hi what you see in front of me is probably the two devices that I've gotten the most comments
about in the past couple of weeks most of my recent videos have been talking about DaVinci
Resolve for the iPad and then every single one of those videos a ton of people commented well
why would you buy an iPad when for the same price sometimes even cheaper you can get a MacBook Pro
and get full-blown DaVinci Resolve and so today I want to see the pros and cons of DaVinci Resolve
on both the iPad and the computer I decided to put my latest 2022 48 Hour film festival film
on these hard drives and I'm going to use these on both devices so obviously mobile devices are
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editing first test let's see what a startup time looks like again I know sound perfectly
Fair because this one's starting up a much more intensive program than this but within about you
know five ten seconds whatever it was we almost have resolve open for iPad which while these are
opening by the way this uh this film actually we won for best editing so yay all right so let's go
ahead and re-link all of the media and apparently and trans over a lot of my sound but we're mostly
here for the the clips all right so we have both projects opened up and as I said most of the it
looks like sound uh Clips are not quite there so there's that let's see how it does with initial
playback uh by the way I should probably check this is a 1080p timeline so keep that in mind
uh we had to submit it in 1080P they wouldn't take 4K so this technically shouldn't even be
too difficult but we do have pretty intense color grades on here a lot of the pretty much all the
footage required a hefty amount of noise reduction and we have some other stylized layers here
the iPad's playback is uh pretty solid [Music]
we are honestly M1 MacBook Pros playback is definitely worse off like this is able to
play that entire clip smoothly if I turn off all the effects and go back [Music]
of course it plays back just fine foreign
of course when we're looking at the user interface we can see some interesting things happen for
the MacBook Pro the top timeline which shows the kind of Zoom to fit we definitely have a lot more
vertical room and I can see all of my um my layers more clearly and kind of where in the film I'm at
on the iPad version it is it is quite squished so when you have projects that are quite tall
and that I'm not able to adjust you can adjust your timeline view but I don't believe I can
adjust the top timeline and so that's definitely a pro for the MacBook Pro but Blackmagic has done
something pretty interesting on the iPad by giving it a more adaptive interface see both
of these devices are pretty much 13 inches for example if I have what everything open here on
the MacBook Pro and then I go over to turn on the install inspector it basically covers half of my
timeline viewer and so then I could go over here and turn off you know the media pool actually I
can't can't turn that off so I basically how do I see my whole viewer on the cut page I can't I
just have to like zoom out a bunch well sells my point even more on the iPad version we have our
media bin open but as soon as I hit inspector it's going to close the media bin automatically move my
viewer over and now I can see my inspector and my full viewer without losing a ton of
real estate because there's really no need to have the media bin and the inspector open which
would give me a super small viewer it's going to keep my viewer the same size and just move
things over and I think it's just one of those little design details that makes the experience
really Pleasant and when we jump over to the color page I can safely say that we have basically the
same exact user interface there are a couple extra buttons on the computer version that we don't have
on the iPad version and they're pretty much all at the top so we have media pool and we have of
timeline which will bring up kind of like on the cut page that mini timeline so we can jump around
very quickly and then we have the light box view which can be really nice to make sure all of your
clips and if you have multiple scenes you can kind of see that everything is matching now of course
I'm sure you've already commented down below but Michael what if you don't like the cut page yes
you can just go here and go on the edit page which is going to be way more feature filled and to that
I mean obviously there's no rebuttal yes edit page please come to the iPad I I've said that in every
single video and I'll continue to say it until I can make a video saying Hey Blackmagic added the
edit page to the iPad version and yes not only just the edit page but you get the full seven
pages on the computer version compared to the two on here I'm not trying to make this sound like it
is the same exact experience I understand all the comments saying hey you know why would you spend
money on this just get this but what it really comes down to if you are watching this video and
saying I'm debating buying you know one of these devices I want to do video editing in resolve but
I don't know which one to choose it comes down to the features that you need if you're just cutting
together a bunch of videos you're doing a lot of color grading work the iPad is truly an amazing
experience it's got a pro display xdr technology so for working with HDR content it's actually one
of the best displays that you can view your footage on and as we can see from scrubbing
around this footage like this is all 6K b-roll fully color graded a bunch of noise reduction and
considering it has all that noise reduction it's actually playing back better than I thought it
would if I was still cutting this around I would just be turning off the effects and then I have a
really really smooth experience on both of these devices and considering thing that I actually
edited this on my 10 000 plus dollar Mac Pro is pretty incredible uh what you can get for your
money nowadays yeah yeah yeah make your Mac Pro waste of money jokes I know I keep dancing around
the like decision of you know which one would I buy here's what I think I would do in its current
state and that is a very key thing to say because I believe that resolve for the iPad will grow to
get the majority of the entire functionality that the desktop version has eventually that could be
next year that could be four years from now I have no idea and so I can only base it off of what the
initial Beta release and the final release that we'll see in the next couple of weeks if you're
going I want to be a video editor you know I want to find clients I want to do this that and the
other it probably makes the most sense to buy a full-fledged you know MacBook Pro or desktop
could be Windows resolve will run on anything get yourself the full version of DaVinci Resolve well
I'd really like to say that if I had no other computers I would just use resolve for the iPad
because I do love color grading on a touch display with the apple pencil it's just really unique and
fun experience and if most of what you're doing is cutting video together especially if you're like a
social content creator that's really nice not to even mention that this is the cellular model and
so I can be anywhere and still sync all of my projects my footage and you can have cellular
models of MacBook Pros I feel like I'm not being helpful in this video because I I can't even I
can't even decide I genuinely think I'm going to need your guys's help with me on this debate it
in the comments I want to know what device would you pick if you had no other device so this is not
your secondary as your primary device would you go iPad Pro or MacBook Pro to use DaVinci Resolve on
and why and I would love to see your Arguments for either side again huge thanks to anchor for
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