Apple teases upcoming version of Final Cut Pro with new ‘Transcribe to Captions’ feature [Video]

Apple’s Mac mini reveal video, which highlighted all of the merits of its diminutive new M4-powered beast, also gave us a first look at the upcoming version of Final Cut Pro. As noted by Shloka Kini, product manager for Mac mini, the update will include a new built-in ability to transcribe audio to captions, handy for transcribing voiceovers to captions for sharing on the web.

Apple’s new Mac mini, which is powered by both the M4 and M4 Pro chips, is being positioned as a machine that’s ready to handle Apple Intelligence and other machine learning tasks. The new Final Cut Transcribe to Captions feature will most certainly benefit from the enhancements provided by M4.

Of course, there are other ways to transcribe to captions within Final Cut Pro using third-party software. MotionVFX includes one such option called mCaptions, and it works really well. The downside to third-party options is that they usually come at a …