From Evan Selleck at Apple Insider. I haven't tried out Final Cut for iPad, I can use Final Cut Pro, very well in fact, but I don't like it, and I don't want to pay a subscription for it.
https://www.provideocoalition.com/review-final-cut-pro-for-ipad/ I still am not a big fan of Final Cut Pro, though I am an expert on it, so I doubt I will even try it out on the iPad, but some of the omissions do seem curious, like having limited color correction when DaVinci has full color (though missing the edit page, so you really can't talk about DaVinci). Still the fact that the already wonky Project naming schemes seems different here is literally insane. Just follow fucking industry standards already! And no second storylines also seems pretty huge.
From Fernando Silva at 9to5Mac. LumaFusion is really the first normal video editing program on the iPad that works like AVID and Premiere Pro (Not Final Cut Pro) and it just keeps getting better and more powerful. I have edited on it and it was well worth using, though of course I love keyboard editing the most, so the iPad will always be a second class editor.
Apple will soon be releasing touch based Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for high end iPads, but as subscriptions at $4.99 a month or $49 a year. Logic will work on any iPad with an A12 Bionic or later and Final Cut will only work 5th or 6th gen 12.9 inch iPad Pro, 3rd or 4th gen 11 in iPad Pro or 5th generation iPad Air. I love that Apple is finally treating the iPad as pro as other companies, but I hate that it is subscription. I would rather pay $99 for a lifetime than have a monthly fee. The month free is great, but if I had the program I might use it, but paying monthly for it, unless i am making a living off of it. And sure it is cheap monthly, but I just don't see any subscription that I am not making a living off of.
It is available in the app store, and has a cut and color page. It is free to use, but certain plugins require the Studio Version which costs $99.00. DaVinci Resolve for iPad is optimized for the iPad Pro with M1 and M2 chips. Earlier and iPad models with memory limitations have limited functionality available. DaVinci Resolve for iPad DaVinci Resolve for iPad is the world's only solution that combines editing and color correction in one software tool! Its elegant, modern interface is fast to learn and easy for new users, yet powerful for professionals. DaVinci Resolve lets you work faster and at a higher quality because you don't have to learn multiple apps or switch software for different tasks. That means you can work with camera original quality images throughout the entire process. It's like having your own post production studio in a single app! Best of all, by learning DaVinci Resolve, you're learning how to use the exact same tools used by Hollywood professionals in high end post production studios! Turn work around fast using cut page editing! The cut page is perfect for projects with tight deadlines that you have to turn around quickly. It's also great for documentary work. The cut page has a streamlined interface that's fast to learn and designed for speed. Features such as source tape for visual media browsing, fast review, and smart editing tools help you work faster than ever. The sync bin and source overwrite tools are the fastest way to edit multi-cam programs, with easy to create perfectly synchronized cut aways! With DaVinci Resolve you'll spend more time editing and less time hunting for shots. Hollywood's favorite color corrector! The DaVinci Resolve for iPad color page is Hollywood's most advanced color corrector and has been used to color and finish more high end feature films and television shows than any other system! It's also approachable with features designed to make it easier for new users to get great results while they continue to learn the advanced tools. For example, primary control sliders will be familiar to anyone who's used image editing software, making it easy to adjust contrast, temperature, mid-tone detail, saturation and more. The color page has an incredible range of primary and secondary color grading features including PowerWindows™, qualifiers, 3D trackers, advanced HDR grading tools and more! Blackmagic Cloud Collaboration DaVinci Resolve for iPad supports the revolutionary Blackmagic Cloud, a whole new way of collaborating using cloud based workflows. Simply create a Blackmagic Cloud ID to log into the DaVinci Resolve Project Server and set up a project library for your project. You can assign any number of collaborators to a project, using Blackmagic Cloud to share projects. Multiple people can work on the same timeline! When changes are made, you can see and accept them in the viewer, changes are only applied when you accept updates. A single click can relink files, update timelines, or view changes. Built in timeline compare tools let you merge changes…
José Adorno at 9to5 Mac has this great update on the best iPad OS editing program, the one that works the most like AVID and Premiere Pro.
I have been having an issue with Mail on my iPad Pro of late. For some reason the mail app was having issues loading. I would open it and it would be empty and blank, and take up to a minute to load if it loaded without crashing. This also meant I was unable to send e-mail from other apps unless, I first got Mail itself to load. And this only started recently. I had tried turning off all my mail except my Apple mail account, and even tried resetting network settings, but mail was not working correctly for the last couple of weeks, and it was driving me nuts. I was about to backup and wipe the ipad, but was waiting for the update to see if it fixed it. Yesterday apple released iPad OS 15.6 and after updating the Mail issue has been solved, if only that was the only issue that recently cropped up on my iPad. At the same time as the mail issue, Safari has started losing logins for web sites. Sites that for years have stayed logged in, must be logged in every time that I got to the site. So every time I use bing or google I need to log in again. Super frustrating, and unfortunately not fixed by 15.6.
Scott Simmons at PVC has an great mini review of the best video editor for iOS LumaFusion. I have edited a spot in LumaFusion and have really enjoyed it. It is really the only 3 point editing program on iPad OS.
John Voorhees at MacStories had this excellent article on Universal Control. Personally I am not sure I will ever use it, thought it sounds very cool. The thing is I currently run 2 27" monitors, an iMac Pro and a second display, and for an possible Mac Studio I have been considering moving up to 2 Ben Q 32" displays. As it is, I have no room to fit my iPad on my desk and will have less with bigger monitors, still would be nice if I was running just one monitor.
Adobe has updated it's awesome drawing app for tablets, Adobe Fresco to it's October 2021 release, version 3.0. It's new features are: •Apply Motion (ipad and windows) which I am interested in checking out. •Perspective Grids (ipad and windows) to help do proper perspective •Send to Illustrator on iPad •Vector jitter brushes to give a more organic feel to vector brushes Awesome, I need to spend more time in Fresco as it really is such an impressive and powerful painting program, and am certainly interested in seeing what the motion does, and see if will be useful for any video projects in the future.