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Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

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Re: Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

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Post by monocularvision »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #85
Applejinx wrote: post #78

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Glad I moved to Reaper, then. Mind you, I'm still running Final Cut for video making. Hope I don't have to bail on that too. I'll keep running the version I have, but much like I don't use Adobe at all, I won't run such a program if I have to rent it. Exception, XCode :D most certainly have to pay yearly for that! But I view it as paying for authorization as an Apple dev, not so much as 'for the app itself'.

You can download XCode without a dev membership, so you're definitely not paying for it either way.

Being a full time iOS engineer means having to tell folks it is “Xcode” not “XCode” every time see it.

Re: Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

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Post by nehal3m »

gampleman wrote: post #192
basisword wrote: post #64

So many “I don’t get it” comments in this thread. And complaints about the subscription pricing. The market for this seems pretty obvious - teenagers. iPad seems like the default computer for kids these days and kids like to create. When I was a teenager I had to build my own PC, struggle to pirate Cubase and some plugins and it was a nightmare. When I finally got a MacBook Logic being $200 was out of reach still. A…

Also if you want to do just one project (i.e. you don't produce music/video for a living, but you know enough to do your own stuff), then you can probably get away with paying $5 a month for just enough months to finish your project. That was a use case completely uncatered for with a $400 one-off license fee.

I'll do you one better, I just started the App store on the Mac to check whether they've implemented the same model there. The only music I make is analog, but I'd have liked to try it out for a few bucks.

Re: Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

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Post by duped »

coldtea wrote: post #159
tgv wrote: post #115

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Are we talking about the same Logic Pro? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203718 shows quite a lot of activity of the last 2 years. Idk what you consider a "meaningful core upgrade".

Those are just releases that improve/change some small workflow stuff, fix bugs, or add minor or niche features like "Spatial Audio mixing with Dolby Atmos" that Apple cares about more than most producers do. The change lists look huge, but if you lose closer its all minor stuff. The last release with a meaningful core update was 10.5 (May 2020) - the one that introduced Live Loops, major new devices like the new sam…

> niche features like "Spatial Audio mixing with Dolby Atmos" that Apple cares about more than most producers do

People do care about it and it's why Logic and Pro Tools are the only game in town for people who aren't making EDM.

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Post by ww520 »

dan_pixelflow wrote: post #164

At $50 a year (equates to $4 a month if paid annually), this is - albeit a subscription model - so much better than Adobe's £20 a month plan for just Premiere (obviously to get you to go for the £50 a month plan). It's a much better plan and I hope things like this make Adobe consider their costs. It's a big ask and I know they won't... but you can hope.

I use the free version of Davinci Resolve to edit videos for a few occasions. It's amazingly good. Easy to learn and easy to use. Quite impressive with the feature sets.

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Post by asddubs »

rtkwe wrote: post #301
Someone1234 wrote: post #244

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iOS devices don't support downloading specific versions of apps, and you cannot sideload. Apple has made this model impossible on iOS.

You could approximate it with extensive feature flagging to disable/hide new features for people with old "versions" of the app.

sounds like a nightmare and a half given enough time.

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Post by sneak »

happytiger wrote: post #368

It really says a lot about the future of editing. Everyone doing it on their phones is growing up showing us what editing packages are going to look like… and it’s something like this. Big screen, touch interface, more fluid work flow, definitely going to be ai assisted… it’s interesting timing. I feel like Apple is going to do the magic they did for spell checking with the iPhone keyboard for professional video edit…

No doubt with surveillance features built in. This is dangerous in the journalism/media production pipeline.

Re: Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

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Post by IAmGraydon »

clint wrote: post #167

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I've been writing and recording music for 25 years. I wouldn't do it on an iPad if the app paid me. If there was ever a job that requires a mouse and multiple screens even more than coding and design, it's audio engineering. Try editing a piano roll with thousands of MIDI notes, adjusting thousands of automation points and fine tuning EQ settings on a touchscreen. The experience is terrible, and no software can fix that. A tablet is just the wrong tool for the job.

Re: Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad

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Post by Applejinx »

monocularvision wrote: post #371
mynameisvlad wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can download XCode without a dev membership, so you're definitely not paying for it either way.

Being a full time iOS engineer means having to tell folks it is “Xcode” not “XCode” every time see it.

Damn if you're not right. I stand corrected. I wonder why I thought I needed to mentally camel-case it? Is that what it was? Was it ever capitalized this way or have I been making it up this whole time?

I think it's Mandela Effect. I don't know of any other words that can have the letters 'Xc' in sequence in a capitalized word, so my brain must just reject the idea even though I've literally seen it over and over right in front of my eyes.

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