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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by asadlionpk » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:15 PM UTC

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?

Yup, the drive shows up in the Files app when mounted.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by retskrad » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:18 PM UTC

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?

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by Jamesmoorez » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:18 PM UTC

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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by Ancapistani » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:19 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.

Yep. I do almost of my photo editing on my iPad for this reason. For video I've been using my iPad as an external display and color grading in Resolve.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by clean_send » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:24 PM UTC

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 found ways of dealing with the huge file sizes and rendering / editing in real time. Unreal. I imagined this would come some day but not today.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by andrewmunsell » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:25 PM UTC

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?

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.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by simonh » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:26 PM UTC

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.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by andrewmunsell » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:27 PM UTC

I've used LumaFusion for years since it's the only real editor option on the iPad. They took forever to launch vector scopes and they still don't have keyframe easing or basic speed ramping, so it's good to see some competition here.

The syncing feature may just push me to use Resolve full time, since it'd let me do basic cutting and even color grading on the iPad and any intensive work on my computer seamlessly.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by mortenjorck » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

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 than film) and color grading, which will cover quite a few use cases without anything else. I can especially see this being used by serious YouTubers and independent content creators.

I wonder if the asset management module is planned, as that would seem to be the next-most broadly useful module.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by CharlesW » Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

This is a good reference for anyone complaining that the new iPad is "too powerful", which happened a bunch in the recent announcement threads. Yes, not everyone's going to be editing 8K video on their iPad, but everything that makes that possible makes lots of other current and future advanced use cases possible. For example, the lidar sensor foreshadows that the iPad has an important part in Apple's mixed reality plans.