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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dylan604 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

gizajob wrote: post #137

dylan604 wrote: post #62

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Slight nitpick, but Blackmagic is releasing the product for free. Before the acquisition, DaVinci would NEVER have released Resolve for free. At least based on their pricing models from decades prior.

What's your point? Resolve has been free for ages.

That the name of the company giving something away should be accurately noted. DaVinci is no longer a company. It is a brand owned by a company. The brand doesn't set the pricing. The company does.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dylan604 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:08 PM UTC

angry_octet wrote: post #140

dylan604 wrote: post #115

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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…

Yep, it was just to convert computer graphics into broadcast TV world. Probably powering a bunch of TV stations weather broadcasts for the next decade.

That's still a few rungs up from the older skool tech of a large round table top with the different gauges for things like temp/pressure/humidity/etc on it that rotated at a set speed with a stationary camera mount so that the gauges would spin underneath it. For a lot of small cable companies this was the "weather" for that cable company. It would be setup at the head end where all of the various satellite dishes were pulling the feeds. An ex-coworker's family was responsible for that existing, so I used to hear all sorts of "back in the day" themed stories about it.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by regular » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:12 PM UTC

fattire wrote: post #134

Joeboy wrote: post #127

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In their place for sure, but I'm not sure how a node-based NLE would work.

As you mentioned, the nodes are used in Fusion and the Color page, where they belong, not in either timeline editor (Cut Page & Edit Page).

The integration with Fusion is pretty clumsy at the moment. It's not clear what timeline event you're working on when you're on the Fusion page, especially when you have several video tracks stacked at the playhead's location. It disregards the user-selected event (if one has been selected) and instead shows (IIRC) the topmost one instead.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by Gigachad » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

bitL wrote: post #82

thetinguy wrote: post #63

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External drives just like people using macbooks

Does iPadOS support them well though?

Surprisingly yes. It used to be a limitation that apps would have to import the file on to local storage, edit, export back to external. But now extra APIs have been added and video editors can edit on external storage.

The iPad has been sitting in this limbo state where they are way more powerful than most people expect but still not really worth it when you can get a MacBook for the same price and do more.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by Gigachad » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:16 PM UTC

Vrondi wrote: post #131

bitL wrote: post #54

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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.

Now that mobile devices are getting this powerful, we need them to start supporting larger storage again.

The iPad has options up to 2TB SSD and supports USB4 external storage along with 10Gbit ethernet.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by Gigachad » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

VanTheBrand wrote: post #7

One of the things that makes this a big deal is an iPad is often the most color accurate highest quality display anyone has.

You don't realize how extremely off consumer monitors are until you compare it to a calibrated one like the ipad.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by darkteflon » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:18 PM UTC

To all the experienced DVR users: does it have good native media management capabilities?

I’m an FCPX user and always felt that was a big black mark against FCPX. For instance, it seems designed to manage your media on a per-project basis, and can’t easily be shoehorned into having a single large (organised) library accessible from many loosely-coupled projects. Disconnected original media drives don’t have graceful failure states - even when using a local proxy workflow. Tagging, sorting and displaying large media libraries always feels quite cumbersome. That kind of thing.

Keen to hear whether DVR is more sensible - I’m quite keen to give it a go if so.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by regular » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:19 PM UTC

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…

Nobody should be shocked that it's computationally possible for a tablet to run this software. The question is why would you opt for that?

This is on a tablet with no proper I/O, running an OS with no user-accessible file system. And, based on screen shots, this software presents essentially the same UI it does on the desktop... which is totally inappropriate (if not unusable) on a touchscreen with one's fingers.

So now we have something that is profoundly gimped by the hardware, for which you have to buy MORE hardware (a Pencil). But the Pencil is only supported by the most expensive iPads.

In the end, you're paying as much as (or more than) you would have for a MacBook Air; a real computer running a computer OS with proper I/O, keyboard, and high-quality video and audio output. It's only marginally bigger than an iPad Pro, and... get this... it has A HEADPHONE JACK, which the iPad Pro does not.

All of that makes the MacBook Air a far better portable solution for Resolve than a tablet will ever be.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by taylorbuley » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

Another easy way to use Resolve for free. Anyone here can and should use Resolve for quick and dirty color correction. Like having a good mic, it really makes your video stand out in terms of quality.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by kaba0 » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 9:23 PM UTC

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…

Maybe have a look at the “Brussel effect” wiki page. The EU is big enough to make worldwide changes financially the rational choice, so these choices are made based on EU laws.