I saw that Davinci Resolve is coming to the iPad during the "keynote". This is huge. Who needs Final Cut Pro when you have Davinci Resolve?
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iPad Pro Pro Apps incoming?
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I'm looking forward to Affinity Publisher personally. This is the second time Apple have teased it... and yet Affinity remain tight lipped on its release. Seems today though Apple also accidentally (deliberately?) leaked Affinity Suite 2.0 is incoming soon as well.
it’s good news to see developers are starting to look at the platform more.
Pro apps are the most lacking on the iPad Pro
Pro apps are the most lacking on the iPad Pro
exactly, people are mad because of ipadOS....but no, ipadOS is good enough, the lack of pro apps made the ipad pro hardware kind of useless
Now with more and more of this kind of apps...the hardware is already there...people are happy
Probably because iPadOS let apps use more RAM in iPadOS16. These apps will work on M1 iPads as well. I wonder if octane X will be a stand alone renderer? Would be ironic if the iPad(!) could be used as silent render slave.
since ipadOS15 last updates now we can use up to 12gb of ram (for the 16gb ram ipads) So that part is already fixed since last year )
They will work with M1 for sure, but M2 with proRes/proRaw encoder will be even greater. So now we have the hardware and the apps
But i hope these apps are coming this year. Especially DaVinci, Affinity and octane X stand alone renderer
I agree. People focus way too much on wanting to put MacOS on the iPad. Which I think is a bad idea.
Most customers care care less about editing pro res and pro res raw on an iPad. Though it is ridiculous that the M1 does not support this.
Hardware ProRes encode/decode is not physically present in the base M1. I'm sure say Resolve will support the codec through software when running on the M1, though.
Not surprised that iPadOS 15 got 12 Gb so App developers could start working. App development takes time and hardware and OS must come before Apps.
I agree. iPads were made for watching shows, reading magazines and comic books. I use computers for important stuff. I bought Lumafusion but still can't give up Premiere even for lesser projects.
I think too many people are assuming these apps will be 100% as the desktop counterpart. Photoshop has been in the store for years and look at the differences with the desktop version... I would wait for the app to be released before celebrating too much... Having said that, I do hope that as many functions as possible will come to iPad..
I think you’re right. Microsoft Office on the iPad is barebones as well and I hope Apple can find a way to entice developers (yes, even Microsoft!) to bring some parity with desktop versions. It’s ultimately the lack of fully-featured apps that hurts iPad the most in my opinion.
To an extent.
Lumafusion has been able to edit ProRes 422 and 4444 for over a year now on M1 pros.
ProRes raw on the other hand is a nope, but performance with ProRes formats is still damn fast on M1 iPad pro
like the phones in the 90 were just for phone calls and now they are web, music, media, phone and so on...
Nothing remain the same with the tech evolving so fast..ofc first ipads was just for that, because the hardware couldnt compare with Intel and Amd offerings in the x86 space 10 years ago
For just watching shows, reading is the budget ipad now
They'll no doubt be simpler in many ways and will no doubt launch with some features missing. But that isn't always a bad thing if what is there is done right. And a simpler version of a pro app doesn't render it useless for many pro workflows.
A direct port is lazy imo. So I'm in the camp that's happy Apple is holding out on simple allowing MacOS to run on iPads. By forcing developers to re-think their apps for a different canvas, different UX and interactions, you can end up with a much better experience.
For example, I've seen many digital artists state they prefer the simpler Adobe Illustrator on iPad compared to the more feature rich desktop app, because some essential features like the pen tool just simply work better when combined with an actual pencil and touch canvas.
The iPad version will probably not support 3rd party plugins given how Apple forces you to use the App Store.
iPads are made for a lot more than that but as a desktop replacement? No, the format does not lend itself to that. Even if we had feature parity in apps, most will want to have a larger screen to use it as a desktop replacements. External screen keyboard and trackpad sounds like a Mac is a better choice.
Furthermore, you, like me, probably are well entrenched in keyboard and mouse/trackpad operations and therefore have a deep preference for that so even if had app feature parity, we could likely gravitate towards traditional "computers". We are biased. It is much more interesting to get the views of people who have not touched windows of MacOS.
True, but my answer was regarding the base M1. That the M2 supports HW-decode/encode was already stated in the reply chain.