this is its first update built around the phone’s new Fusion Main camera.

According to Apple, the iPhone 18 Pro’s variable aperture brings aperture control to iPhone for the first time. In Final Cut Camera, creators can dial in aperture settings directly or switch between shutter priority and aperture priority modes. Independent coverage from 9to5Mac puts the supported range at f/1.48 to f/4 and notes the app also offers a manual mode.

What the redesign changes

The new version was rebuilt around quicker access to the settings pros reach for most: shutter angle, ISO and white balance. Apple says the update adds customizable overlays, including false color and clipping indicators for checking exposure, plus improved focus peaking with sensitivity control. A new tally light shows when recording is underway, and a two-finger tap clears the viewfinder.

If you shoot on an iPhone 18 Pro, the update also unlocks Cinematic mode effects for regular video, including footage captured in ProRes and Apple Log. That means focus points and depth of field can be adjusted later while editing in Final Cut Pro. Engadget reports that Final Cut Pro and Motion both support editing depth of field and focus points for video shot on the iPhone 18 Pro, and that because Final Cut Camera can be controlled remotely from Final Cut Pro, the same settings — aperture included — can be adjusted from a nearby iPad or Mac.

iOS 27 adds scopes, clean SDI out and genlock offset

With iOS 27, Apple says Final Cut Camera gains professional video scopes, clean SDI out and genlock offset. The RGB Parade scope displays the red, green and blue color channels to help check color balance and exposure, alongside a histogram. Clean SDI out lets creators send a clean video signal through an HDMI-to-SDI converter for broadcast-quality streaming, while genlock offset compensates for image artifacts from a recorded display or latency differences between an iPhone and other genlocked cameras.

Price and availability

Final Cut Camera 2.4 is available now as a free software update on the App Store. 9to5Mac reports the app requires a subscription to Apple Creator Studio, priced at $12.99 per month or $129 per year. The new camera settings require an iPhone 18 Pro, and Engadget notes that Pixelmator Pro’s new templates need the $13-per-month Creator Studio subscription.

Apple is rolling out updates to Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Freeform and Pixelmator Pro at the same time. Subscribers get new templates and themes in Pages, Keynote, Numbers and Pixelmator Pro; Keynote can automatically generate images matching a slide’s content, and the iPad version of Pixelmator Pro picks up the Select and Mask tools from the Mac version. Non-subscribers also get changes: shared files in Pages, Numbers, Keynote and Freeform can now be opened by request, Pages’ Screen View optimizes documents for reading and focused writing, Numbers adds trigonometry, statistics and logic functions, Freeform boards adapt to dark mode and can be organized into collections, and Freeform supports Apple Intelligence Writing Tools.

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Sources

• Final Cut Camera now supports variable aperture on iPhone 18 Pro — Apple Newsroom
• Final Cut Camera updated with support for iPhone 18 Pro features, more — 9to5Mac
• Apple updates Final Cut Camera to support the iPhone 18 Pro's variable aperture — Engadget