on the part of the office where I sit there are a lot of arguments I don't
care what you say pineapple belongs on pizza real mature it could be about
YouTubers greatest YouTuber of all time I swear or
if I get involved it's about the iPad macOS doesn't belong on the iPad
and apple doesn't even help me make my case
thanks to the inclusion of the M2 processor on the brand new iPad Pro
there's technically no reason why it can't run macOS especially when docked
to a magic keyboard or USBC Hub exactly
I just want one device for everything yeah that's what I was trying to tell
you but guys alongside the new hardware Apple announced that DaVinci Resolve
would be coming to the device if Blackmagic thinks that it's professional
grade video editing Suite is good enough for iPad OS then maybe I'm right and to
find out I'm going to edit a whole video on this iPad spoiler though I wasn't
entirely right
back when I tried the M1 iPad Pro I had
many gripes about its capability at the time it couldn't play prores video file
management was annoying and nothing could fully utilize its impressive
processor and display since then iPad OS
Has Changed by so much I'm actually quite surprised how far it's come and
some of the decisions like putting a powerful PC processor in here makes more
sense in professional circles DaVinci Resolve
is best known for its capabilities as a color grading application to help
transform the look of footage for the rest of us the free version of the
desktop app is an incredibly powerful video editor for those who want to get
into it editing on a computer with a big screen and mouse has obvious benefits
the large canvas and precise controls are essential for translating A Creative
Vision into a finished product so with only a finger and Tiny screen how does
that work on the iPad it's a good question and it's why on
first launch DaVinci presents you with the cut and color pages as opposed to
the seven pages available on the desktop app if you're used to a traditional
timeline the cut page has a bit of a learning curve but after a couple of
days I appreciate why they did it this way especially on this screen I was
still surprised by how much I enjoyed video editing on the iPad yes it is
slower don't expect to see edited on iPad in Apple's next Keynote
but for short social videos rough storylines and quick news stories it's
not only possible it's even kind of fun there's this delightful satisfaction to
scrubbing and moving Clips around with one finger
however if I had to choose between my finger or the pencil I'd use the pencil
it's particularly great on the new iPad Pro because DaVinci Resolve takes
advantage of the new hover feature I was initially skeptical about hover I mean
it's just based off mouse over right but
in the real world it feels like much more than that it adds a magical new
layer of interactivity to the interface that just makes sense so as the tip of
the pencil hovers over a button element it comes to life and when it grazes over
a video clip in the media window it scrubs through it well this is so cool I
have to show Ed thank you hey Ed
oh yeah I know and I'm actually going to set up the iPad in the color Booth what
you're gonna set up an iPad as a computer here like right now yeah I'm
speechless let's go it turns out the Ed is so convinced by DaVinci on the iPad
that he wants to actually set one up in the color correction Booth here at Linus
Media Group that's what's going in here
okay so I have to ask is it because DaVinci is now available on the iPad
that's why you want to deploy here that was the biggest reason yeah I mean like
the screen's fantastic and our normal systems are expensive so this being like
under 2 000. we need this anymore no
okay I'll take that out will we need this anymore no that doesn't work either
will we need this uh no we have a apple
pencil right I like clean the whole desk
yeah I mean this is kind of all you need 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 you know adjusting the curves or using the
wheels it's it's just a lot more intuitive than like using a mask what's
this so I found all the stands that are out there for the iPad kind of put it
like over there and then your keyboards here and if you want to use a pencil
you're you're reaching over yeah so I made this thing so that it puts the iPad
over your keyboard so that the distance between your keyboard hand and the
pencil hand relatively the same awesome it appears that even here in the PCS of
PC land the iPad is getting a plinth to celebrate 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 off the iPad
oh wow whoa yeah that's worse
how does this change sort of the way you you grade compared to how you did in the
past uh 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 and then your your
whole ARM is under tension while you're moving it right yeah whereas this thing
I'm just like would you say that this is an example of
an application where the way the iPad is
it actually is better not being a PC
certain features like like all of these they're fantastic it's so touch screen
is just better so if you're just if you're just using it for color like you
want to do then this is actually this actually
works out this actually helps my argument right it does yes
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even without macOS it turns out that you can access what appears to be most
of the functions found in the desktop DaVinci Resolve by messing around with
these keyboard shortcuts you can get all the pages except deliver and even audio
syncing tools it's like there's a whole app hidden
under here well almost playing around
with some of the functions it's clear that we weren't really intended to be
turning any of these dials so let's get
back to using DaVinci as it was intended with my project
it turns out that editing a full Mac Address video on the iPad
is a lot harder than I thought production environments like ours use
expensive cameras microphones and audio recorders that need to be synced
together it's already chaotic on a computer and given the audio sync
function isn't a menu option it just wasn't possible
okay so I may have been a little too ambitious with this project so I pivoted
to editing a YouTube short I shot with an iPhone I actually think this is a
truly excellent use case for video editing on the iPad though the layout of
DaVinci Resolve isn't optimized for vertical video so we end up with all
this wasted space space that already comes at such a
premium that Blackmagic couldn't afford to put labels on many of the interface
icons so there's no quick way to figure out what they do this was a bit of a
problem on a Mac you can just hover the mouse over a button and a tool tip
should pop up explaining its function that would be a great use of the
pencil's hover feature I should confess that Ed's iPad setup isn't entirely
perfect either he can output a full screen HDR feed to the external monitor
but if he switches apps or pulls down the notification drop down
it resets the output to no longer be HDR
oh no what was that thing outside of Da Vinci dealing with files on the iPad is
still a pain Point even just to edit you'll either need to pay for lots of
storage built in or be willing to deal with an SSD dangling off your single
precious Thunderbolt Port editing off a Wi-Fi network drive is possible but the
network speeds aren't fast enough for the professional file formats that DaVinci supports and then if you want to
copy those files off the network drive you'll be blind finding them for my
project I needed to find an old clip and the file browsing unfortunately isn't
available within DaVinci so I have to use the files app in the icon view
thumbnails don't populate for video clips on network drives
perhaps it appears that some of the
arguments for macOS on the iPad remain I'd have no problem seeing thumbnails
for these video clips in finder or better yet I could simply use desktop
DaVinci's fully featured media page but would we get the clever hover effect on
the pencil and would it not be hard to use on the 11 inch form factor
there are things that make macOS good for certain tasks but if we have the
imagination to think of them there are things that could make the iPad more
portable more intimate 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 I
can see why people are getting impatient Apple has been bringing both the
capabilities and pricing of their Pro Models closer to the max so it's
frustrating to be asked to pay for potential that maybe will be realized
two years from now maybe
along with video editing I tried the new stage manager on an external display
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 maddening
issues like a delay when moving the cursor and unpredictable scrolling
speeds when attempting to select multiple paragraphs of text
I'm beginning to realize that most of my frustrations using the iPad come when
I'm trying to use it like a Mac but I still believe that putting macOS
on here is the wrong solution as I keep trying to tell my colleagues that would
come at the expense of how the hardware gets used the tablet would be best
docked not undocked and that would kill the whole idea of the iPad
I'm not saying it's perfect iOS and now iPad OS is my Apple's on admission in a
court of law restricted to be the car kids can drive I think it goes a little
too far in weird ways file management doesn't need to be this difficult and
Apple's controlling Tendencies can make it hard for developers to make the most
of the platform all this has hampered the pace of innovation and possibility
for the iPad because developers already skeptical of the tablet form factor I'm
going to invest in creating new uses for this device when there's a gatekeeper
controlling more than 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 and it looks like it's been
Apple the whole time and they're taking their time
oh yeah the video 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
turned out pretty good I think I wanted to try editing on an iPad and
it's neat and let's keep it that way and keep exploring how these fresh ideas can
work elsewhere I might not have convinced you but some
people are clearly responding to Apple's strategy of keeping the iPad iPad I keep
meeting people who don't want it to be a Mac and talk about switching to the iPad
on its merits hopefully in due time there are more merits to be uncovered
and I'll make Believers out of all of you thanks for editing this Mac Address
with only a finger if you disagree with me and think that macOS should be on
the iPad give this video a like and if you think the future of the iPad is in
video editing well you might as well subscribe now I'm curious in the comments what you think the next app
that the iPad should adopt to really bring its capability up we got video
editing what else