Apple makes video and music software free amid coronavirus pandemic

Apple has made its professional-grade software for video editing and music making – Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro X – free with a 90-day trial. 

Normally, Final Cut Pro X has a 30-day trial, which has now been extended to 90 days, and works even if you’re already on a 30-day trial. And Logic Pro X, which didn’t have any sort of free trial so far, now gets the 90-day trial option as well.

The new options come after an unprecedented migration towards work-from-home arrangements amid a global coronavirus outbreak. In early March, Apple itself told many of its workers to work from home if possible, and numerous other companies have done the same. 

“We hope customers who are home and looking for something new to master will try out these free trials and start making some awesome new beats with Logic Pro X or create some amazing videos with Final Cut Pro X,” an Apple spokesperson told Mashable in an e-mail.  

Final Cut Pro X costs $299.99, while Logic Pro X costs $199.99, and three months of free trial is a reasonable amount of time for users to figure out whether they’re good purchases for them. 

COVID-19 — the disease caused by coronavirus — has so far killed more than 21,000 and infected more than 465,000 people. The outbreak has been worsening in the U.S. in recent weeks, with more than 82,100 confirmed cases and 1,195 deaths.