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In the Creative Jungle With Jungle

How the band used Apple Creator Studio to make their new music videos.

The British band Jungle is known for bending genres and pushing creative boundaries. We recently joined J Lloyd, Tom McFarland, and Lydia Kitto on set for one of the band’s most ambitious projects to date—shooting 11 music videos in four days to celebrate their new album, Sunshine, out now.

Here’s a look at how Jungle uses the powerful apps in Apple Creator Studio to help them write, rehearse, and edit at the speed of sound.


Logic Pro’s Varispeed speeds up or slows down a song while keeping the pitch intact. Since Jungle created their entire album in Logic Pro, they were able to pull up their recording of “Move Like You Do” with their choreographer and experiment in real time.

“We were rehearsing with Will West, trying it at 120 BPM, then 122, then 121, until we found the tempo where the moves and the song just clicked,” J Lloyd says. “Once we had it, we knew exactly what we were shooting for on set the next day.”


Final Cut Pro’s Smooth Slo-Mo transforms a few seconds of choreography into a captivating slow-motion performance. Rather than simply stretching video, Final Cut Pro intelligently generates the in-between motion of frames, so every spin, jump, and gesture looks fluid.

Final Cut Pro’s Magnetic Mask isolates people, objects, and shapes using on-device AI—then tracks what you selected across the rest of a clip. With only four days to shoot 11 music videos, Jungle edited each video on set right after it was shot.

“Final Cut Pro is like a magic sword,” Tom McFarland says. “There’s one shot for the track ‘Romeo II,’ where the camera accidentally caught some of the lighting rig. With five clicks, the editor was able to paint it out. It just automatically knows.”


With Final Cut Pro’s Magnetic Timeline, video clips, transitions, and audio automatically snap into place and stay in sync when edits are made. Whether you’re trimming clips or aligning cuts to the beat, everything downstream adjusts with you.

To draw the poster artwork seen throughout the music video for “Sunshine,” the band seamlessly switched between Pixelmator Pro on Mac and iPad.

“We didn’t have to worry about the tech. We could just focus on getting the design right,” J Lloyd says. “I could pick up the iPad between takes and keep sketching on Pixelmator Pro, and it all just worked.”


Jungle’s new album, Sunshine, is streaming in Spatial Audio on Apple Music. The music videos will be available over the coming weeks.