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one year after the debut release of the iPad version of Final Cut Pro the big sequel is here Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 is out this professional video editing software was announced alongside the new stunning and Incredibly thin iPad Pros with brand new M4 chips and new accessories my expectations as someone who deeply loves his iPad for his creative work and as someone who had a long wish list for Final Cut Pro 2 really high and for Apple the stakes are high too the iPad has always lived in this weird place between being just a bigger iPhone and something that’s kind of a laptop but not something you can get actual work done on so Apple’s own Pro apps like the Final Cup Pro for iPad are meant to change that but can they so for this review I use the latest M4 iPad Pro and last year’s M2 iPad Pro the smaller 11-in iPad has 1 TB of storage which means that the M4 processor that’s in it comes with 10 CPUs 10 GPU cores and 16 gigs of RAM compared to the other smaller storage configurations those come with nine CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM But whichever one you pick up you shouldn’t be worried this one and the older M2 Pro fly through edits without any problems the performance of either of these iPads was never really in doubt but you do get a little performance bump on the M4 as you can see from my export test it is minimal and it’s probably not a reason to upgrade for years now we’ve known that despite the ipit stunning Hardware its software is what leaves us wanting more Apple’s list of updates for Final Cut Pro this year fortunately remains really thin even during Apple’s modern day infomercial event for the iPad most of the focus in time was spent talking about the new companion app called Final Cut camera it is a standalone app for your iPhone with more advanced camera controls peing manual focusing audio metering that sort of stuff but on the iPad via the Final Cut Pro app it lets you the director monitor up to four separate streams of footage coming from the iPhones okay here’s a quick demo how it works we’re going to start the recording here so now all these cameras are being controlled so I can talk to you on this one then I can switch on to that one and lastly I can go on here and from the iPad you can take control of each camera you can change the focusing mode from Auto to manual focus you can change the exposure and you can change the white balance you can zoom in and out and you can slowly zoom out or you can zoom in Faster uh you cannot switch between lenses once you’re locked in in so you have to make those selection beforehand so as I’ve said before you can use up to four iPhones I have three 1 two and three and this fourth track is actually going to be for the audio so I can sync it up later with something that sounds a little bit better than what you get on the iPhones themselves this isn’t really a part of my normal workflow but for anyone filming primarily on iPhones the app is really simple and straightforward and I think it’ll be particularly useful for video podcasts too you’ll hear me say this a lot I love working on my iPad it is a device whose admittedly limited user interface and operating system actually helped me keep focus on a task at hand but a proper video editing app could make an iPad my main machine I had a long list of notes after the first Final Cut Pro for ipit was released and apple addressed well not a lot of them except one big One external drives are finally supported I are already extremely expensive and the markup on storage alone is what can really raise that price up quickly this feature was weirdly absent last year but it is finally here however it instantly reminded me of how poorly Final Cut Pro 2 for iPad handles file management all of your files have to live within the Final Cut Pro Library meaning you can just link files or have them stored in a separate folder at all okay so for example you’re working on a video on your iPad’s internal storage and let’s say you have a folder of 200 GB of Boll on your external hard drive you have to bring those into your internal storage you can just let them hang out on a drive and Link them when you need them another side effect of this method is that that means that you’re just constantly duplicating files furthermore you still can’t import complete folders in Final Cut Pro just individual files because there is no folder hierarchy within the app either meaning that all of your media just hangs out in this little window you can’t organize it in separate folders like a roll b roll music Graphics or whatever you use you can still favorite your files filter through by types of files but it all just feels a little bit too trivial for a professional video editing app and there are other issues as well most of my library lives on a Nas which is connected through the files app but once I import footage from it the next time I open Final Cut most of those files are just missing or need to be relin and you can’t actually relink them your only solution is to repport everything again and hope it works the next time which it won’t there are some smaller updates coming as well and these weren’t available during my testing period but there will be 20 new songs for you to choose from new text titles new Dynamic backgrounds and some new color presets Apple didn’t give me a full list of which effects are getting added but I do hope some of the more exciting ones from the desktop version are going to make their way here and there’s also support for the new pencil Pro for live drawings but otherwise there’s not much to do with the pencil Pro itself I wish there was a way to program The heptic Squeeze to do something more on the timeline maybe selecting more Clips while hovering or just use it as a right click I think that would be super [Music] useful I had high expectations for the new Final Cut Pro ahead of the iPad event but I was expecting a lot more features to be added that are still absent which could have been just easy wins compounding Clips folders as I mentioned adjustment layer stabilization more coloring tools like curves sharing projects between machines is still kind of viy ability to add new LS 360 video support object tracking there’s there’s a lot more that’s missing that really can catch you off guard when you’re in the flow just a few weeks ago I made this tiny video what I actually wanted to do is add a slight pushin effect like kbur effect to it but while you can add that effect to individual Clips you can’t add them to multiple clips compound Clips or adjustment layers would have fixed that the easiest thing for me to do is export this video import it back into Final Cut Pro and then add the Ken birs effect across the whole thing bottom line is that I found myself making creative decision based on on software limitations and there are other options out there cap cut has been extremely popular with Tik tokers and why I’m switching to the Vinci videos are all over my YouTube feed in fact three of the features that I desperately need are already on D Vin’s iPad app but here’s the weird part even after trying all the other apps I just listed I keep coming back to this one because there is one thing apple is doing right here so Apple calls this app to touch for St and they are right once you’re past the learning curve and once you get a hang of the controls and once you’re aware of its limitation I know that’s a lot of disclaimers but you start to actually enjoy it and have fun Apple isn’t trying to replicate the desktop experience they’re building towards a new one and you can see it in the way that you interact with the digital jog wheel the way that the sidebar comes in so you can edit everything with your left hand and then there’s the hardware this is by far the best screen I ever had a chance to work on the tandem all it is bright super color accurate Vivid and just breeds new life into my old videos and the fact that I’m editing 4K pror is video on a device so small so light and so thin does feel unreal at times so if Apple can check off those easy wins then it’s a vision of a touch first Final Cut Pro could really Thrive but until it does that the iPad remains something that’s kind of a laptop but not something where you get actual work done at least for video editors like me okay I feel like my Ender is always the same there’s so much more that I wanted to get into but it just feels like it would take forever to talk about so if you have any specific questions drop them down below I will be uh answering all of them but don’t be mean don’t be mean don’t be a online
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