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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by sangnoir »

samatman wrote: post #41
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 doi…

> 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

This assumes Apple's management has the stomach for the resulting negative revenue growth and the subsequent reaction from Wall Street.

Also, a huge chunk of their cash offshoring / tax minimization strategy is based in Europe: they'd revert to USB-A charging ports if the choice was between that and shutting down the Irish office.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by digitallyfree »

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.

I've seen a lot of students serious about video editing switching from (typically pirated) Premiere Pro to Resolve as the free version got better and better. One student told me his high school filmmaking class was switching from FCP to Resolve so that everyone could easily work on their projects at home. It's pretty much the only freeware professional editing suite available - and if some of those students later work in the industry they'll prefer the system they're familar with.

When I used Resolve several years ago the system requirements were high but you could mitigate that by using a proxy workflow.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dopa42365 »

BudaDude wrote: post #47
lvl102 wrote: post #38

This is nice but any serious video editor would use a Macbook instead no? Why bother with this version?

The biggest reason would be the portability. If you are on a plane, using an iPad is often much easier than a full laptop.

List of people color grading hollywood movies on their ipad during plane flights:

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by samatman »

sangnoir wrote: post #111
samatman wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 doi…

> 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 This assumes Apple's management has the stomach for the resulting negative revenue growth and the subsequent reaction from Wall Street. Also, a huge chunk of their cash offshoring / tax minimization strategy is based in Europe: they'd revert to USB-A charging ports if the choice was…

Why would they pull out of Ireland? They could have one store in Dublin, that sells the last model iPhone which was grandfathered in, while supplies last, for a couple grand, or whatever the price ends up being once Europe is done objecting.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dylan604 »

angry_octet wrote: post #107
dylan604 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They prefer for the GPU cores to be doing math rather than displaying image. That's why you can get away with the GPU not being in a full lane width slot. The little PCIe did more than just send out an HDMI signal back then as well, as most of it went to an SDI or even older analog component BNCs. No GPU I've ever seen has had those connectors.

NVIDIA Quadro FX SDI cards, ~2008-2020.

holy jeebus, i had never heard of this board. but a quick search found this bit of oddity:

"DVI-to-DVI Connection

Connect one end of the DVI cable to the DVI connector on the SDI Output card and the other end to the "north" DVI connector on the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600/5600 card as shown. The SDI output will not work if the cable is not connected to these two connectors."

So it was an external pass thru type system that just converted DVI to SDI. They joined the daughter card via external oddball cable rather than making an internal ribbon cable connection.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dylan604 »

yieldcrv wrote: post #98
dylan604 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. N…

I was talking about the specific thing I responded to. 8k RAW video on a device without the storage for it. But I'm sure there are proxies possible. You can likely find some out of touch people to proselytize to somewhere else on this thread.

And i was agreeing with you. The proselytizing as you call it was me being able to expand past the nonsense proposed and offered up a more compelling workflow. Sorry to offend thy sensitivities on expanding upon a conversation.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by myself248 »

fattire wrote: post #101
TheRealPomax wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moved this response as an edit to the main comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33277308 instead, but keeping this comment rather than deleting it, because the replies to it have value to the discussion.

(You edited your comment to oblivion, but because it was so embarassingly wrong, I don't blame you.) My original response: "close enough to a NLE"?? What the-- DaVinci Resolve has included a standalone non-linear editor since 2014. Today it has every major feature one would expect from a NLE-- with the noted exception of a lack of some codecs in the Linux version due to licensing issues, AAC being conspicuously one o…

> Since DaVinci Resolve is meant to run in CentOS, I've helped collaborate on a method for running it in a Linux container as well for anyone who might be interested:

Soooooooooo interested, but sadly it seems NVidia-only.

If Blackmagic would put some of their port-to-iOS muscle on a make-it-work-with-AMD team, it'd be useful to me. Alas, I have a knack for picking losers.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by smoldesu »

yamtaddle wrote: post #100
lvl102 wrote: post #38

This is nice but any serious video editor would use a Macbook instead no? Why bother with this version?

For some things, you need a "real" computer. For some things, you need a tablet ("LOL what could that possibly be?" Oh, I dunno, does your laptop have multiple very-high-quality cameras built-in with all kind of fancy depth-sensors and AR-related hardware, an accelerometer, et c.? GPS and/or cell radio? Touch & drawing input? Stupid-high idle battery life, with near-instant-on from any level of sleep? Sure, some have…

It wouldn't be such a concerning trend if Apple was simply a really good hardware vendor. Instead, the iPad is a toll-road with a 30% tax that goes straight to Apple. If they gave iOS alternate app stores or even just opened the iPad bootloader (as we know is fully possible on M1), people wouldn't be shifting in their seats as much. Instead, Apple is innovating in one hand and extorting in the other, and then pretending like both can't exist without the other.

There isn't a company in the world that has a larger R&D budget than Apple. If $200 billion dollars in liquid funding can't design a decent, freedom respecting tablet, then Apple hasn't fixed much of anything (in my opinion).

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by z9znz »

Has anyone here used an iPad as their primary editing tool?

Unless one were really constrained by weight or items, I don't know why someone wouldn't just edit on their Macbook.

I think it's great that you can do this on an iPad; I just wonder how useful it really is. The Macbook Air is pretty small and lightweight already.

It would be interesting to see a side by side editing session comparison with two people, one using an iPad, and the other using a laptop.

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