How to Add Apple Music to Final Cut Pro

By Justin SabrinaUpdated on December 17, 2022

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Today, we all love to edit videos to create stories and upload to our social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc. Final Cut Pro from Apple Inc is a professional and prosumer-level video editing software with richer video editing features than iMovie. You can install it on multiple Macs running macOS 10.13. 6 or higher, for just $299, which is great value for professionals and serious hobbyists alike. Apple Music is one of the best and most popular streaming music platforms, offering more than 50 millions songs. You can always discover and find a music track for you video project. Here comes the question: Can you add Apple Music to Final Cut Pro as background music? How to use Apple Music in Final Cut Pro on your Mac? Follow this article, here we are going to show you an easy way to import Apple Music to Final Cut Pro as BGM.

Can You Add Apple Music to Final Cut Pro Directly?

Final Cut Pro lets you add music from your iTunes library or from local music files on your Mac. But that doesn't extend to streaming music, like Apple Music. As you know, Apple Music is a subscription-based streaming music service where you can only enjoy songs by paying a certain monthly subscription fee. All music tracks in Apple Music are just streaming audio content with DRM protection. Even if you download Apple Music files on iTunes or the Apple Music app, they are not stored as local files. Instead, they'll be saved in a protected .m4p format that can only be accessed through the Apple Music app or iTunes. Therefore, you are not allowed to add DRM-ed Apple Music M4P songs to Final Cut Pro or other video editing software.

But this is not the end of our story. According to Final Cut Pro, it supports MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, MP4, BWF and CAF formats. In other words, if you could download and save Apple Music as MP3, AAC, WAV or other compatible formats, then you may use Apple Music songs in Final Cut Pro. Here we highly recommend this UkeySoft Apple Music Converter.

Best Tool to Add Apple Music to Final Cut Pro - UkeySoft Apple Music Converter

UkeySoft Apple Music Converter is a multifunctional Apple Music Converter and DRM Removal tool. With it, users can easily get rid of Apple FairPlay DRM and convert Apple Music M4P songs to MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, M4A or FLAC format at 10X higher speed. This professional tool will keep the original audio quality and ID3 tags for Apple Music tracks. Better yet, it allows you to customize the output quality and organize the output songs by album or artists. These features will help better manage your music library.

Embed with an Apple Music Web Player and intuitive interface, it is quite easy for users to convert Apple Music to plain audio formats without launching the Apple Music app or iTunes. By converting Apple Music to MP3, WAV, AAC files, you can easily import Apple Music to Final Cut Pro, iMovie, Splice, InShot and any other video editing software/tool.

Guide: Convert and Add Apple Music Songs to Final Cut Pro

In this part, we will guide you how to convert Apple Music songs to MP3, AAC or WAV format using UkeySoft Apple Music Converter, and then add the converted Apple Music songs to Final Cut Pro as BGM.

Step 1. Install and Launch UkeySoft Apple Music Converter
Download and install UkeySoft Apple Music Converter to your Mac computer. Launch the program and login to your iTunes account.

Step 2. Select MP3 as Output Format
To customize the audio output parameters, please click on the Gear icon at the top right corner of the interface. In the pop-up window, you can set the Output Format, Output Quality, Output Folder, Output File Name, etc.

To add Apple Music songs to Final Cut Pro or other apps/devices, you can select the universal MP3 format, and set the output quality to 320kbps.

Step 3. Add Apple Music Songs/Albums/Playlists to Program
Go back to the home page of the converter, open any songs, album or playlist, and click the "+" icon to load the songs.

By default, it will import all Apple Music songs, you can deselect some songs.

Step 4. Convert Apple Music to MP3 for Final Cut Pro
Hit on "Convert" button, then UkeySoft will automatically convert all selected Apple Music songs to plain MP3 format with high quality.

After the conversion is complete, you can go to the Output Folder to get all converted Apple Music MP3 files.

Step 5. Import Apple Music Songs to Final Cut Pro
Now all you converted Apple Music MP3 files are compatible with Final Cut Pro, and you can use them as video BGM in Final Cut Pro. Just follow the simple steps to move Apple Music to Final Cut Pro on Mac.

- Open Final Cut Pro on your Mac, and add a video project.

- Click "File" > "Import" > "Media" button to open the Media Import window.

- Locate and find the converted Apple Music song (.MP3) you want to use in the video.

- Then drag the Apple Music songs down to the Timeline to add it to your project.

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Justin Sabrina

Justin Sabrina has over 10 years of content writing experience. She specializes in product reviews, how-to guides, tips and tricks, top lists, etc. on data encryption, multi-media conversion, screen recording and iOS unlocking. At UkeySoft, she performs in-depth research SEO copywriting and collaborates with our R & D team to offer effective software solution, most of her articles on software are helpful and easy to read, helping our reader easily solve problems through using software or apps.

Justin Sabrina

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Chester is an experienced editor for UkeySoft focused on tech article writing, software & hardware produce review and tutorial. He specializes in composing posts about music conversion, video downloading, video conversion, screen recording and other tech knowledge tips. He always understands user needs and pain points and familiar with all kinds of multimedia conversion software and streaming music downloader on the market. So far, he has published 400+ helpful tech articles of software reviews, how-to guides to help reader in need.

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