Final Cut Pro for the iPad Review & Walkthrough: WOW!

[@ChrisLawley]

What do you all think of Final Cut for the iPad?

[@CasualViewer-t4f]

This is exactly what I personally have been waiting for. DaVinci Resolve is great but I really like the UI decisions Apple made here. Very touch focused and I won’t hesitate to use my iPad for a few shots if needed thanks to how the camera is integrated in Final Cut now. $50 a year feels like a fair price to me for what you get.

[@petercorley2238]

I have to agree with you both. Chris sorry to hear that you have the same condition that my other source of tech info Sara D. recently shared. Wishing you both the best.

[@NewIndigo]

This is the insightful video about FCP that has convinced me to purchase it. Thanks for such a clear overview.

[@arinkim708]

Just FYI ..I am not a video editor but I know you can apply changes to color, imported lutz etc to multiple frames at once. You select one frame or clip, picture, video clip etc apply the lutz or whatever then select edit, then copy then click on all the frames or clips or picture you want to apply to them to hit paste, just like you would on your iPhone.

[@devondundee]

Love to see the “Edited on iPad Pro” closing screen return!

[@ChrisLawley]

I really really enjoyed typing that again.

[@TheFurlock]

Thank you for the kindness and the heart you sent to me while I was living on the beach in my car.

Really excited about the course for Final Cut Pro on the iPad. It may be the first course I’ll ever buy.

[@shaps]

Great video! I did laugh though when you kept calling the Magnetic Timeline, the "Magic Timeline" 😆 Btw the reason for the external screen scaling issue, is that when we (I'm a dev) set the app as "Requires full screen" (which is common for pro-type apps and games), that tells iOS it can't resize 👍 Full Stage Manager support requires a non-full screen setting, but then FCP would need to support even compact (iPhone) sizing, which would be tricky. I'm personally hopeful we get a newer feature that would enable this full screen support on "Larger" screens like external 👍

[@npyle4]

Great video-as always. Also, can’t wait for your tutorial/series on Final Cut Pro for iPad-I’m just getting started so anxious to learn and you always do a great job of explaining/teaching!

[@derranstokes8760]

I look forward to your series on learning Final Cut for the iPad. Thanks, Chris; it might just get me in front of a camera and make some content.

[@ChrisLawley]

That’s awesome!

[@terranceblount5959]

Great explanation and for somebody who is intermediate with FCP, I have to say the move to iPad to me is a DREAM seeing it’s intuitive, 5G connected, and extremely portable. Officially subscribed and looking forward to your tutorial.

[@CozyIrishChai]

I have been following your videos for sometime and always love your IPad content as I am in love with my ipad. I have been wanting to learn editing for sometime now but didn't know where to turn. And it feels overwhelming. I am very excited for your upcoming tutorials!! Sounds just like what I have been looking for!

[@velanche]

Thanks for the excellent overview. Look forward to your beginner series!

[@justbulma]

I have been waiting for you to make this video since the announcement was made and you do not disappoint your enthusiasm at the beginning really showed always a good video

[@thebountycaptain]

Great video! Very excited for your tutorial video! I already have Final Cut Pro installed on my iPad but definitely looking for a good “how to” to really dive in! Been wanting to make videos for a while!

[@ValiRossi]

Awesome video! I'm a photographer and would love to learn Final Cut.

[@deejayvr]

I’m looking forward to your tutorial series. I’m just starting out in video editing. I am so great full FCP is subscription otherwise I would not be able to get for a long time

[@drhogie]

I want to love it. I really do. And I’ve put down an annual subscription for it already! But not being able to store an active project on external drives (which LumaFusion & Davinci Resolve can do) hurts my 256gb iPad Pro. Then, I went to import a project I’ve been waiting for iFCP to edit: my daughters jazz band recital shot on my Canon R7, MP4 files. Right away it refuses to import 3 of the 9 files. All three of the files play just fine in the Files app. All three play just fine in LumaFusion and Davinci Resolve. I’m thrilled iFCP is here and the color correction tools are making me swoon. But it still feels very very buggy. EDIT (2:42pm Central) - After fiddling with iFCP a bit more I was able to get 2 of the 3 clips to import after a couple of restarts of the iPad Pro (12.9, 5th gen M1, iPadOS 16.5). The last clip I trimmed in Files.app and still didn’t work (importing from Samsung T7 USB-C drive). Finally I copied the file to my iPad itself and it imported without issue. So hopefully it’s just some bugs to be worked out.

[@dean-fx]

Agreed, I think this definitely has potential; but they are still behind the curve with what Luma and DaVinci is already doing. Also as Chris said, having this V1 release thrown out to the wild and slapping a subscription on it so soon was a premature money-grab in my honest opinion. I'll still play with it for the free month, but I don't see myself completely shifting away from Luma until it is fully feature rich with some of these key missing features. It's a start though!

[@Robert-ok3su]

Great video. I’m looking forward to your tutorials, since I’m a beginner in Final Cut Pro for the iPad. BTW I love your keyboard collection in the background. It would be great if you could introduce them one by one in a video!

[@DylSean]

Amazing milestone for the iPad becoming a computer! I’ve been wanting to start a KZbin channel for a while now but haven’t because I don’t really want to edit with a mouse/keyboard…. Another appp that just came to iPad doesn’t make editing fun like Final Cut Pro does….😮 Oh and some of the price points of certain devices with jog wheels are out of budget for beginners like me! Now that I can edit with a digital jog wheel it brings so much more joy to editing! Combined with that pencil power, the new editing experience is perfection 😅

[@benroy8959]

Been waiting patiently for that new wallpaper pack! 🙏🏼 Do you know how long it will be until release? 😁 Great video as always! 👏🏼👏🏼

[@HistoryNut-1701]

I am looking forward to the FCP Tutorial Series.

[@cieulien]

I would love it if you would do a review of DaVinci Resolve 18.5 for the iPad Pro - thanks - and maybe the BlackMagic Editor keyboard made for it. Thanks!

[@thabs2001]

24:09 no compound clips?

[@HistoryNut-1701]

Looking forward to the instructional tutorial videos!

[@ApneaPlanet]

Thanks for your very good explanations!

[@fmckeagney]

Fabulous job, Christopher! Really helpful. Thank you!

[@fmckeagney]

By the way, I loved your comment on making FCP tutorials. Can’t wait!

[@JarradShaw]

Late to the video game catching up with your videos Chris. Doesn’t LumaFusion allow 16:9 aspect ratio on monitors?

[@NightWLKR1]

Hey Chris! You should try hooking up a loupdeci to the iPad

[@WorkItJ216]

I can’t wait for your iPad tutorial. I just got the subscription for my iPad and know nothing about FCP. Plus, I don’t have plans to buy it for my M1 Mac.

[@walkhawaii]

Great review - Thank you!

[@pocketvelero]

Would you consider learning Logic Pro to do a video review on what Apple’s vision for a music production experience on an iPad might be like?

[@ChrisLawley]

Yes! My brother is an audio engineer and has used Logic a lot so I’m going to bring him in for a video. He’s been traveling for work that’s why I didn’t have that video today for the embargo.

[@TheAlreadytaken24]

Omggggg 😊😊... what do you think of it now?? Worth it?

[@NathanHattonOfficial]

I noticed several of my go to keyboard shortcuts from the Mac version just don’t work 😢 most notably is pressing V to disable clips, I use that SO MUCH and it’s just not there 😭

[@NeuroBoy314]

Great video! Will you come back “iPad only user” status?

[@fmarinosfromafar9512]

Re: terminology, Library becoming Project and Project = Timeline - it's almost a return to good ol' FCP7 with Projects and Sequences! (happy!)

[@lincolnbroke]

Hi, thank you for video. May i kindly ask if you can find any reason for paying and using Final Cut Pro on ipad, although you had had payed it for macOS, and as there is a Software Whih is called Da Vinci ressolve for free?

[@NITINCHAWLA]

Hi Christopher! Love all ur videos! Just wanted to know! Do you still edit using fcp on the ipad?

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you, and yes! In fact I’m speaking at the Final Cut conference next month about it.

[@bryanbuff]

Kind of a fail that Final Cut for iPad isn’t supporting full screen external display. How did they miss this?

[@ChrisLawley]

Like I said in the video the app very much screams V 1.0. At some point you have to ship what your got and then update later. This is very clearly focused on people that will be editing on the go. I do hope they add proper full screen mode soon though.

[@bryanbuff]

@@ChrisLawley Yeah, I’ve noticed a few things that make this feel like a late beta. I’m sure they will be adding things, but the fullscreen external monitor support seems like a no brainer to have ready to go.

[@TopblokeGolf]

Makes me laugh , get an iPad and add keyboard mouse, external display ….

[@bryanbuff]

@@TopblokeGolf Huh?

[@TopblokeGolf]

@@bryanbuff why not just get a laptop . Purpose of an iPad is grab and go

[@fox_flow4443]

I love your videos. So inspiring. I just wanted to give y'all a possible explanation of why some apps do not allow to be resized to different formats and sizes. Are you ready for a long comment? I know that for building websites and making them look good, Css is used. It basically tells the browser where which element has to be. The equivalent to css for ipad Mac and iPhone apps is swiftUI. Css allows to make websites that are responsive and make them rescalable in the browser so that when you resize your browser it resizes the websites. For doing so, the website must be from ground up build with responsive sizes that look for the actual window size of the browser. Procentage and similar stuff, which works like: resize elements to 30% of the browser window. If you don't build the website with such responsive sizes, the website won't rescale. I think the same goes for swiftUI. If they've built these apps fixed, they won't be responsive, and with that, they only allow to be doubled the size or shrunk down. The benefits of programming apps and websites that way is for one, it is easier and more efficient. There are fewer glitches and bugs due to elements in the app overlapping. On the other hand, it's just lazy if these apps weren't absolute beasts.

[@degas_]

Nice video Christopher, thanks for sharing your thoughts. I would love to see FCP tutorials series with one condition… Please use this expensive Apple Pencil instead of your finger while showing what you want to show... Don’t know (well I think I figured) why most of this video you use your finger instead of Pencil, I don’t imagine you edited this video like that 🤔 I always loved your style, please continue 🫶🏼 Cheers!

[@BernardBorel]

Have a 2020 iPad Pro and been waiting on this! But of course it doesn’t run on mine. Shades of the Storyboard feature. Definitely not buying an iPad for it. Permanent LumaFusion/ DaVinci user now! Pissed

[@stevensonrf]

Speaking of titles, do you know if there’s a scrolling credits function?

[@EngelBos]

ik denk dat ik na het kijken van jou video ...een iPad Pro ga aanschaffen ... werk nu met de FCPX versie op een MacBook Pro en wilde een nieuwe MacBook Pro kopen... maar kan veel geld besparen als ik een iPad Pro aanschaf 👍👍 dank je wel voor je eerlijke uitleg 😊😊

[@TimberWolf1000]

How, do you do the voice audio when you wanna make it normal? When I do it my voice or any voices sounds robotic.

[@coreycollinsm]

I’m just frustrated with the green screen keyer. It needs color selection.

[@RealJoseph123]

If you told me that you can do ALL of this in 2020, I would’ve laugh. I don’t care if it’s a subscription or whatever tech Twitter is saying right now. I was sailing the seven seas for Adobe software back in the day, now I can do things the right (morally correct) way! I’m so HYPED for WWDC now. Now I’m considering upgrading my 2020 model. With Stage Manager, I was like (Really, Apple limiting it?) it’s a bit unusual… but FCP on the iPad? With this much features? I can see why they are limiting the barrier to entry. Now this is the Apple that I like to see. I miss when they truly showed iPad Pro users love. Stage Manager was nice, but we need Pro apps for the Pro iPad in order to take advantage of the powerful M-series chips. I do sound like a fanboy gushing over Apple but I don’t care! Thanks for the video!

[@ghost-user559]

At literally any point in time they can make this 60$ a month exactly like Adobe

[@travisdchavis]

Is it better than DaVinci Resolve on the iPad. The render times of DaVinci are insanely slow even on the M2

[@ChrisLawley]

Yes! Basically it boils down to Resolve is a desktop port and Final Cut is a true native app for the iPad.

[@KhmaiMedia]

can not wait!!!!!!

[@ilovegodverymuch8791]

Will it come to the 2020 iPad Pro pro . The 12.9. iPad

[@sharingmatters]

I have an M1 iPad Pro 256GB SDD so it will allow me only to have a few projects only :(

[@tomsop]

Iphonedo mentions you can change the speed of a video but it is missing speed ramping. Seems ike a basic feature that was left out. Ouch. Not yet ready for prime time in my opinion.

[@MaiElizabeth]

I’m still feeling bad. If DaVinci can be made to run on non M processor iPads, why can’t FCP? I can see FCP interface is much simpler than DaVinci (on iPad).

[@BernardBorel]

Have a 2020 iPad Pro and been waiting on this! But of course it doesn’t run on mine. Shades of the Storyboard feature. Definitely not buying an iPad for it. Permanent LumaFusion/ DaVinci user now!

[@jamoyjr]

Good video but I think you’re a bit harsh for a version 1.0. Updates will make it better and different versions will also be released so go easy

[@TheThaiLife]

It doesn't edit of an SDD and until it is, it's not pro. I have individual files close to 80-100GB and no matter what size iPad I get, it won't support it. But pro creator tool for like GoPro videos or Phone videos, sure.

[@Roxleton]

i hate how there is no duplicate function here (unless im missing something)

[@chicagocarless]

Oooh… You can’t edit from an external drive, but you CAN import and export already begun or completed FCP for iPad projects via an external drive (and clear that project from your internal storage.) And that means you can at least store projects externally, and all the reviewers grousing that Apple is trying to force you to buy large-capacity iPads are wrong. All they had to do was read the online User Guide. It’s right there. For example, my M1 iPad Pro 11 256GB will work JUST FINE for light 4K FCP editing. No new $2,000 iPad needed. Just the external SSD I already have. Now it makes sense.

[@HistoryNut-1701]

How does FCP compare to Davinci Resolve?

[@ChrisLawley]

FCP feels like a true native iPad app that works well with iPadOS. Resolve feels (and is) just a desktop port. I tried to use Resolve but got tired of fighting it.

[@ERIKCLARKK]

Amazing video ! Thank you

[@Stealther]

This is Final Cut Elements, not Pro...

[@MaxNM]

My biggest question is if we use provided sounds in Final Cut Pro are they copyright protected or can we use them for KZbin purpose?

[@rpf23543]

It is pretty cool to finally see those applications on the iPad, including Logic. BUT, I cannot get it why it is subscription based. It is so expensive, if you calculate and a big company like Apple does not need to make it a cash cow, they should rather use these two pro apps to attract the iPad. Because of this, I will not buy them….only if they change to a one time fee…

[@ghost-user559]

Same.

[@mohammadal-salloum1461]

iPad Pro 2nd Gen 😢

[@Akella1986]

I’am not doing anything with а videos but it is interesting anyway 👍

[@ChrisLawley]

It’s very interesting from the point of we have first party pro apps. So we can now see the true limit of these devices. Spoilers I never found the limit in Final Cut. 😳

[@Akella1986]

@@ChrisLawley Happy for your work! Keep on going Chris!

[@beautyneytiri]

i have seen a few videos about this already and (at least this version of) Final cut pro is seriously worse than Lumafusion so why does it feel so good to say that Final cut for the ipad is here ???

[@ChrisLawley]

Because of the amount bugs and issues I have encountered with LumaFusion is way to high. I had to stop using. Plus there is no track limits or render issues.

[@beautyneytiri]

@@ChrisLawley which bugs and issues do you experience ? over here the video image sometimes suddenly goes black and then i have to close and start the app up again. and also (for some reason) when i add music to my project the project starts to stutter quite fast since the latest update.

[@fletcherbrown728]

XXX VOICEOVER XXX. OK, bought new iPad Pro (M2). Entered and edited several travel videos using Final Cut Pro iPad. Now I just need to do the voiceover. OOPS. Can’t find any way to do that from within FCP. My $300 DJI mic does not work with iPad (without using several adapters in series). So - I guess I will have to redo the videos in LumaFusion and do the voiceover directly there. Did I miss somthing?? Yeah, I know I can use the DJI mic on my iPhone, use some third party app to record the audio, save the audio to files. Transfer the files to my iPad, then drag the audio files into FCP and then redo the whole process to make audio edits

[@livestreamsuk6004]

Pro? No lol where is the WB control?

[@Tech4YourNeeds]

As you said before is 1.0 software. Six months from now the software is not where it is supposed then I will be criticizing it. That is what creators need to understand it is infancy.

[@ghost-user559]

Yes but by then 5$ a month will be 19.99$ per month. So using us as a paid beta who can never purchase the software is not a good sign. Adobe is 60$ a month. Apple is dreaming of getting everything subscription and making us all perpetual subscribers.

[@FemaleVillageElder]

👍🏾

[@beautyneytiri]

also you are explaining the exact same things as how it works with Lumafusion.

[@beautyneytiri]

''edited on ipad'' yea dude i edit all my videos on my ipad since the ipad pro 2020.

[@NightWLKR1]

It’s a mouse…you want a mouse

[@boxfullofneutral8514]

No editing direct from external drive, deal breaker.