notion : Apple made the surprise announcement today ( May 9 ) that Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro will be making their way to iPads later this month , and while there ’s a lot to get excited about , it seems as though Apple has dropped the ball in a few key area .
As someone who ’s been using LumaFusion – one of the iPad ’s secure video editors – for old age , it always seemed strange to me that Apple was n’t trying to move in on the app ’s success by either expanding the capabilities of iMovie or simply port Final Cut Pro to its pill . Whatever was causing the holdup is understandably out of the way , and the last merchandise looks unbelievably exciting .
From the footageshown off by Apple , it seems incredibly seamless to absent the background of a given shot and replace it with something more eye - catching , all without postulate to dust off a green screen before you hit . There ’s also some incredibly visceral Apple Pencil integration that allow you draw instantly onto a telecasting and animate your script in next to no time .
These are the type of features that go a tenacious way to not only simplify the editing process but also add a lot more flair to your video with minimal effort . It ’s enough to make me pitchfork out for the raw software program , if there were n’t two flagrant issues standing in the way .
For starter , LumaFusion is clearly last Cut Pro ’s biggest competitor in this field , and while the latter may cease up being more feature - rich , the former benefit from iPad and iPhone compatibility . Just this weekend , I edit out an integral video directly on myiPhone 14because I wanted to get it done quickly and not have to consider with the wait times of transferring files to my iPad .
In these instances , being able to edit on your iPhone is a vast timesaver , and LumaFusion has had years to make its expansive UI feel at base on a touchscreen . To have Final Cut Pro limited to just iPads signify that it ’s going to miss out on the versatility enjoy by its close contender , and that could ensure that LumaFusion remain a tempting choice into the future .
Of course , if mass would much rather make use of a larger cover for editing then this is n’t really an issue , but the gatekeeping of Final Cut Pro to iPads using the M1 chip and above certainly will be . This means that if you have aniPad Mini 6,iPad tenth Gen , aniPad Air 2020or even a pre - M1iPad Pro – you ’re wholly out of destiny .
To make matters worse , the ability to linger your Apple Pencil and glide through your video timeline without touching the screeen is hidden off even further – approachable only to the prosperous few who have the latestM2 iPad Pros . Why this is n’t potential on the M1 chipset is completely beyond me , but as someone who uses a stock iPad , I ’ll be watching from the outside , trying to regain a room to haphazard recreate these feature film in LumaFusion for the prison term being .
If you are favourable enough to have all of the rights cock however then you might wish to know that Final Cut Pro for iPad will drop off on May 23 and will be £ 4.99/$4.99 a month ( or £ 49/$49 annually ) .
