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DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

#31

Post by Melatonic »

DoctorOW wrote: post #23
mortenjorck wrote: post #19

This is "only" two of the seven modules included in the desktop version, but even just one would be a breakthrough on the iPad. The full DaVinci Resolve is nuts: it covers a complete, Hollywood-level workflow of DAM, editing, grading, sound, and VFX (with probably the most generous freemium model in existence, by a good margin). The iPad version covers one of the two edit workflows (the one more tailored to broadcast…

Even when Resolve was only ever those two modules (and back then the edit was pretty basic) I thought it was incredibly good. DaVinci's dedication to publishing free (of charge) software is one of the few things keeping Adobe in check.

My problem was I always found it to have weird holdovers in terms of UI from hardware integration days of colour correctors. Hopefully that is gone now. But for example you used to not be able to just drag your full screen viewing window to a second monitor - they forced you to get their little hardware PCIe card. Given that most Nvidia cards will do 10 bit colour now with the studio drivers I hope they have rethought this.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

#32

Post by hemantv »

haunter wrote: post #29
simonh wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that keeping prices the same would weigh down their earnings as well, since they're reported in dollars, the financial impact of this is not a simple thing to calculate.

Oh wow company makes $1,7b profit instead of $1,9b. The end is near. Capitalism is really a cancer when the only thing matters is growth growth and growth. The Facebook movie was really spot on with the "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion" line

Hate capitalism as much as you want. But it's the only system that consistently uplift people and improve standard of living over time.

It's the best system among all the bad systems out there.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

#33

Post by cyberlurker »

haunter wrote: post #29
simonh wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that keeping prices the same would weigh down their earnings as well, since they're reported in dollars, the financial impact of this is not a simple thing to calculate.

Oh wow company makes $1,7b profit instead of $1,9b. The end is near. Capitalism is really a cancer when the only thing matters is growth growth and growth. The Facebook movie was really spot on with the "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion" line

They have a responsibility to their shareholders. I think raising prices amid inflation is the responsible thing to do… these are not essential goods like food and fuel.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

#34

Post by ayewo »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #28
mortenjorck wrote: post #19

This is "only" two of the seven modules included in the desktop version, but even just one would be a breakthrough on the iPad. The full DaVinci Resolve is nuts: it covers a complete, Hollywood-level workflow of DAM, editing, grading, sound, and VFX (with probably the most generous freemium model in existence, by a good margin). The iPad version covers one of the two edit workflows (the one more tailored to broadcast…

As long as folks don't think it's an NLE, because that's the one thing it isn't. (Even though half of its users try to use it for that, get stuck, post on the forum, and then get the other half yelling at them because "it's not an NLE". 17 and 18 took things in the right direction, but it's still going to take a few more versions before people giving it a shot because they think it's a free Premiere or After Effects…

What's NLE in this context?

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by Melatonic »

andrewmunsell wrote: post #16
Valgrim wrote: post #5

Simple question here: Video files are HUGE. An iPad, even with a fairly large storage for a tablet, would be quickly swamped by the files, and to transfer the RAW video files to and from the device would make it quite frustrating. Is there a way to connect an external drive on an iPad?

Presumably, you could edit using proxies on your iPad and only have those actually synced to the iPad itself for space saving. It's not 1:1 to your source footage, but depending on how you encoded the proxy it certainly would be good enough for cutting footage on the go and you could sync the project back to your computer to continue working.

Yeah proxies would be the way to go with this - that or short form content. You could easily have a bunch of high quality videos on an iPad to edit a single 2 or 3 minute video which may be their target audience here. Once you are done send those high quality source files up to a cloud storage and delete them locally.

Personally I am still waiting for someone to really get the proxy workflow right - it still requires too much manual control and planning. Someone needs to create a very robust asset management plane that does a better job of autolinking files when they are accidentality unlinked (could be easily done with a simple AI analyzing video content of different files along with an audio analyzer).

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

#36

Post by wahnfrieden »

hemantv wrote: post #32
haunter wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh wow company makes $1,7b profit instead of $1,9b. The end is near. Capitalism is really a cancer when the only thing matters is growth growth and growth. The Facebook movie was really spot on with the "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion" line

Hate capitalism as much as you want. But it's the only system that consistently uplift people and improve standard of living over time. It's the best system among all the bad systems out there.

sounds like hardened political rhetoric to me and classical capitalist realism - no place for that here

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

#37

Post by boulos »

ayewo wrote: post #34
TheRealPomax wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as folks don't think it's an NLE, because that's the one thing it isn't. (Even though half of its users try to use it for that, get stuck, post on the forum, and then get the other half yelling at them because "it's not an NLE". 17 and 18 took things in the right direction, but it's still going to take a few more versions before people giving it a shot because they think it's a free Premiere or After Effects…

What's NLE in this context?

Non-Linear Editor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

#39

Post by jpk »

ayewo wrote: post #34
TheRealPomax wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As long as folks don't think it's an NLE, because that's the one thing it isn't. (Even though half of its users try to use it for that, get stuck, post on the forum, and then get the other half yelling at them because "it's not an NLE". 17 and 18 took things in the right direction, but it's still going to take a few more versions before people giving it a shot because they think it's a free Premiere or After Effects…

What's NLE in this context?

Non-Linear Editor, which includes things like Adobe Premiere, AVID Media Composer, etc.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dijonman2 »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #36
hemantv wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hate capitalism as much as you want. But it's the only system that consistently uplift people and improve standard of living over time. It's the best system among all the bad systems out there.

sounds like hardened political rhetoric to me and classical capitalist realism - no place for that here

How does your comment differ from your own judgement?
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