- This entire video was edited
on this iPad using the LumaFusion app,
and this is not a sponsored video in any way.
I've just been curious to see,
as the iPad is moving from a device
that was once purely for consumption to now something
that you can actually use to make stuff,
is the iPad a viable option for editing good quality videos?
So you if buy an iPad, you can download iMovie for free.
If that's the case,
why would you wanna spend $20 on LumaFusion?
And the difference is that LumaFusion is trying
to be a mobile version of a more
comprehensive editing platform
like Final Cut Pro or Premiere.
And I use Final Cut Pro to edit all of my videos.
I love Final Cut Pro, so I'm not looking to switch.
I'm just looking to see if this is a viable option
now that the iPad is powerful enough
to actually make media rather than just consume media.
So some of the limits to LumaFusion are that you can
only have three layers of video and three layers of audio.
But even that goes pretty far beyond
what you would be able to do with other apps.
And truth be told, editing on a tablet
still has its constraints just because,
no matter what, you're still editing on a tablet.
And three layers of video, three layers of audio,
is probably pretty good for any of the projects
you're realistically gonna do on an iPad.
For huge, massive projects,
you're still gonna need a desktop editor.
But for simple YouTube videos, maybe a vlog, or a tutorial,
or just like a family movie, or just a personal project,
this is really feature-rich.
Some of the stuff it can do, I'm really impressed by.
LumaFusion seems to be a pretty decent hybrid
between Final Cut Pro, Premiere, and DaVinchi Resolve.
It sort of takes little elements
from all of those desktop applications
and puts them into a lighter-weight mobile version.
The fact that you can do color grading
on it, you can mix clips.
I even put this whole composite
where it looks like I'm on the iPad
and the screen recordings are on the iPad.
That was done within LumaFusion.
This entire video was put together within LumaFusion.
I didn't open up Final Cut Pro once.
In addition to the app itself,
the only extra thing I needed to purchase
to start editing on my iPad is an SD to Lightning adapter.
So that way, I can take my camera's SD card
and import the footage directly to the iPad.
I'm using the older 10.5 inch iPad Pro,
so I needed an SD to Lightning adapter.
If you're using the newer iPad Pro,
you'll need an SD to USB-C adapter.
But otherwise, everything's basically the same.
You put in the SD card,
a menu pops up that lets you select
which footage you wanna import,
and then you just import it directly to the iPad.
Now the downside to this is that the iPad
doesn't have a decent file browser at all.
It's been an issue forever, and I don't know why it doesn't.
But that means that all the footage
just goes into your Photos app on the iPad.
And you could put it into Albums,
and you could kind of try to organize it.
But really, it's gonna start getting pretty messy
if you're editing a lot of videos on the iPad.
And this isn't an issue with LumaFusion.
This is an issue with iOS on the iPad.
So what I would recommend is to input your footage
for each video to the iPad, edit it in LumaFusion,
and then, when you're done,
delete the raw footage from your iPad.
But be sure to save it on an external hard drive
or another computer.
If you've used any editing software in the past,
LumaFusion should be pretty simple to learn.
It's fairly intuitive, and I found that the few things
I didn't understand how to do right away
were pretty easy to figure out if I kind of just poked
around in the app a little bit
or did a very quick Google search.
But for the most part, it works really well,
and it's really intuitive.
And it's been working great on my iPad,
which is a little bit older.
So if you have the newer iPads,
it should work even better on those.
The big test for me was to see if I could use the iPad
to edit a video in LumaFusion that nobody would guess
was edited on an iPad because it just look
like a normal video that you would expect from my channel.
And I got to say, I'm really impressed with the results.
There's still a learning curve.
It's definitely not as feature-rich as
Final Cut Pro, or Premiere, or some of the other programs.
But it's a really solid, by far the most solid
mobile editing app that I've seen.
And even if you're not planning to use
LumaFusion to edit entire videos,
you can still use it to edit parts of videos.
And I think that's really
where it's gonna be the most useful.
If you're on a trip somewhere,
or you just have your iPad with you,
you can quickly edit a sequence,
chop down some footage,
and then share that into your regular editing software
and put it into a bigger final video.
But I think that it can really
improve your overall workflow,
especially when it comes to travel,
all that time spent on planes,
or buses, or cars, or whatever.
You can actually get a lot of stuff done.
So in order to test out LumaFusion,
instead of just editing this video right here
where I'm talking about it,
I wanted to import some other footage to play around with.
So I have a mix of footage
from the GoPro HERO7 Black and the Canon 6D Mark II.
The HERO7 Black was filming at 2.7K,
and the 6D Mark II was filming at 1080p.
I also think I have a couple of shots just
from my iPhone 8 Plus that were in 4K.
So kind of mixing a few different
resolutions from different sources.
I wanna see how the software can handle that footage.
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So here's my takeaway from using LumaFusion,
so far, on the iPad.
The biggest thing is if you're somebody who only
has an iPad to edit on, this is really usable software.
You can create excellent quality videos.
The app keeps getting updated
and keeps getting more feature-rich.
So if all you have is an iPad,
this is a really viable option
to start making really good videos.
You can even just use your phone,
the iPad, and then you're creating great looking stuff.
If you're not somebody who's looking to edit all
of your videos on the iPad, I still think that,
if you have an iPad Pro, it's absolutely worth the $20
to get the LumaFusion installed on it.
It's a one-time fee.
There's no in-app purchases.
And even if you don't plan on doing
a ton of video editing on your iPad,
just knowing that it's there,
you never know when you're gonna find yourself
in a situation where it would be really helpful to be able
to edit a video really quickly or put something together.
And like I said, there are limits,
the number of video tracks and audio tracks,
but I think those limits are balanced pretty well
with just the form factor limits of editing
on a tablet in the first place.
And so even if you could do everything that a feature-rich,
full on, editing platform could do,
I don't know that you'd really wanna do
that on a tablet, anyway.
So this is a really good balance of form and function.
And finally, a couple of unique benefits are being able
to use the Apple Pencil and a touchscreen to edit video.
I've never done that before, and the Apple Pencil
is so precise and fun to edit with and change settings,
it's much nicer than using a mouse or a trackpad,
at least in my experience.
And the touchscreen is awesome
if you're trying to place videos or resize graphics.
The ability to just pinch and zoom
and move and just place stuff as if you're setting it
on your video is really cool.
So I think that there has definitely gotta be a future
for touchscreen and stylus interactive video editing
because it really adds a dynamic
to the work that is really fun and really usable.
So to wrap up, I just wanted to remind you
that everything in this video,
every single piece of footage was edited
on the iPad Pro using LumaFusion.
I didn't open up Final Cut Pro one single time.
The only time my laptop was involved at all
was to actually upload the video.
And actually, to even take it a step further,
I'm going to use Lightroom on the iPad
to edit my thumbnail image.
So all of the visuals for this entire video
will be created on an iPad, which is just crazy
that you're able to do that.
And even though it's not perfect,
sometimes we kind of need to step back
and just appreciate the insane stuff that we're able
to do in the world that we live in.
And that's really my biggest takeaway
from using this app on the iPad.
So I hope that was helpful.
I hope that was interesting.
And I guess I'll see you guys next time.
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