It's been basically exactly 1 year since
DaVinci Resolve for the iPad was released.
Today I want to talk about my experience
for the past year while using it,
the pros and cons of why you may want to use it or not want to use it.
Now as I open this wedding project which
you can actually check out the full video from a couple days ago,
we can see that we run into our first issue.
One or more of the open effects plugins is not available.
So while Blackmagic did a fantastic job at porting over
basically every feature that DaVinci resolve has,
there are still a number of plugins
both third party and first party open effect plugins
that aren't really supported.
I do wish during this dialogue box
it would tell you specifically which one it was.
Similar to luts which I'll show you in a minute
but for now we kind of just have to say
"oh where did I have open effects? did I have deflicker somewhere, that's not available?" or something like that.
Now for anyone who hasn't watched
all the previous DaVinci Resolve videos that I've
made for the iPad, you may think that you're limited to just the cut and color page
but about a couple weeks or a month after the release
another Creator, Daniel found a keyboard shortcut to
where you can turn on all of the other pages of resolve.
So I have a map to my shift 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
so if I want the edit page I'm just going to hit shift F3
if you want to learn how to do that and what I'm actually talking about here
you can check out this video in the card above
It allows you to get all of the other pages and
I like the edit page over the cut page
so we can see our entire project here
now you'll also notice that I have no hard drives plugged into my iPad.
Originally and I still do it a lot I could take this project
or the drive that has all the original footage
and plug it into the iPad and
work off of that. But I really have been enjoying the Blackmagic Cloud option
to where I upload proxies to the cloud
and then it syncs directly to here so we can see this little dialogue box here.
It's syncing just over a gig worth of other stuff I believe I just
finished uploading all the proxies here
and so the nice thing is whether you're working on a secondary device
you share this with someone else. as soon as I import another asset to this project
it's going to upload a proxy version and sync that to everyone else.
now if I go up here at the top and turn off prefer proxies
and I say disable all proxies
everything's going to go offline because
none of this footage is actually locally saved in terms of the original files
so I can say prefer camera originals
so that way if I do plug in the hard drive
it will access the originals over the proxies
but you'll see that it also shows the proxies here
because that's all it has has
so it's totally up to you
you can also depends how good your device is going to play back
and I want to throw it out there that this is an 8K timeline
because I'm showing off the DJI Ronin 8K
and so if I go and play some of this stuff here
and again I know these are proxies
but the fact that I can work on an 8K timeline with
8K footage of any sort on an iPad
it's just incredible
now we can see at the bottom right hand corner of our footage here
it says missing lut and we can see that the footage is no longer graded
as it is in the final product
and this is because one of the things that doesn't sync
in Blackmagic Cloud libraries is the lut folder and
I really hope they add this but we can go in and fix this ourselves
so I did actually put you can see the little folders right there
I did copy the luts to my desktop here
so I can open up my files here
if I go to iCloud Drive my desktop
I can see the two luts that are used in this project
and so I'm going to select those two
and I'm going to say move
I'm going to say on my iPad
we're going to go to DaVinci Resolve
we can see our nice lut folder there
and I'm going to copy those two files
so now reboot resolve
we'll get our project loaded back in
and we'll see if that fixed anything
and while we're waiting for this project to load
I do want to throw it out there that
it is also the year to the day anniversary of
launching my DaVinci Resolve Course
Since it's launch I've created videos about
everything you need to know about switching to DaVinci Resolve or
getting started with DaVinci Resolve
both for iPad as well as the normal desktop version
we talked about how to switch from Adobe Premiere
talked about how to switch from Final Cut
I give you access to hundreds of gigs of sample footage and projects
that you can play around with yourself
and right now I have all my guides
marked down to a crazy discount
so you should check them out
in the link in the description if you're interested in learning more about DaVinci Resolve
and recently we crossed over a thousand people
who have joined these courses
so thank you all so much for this amazing year
and I can't wait to keep adding more content soon
all right so we've relaunched resolve here
and we can go to our Luts so we can see here
that they're not in the DJI and the specific folders
that we had them in on the computer
but by selecting this it's not going to remap it
so I'd have to go into every single one
so if you want to make sure that your color grading work syncs
and again especially if you're working with someone else
you want to make sure that your Lut file structure also matches
so that way it can find it in the proper folder
cuz it's not just going to look anywhere in the Lut folder
similar to how you have to link up your footage
and it's going to look for a specific path
you need to develop that here as well
now we've seen other updates to other pro video applications
including the release of Final Cut for iPad
which everyone thought would be the only potential contender
to DaVinci Resolve for the iPad
but to be honest it has its pros
it's similar to Final Cut on the desktop
it definitely has a specifically designed interface for the iPad
but they more designed it for you
not to have a setup like this with a keyboard
but more just to hold it like this
and I actually do have a final cut for iPad guide as well
which I'm totally remaking because I made it in Italy
and I just think it could be better
and so for all the people who have joined
know that a new one is coming at the very start of the year
I promise
so I have guides on both
but Final Cut is definitely more of a if you enjoy
working with the apple pencil with your hands
you don't have a keyboard
it is very much designed for that sort of setup
DaVinci Resolve while you still of course can use
your finger and apple pencil and touch around everywhere
but it shares the same exact design as its desktop counterpart
and so it really works best or more efficiently I think
with using a keyboard mouse or even the speed editor like I have here
the one place that I absolutely love
not using a keyboard or anything
and where I'll kind of put everything down
is when I am color grading
I love using the apple pencil
and as someone who doesn't have color wheels to play with
I think this is just a way more fun experience
to be able to go in and add some masks
and it just feels more intuitive
how we can kind of play around with all of this stuff on the iPad
I feel myself being a lot faster than
using a mouse and it's just more enjoyable
for myself I'm very grateful that even after
that hack was kind of found out that
you could get access to all the pages
everyone was very afraid all year of
is the next update going to remove
the ability to see those pages
and Blackmagic has released plenty of updates throughout the year
every time they update the desktop version
the iPad version gets updated as well
and they haven't taken away this ability
now of course they said the other pages
that aren't right out the box
when you first open it up
the cut and color page aren't 100% supported
so you may experience bugs or limitations
if you reach out to Blackmagic for support
they're not of course going to diagnose the issue
because it's not officially supported
and the fact that you can import your own Luts,
motion VFX, also created a m installer version
for iPad so pretty much all of my motion VFX plugins
minus a couple or a couple features within each plug-in pack
because of some iPad limitation is pretty much here
so if I go back to my project here at the start of this video
I actually have two plugins that play and both of them work perfectly
and they play back perfectly as well
honestly one year later
I am incredibly impressed with where DaVinci Resolve is for the iPad
I would love to hear what you guys think
and what your experience has been throughout this past year as well
let me know down in the comments below
I hope everyone is having a safe and happy holiday season
and I'll see you guys in the next video