WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.720 In the part of the office where I sit, there are a lot of arguments. 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:08.680 I don't care what you say, pineapple belongs on pizza. 00:00:08.680 --> 00:00:15.280 Real mature. It could be about YouTubers. Mr. Beast is the greatest YouTuber of all time, I swear. 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:18.440 Or if I get involved, it's about the iPad. 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:22.680 macOS doesn't belong on the iPad. 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:28.400 BOOM! And Apple doesn't even help me make my case. 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:33.320 Thanks to the inclusion of the M2 processor on the brand new iPad Pro, there's technically 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:40.000 no reason why it can't run macOS, especially when docked to a Magic keyboard or USB-C hub. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:43.520 Exactly. I just want one device for everything. Yeah! 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:49.440 That's what I was trying to tell you! But guys, alongside the new hardware, Apple announced that DaVinci Resolve would be coming 00:00:49.440 --> 00:00:55.360 to the device. If Blackmagic thinks that its professional grade video editing suite is good enough for 00:00:55.360 --> 00:01:02.720 iPad OS, then maybe I'm right. And to find out, I'm going to edit a whole video on this iPad. 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:08.240 Spoiler though, I wasn't entirely right. 00:01:08.240 --> 00:01:13.960 Back when I tried the M1 iPad Pro, I had many gripes about its capability at the time. 00:01:13.960 --> 00:01:20.000 It couldn't play ProRes video. File management was annoying and nothing could fully utilize its impressive processor and 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:25.960 display. Since then, iPad OS has changed by so much, I'm actually quite surprised how far it's 00:01:25.960 --> 00:01:32.200 come. And some of the decisions, like putting a powerful PC processor in here, makes more sense. 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:36.640 In professional circles, DaVinci Resolve is best known for its capabilities as a color-grading 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:40.000 application to help transform the look, footage. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.960 For the rest of us, the free version of the desktop app is an incredibly powerful video 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:50.280 editor for those who want to get into it. Editing on a computer with a big screen and mouse has obvious benefits. 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:54.840 The large canvas and precise controls are essential for translating a creative vision 00:01:54.840 --> 00:02:02.200 into a finished product. So with only a finger and tiny screen, how does that work on the iPad? 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:07.920 It's a good question. And it's why, on first launch, DaVinci presents you with the cut and color pages, as opposed 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:11.000 to the seven pages available on the desktop app. 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:15.120 If you're used to a traditional timeline, the cut page has a bit of a learning curve, 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:19.040 but after a couple of days, I appreciate why they did it this way, especially on this 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:23.640 screen. I was still surprised by how much I enjoyed video editing on the iPad. 00:02:23.640 --> 00:02:29.480 Yes, it is slower. Don't expect to see edited on iPad in Apple's next keynote. 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:36.200 But for short social videos, rough storylines, and quick news stories, it's not only possible, 00:02:36.200 --> 00:02:42.600 it's even kind of fun. There's this delightful satisfaction to scrubbing and moving clips around with one finger. 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:48.160 However, if I had to choose between my finger or the pencil, I'd use the pencil. 00:02:48.280 --> 00:02:52.120 It's particularly great on the new iPad Pro, because DaVinci Resolve takes advantage of 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:59.040 the new Hover feature. I was initially skeptical about Hover, I mean, it's just based off mouseover, right? 00:02:59.040 --> 00:03:02.520 But in the real world, it feels like much more than that. 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:08.040 It adds a magical new layer of interactivity to the interface that just makes sense. 00:03:08.040 --> 00:03:11.880 So as the tip of the pencil hovers over a button element, it comes to life, and when 00:03:11.880 --> 00:03:15.360 it grazes over a video clip in the media window, it scrubs through it. 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:18.280 Woah, this is so cool. I have to show Ed. 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:26.600 Hey, Ed. Oh, yeah, I know, and I'm actually going to set up the iPad in the color booth. 00:03:26.600 --> 00:03:31.600 What? You're going to set up an iPad as a computer here, like right now? 00:03:31.600 --> 00:03:34.600 Yeah. I'm speechless. Let's go. 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:38.360 It turns out that Ed is so convinced by DaVinci on the iPad that he wants to actually set 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:42.360 one up in the color correction booth here at Linus Media Group. 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:48.880 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 00:03:48.880 --> 00:03:52.080 you want it to play here? That was the biggest reason, yeah. 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:57.320 I mean, like the screen's fantastic and our normal systems are expensive, so this being 00:03:57.320 --> 00:04:00.480 like under 2,000. Will we need this anymore? 00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:04.440 No. Okay, I'll take that out. Will we need this anymore? 00:04:04.440 --> 00:04:07.920 No, that doesn't work either. Will we need this? 00:04:07.920 --> 00:04:11.360 Uh, nope. We have the Apple Pencil, right? 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:16.520 What? I like clean the whole desk. Yeah, I mean, this is kind of all you need. 00:04:16.520 --> 00:04:23.120 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. 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:28.040 You know, adjusting the curves or using the wheels, it's just a lot more intuitive than 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:34.880 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 00:04:34.880 --> 00:04:39.800 and then your keyboard's here and if you want to use a pencil, you're reaching over. 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:44.920 So I made this thing so that it puts the iPad over your keyboard so that the distance 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:49.200 between your keyboard hand and the pencil hand, relatively the same. 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:54.560 It appears that even here in the PC-ist of PC land, the iPad is getting a plinth to celebrate 00:04:54.560 --> 00:05:02.080 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 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:05.080 off the iPad. Oh, wow. 00:05:05.080 --> 00:05:08.080 Whoa. Yeah, that's worse. Ah. 00:05:08.200 --> 00:05:12.320 How does this change sort of the way you grade compared to how you did in the past? 00:05:12.320 --> 00:05:18.600 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 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.800 and then your whole ARM is under tension while you're moving it, right? 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:26.640 Yep. Or is this thing, I'm just like, bleh. 00:05:26.640 --> 00:05:33.600 Would you say that this is an example of an application where the way the iPad is, it 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.160 actually is better not being a PC? 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:40.760 And features like all of these, they're fantastic. 00:05:40.760 --> 00:05:48.280 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. 00:05:48.280 --> 00:05:51.680 This actually helps my argument, right? It does. 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:59.080 Yes. Yes. And if you notice, not once has Ed mentioned that it should have macOS. 00:05:59.080 --> 00:06:06.400 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 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:10.920 found in the desktop DaVinci Resolve by messing around with these keyboard shortcuts. 00:06:10.920 --> 00:06:15.960 You can get all the pages except deliver and even audio syncing tools. 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:18.960 It's like there's a whole app hidden under here. 00:06:18.960 --> 00:06:22.400 Well, almost playing around with some of the functions. 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:27.220 It's clear that we weren't really intended to be turning any of these dials. 00:06:27.220 --> 00:06:31.880 So let's get back to using DaVinci as it was intended with my project. 00:06:31.880 --> 00:06:39.280 It turns out that editing a full Mac Address video on the iPad is a lot harder than I thought. 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:43.320 Production environments like ours use expensive cameras, microphones and audio recorders that 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:49.640 need to be synced together. It's already chaotic on a computer and given the audio sync function isn't a menu option, 00:06:49.640 --> 00:06:55.080 it just wasn't possible. Okay, so I may have been a little too ambitious with this project. 00:06:55.080 --> 00:06:58.360 So I pivoted to editing a YouTube short I shot with an iPhone. 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.960 I actually think this is a truly excellent use case for video editing on the iPad. 00:07:02.960 --> 00:07:08.280 Though the layout of DaVinci Resolve isn't optimized for vertical video, so we end up 00:07:08.280 --> 00:07:15.440 with all this wasted space. Space that already comes at such a premium that Blackmagic couldn't afford to put labels 00:07:15.440 --> 00:07:19.680 on many of the interface icons. So there's no quick way to figure out what they do. 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.800 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 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.400 its function. That would be a great use of the Pencils Hover feature. 00:07:30.400 --> 00:07:35.040 I should confess that Ed's iPad setup isn't entirely perfect either. 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:39.760 He can output a full screen HDR feed to the external monitor, but if he switches apps 00:07:39.760 --> 00:07:49.120 or pulls down the notification drop down, it resets the output to no longer be HDR. 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:53.560 Outside of DaVinci, dealing with files on the iPad is still a pain point. 00:07:53.560 --> 00:07:57.480 Even just to edit, you'll either need to pay for lots of storage built in or be willing 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:01.840 to deal with an SSD dangling off your single, precious Thunderbolt port. 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:06.520 Editing off a Wi-Fi network drive is possible, but the network speeds aren't fast enough 00:08:06.520 --> 00:08:09.760 for the professional file formats that DaVinci supports. 00:08:09.760 --> 00:08:14.840 Then if you want to copy those files off the network drive, you'll be blind finding them. 00:08:14.840 --> 00:08:18.080 For my project, I needed to find an old clip, and the file browsing unfortunately isn't 00:08:18.080 --> 00:08:21.240 available within DaVinci, so I have to use the Files app. 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:26.760 The icon view thumbnails don't populate for video clips on network drives. 00:08:27.080 --> 00:08:32.400 It appears that some of the arguments for macOS on the iPad remain. 00:08:32.400 --> 00:08:37.240 I'd have no problem seeing thumbnails for these video clips in Finder, or better yet 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.240 I could simply use desktop DaVinci's fully featured media page. 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:45.540 But would we get the clever hover effect on the pencil, and would it not be hard to use 00:08:45.540 --> 00:08:53.320 on the 11 inch form factor? There are things that make macOS good for certain tasks, but if we have the imagination 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.640 to think of them, there are things that could make the iPad more portable, more intimate, 00:08:57.640 --> 00:09:05.200 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. 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:11.240 I can see why people are getting impatient. Apple has been bringing both the capabilities and pricing of their pro models closer to the 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:17.880 max, so it's frustrating to be asked to pay for potential that maybe will be realized 00:09:17.880 --> 00:09:21.680 two years from now. Maybe. 00:09:21.680 --> 00:09:25.400 Along with video editing, I tried the new stage manager on an external display. 00:09:25.400 --> 00:09:32.000 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 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:36.240 maddening issues like a delay when moving the cursor and unpredictable scrolling speeds 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:40.440 when attempting to select multiple paragraphs of text. 00:09:40.440 --> 00:09:45.400 I'm beginning to realize that most of my frustrations using the iPad come when I'm trying 00:09:45.400 --> 00:09:52.760 to use it like a Mac. But I still believe that putting macOS on here is the wrong solution. 00:09:52.760 --> 00:09:57.480 As I keep trying to tell my colleagues, that would come at the expense of how the hardware 00:09:57.480 --> 00:10:03.200 gets used. The tablet would be best docked, not undocked, and that would kill the whole idea of the 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.320 iPad. I'm not saying it's perfect. 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:11.000 iOS and now iPadOS is, by Apple's own admission in the court of law, restricted to be the 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.040 car kids can drive. I think it goes a little too far in weird ways. 00:10:15.040 --> 00:10:21.640 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 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:28.200 the platform, all this has hampered the pace of innovation and possibility for the iPad. 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.880 Because developers, already skeptical of the tablet form factor, aren't going to invest 00:10:31.880 --> 00:10:35.480 in creating new uses for this device when there's a gatekeeper controlling more than 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:42.880 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. 00:10:42.880 --> 00:10:50.120 Oh yeah, the video. 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:56.160 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. 00:10:56.160 --> 00:11:01.400 Turned out pretty good I think. I wanted to try editing on an iPad, and it's neat. 00:11:01.400 --> 00:11:07.200 And let's keep it that way, and keep exploring how these fresh ideas can work elsewhere. 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:12.360 I might not have convinced you, but some people are clearly responding to Apple's strategy 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:18.360 of keeping the iPad, iPad. I keep meeting people who don't want it to be a Mac, and talk about switching to the 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:24.360 iPad on its merits. Hopefully in due time there are more merits to be uncovered, and I'll make believers out 00:11:24.360 --> 00:11:28.480 of all of you. Thanks for editing this Mac Address with only a finger. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:32.680 If you disagree with me and think that macOS should be in the iPad, give this video a like. 00:11:32.680 --> 00:11:36.680 And if you think the future of the iPad is NVIDIA editing, well you might as well subscribe. 00:11:36.680 --> 00:11:41.600 Now I'm curious in the comments what you think the next app that the iPad should adopt to 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.200 really bring its capability up. We've got video editing, what else?