I'm sure you all know by now
that the M1 iPad Pro obviously has an M1 processor inside.
But the question is, is it as powerful,
or almost as powerful as its desktop counterpart,
the M1 Mac, specifically in terms of editing?
So in this video, I thought I would do a little testing
on the M1 iPad Pro with some 4k footage,
and see if we can bring this machine
to it's knees or perhaps even be pleasantly surprised.
Now the footage I'm going to be editing on this iPad
is actually from the camera
I'm recording this A roll on right now.
So it's a Sony A7 Mark 3.
So it's a full frame camera.
It's shooting in 4k resolution,
a hundred megabytes per second a bit rate.
And the codec is XAVC S,
which if you know anything about codecs,
it's a really, really compressed codec,
which isn't really the greatest for editing.
Now I do realize
that this isn't going to be a super fair comparison
with the M1 Max,
because the editing software available
on the iPads right now is kind of limited.
So we've got LumaFusion,
and we've also got our Premiere Rush,
which is like a mobile version.
So they are no comparison to the desktop version
of DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro, for example.
But we'll make due for this video.
Okay, so first things first, we've got the iPad set up.
We're actually going to plug in an external SSD drive,
or just SSD, into the iPad,
so that we can actually import footage and start working.
Now let's open up LumaFusion, and we'll import some footage
and we'll see what performance we can get.
All right, now that we have a new project,
we're going to come up here.
We're going to add some footage.
So we're going to go to the external drive
into the Sony A7 Mark 3 4k, 100 megabytes per second.
And we're going to find some footage here.
So by the way, guys,
this footage is from a previous video I made.
So it's a portable Mac desk set up.
So if you guys are keen to watch that check out my channel.
So if we just play this footage back in real time,
you can see it works pretty well.
There's no stuttered frames or anything like that.
It's not glitching.
So if we trim this just a little bit,
and then we can put that onto the timeline,
and we'll also come into the settings,
into the preferences and we'll make sure that the preview
is set to best.
So this should be giving us a, maybe not quite 100%,
but as close to 100% playback as we can get.
And if we come here and we play,
you can see that's \working pretty well.
I'm pretty happy with that.
So just a quick note about this footage.
So as I mentioned before, it is compressed.
So it is a XAVC S codec,
which means it's actually quite compressed
to the point that most systems
are going to have issues actually playing it back smoothly.
So if you think of compressed footage,
think of it as a file that's been zipped,
and what the iPad is having to do
before it plays back a single frame,
is actually completely unzip that particular frame,
and then display it on the screen.
So generally it's not ideal to actually edit
in this kind of footage.
But I thought it would be a good thing to do for this video,
because most people are going to be editing
straight out of the camera or straight out of their drone,
or whatever it is.
So it's a cool test to do.
Anyway, let's come in here
and we will find a few more clips.
So there's a nice one there.
We're going to add that onto the timeline.
And then what we'll do is we're going to add another one
of this bag, the accessory bag, add that onto the timeline.
And what we're going to do now
is we're actually going to start
a double and triple stacking the timeline.
So what I mean by that
is actually stacking different footage on top of each other.
So if I come to this particular clip, I'll trim it a bit.
I'm going to import that onto the timeline,
zoom out a little bit.
And I'm actually going to drag this above this.
So as you can see, now we are now double stacked
which means we have two stacks of footage
on top of each other, 4k footage, obviously.
And if we come in here and we play this back in real time,
you can see that that is playing back quite well.
It's switching between the stacks quite easily.
If I pause this, and I'm now going to add in another clip,
so we will shorten this one a little tiny bit.
I'm going to put that in there.
And I'm actually going to shorten this clip just a smidge.
And we're going to come up here.
We're going to go to transitions.
These transitions are pretty average,
so we're not going to be winning any editing awards here.
But again, this is just an iPad guys.
We're going to go the wipe down transition.
We're going to slap that in there.
Now we're going to play.
So we go to the other stack,
and then transition and absolutely no issues.
That plays back really, really smoothly.
So, so far guys I'm quite impressed
with the performance of the iPad.
It's barely warm as well.
I can barely even feel it's on.
So give me a couple of seconds.
Let me put a bit more footage into this particular timeline.
Let's make a triple stack,
and I'll come back to you in a sec.
Okay guys.
So it's been a few minutes now.
And as you can see here,
I now have a triple stacked 4k timeline.
So this isn't probably typically something I would do
on an iPad.
I do have a editing PC that I use
to edit basically all of these videos.
And that is an RTX 39.
It has 64 gigabytes of RAM and a AMD 3,900X CPU,
which is quite powerful obviously.
And even then I probably only generally
stick to about two stacks, sometimes three stacks
with B roll, and also 4k footage from my Sony A73,
as just a B roll.
But as you can see here, this is playing back quite well.
The scrubbing won't be great.
Like I said before, it's compressed.
But if we just come in here, and we play this.
So zero issues there at all.
That is the full 24 FPS, even with transitions.
And you can see that it's playing totally fine.
We're about to come into a double stack.
If I skip forward a bit, this is now triple stacked.
I'll play.
So really zero issues at all.
Very, very impressive stuff.
If I skip forward and let's even come on here.
And we will split this.
And then I might just delete that one,
take it back to double stack, move that a bit over.
Play.
So, very, very responsive.
It's not stuttering.
It's not freezing at all.
So I'm quite impressed.
So just a quick note on LumaFusion guys.
I'm quite impressed as to how it runs, and how it performs,
even when using your fingers and just using touch.
It's quite easy to edit on for basic things.
So yeah, I would totally use this if I was out on the road,
and I only had an iPad.
All right.
So let's just quickly come in here.
We'll add a title just for the fun of it.
There's not, not very many nice titles here, unfortunately.
So let's just do a really weird one like that.
Then we're going to edit this text.
Hello, YouTube.
Let's just leave it at that.
Go back.
We're actually going to now export this or render it.
So we're going to come out here to export.
I'm actually going to go export as a movie.
I'm not going to choose any of those pre selections there.
So I'm going to go files.
And we're going to set this to 4k, 25 FPS video quality,
basically as good as you can get, extreme,
100 megabytes per second.
The codec is going to be H264,
which is a nice compressed codec, good uploading to YouTube.
We're going to go down to, okay.
That is about it.
So let's export that.
Let's call it a 4k test.
And we're now going to export.
So as you can see that guys,
that is two minutes of 4k footage.
It's exporting very, very quickly.
I'm going to say that's probably going to be under a minute,
a minute and a half maybe.
And again, this is really not warm at all.
It's just blazing through this 4k footage.
So let's give it a second to render.
Okay.
So the render is just about to complete and there we go.
All done.
Let's just save that back on the external drive.
So yeah, really, really impressive guys.
That was under 90 for two minutes of 4k footage,
very high quality, a hundred megabytes per second.
Now, although this is somewhat impressive.
The reality is you're really hamstrung
by iPad iOS at the moment.
LumaFusion is good.
But there's no comparison to the full desktop versions
of say DaVinci Resolve or Premiere Pro.
So until these programs move to iPad iOS,
it's really hard for me to actually recommend
to do any kind of editing on an iPad.
Yes, it's possible.
Yes, the, as we've just seen,
the M1 just destroys almost anything.
By the way, if you guys want to see 6K B roll,
or red raw footage, let me know.
Also let me know how to actually use it on LumaFusion,
'cause I don't actually know how to import it,
or if it actually works.
But although it might sound like I'm not really a fan
of the M1 iPad and editing,
it's still very, very early days.
What I think is going to happen
is that com WWDC in a few months,
we're going to see developers like DaVinci and also Adobe,
producing maybe not quite full desktop equivalent apps
for the iPad, but very, very close.
And I think they're going to be able to take advantage
of the M1 chip in this iPad much, much better
than what we've just seen.
So fingers crossed that that is the case.
But apart from that guys, thanks for watching this video.
And I will catch you in the next one.