Scott Simmons at PVC Reviews Final Cut Pro on the iPad

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.

Apple brings it’s Pro Apps Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to the iPad, but makes it subscription

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.

Scott Simons at PVC on how to Unlock all the Resolve for iPad pages with this simple trick

This is very cool.

It basically shows that the whole software is in here, but not activated for iPad yet, so that means it will likely be added in eventually.

I have seen people who are so negative on DaVinci for iPad, but I am psyched for it. To me it is basically the first full pro software for the ipad and I can’t wait to use it it with my Blackmagic camera.

9to5Mac on the Mac Pro being dead on arrival

Honestly I was thinking about writing a post like this article, but Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac has beat me too it.

The recent pate of articles from Gurman and their bad news on the Mac Pro has really had me thinking. No Quad Apple Silicon means no performance boost over the Studio. No memory upgrades makes sense, but no external graphics card, means a decided lack of expansion, and a need to spend more upfront, without the possibility of later upgrades.

As for PCI Expansion, sure a video i/o card from black magic would be cheaper than external, and you could put in a fast ssd pci card, but those are damn expensive. Maybe an Apple Accelerator, but like the one in the current, you know it would be quickly added to the next chips, so why bother.

And having more options for storage, I would love that. I so miss my 4 internal slots for spinning hard drives, but more likely I see room for more proprietary Apple SSDs, which would be too expensive and likely not user upgrade-able.

The one thing no articles I have seen talk about would be more Thunderbolt ports, which would be great. I already use two Thunderbolt 4 Hubs, and still lack for ports, but is that and better cooling and maybe room for a second hard drive worth thousands more?

The answer is no. There needs to be a realistic reason for a Mac Pro to exist.

So maybe Apple waits till the M3, when they can do a quad chip design and really do an insane machine, and they go for an iMac Pro right now. I would be dissapointed, but not surprised. Mainly disappointment because I would love to move to 32 inch monitors for my next machine.

MacRumors 3nm Chips From Apple Supplier TSMC to Enter Macc Production This Week

Sami Fathi at MacRumors has reported that TSMC has started 3nm production as of December 29th.

This will likely mean the rest of the M2 line for the MacBook and for the eventual MacPro will be 3nm which will save power and be more efficient, and of course will eventually make it’s way to the iPhone and iPad as power savings and less heat is better across the line.