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DaVinci Resolve for iPad

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Post by amarshall »

Kiro wrote: post #204
Gigachad wrote: post #146

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

What does being off mean? If that's how everyone sees it, isn't that what you should use as reference instead of a device with "correct" rendering that only a few people uses?

Being “off” means that what the monitor emits is not exactly what it should have been. Too bright, too dark, too red, too whatever. There is no one “off”, every display is differently incorrect, so it would be impossible to use as a reference. The correct reference is a sufficiently accurate representation what every display aims to be, even if they don’t quite get there. That’s what calibration does: get closer to the target all displays are trying to achieve.

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Post by mahdi7d1 »

Kiro wrote: post #204
Gigachad wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What does being off mean? If that's how everyone sees it, isn't that what you should use as reference instead of a device with "correct" rendering that only a few people uses?

Each screen is off in some way but not the same way. By grading on a screen that is properly color graded you prevent the picture from looking trash on some. Imagine color being off is a vector in 2D space starting from origin. It can be in any direction. If your monitor is off too then your color error vector would be added to the consumer's color error vector. It might make the color even better for some when those two vectors cancel each other but make it outright unbearable for other's. That's my understanding of it and not very accurate.

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Post by zeckalpha »

jhasse wrote: post #206
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…

> A decade ago, most laptops couldn't handle the load of uncompressed video. I doubt this is true. In 2006 (so 16 years ago) I bought a mid-tier Windows laptop with a 80 GB IDE HDD and I was cutting uncompressed DV avi files on it in Adobe Premiere just fine. Real time preview and everything.

DV was SD and lossy video compression, even if you used AVI as the wrapper format.

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Post by Bakary »

I'm curious about professionals who do actually productive work on a tablet or even phone format. The touch screen or color calibration can be helpful, but you could probably use the money spent on an iPad in getting those extra features for your desktop or laptop. If you are a remote worker on the move, having a mobile setup would be well worth it and perhaps your only option, but the experience of getting any work done seems so woeful.

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Post by Bakary »

hemantv wrote: post #32
haunter wrote: post #29

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Oh wow company makes $1,7b profit instead of $1,9b. The end is near. Capitalism is really a cancer when the only thing matters is growth growth and growth. The Facebook movie was really spot on with the "A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion" line

Hate capitalism as much as you want. But it's the only system that consistently uplift people and improve standard of living over time. It's the best system among all the bad systems out there.

Whenever there is this sort of discussion, I can't help but wonder what each person is actually referring to. We typically aren't discussing purely capitalist or socialist economies, but highly specific systems with their own mixture of regulations and rules over nations with their own specific cultures and material realities.

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Post by ancientworldnow »

Bakary wrote: post #214

I'm curious about professionals who do actually productive work on a tablet or even phone format. The touch screen or color calibration can be helpful, but you could probably use the money spent on an iPad in getting those extra features for your desktop or laptop. If you are a remote worker on the move, having a mobile setup would be well worth it and perhaps your only option, but the experience of getting any work…

A lot of film work is done on set and mobility is important. Currently high end productions who'll use DIT (digital imaging technician) carts which quickly become unwieldly. While this one replace all those setups, in certain scenarios where you need to be mobile and fast (branded docs, smaller crews, etc) a smaller highly mobile setup becomes ideal.

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Post by ancientworldnow »

dopa42365 wrote: post #113
BudaDude wrote: post #47

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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:

Steven Soderbergh has edited full feature films on a flight and I wouldn't be surprised to see him attempt to color grade them as well. Of course he's better as Steven than Peter Andrews so who knows what quality his color pseudonym would be.

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Post by prawn »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #161
cowmix wrote: post #105

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The "Cut Page" has been a godsend for me. I'm going through about 1500 hours of footage right now and that editing mode is the only thing that has made my task even remotely possible for me to pull off.

You need a Speed Editor. I don't know if you ever played FPSes in the early days of Quake, Doom, etc. but remember how you used to just play with a keyboard and it was okay, but then you switched to mouselook and it was just a whole 'nother world? That's what the Speed Editor does.

Played FPSes in those early days, so familiar with that. Also use Resolve a lot and have the Speed Editor. But I never got used to the Cut page and just kept using the Edit pane with keyboard shortcuts. The hardware feels really nice but just didn’t surpass the keyboard for my use - I even watched some Cut videos to see what I was missing. I think the way I assemble videos is just too different to the norm?

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Post by orloffm »

hatware wrote: post #195
bigwheeler wrote: post #191

I love the idea of editing on an iPad if it means not always having to carry a laptop around, especially on set or while out shooting. But there’s a pretty significant roadblock preventing that workflow- there’s still no way to get your footage off of your camera and on to an external drive (to plug into the iPad) without a laptop.

Most cameras can plug directly into the iPad.

So how do you move files from cameras to external USB-C drives? By having a dock/splitter that allows to connect both at the same time?
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