- Oh my goodness!
Final Cut Pro is coming to the iPad.
This is a day that I never thought I would actually
see coming.
A few weeks ago I tweeted about wanting an update
to Final Cut, but this was not at all what I had in mind.
I basically just kind of wrote this
off as something that was maybe never going to happen.
But the day is here, well, it's not actually here yet.
It'll be out May 23rd.
When I woke up and saw the email
of the press release of this iPad Final Cut News,
I honestly thought I was dreaming
and I had to double check multiple sources to make sure
that this was information that was public,
that was known to everyone.
Is this actually real? Am I dreaming?
But my friends, it is as real as real could get
and I actually got a chance to test it out hands on
and it was pretty impressive.
I didn't really get enough time to really
form a full opinion or do an actual review
but you better believe as soon as I get it,
I will be diving in and learning as much as I can.
I mean, just the few minutes that I was using it,
it's incredibly intuitive.
It is basically Final Cut re-imagined, but for the iPad.
So there are some new features that they did announce
inside of here.
So the entire editing space, it's all touch based.
You drag and drop, you pinch to zoom.
There's also this cool thing, live drawing.
Now, obviously with the iPad you can use an Apple pencil.
So it really is a different style
of editing when you have a touch environment.
So it is something that if you're not familiar with it,
it will take a little bit of getting used to,
but just spending a short time with it
like you're gonna pick it up very, very easily.
The live drawing is pretty interesting.
This gives you the ability to go in,
use your Apple pencil, draw,
and then when you go back to the timeline
you'll be able to make this longer or shorter.
So if you do need to stretch that out longer to
cover a bigger chunk of your video, you can do that as well.
You can obviously edit HDR.
There's an iMovie import,
so if you did start a project already in iMovie,
you'll be able to import that.
And again, Apple pencil and keyboard support.
The one thing that was like a big question that I had was
will I be able to start a project on my iPad,
send it to my Mac, and then send it back to my iPad?
No, you will not be able to send a project back
from your Mac to the iPad.
So that is one thing that I feel like
if you are starting a project
and you wanna send it to your Mac, just know
that you're not gonna be able to take it back to the iPad.
Basically everything is self-contained inside
of the library, so you aren't able to use external drives.
So you do have to copy
and import any of the footage onto your iPad.
So if this is something that you do plan
on doing and using, you definitely will need to
have an iPad that has significant amount of storage,
especially if you're editing larger projects.
Now, multi-cam editing is also something that you
can do in here and it's so intuitive,
like it's just, I love using the multi cam editor
in Final Cut Pro, I use it all the time.
So here in the multi cam they have three scenes
plus an audio track, and with this you'll be able to
solo out the audio track
and then have the video switch in sync with the audio.
And inside of the timeline you will just click
which angle you want.
And with that, for videos that have multiple cameras
you'll be able to quickly edit those.
I just could not do it without multi cams.
So when I discovered that,
it honestly was pretty life-changing.
This isn't something that's totally new
because you can't do this in regular Final Cut,
but it's just showing the power of the M1
and M2 iPads to give you this capability
of reframing things for a different frame.
So if you have a 16 by nine
and you want to reframe that into a vertical for social,
it makes it super easy to do that.
This is also something that I've tried very quickly
at the end of my demo and then I had to give the iPad back.
But this is a scene removal mask
and this is honestly pretty impressive.
You'll be able to completely remove the background
and just have your subjects in frame.
You'll see in this demo they removed him
from the background and then placed him
into this background and magically, hello,
you don't even need a green screen anymore,
which is pretty awesome.
Another thing that's not super new
but they did launch this,
I don't even remember when, it was a little while ago,
a this point, voice isolation,
and this is pretty impressive.
I use this in almost all of my videos
and you kind of have to find this sweet spot depending
upon what type of audio you're working with.
This really does isolate your voice.
It takes out a lot of background sound
and I love using this, so it's great to see
it's also in the iPad.
And of course we've got titles, transitions, and effects.
And you know, some of these are pretty basic.
I'm not sure when, but I am fingers crossed hoping
that sometimes soon they will offer third party support
with third party plug-ins
because I obviously have my mKeynote plugin that I made
with Motion VFX and I use it all the time and it's kind of
like a staple in my editing is having these plugins
and everything is all custom to my liking.
But for a lot of people who are just getting started
and if you just need basic titles,
like you have everything right here at your fingertips.
They do have some new themes, which is nice because I feel
like if you've been using Final Cut for a while
you have probably used all of those titles
and transitions and effects pretty much to death.
Here's some of the effects.
I did get a chance to test this out.
It was really cool how fast and effective they all were.
This is something cool that they're doing with music.
They're able to intelligently adjust the length
of the audio to fit however long your video is.
So if you have like a ten second video,
you can drag the audio to 10 seconds
and it'll automatically fit that.
But if you have a longer than that
like a five, 10 minute video
you can drag it all the way and it just kind of
re-frames itself to make a perfect seamless audio track
which normally, I mean if you're pretty proficient
like it's not that much of a struggle to kind of loop those
but it's extra at a time that you don't have to do.
But with these, I'm not sure how many
they said there was a pretty big number
of royalty free tracks that you would be able to use
in your projects.
You don't have to do anything, you just drag it, align it
to how long you want it to be and it automatically adjusts.
They have a bunch of new dynamic backgrounds,
which you can also customize.
And of course if you wanna cut yourself out
and put yourself on these backgrounds,
it's so easy to do now.
(Justine gasps) Here it is.
Okay, third-party content coming soon.
It doesn't say when,
but this means eventually it'll be happening.
So we will be able to use plugins.
So I can't wait for that.
It's also pretty cool,
they have an added pro camera mode now.
So when you go in and you use your iPad in pro mode
like you can basically shoot and edit directly from it.
It now will give you a focus feature
so you can set your focus.
It also has a white balance, so you can go in
and change the white balance if you want it to be different
than what the camera automatically does.
You'll be able to edit ProRes Raw.
And of course you do have some advanced coloring features.
You are able to shoot in log and edit those as well.
And cinematic mode.
This is kind of interesting.
I know this was something that they had been talking
about when they first launched cinematic mode.
Editing cinematic mode on the iPad feels so natural.
So if you do shoot something and you wanna change the focus
in here, it's very, very easy to do so.
You just basically touch what you wanna have focused.
And you can also key frame that.
So if you wanna do a rack to focus, which is kind of cool
it'll give you a very cinematic look and it's wild what kind
of content you can actually just shoot on a phone nowadays.
And here's what are the screenshots
of what it looks like to export.
So you're able to change all of these settings.
And then we have the Send to Mac.
And again, like I said, once you send it to Mac,
there's no going back, so don't forget it.
A lot of the complaints that I saw this morning was
about the price,
the fact that they are making this a subscription.
A lot of people are saying, "Well, I'm a student
"I can't afford that."
I'm just gonna tell you
that I was also a student once and I literally had no money
but I would find somehow I would find four
freaking dollars to go buy lattes that I could not afford.
So when I put it into that sort
of perspective and when I was in school,
buying software was absurdly expensive.
Like Photoshop was like thousands of dollars
and I was just so grateful because I was in school
I was able to use these school licenses.
Right now, so many things are subscription based,
like with Premier, also subscription based, for Photoshop,
all of these things, I understand where a lot
of you guys are coming from
that you don't wanna have to pay another subscription fee
but all things considered, how powerful this is,
and depending upon what you're doing with this
most people are probably using this
for production, content creation.
And this is a small investment into your business,
into your creation.
So for comparison,
final Cut Pro is $300 and compressor is $50.
But that, I mean I don't even remember when
I bought Final Cut last, like a very long time ago
and I've been continually getting those updates.
So if you are buying an M1 or an M2 iPad,
you're gonna be wanting to use it to its full potential.
So if this is something that you want,
I mean that's how much it is.
I don't know.
I don't know what you want me to say.
Like it is what it is.
At this point for me,
like it is a business expense and from what I've seen,
like the app is so good, like skip your Starbucks
for the next two days and you'll be good to go.
So as for iPads, it will be on the M1 or the M2,
the fifth or sixth generation iPad Pro, the 12.9
or the 11 inch or the iPad Air fifth gen
and it has to be running iPad OS 16.4 or later.
So that's kind of just a first look
at the Final Cut Pro for the iPad.
I have been editing since 2005 on Final Cut
so I have seen a lot
and it's really exciting to see it come to the iPad.
Obviously there are limitations.
The fact that you aren't able to use an external drive,
that for me might be limiting because a lot of my content
I do edit off of multiple drives
and I am editing multiple projects at a time,
which do have pretty big file sizes.
But this is the first iteration of Final Cut on the iPad.
So like this is like,
we're basically starting from like version one.
It is a re-imagined version of Final Cut that we all know.
And I'm excited about this
because this next generation of editors,
which a lot of you are probably watching this right now,
you edit a lot on your phone,
you edit on the go, your editing on your iPads,
on touch devices, editing needs to change.
I edit a ton on my phone
and a lot of things are shifting that way,
like watching this younger generation edit and creates
you guys are all editing on touch.
So this really is just a natural progression
and as someone who's been editing for so long,
I'm excited about it.
I love to edit.
I love to be able to just story tell and just take a bunch
of footage that otherwise may just be trash
and turn it into something incredible.
And I think that's the power of editing,
the power of storytelling, and it's really giving back
to people the power to create
and tell whatever story it is that they wanna tell.
Well, thank you guys for watching.
This was really fun and I'm so excited to actually
get to be able to really test this out.
So let me know if you guys have any questions.
You can leave them in the comments below
and I will see you guys in the next video.
Bye.
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