![]() While Dan’s timeline above looks relatively simple at first glance it’s quite the complex edit. That’s a nice, organized timeline that you probably wouldn’t be able to do on an iPad What exactly does the type of cut look like that could easily be completed on an iPad NLE? Take a look at this image below that editor Dan Wolfmeyer posted to Twitter last week: It would simply be a place for reviewing footage, making selects, marking up and commenting on clips and putting together a rough edit that could then be easily moved back to the desktop NLE for more extensive work and finishing. The app I would like to see wouldn’t be a place for doing effects work, extensive audio editing or multicam work. I think an iPad NLE could supplement a pro NLE by being a place for basic cuts and dissolves roughs, stringing out a paper cut or putting together a radio edit. A tiny touch screen isn’t all that appealing a place to work for hours on end when you have a full-blown edit station near but the idea of sitting back on the couch to get some of the early cutting on a program done is one that really intrigues me. To makes this process work and to have the iPad be really useful as an editorial tool in a professional environment it’s important to think about not what could you edit on an iPad but what would you want to edit on an iPad. Why in the world would you want to edit a “pro” job on an iPad ![]() ![]() I have no idea how well this process did or didn’t work (and I’ve never seen Pinnacle Studio in my life) but the thought of being able to move an edit from a nice iPad editing environment to full-blown desktop editing tool could have been an innovative advantage for Avid and for Media Composer. The original Share screen from the Avid Studio for iPad app. One feature of Avid Studio for iPad that was often overlooked (and is still there in the Pinnacle version) is the ability to send an edit to the full version of Pinnacle Studio for PC. But they are totally appropriate when dreaming about how the Avid iPad app could have complemented Avid’s Media Composer (and Symphony as well). I put those words in quotation marks as applying those terms to post-production often ignites heated debate. The iPad is more a ”consumer“ focused device but bubbling beneath the surface are a lot of ”professional” apps that can make the device really useful. The Avid Studio iPad app was always a more consumer focused product with things like Facebook and YouTube integration as well as enough cheesy titles, transitions and “montages” to make any soccer mom happy. While it’s good to hear that Avid is recommitting itself to its professional users (hence selling consumer video products to Corel) I can’t help but lament the loss of the iPad app as there was some potential professional promise in that app that was never realized. Pinnacle Studio is free for now so go grab it if you have an iPad 2 or later. It’s a bit confusing as Avid sold the product (and a number of other assets) to Corel, Corel rebranded the iPad app to Pinnacle, there doesn’t seem to be a mention of it on Corel’s website, and while there is info on the Pinnacle site it still has an Avid banner at the top. If you’ve been a user of the Avid Studio for iPad editing app then it’s worth noting that last week the new owners of the app, Corel, introduced the rebranded app as Pinnacle Studio 2.0.
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