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DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by samatman »

retskrad wrote: post #12

Apple massively increased the price of the the entire iPad line-up in Europe. It's going to be interesting to see what impact it will have on Apple's earnings. Will Apple's goodwill make people accept the new prices or will Apple's brand take a hit for increasing the price in times where people are financially vulnerable?

Apple doesn't need Europe. The region it's included in is worth 19% of Apple's business, and that region includes the Middle East, India, and Africa. Europe might be 10% of the business, maybe a bit more, maybe less.

Worth keeping in mind. They're quite able to wind down business in Europe if the alternative is being forced to build their devices in a way they don't want.

Raising prices to match the extra cost of doing business in Europe is a no-brainer. If that means it's no longer profitable to sell to the subcontinent, no problem, they'll just... stop doing that.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by lostgame »

Embarrassing that this exists before Apple gets its own Final Cut Pro on their so-called 'iPad Pro'.

Never understood how they could have the audacity to call it an iPad 'Pro' when none of Apple's actual by-name 'Pro' software was - or, to this date - 5 years later - still is.

No 'Logic Pro', no 'Final Cut Pro'...still no Xcode, either. Other than illustrators/designers, can someone please explain to me what 'Pro' can use an iPad 'Pro' for any serious professional-grade tasks?

The mind boggles.

Similar to a game console, I purchase hardware for the software it can run. I don't care if it's as powerful as my equivalent MacBook Pro; because there's nothing I can use to take advantage of that power.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by wahnfrieden »

dijonman2 wrote: post #40
wahnfrieden wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

where am I repeating a hardened propaganda line? all I did was identify one

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by andrewmunsell »

Melatonic wrote: post #35
andrewmunsell wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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).

I'm hoping that the iPad app will push BM to be the ones to do this. Given that the concept of a filesystem on an iPad is very different (yeah, the Files app exists but it's terribly buggy if you are using network shares and stuff) and the need for auto-linking goes up quite a bit.

If their MVP iPad app evolves into something that "just works" across devices, then I think they will have a really good value proposition in a field where short-form or fast produced social media content can be done on the go.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by totetsu »

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…

Hell if you arrange the toolbars and the camera and squint your eyes right, then wack yourself with a brick, even Blender can be used as an NLE

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by tshaddox »

simonh wrote: post #17
retskrad wrote: post #12

Apple massively increased the price of the the entire iPad line-up in Europe. It's going to be interesting to see what impact it will have on Apple's earnings. Will Apple's goodwill make people accept the new prices or will Apple's brand take a hit for increasing the price in times where people are financially vulnerable?

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.

It's certainly not simple for me to calculate, but I would guess that Apple has people with more information and more experience calculating such things. It's not usually a company often associated with being bad at making money.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by ExMachina73 »

post_break wrote: post #2

Pretty incredible this can come out before Final Cut Pro for iPad.

I think this shows that Final Cut Pro on iPad was never really in the cards. Furthermore, Apple is using this Davinci Resolve release in their own marketing materials. I love Final Cut Pro, but as time goes by it seems like it's headed the way of Aperture, after competitors like Adobe Lightroom took over the marketshare - cancellation. Especially when other developers are creating great software like Resolve and LumaFusion. Not to mention hundreds of film editors wrote an open letter to Tim Cook "begging for Final Cut Pro commitment."
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