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In the part of the office where I sit, there are a lot of arguments.

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I don't care what you say, pineapple belongs on pizza.

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Real mature. It could be about YouTubers. Mr. Beast is the greatest YouTuber of all time, I swear.

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Or if I get involved, it's about the iPad.

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macOS doesn't belong on the iPad.

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BOOM! And Apple doesn't even help me make my case.

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Thanks to the inclusion of the M2 processor on the brand new iPad Pro, there's technically

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no reason why it can't run macOS, especially when docked to a Magic keyboard or USB-C hub.

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Exactly. I just want one device for everything. Yeah!

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That's what I was trying to tell you! But guys, alongside the new hardware, Apple announced that DaVinci Resolve would be coming

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to the device. If Blackmagic thinks that its professional grade video editing suite is good enough for

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iPad OS, then maybe I'm right. And to find out, I'm going to edit a whole video on this iPad.

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Spoiler though, I wasn't entirely right.

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Back when I tried the M1 iPad Pro, I had many gripes about its capability at the time.

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It couldn't play ProRes video. File management was annoying and nothing could fully utilize its impressive processor and

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display. Since then, iPad OS has changed by so much, I'm actually quite surprised how far it's

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come. And some of the decisions, like putting a powerful PC processor in here, makes more sense.

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In professional circles, DaVinci Resolve is best known for its capabilities as a color-grading

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application to help transform the look, footage.

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For the rest of us, the free version of the desktop app is an incredibly powerful video

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editor for those who want to get into it. Editing on a computer with a big screen and mouse has obvious benefits.

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The large canvas and precise controls are essential for translating a creative vision

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into a finished product. So with only a finger and tiny screen, how does that work on the iPad?

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It's a good question. And it's why, on first launch, DaVinci presents you with the cut and color pages, as opposed

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to the seven pages available on the desktop app.

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If you're used to a traditional timeline, the cut page has a bit of a learning curve,

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but after a couple of days, I appreciate why they did it this way, especially on this

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screen. I was still surprised by how much I enjoyed video editing on the iPad.

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Yes, it is slower. Don't expect to see edited on iPad in Apple's next keynote.

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But for short social videos, rough storylines, and quick news stories, it's not only possible,

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it's even kind of fun. There's this delightful satisfaction to scrubbing and moving clips around with one finger.

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However, if I had to choose between my finger or the pencil, I'd use the pencil.

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It's particularly great on the new iPad Pro, because DaVinci Resolve takes advantage of

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the new Hover feature. I was initially skeptical about Hover, I mean, it's just based off mouseover, right?

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But in the real world, it feels like much more than that.

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It adds a magical new layer of interactivity to the interface that just makes sense.

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So as the tip of the pencil hovers over a button element, it comes to life, and when

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it grazes over a video clip in the media window, it scrubs through it.

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Woah, this is so cool. I have to show Ed.

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Hey, Ed. Oh, yeah, I know, and I'm actually going to set up the iPad in the color booth.

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What? You're going to set up an iPad as a computer here, like right now?

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Yeah. I'm speechless. Let's go.

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It turns out that Ed is so convinced by DaVinci on the iPad that he wants to actually set

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one up in the color correction booth here at Linus Media Group.

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Oh, so it's going in here. Okay, so I have to ask, is it because DaVinci is now available on the iPad that that's why

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you want it to play here? That was the biggest reason, yeah.

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I mean, like the screen's fantastic and our normal systems are expensive, so this being

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like under 2,000. Will we need this anymore?

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No. Okay, I'll take that out. Will we need this anymore?

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No, that doesn't work either. Will we need this?

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Uh, nope. We have the Apple Pencil, right?

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What? I like clean the whole desk. Yeah, I mean, this is kind of all you need.

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What have you learned in your time playing around with DaVinci on there? I've learned that the touch interface is fantastic, especially with a pencil.

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You know, adjusting the curves or using the wheels, it's just a lot more intuitive than

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like using a mouse. What's this? So I found all the stands that are out there for the iPad, kind of put it like over there

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and then your keyboard's here and if you want to use a pencil, you're reaching over.

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So I made this thing so that it puts the iPad over your keyboard so that the distance

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between your keyboard hand and the pencil hand, relatively the same.

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It appears that even here in the PC-ist of PC land, the iPad is getting a plinth to celebrate

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its status as a fully capable computer. I wasn't expecting this, but even Ed thinks that there is merit to keeping the macOS interface

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off the iPad. Oh, wow.

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Whoa. Yeah, that's worse. Ah.

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How does this change sort of the way you grade compared to how you did in the past?

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In terms of ergonomics, it's just a lot better. It's a lot more comfortable, natural feeling, but this thing, you have to click on a thing

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and then your whole ARM is under tension while you're moving it, right?

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Yep. Or is this thing, I'm just like, bleh.

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Would you say that this is an example of an application where the way the iPad is, it

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actually is better not being a PC?

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And features like all of these, they're fantastic.

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It's, touchscreen is just better. So if you're just using it for color like you want to do, then this actually works out.

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This actually helps my argument, right? It does.

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Yes. Yes. And if you notice, not once has Ed mentioned that it should have macOS.

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Yes, we're coming back to that. Even without macOS, it turns out that you can access what appears to be most of the functions

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found in the desktop DaVinci Resolve by messing around with these keyboard shortcuts.

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You can get all the pages except deliver and even audio syncing tools.

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It's like there's a whole app hidden under here.

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Well, almost playing around with some of the functions.

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It's clear that we weren't really intended to be turning any of these dials.

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So let's get back to using DaVinci as it was intended with my project.

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It turns out that editing a full Mac Address video on the iPad is a lot harder than I thought.

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Production environments like ours use expensive cameras, microphones and audio recorders that

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need to be synced together. It's already chaotic on a computer and given the audio sync function isn't a menu option,

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it just wasn't possible. Okay, so I may have been a little too ambitious with this project.

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So I pivoted to editing a YouTube short I shot with an iPhone.

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I actually think this is a truly excellent use case for video editing on the iPad.

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Though the layout of DaVinci Resolve isn't optimized for vertical video, so we end up

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with all this wasted space. Space that already comes at such a premium that Blackmagic couldn't afford to put labels

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on many of the interface icons. So there's no quick way to figure out what they do.

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This was a bit of a problem. On a Mac, you can just hover the mouse over a button and a tooltip should pop up explaining

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its function. That would be a great use of the Pencils Hover feature.

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I should confess that Ed's iPad setup isn't entirely perfect either.

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He can output a full screen HDR feed to the external monitor, but if he switches apps

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or pulls down the notification drop down, it resets the output to no longer be HDR.

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Outside of DaVinci, dealing with files on the iPad is still a pain point.

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Even just to edit, you'll either need to pay for lots of storage built in or be willing

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to deal with an SSD dangling off your single, precious Thunderbolt port.

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Editing off a Wi-Fi network drive is possible, but the network speeds aren't fast enough

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for the professional file formats that DaVinci supports.

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Then if you want to copy those files off the network drive, you'll be blind finding them.

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For my project, I needed to find an old clip, and the file browsing unfortunately isn't

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available within DaVinci, so I have to use the Files app.

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The icon view thumbnails don't populate for video clips on network drives.

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It appears that some of the arguments for macOS on the iPad remain.

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I'd have no problem seeing thumbnails for these video clips in Finder, or better yet

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I could simply use desktop DaVinci's fully featured media page.

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But would we get the clever hover effect on the pencil, and would it not be hard to use

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on the 11 inch form factor? There are things that make macOS good for certain tasks, but if we have the imagination

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to think of them, there are things that could make the iPad more portable, more intimate,

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and maybe even just better than macOS. And if Apple caves and puts macOS on the iPad, we might never see them come to fruition.

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I can see why people are getting impatient. Apple has been bringing both the capabilities and pricing of their pro models closer to the

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max, so it's frustrating to be asked to pay for potential that maybe will be realized

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two years from now. Maybe.

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Along with video editing, I tried the new stage manager on an external display.

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It's much better than I remember, but still odd and glitchy. I wrote and edited this whole script in Word with a magic keyboard, and still encountered

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maddening issues like a delay when moving the cursor and unpredictable scrolling speeds

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when attempting to select multiple paragraphs of text.

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I'm beginning to realize that most of my frustrations using the iPad come when I'm trying

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to use it like a Mac. But I still believe that putting macOS on here is the wrong solution.

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As I keep trying to tell my colleagues, that would come at the expense of how the hardware

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gets used. The tablet would be best docked, not undocked, and that would kill the whole idea of the

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iPad. I'm not saying it's perfect.

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iOS and now iPadOS is, by Apple's own admission in the court of law, restricted to be the

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car kids can drive. I think it goes a little too far in weird ways.

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File management doesn't need to be this difficult. When Apple's controlling tendencies can make it hard for developers to make the most of

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the platform, all this has hampered the pace of innovation and possibility for the iPad.

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Because developers, already skeptical of the tablet form factor, aren't going to invest

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in creating new uses for this device when there's a gatekeeper controlling more than

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what they feel is reasonable. And so we're here, waiting to see who's going to invest in new use cases for this device.

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Oh yeah, the video.

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Well you may have already seen the short I made on the iPad. It's the one where I plug in a bunch of monitors into an M2 MacBook.

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Turned out pretty good I think. I wanted to try editing on an iPad, and it's neat.

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And let's keep it that way, and keep exploring how these fresh ideas can work elsewhere.

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I might not have convinced you, but some people are clearly responding to Apple's strategy

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of keeping the iPad, iPad. I keep meeting people who don't want it to be a Mac, and talk about switching to the

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iPad on its merits. Hopefully in due time there are more merits to be uncovered, and I'll make believers out

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of all of you. Thanks for editing this Mac Address with only a finger.

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If you disagree with me and think that macOS should be in the iPad, give this video a like.

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And if you think the future of the iPad is NVIDIA editing, well you might as well subscribe.

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Now I'm curious in the comments what you think the next app that the iPad should adopt to

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really bring its capability up. We've got video editing, what else?