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DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by wil421 »

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?

On my M1 Air I use a 500gb USB C San Disk drive as my scratch. You can get much higher drives and connect it over USB C.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by bitL »

thetinguy wrote: post #63
bitL wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is iPad going to handle RAW 8k video? Its highest storage is small, good only for a scratch disk at best or for very short movies.

External drives just like people using macbooks

Does iPadOS support them well though?

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dylan604 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #61
bitL wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is iPad going to handle RAW 8k video? Its highest storage is small, good only for a scratch disk at best or for very short movies.

I don't think it is the tool for the job

I don't think it is the tool for that job, but for footage acquired on the iPad it will do just fine thank you very much. The iPads are being used for shooting way more frequently than I'd have given credit, until I realize that if an iPad was available back when I was unable to afford other equipment, I'd have used the hell out of it too. We shot the shit out of VHS=>SVHS=>Hi8=>Digi8=>DV/MiniDV as if it were film. Now, there's image stabilization, light as a feather, prices are a fraction of prior so for the price of one thing you can get like 3 or 4, and then consider them crash cams, etc. Then when you get done shooting, there's 0 time wasted on transfering to your editor as your friggin camera is the editor and the color corrector. I mean, why the hell would you not do this if you're a broke ass college film student. hell, even elementary school kids could be doing this. it's mind boggling what kids have at their finger tips now.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by scarface74 »

bitL wrote: post #82
thetinguy wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

External drives just like people using macbooks

Does iPadOS support them well though?

Yes, you plug it in and it shows up in the Files app as another storage source along with iCloud and any third party service you have like OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive or you can store files locally in the iPad.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by rcarr »

whyenot wrote: post #51
lostgame wrote: post #42

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' ca…

DaVinci hasn't been released yet. This is an announcement that it will be released for iPad in Q4. FCP could still be released first.

Come on, this is disingenuous. If it was going to be released first it would have been the software shown off in the promo videos. They wouldn’t show a competitor if they were about to drop one of their flagship pieces of software on iPad for the first time, they’d be making a song and dance of it.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by simonh »

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

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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

If you can find evidence of a different system that’s come anywhere close to raising living standards of ordinary citizens nearly as much, I’d love to hear about it. And no, China doesn’t have a communist economy, pretty much everything productive about China is capitalist.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by barkingcat »

bitL wrote: post #54
clean_send wrote: post #15

This is incredible on so many fronts. 5-10 years ago, I would choose my computer based on it's potential to edit video. A decade ago, most laptops couldn't handle the load of uncompressed video. 5 years ago, having iMovie on your Ipad allowed us to make sub <5 minute videos of low-res/processed files. Now we have an intersection of 1. an Ipad is powerful enough to handle this type of data processing and 2. BMD has fo…

How is iPad going to handle RAW 8k video? Its highest storage is small, good only for a scratch disk at best or for very short movies.

LumaFusion, aka the only way to edit professional video on iPad before this announcement, supports direct editing/ingestion and working directly on an external ssd. With USB-C and thunderbolt supported on the M1 ipads, the experience is basically, hook up your 4TB samsung external portal drive, and edit away. You don't need to copy the information onto the ipad itself. The export also goes to the external drive.

If BMD did not support this fuction for Resolve, they will have a hard time competing against LumaFusion.

However I think LumaFusion will be very carefully monitoring this market. It is theirs to lose.

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