Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The iPad Pro is Finally Pro…”.
Yo Jonathan here Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad are official as of last week. It is worth noting that they’re not one-to-one versions of their Mac counterparts, so if you’re used to either of those there will be certain things missing. I do think, though, that the iPad specific features brought to the table outweigh and are more important, at least at this point in time than those missing features, because I think they help Propel the iPad and specifically the iPad Pro in a much better Direction. So, with Final Cut, Pro it’ll run on a fairly limited amount of devices, it’s either M1 or M2, and that is it. It makes sense because you absolutely need the power and for those who questioned why M1 or M2 ever made its way to the iPad. This is why, with logic pro, on the other hand, not that you don’t need the power for audio production, because it is a very powerful app. So if you have an M1 or M2 iPad Pro, it will 100 take advantage of that power, but it will work on a wider range of iPads, which is nice.
Now the the elephant in the room is absolutely the subscription model which both Final Cut and Logic. Pro for iPad have adopted on one hand, It’s relatively inexpensive, it’s only five bucks a month to get in the door, so it’s much more palatable than dropping a couple hundred bucks for an iPad app. But, alternatively, I do wish there was some option to buy it outright as well, so with Final Cut Pro, if you use it every day.
Arguably, the biggest feature that you’ll notice is missing on iPad. Are the color tools with Final Cut Pro for Mac? I might be in the minority, but I actually enjoy, prefer and use the color board over something like color wheels. I know the color board May almost seem too simple or not powerful enough, but it just kind of makes sense.
If you want something brighter, you raise it up. If you want something darker, you bring it down. If you want to remove green, you take away green, you don’t add a different color.
So for me it’s just really intuitive. So before I cut anything I’ll usually like to color first so to do that within Final Cut Pro on iPad, Pro we’re going to head up to the inspect tab, we’re going to add a color adjustment and from here that is very iOS. So to bring up Scopes, which can be very helpful, we’re going to head over to the viewer options, image analysis, video scope and we’re going to look for waveform now, in this case, it’s a fairly healthy image.
It’S exposed! Well, if we look over here where we’re over a hundred – that’s usually where you’re clipping, but in this case I know it’s just that bright light here, I have a little bit of room to mess with. So if we just crank the master exposure, this section right here is most of the image, so the portion over there on the right that’s going over 100 again, we know it’s that light right here. So a quick exposure before and after not much again, I’m usually trying to expose and get the image the best I possibly can in camera. Just to make this easy. Looking towards the Shadows, I have a little bit of room to bring that down and from what I’ve learned. It’S actually a little backwards where you would think the Shadows portion would bring the Shadows down and it’s more of like a mid kind of exposure tool.
So if I reset that back to zero, actually the Black Point is going to bring us closer to those like crushed Shadows, so you might want to bring those down to zero. Maybe you can adjust the Shadows there and that’s closer, so the total kind of before and after again, very minimal just bring in some contrast and that’s it. What I do like here is, you: have individual control over both highlight color mid-tone, color and Shadow color. So that’s actually closer to what I’m used to with in Final Cut. It just looks different here. The mid-tones are usually where your skin and skin tones are. So if we want to add a little bit of warmth there, we can tint if we’re going. This way we’re going to add green. If we go this way, we’re going to add magenta. So if we’re pulling out a little bit of green we’re going to go positive in this case, I don’t think I really need to do much to these shadows and one other nice thing is: you do have a global mix. So if you want to just kind of blend it in your overall adjustment with the original, you can go from zero to 100 and somewhere in between now that I’ve adjusted the color, I might go back and just adjust the overall exposure a bit. So if I want to add a little bit more here so going back to the initial before and after so this is with everything off. This is with everything on I mean we could add a little bit of saturation just to pump it up and make things a little more noticeable, but it’s not much, but it does make it a difference. Now before I continue, I want to give a quick shout out to today’s sponsor case coup and with that I thought, it’d be fun to use Final Cut Pro on the iPad to create something for case coup. One of the new features we saw come to Final Cut Pro for iPad, which has since come to the Mac version, is the scene removal mask this? Is their magic stand case, which is everything you’d want in a phone case? It’S got great grip. Camera protection drop protection, it’s magsafe compatible and it’s under 50 bucks.
So what I did was take the case and get a product shot of it over a blue backdrop and then got the exact same shot without the phone case. So, within Final Cut Pro for iPad, you’re kind of making a sandwich here where you’re, taking that initial layer of the phone case, then adding text. So in this case I wanted to make a giant case coup. We then duplicate.
The original video file put that, on top of the text layer and from there we do the scene removal mask it’s kind of surprising how well it works. This usually would take a ton of time and the fact that you can do it on an iPad Pro is kind of wild from there. Let’S say I wanted to use the live, drawing feature on Final Cut Pro with an iPad to Circle or point out how the case turns into a stand. I can do that as well, so if you want to check this or anything else case coup offers, I will drop some links down below make sure to check it out.
It definitely helps the channel from there I’m going to get rid of the inspector and I’m just going to get straight to cutting. So in this case, I do have the keyboard hooked up, but I’m going to try and rely on it only for the space bar and play pause everything else, I’m going to try to embrace the touch. Because again, I think this is what this was intended for. So with that keyboard, to find my end point of where I would cut, I definitely usually lean on that just to hit a really kind of solid, stop I’d hard, stop there.
The alternative we do have here is the jog wheel. So if we kind of scrub better Direction, that’ll give you also a bit of that Precision going back to the keyboard instinctively. What I would do is just hit command B and get that blade out of the way.
So I’m going to again embrace the touch and we have three different options: right here blade and then from there we have two different kinds of trims, so we can either cut everything before the playhead or everything after so from here, where I’m ready to make that Cut, I have a few different options. I could command B and then delete that portion that I don’t need. I could hit the blade tool here and then delete this or if we take advantage of that, trim, that’s going to make two moves at once, where it cuts and then deletes all at the same time. The other really nice thing with the magnetic timeline, which, if you do use Final Cut, I would wholeheartedly recommend to embrace everything just automatically shifts over, which is super nice. Now, personally, one of my favorite things about Final Cut Pro – and in this case I will specify for Mac – is the ability to access logic pro plugins directly within the app so 98 of the time, I’m processing all of my audio, my dialogue, 100 within Final Cut.
Pro and never leaving the app. This includes EQ compression, limiting effects all within Final Cut Pro, and it is worth noting these are the full-blown plug-in versions with visuals and everything, not just watered-down versions, so in terms of what you can actually do with audio within Final Cut Pro for iPad. I do really like the fact that you have voice isolation, loudness noise, removal, those are all very helpful and super important if we head over to the audio effects tab. All you have is a single band EQ and a compressor now both of these.
I might also add that they are just numbers, so I I do enjoy the visual aspect of logic pro and seeing things in this you’re really only going to be able to do some minor things, maybe cut out some low end Rumble, and then, if you hop Back to the compressor again, it’s very simplified, so I do hope those get updated and we get a little more control here over time. The other thing thing missing with Final Cut Pro for iPad, as of now is some way to get audio directly into the app. So if you wanted to record a quick voiceover – or in this case, I wanted to use the iPad to record the audio for this video, I’m actually taking a USB interface, a relatively inexpensive apogee boom, going directly into the iPad and then using logic pro to record Everything so hop on over to logic pro. This is the entire voice over and the positive here is. I was able to process everything within the app now one of the things I really enjoy with Logic Pro for iPad.
Is this quick look at your entire stack of processing, so in this case it’s Channel EQ a compressor and a limiter, but it all adapts and reacts in real time. You do have even control over some of the parameters, which is super nice. If I tap, this that’ll bring us to within a bigger view of what we’re normally used to seeing in the desktop version or the Mac version of logic pro we can hop back.
So this is actually what I’m used to within Final Cut Pro on the Mac side of things. So this obviously would be incredible if we could get cross access within Final Cut Pro on the iPad version or, at the very least, even some sort of adaptation. Of this would be amazing from there diving a little deeper into apple pencil and the live drawing feature.
I think that is probably the biggest feature or Reason Why Final Cut Pro for iPad makes sense. You absolutely could do something like this before with apps like procreate, but it was either an app to app experience and process, or sometimes even a device to device process where, let’s say you did the drawing portion on iPad and then hopped over to final cut on Your Mac to complete things again, I think apple pencil, especially on something like an iPad Pro, is really what separates it from something like a MacBook Pro. It’S just a different level of input and precision that you really can’t get elsewhere to instantly be able to add a title that is unique and different and custom is awesome. I think is going to be huge for music videos and lyric videos, or even if you are showcasing a product, to quickly be able to Circle or to point to something with that. Much ease is invaluable.
That then, leads to the jog wheel on Final Cut Pro with an iPad, and I think those are the two most important things: apple pencil support live drawing and the jog wheel, because I think that really showcases how these were optimized and almost redesigned for touch, as Opposed to the way, we’d use them on a Mac if you’re used to editing within Final Cut Pro on Mac – and you immediately hop over to Final Cut on iPad and treat it the same way, it’s going to feel a little slow and maybe counter-intuitive. There are keyboard shortcuts that work extremely well, but I think really, the point of Final Cut Pro for iPad is to embrace touch to embrace the apple pencil, because that is really what it’s about. So when I went into this edit, I kind of assumed that, having my blade options, just constantly glue to the screen was going to be a bit of a problem but again kind of embracing the touch. Centric part of Final Cut Pro for iPad.
It’S very fast and I really enjoyed it. I think when I started this edit, it was maybe around 30 of battery left and it made it the entire way, with a screen recording. So everything seems fluid and simple. I think for those who maybe haven’t experienced Final Cut Pro for mac – and this is your starting point: if you learn it this way from the ground up, it is going to be insanely fluid in my case, Final Cut Pro for Mac. Does everything that I need it to do so Final Cut Pro for iPad isn’t going to replace it because I don’t need it to. On the other hand, it’s going to be a really nice complementary tool that I can use in conjunction with Final Cut Pro on Mac in certain situations where I want to add a little bit different, feel or text or things that I couldn’t do there.
That’S where it makes perfect sense now hands down. One of the best things about Final Cut Pro is the multi-cam editing and, if you’re using final cut and you’re, not using multi-cam you’re doing it wrong. That, surprisingly, did make its way over to Final Cut Pro for iPad.
It is a little more limited in the sense if you can only do up to four different angles, but in terms of how it functions, how it performs it’s just as powerful as its matte counterpart and potentially a little more intuitive, because it works really well with Touch to be able to see all your angles in front of you and then just to quickly tap and adjust is incredible and again going back to the. If I had to take this feature over that feature, I would absolutely take the multi-cam feature on iPad Pro. Now, instead of getting something like those color tools, the incredible thing with Final Cut Pro for Mac is that there’s been so many updates over the years.
So, in this case, with Final Cut Pro for iPad, especially because you are going to subscription model more and more features are going to continue to come, but even now it’s a very solid product. Now, if you want to see a more in-depth video on Logic Pro for iPad, I will have that up soon on the Jonathan and Friends channel. So if you haven’t checked that out yet definitely do that and subscribe if you’re feeling like being awesome, if you enjoyed the video drop a like this is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later. .