Two weeks ago, Apple surprisingly announced one of the changes most requested by iPad Pro users: being able to take advantage of the full power of the new M1 and M2 processors in applications that were beyond conventional iPad apps. Some genuine business applications with the power to be able to replace desktop versions.
With this philosophy, and through a press release, the company presented its two great video and audio applications: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, in versions for iPad Pro M1 and M2 (In the first case) and Logic Pro from the iPad (con chip A12). Both versions of the two applications downloadable from the App Store are already available today. purchase by subscription: $4.99 per month or $49 for a whole year.
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Final Cut Pro for iPad, first impressions
We at Applesfera test both apps extensively and will bring you a full review shortly, but we were able to get early access to the first version of both apps and want to tell you first-hand about their main features. Let’s start with Final Cut Pro.
A completely redesigned interface for iPad. It does, with the familiar Final Cut Pro elements we all know. The layout of the viewer, content, timeline and all the controls for each of the parts are located very similar to the desktop version.
There differences in this touch redesign makes controls more easily accessible with your finger and the second-generation Apple Pencil. In the case of the iPad Pro M2, the use of the “hover”, the touch without contact with the screen and its reaction to the interface, which caught my attention the most in my tests due to the comfort of movement in the commands very simple.
The interface is able to adapt to modes such as the multi-camera angle editingthough personally the best ones authorized by Apple Silicon are the most amazing to me – such as scene removal masks, AI auto-cropping and voice stacking.
There scene removal mask It even works with a complicated video, like the one you see in the image, which was only 11 seconds long. The prerequisites to be able to use this process where you can put texts below an element in the foreground (You can see in the capture that he doesn’t have to be a “human”) is that the video has a general plane with no movement and the element to be superimposed comes into play.
with a couple of easy adjustments You can already see the changes in the “Masks and Key” menu, which can then be accentuated with fine adjustments to even out transparency and other effects. It’s very visible, it’s instantaneous (the preview is in real time) and obtain very good results.
The interface is beautifully handled, but what really stands out about it new Final Cut Pro for iPad it’s the “jog wheel”, a touch wheel that folds on itself into a mini touch screen that you can have on the left or right side of the iPad (if you put it up or down it will stick to the nearest side).
This dial has two positions: “reading head” (to move in the timeline and preview the result in real time) and “push” (to move clips on the timeline). Both, exactly. Also included is a good graphics library with effects and audio, ready to apply in our designs.
Using the Apple Pencil is for drawing with a bit more precision, but not at all essential to be able to use it – since the whole interface can be controlled with your fingers. Even the new “draw” feature on the clip can be done without a pencil, but with less precision.
It is also possible to import a final cut pro project for iPad to Mac (not the opposite) always keeping in mind that we need at least the latest version of FCP 10.6.6 – which, by the way, is not the one offered (at least at the time of writing these lines) in the test version of the website.
Very promising is this version for iPad which seems to save the best of the desktop, with a very good interpretation in iPadOS which I hope this is the start many other such projects.
Logic Pro, first impressions
Logic Pro version on iPad works from an iPad with A12 Bionic chip the last one who installed iPadOS 16.4 (does not need to be an M1 or M2 chip with in the case of Final Cut Pro) and has also redesigned its interface to adapt to the world of multi-touch. In this case, the interface looks a lot more like the Logic Pro we know on the Mac.
One of the Obvious benefits of using the iPad it’s being able to “play” the music or the instruments that make it up. This tact and precision make it very comfortable, for example, to use the library of samples with plugins of various types: in the plugins, the rotary controls are controlled by moving the finger from top to bottom on it and its design in this version is very successful.
There is also a very good library of plugins to choose from, retro synthesizers, vintage keyboards or string instruments that imitate human gestures in the interpretation. Navigating the composition row with multitouch is fast but above all intuitive, presenting the editing options of each track at your fingertips.
Another major change in Logic Pro for iPad is the new browser, an essential part of the musical process. Now everything is in one place: instrument patches, audio patches, loops, singles, module presets, patterns. It is also guided by a predictive filter that will help us find the perfect sound we are looking for for the composition we have in progress – we can even listen to any sound from the browser without having to add it to the project (Finally).
As in the iPad version of Final Cut Pro, it is possible to export the projects to the Mac version or import from a version of GarageBand for iOS (Never behind), which makes it much easier to enjoy the best of both worlds to finish our creations.
Soon we will offer you our detailed analysis by a music expert where we will detail each novelty to the nearest millimeter. As it arrives, what we see is a very polished and nimble version, with very well thought out interface to make things comfortable and simple for us and it allows us to create professional work also by connecting external MIDI instruments.
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