For Mac users, they want 8GB ram minimum and a Metal or OpenCL GPU. Puget Systems of course wants to recommend you buy the most expensive thing they can convince you to buy from them.ĭaVinci's own hardware requirements listing are considerably tamer. This feels exactly what Apple wanted iPad Pro to feel like when it launched all those years ago.If you have a complicated enough project, Davinci will happy eat all the hardware you can throw at it (well, up to 3-4 GPUs at least). I’ve played around in iMovie and Luma Fusion, but this was me fully doing the first round of a project in exactly the same way I’d do it on my desktop.

It’s absolutely unbelievable to see what Apple has pulled off with the hardware, and what BMD has pulled off with the software.

It was supposed to be a “let’s see if iPad can open the files” experiment, and it turned into a first round delivery. After everything was done, I exported the timeline to a local folder in Files and drag+dropped that to my client’s drive via Box. I sweetened the audio, and did some super light compositing in the timeline to hide a reflection. There’s no way for me to share anything from this project, but I was doing relatively complex color corrections with qualifiers, motion tracking and all the standard stuff I do in the color page. It was absolutely mind-blowing to import all the footage, chop it up in the timeline, color correct it with almost all the features and keyboard shortcuts that I use on my big Resolve stations, and export a 4K H.265. On a whim, I downloaded Resolve to my iPad Pro (4th generation, so not even an M1) and plugged in the drive that the camera captured to.

I shot a quick project today (talking head + b-roll), rolling BRAW 4K 24 directly to an external SSD from a Blackmagic URSA. My career has taken me from set PA and AE to editing, directing, and post supervising. Not like a youtuber, but a person who makes content for broadcast, ads and big companies. Background: I’ve been a professional video person in Hollywood and Silicon Valley for nearly 20 years.

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