It has been known for a long time that Apple’s intentions with the iPad They go through turning it, especially the Pro models, into an alternative to the PC, rather than a complement. In fact, a few years ago there was an advertising campaign in which a girl was, throughout the day, performing various tasks in front of a screen. At one point, a neighbor asked her what she was doing with the computer, and the girl responded with “What is a computer?«. Obviously, the little girl was using an iPad Pro running iOS 11. Apple welcomed her into the post-PC era with open arms.
Both tablets and smartphones have already offered, for quite some time, the processing power needed to perform most of the tasks for which the PC is used on a regular basis. Communications, office automation, consulting documentation, managing projects, programming… the list is very long. However, of course, there are some much more demanding tasks, for which we are used to relying, on a regular basis, only on computers, due to their higher performance.
Content editing undoubtedly falls into the latter category, whether we are talking about audio or, above all, in the case of video. Both for the volume of the “raw” with which one usually works, and for the computing capacity necessary for the assembly, editing, post-production and encoding-compression of the output file, we are used to relating these tasks to particularly powerful computersplenty of resources for practically any other purpose.
Apple, however, seems willing to show that a workstation is not necessary for these purposes, to the point that it has just announced the arrival of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro on iPad. In case you don’t know these applications, which are the reference in the Apple world, Final Cut Pro is a professional video editing solution and, as you may have already deduced, Logic Pro is its namesake in the field of editing and musical montage. .
As we can read on the official pages of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, both apps will be available from May 23 and, yes, on this occasion Apple has used the subscription model exclusively, so it will not be possible to acquire them and be able to use them permanently, a model that I admit that I do not like too much. The cost of each of them will be 4.99 euros per month or, if we choose to make a single annual payment, 49 euros.
Apple claims to have completely redesigned the interfaces of both apps to adapt them to the particularities of the iPad, both with regard to the size of the screens and, mainly, to its touch mode. Final Cut Pro requires an iPad with an M1 chip or better, while Logic Pro is somewhat less demanding, requiring an iPad with an A12 Bionic SoC or better.
