Final Cut Pro for iPad has a few issues

With the release of Final Cut Pro for iPad, I've been wondering how it stacks up against desktop Final Cut. Today lets get into it and figure out the basics of Final Cut Pro for iPad; how does it work, what useful Final Cut tips and tricks can we employ, and how fast can you edit with the new Final Cut Pro?

time stamps
0:00 A surprising announcement
1:14 Starting a project
1:59 Navigating the timeline
2:35 Clip trimming
3:06 New Inspector tool
3:34 Color correction & effects
4:45 Editing a larger video
5:42 Genius Bar Goes Drk!!
6:15 Final Cut without a keyboard
7:37 Editing with just thumbs!
8:46 Some limitations
10:16 Magic Keyboard benefits
11:14 Keyframing
14:31 Is it good enough!?

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[TheMaristBoy]

Editing a 4K video WHILE recording the entire process? On a tablet? Reasonably fast? I'm getting old because that shit is impressive

[Epicgamer_Mac]

OMGosh the first second of the video had a REALLY loud "pop". Scared me so bad!! But great vid Luke. I'm just glad they brought it to the iPad and I think sooner rather than later, they'll work out the bugs; we'll just have to hope,

[AlexanderLindo]

Great to see, but no subscriptions for me. I will have a look at it when a perpetual license is available. As a an Apple Certified audio professional who uses Logic Pro on macOS professionally on a daily basis for producing and mixing the content on my channel, my albums and for my clients, I firmly believe in ownership and being able to upgrade products when I see fit. This trend of subscriptions happened first with Adobe, then Avid then Waves and now Apple. I have always been and remain a fan of Apple but if the option for purchasing Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro was ever removed from the desktop versions, then I would no longer have need these products. If others want to continue this path and allow companies to take more and more power out of the hands of their customers, then that is their prerogative but I will stand my ground firmly when I say I will not invest in any subscription-only platform. The option for purchasing a perpetual license must always exist. I see several companies trying to make this a trend but I will not allow any trends in the industry to dictate my decisions. If we continue on this path these tech companies are going to start turning operating systems into subscriptions. Can you imaging being forced to pay a subscription fee in order to boot your computer? No thanks. I still buy CDs & DVDs and purchase music from the iTunes Store. I do not believe in music streaming services either. I own my home, my car, my computer, my music, my daw, my plugins and that is not ever going to change. Having said that, I am happy to see that Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro have made it to the iPad. The only thing holding these new apps back are their subscription-only model.

[SilentEire]

This is definitely a great option for newbie creators. A step-up from iMovie but without the upfront costs of a desktop application

[GarrettCrespo]

No external drive support is a big bummer. I hope they add it soon. That’s a MUST for me!

[ultraviolettp]

Once again this channel is by far superior to most Fruit company channels. You give us an honest opinion and you take time to develop your thoughts without being a sellout to the Fruit company ecosystem. While I still wonder why the Fruit company doesn't build touch screen laptops, I think the Fruit pad and Final Cut would be useful for someone who wants to have something not as bulky as a Fruit Air laptop to take with them to an on-site production; what would be interesting is to see how taking this mobile approach to do beginning edits works when exporting to a faster and more capable computer. It would seem that being able to do starting edits on a very mobile platform and then finishing the project on a real computer would be a great use of time. On location often has down time that is not usually well exploited. I guess you could use a Fruit Air laptop to do this, but in this generation of users who complain when they have to carry an ounce more in weight, the Fruit pad could be a wonderful device for Fruit snowflakes. Good point on no-external device support. Considering the Fruit pad never was supposed to be a serious product other than to CONSUME media, if there is enough squawk from the Fruit Flies, I am sure the Fruit company will cave in and offer that. I'll admit having a pad is lost on me as far as portability. I have a very nice and thin real computer laptop that can fold into a tablet and that works if I need to travel. Pads to me end up as stationary items of little pragmatic value other than to be timers or clocks with alarms. The expense of a Fruit pad would have me opting to pay a bit more for something of real usage upside.

[gitpho]

FCP and Logic for iPad both seem to have some strange and arbitrary restrictions at the moment (e.g., no external drive support or comprehensive color tools for FCP and no third-party plug-in support for Logic) but may be nice for creators who have been settling for iMovie and GarageBand when on the move. A more reasonable level of feature parity could finally justify an iPad Pro for me.

[ItsHonski]

when you're so early the only quality option is 360p

[wal]

Great video! I’ve been using LumaFusion on iPad Pro for many years and overall been happy with it. Before that I used Sony Vegas since around 2000 and was happy to move away after it was sold to another company. Luma also has some shortcomings, but I’ve found it to be more enjoyable to edit on the iPad than a laptop or desktop. I guess it all depends on how your workflow “flows”. The lack of external drives on FCP is a real deal killer for me and I’ll work around it while learning the software. I hope Apple resolves this quickly. Thanks again for the excellent overview!

[Big_J]

You made it look so simple Luke, well done.

[Saoodisticall]

still cant believe this was announced randomly before wwdc

[klauschristensen]

Did you edit this video on an iPad?
I'm experiencing some glitches in this video that isn't usual in your material.
I'm mostly into sound, so I noticed the noise bursts at 0:00, 0:26 and 0:53 and the ecco at 11:02.
Did you secretly edit this video as you showed us in the video?

[DGgraphicsNY]

Would have liked to see you use it with your external displays

[grahamniven]

Lumafusion gets my vote.
Works beautifully on my iPad Air 4, can edit on external drive, can even use NAS as an external drive.

[davva]

So my biggest issue with this is people have said you can not edit using an external ssd for your storage and to render your finished project. That to me is essential on an iPad with limited space. I dont want to continually bump up against storage limits. This is a big fail to me. I also do not like the fact its a subscription model especially as I do own the desktop version. If they did change it to allow editing using external storage i would probably give it a trial. For now I will stick to Luma Fusion if I have to edit on an iPad. It does allow remote storage.

[bj]

I can’t agree with you more. I’ve been saying this for a while now. Love that you agree.

[Mooooooof]

I wonder if they’ll bring Xcode or others to iPad come wwdc

[Cchogan]

The problem with subscription is when you add it to all those OTHER subscriptions you have... Especially when the big competition (Davinci Resolve) is free.... (and comes with external drive support and is compatible with the desktop version, etc)

[stuartmeek]

When you said about taking it into the field whilst drone shooting, my ears popped up… summer is here and it’ll make uploading videos quickly on go will be a massive boon to many like myself

[andrewarmstrong]

Very interesting and welcome introduction, the 11.03 point has an audio glitch so it shows this app does need little tweaks yet