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DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dharma1 »

Melatonic wrote: post #31
DoctorOW wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My problem was I always found it to have weird holdovers in terms of UI from hardware integration days of colour correctors. Hopefully that is gone now. But for example you used to not be able to just drag your full screen viewing window to a second monitor - they forced you to get their little hardware PCIe card. Given that most Nvidia cards will do 10 bit colour now with the studio drivers I hope they have rethough…

You don’t need it anymore. I think it was more the OS not being able to colour manage properly, or have SDI out

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dharma1 »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #28
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…

As long as folks don't think it's an NLE, because that's the one thing it isn't. (Even though half of its users try to use it for that, get stuck, post on the forum, and then get the other half yelling at them because "it's not an NLE". 17 and 18 took things in the right direction, but it's still going to take a few more versions before people giving it a shot because they think it's a free Premiere or After Effects…

Resolve is fantastic for editing these days. Give 18 a shot

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by teamspirit »

thewebcount wrote: post #165
teamspirit wrote: post #138

Now if we can just get Logic (with VSTs). I'd love to leave my MBP at home when I'm on the road and still be able to write music.

I use GarageBand with AudioUnits on my iPad all the time. It works pretty well, though they do make the AudioUnits hard to find. Obviously it doesn't have all the features of Logic (which I also use on my Mac Pro), but it's surprisingly good. And, you can take stuff from GB into Logic later if you want to punch it up or do something that's not possible on the iPad.

You know, I just discovered GarageBand on the iPad myself and I have to say I was impressed. Too bad my 4th gen air has lighting as a connector, otherwise I'd pop in a USB c hub and attach my little NI m32 and be rocking! With that, it would be enough to at least draft ideas on the road.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dharma1 »

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.

MacBook Pros have the same Liquid Retina XDR miniled screen as the new iPad pro. It’s really good. Won’t replace your calibrated pro grading monitor but damn it’s good out of the box

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dharma1 »

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?

iPadOS doesn’t support RAW video formats (just h264, h265 and ProRes) but yes you can edit directly off usb-c SSD, it’s plenty fast.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by teamspirit »

seanw444 wrote: post #152
teamspirit wrote: post #138

Now if we can just get Logic (with VSTs). I'd love to leave my MBP at home when I'm on the road and still be able to write music.

Full-fledged mobile DAW is one thing I'm surprised doesn't really exist. That would make so much money. I know I'm not the only person that gets sudden ideas that need to be expressed audibly before the inspiration is gone, on the go.

Far from full fledged but I just discovered that Cubase has something for iOS and Android. I got really excited until I remembered how hindered I'd be without VSTs, particularly since I mostly score orchestral.

I do believe the day is fast approaching though I was hoping it was going to be with this iteration.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by dharma1 »

lvl102 wrote: post #38

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

Yes most people would use a MacBook (myself included). But some people love doing stuff on the iPad, LumaFusion is a thing - whatever works hey.

Also I think Resolve is a Qt app so maybe it wasn’t a total pain to port - Apple also likely paid them to do it I would guess.

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by hatware »

WatchDog wrote: post #163
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?

USB-C ipads seem to support 10gbps speeds. You can hook up a 10gbps Ethernet adapter[0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HesEVXItRu0

It's thunderbolt, so 40gbps

Re: DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by CobaltFire »

Gigachad wrote: post #145
Vrondi wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The tests I’ve seen say that (depending on how you implement it) an iPad Pro M1 only pulls 5Gbps (directly powering) to 7.7Gbps (powered) out of a 10GbE card.

Has there been some development in this area?

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