Mike Krumlauf
Award Winning Filmmaker
I ordered my 12.9 iPad Pro today and was interested in cool and productive ways I could use it in the world of film? Not looking to use it as a camera so please dont suggest that lol.
Uses for an iPad Pro in the world of filmmaking?
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Use it for wireless on set IP video monitoring. Many newer cameras output wireless IP video. One can add an NDI network encoder or wireless IP encoder to any SDI or HDMI camera output.
Use it for an electronic slate
Use it for camera back focus test chart
Use it for shot review and logging
I do use my iPad mini with an Iographer rig and lens kit for casual video recording. One could use it in this way for location scouting, but a 12.9 is awkwardly large for a camera.
I use my iPad rig with a Shure MV1 preamp and short shotgun mic on a monopod for shooting at political events and street demonstrations where I would not risk my good camera.
With an audio preamp interface and good mics it makes a very good field recorder.
I've used it to record interviews and presentations for personal record, though with adequate lighting and one of the IOS filmmaker apps it does shoot decent quality HD video and PCM audio as good as most cheap camcorders.
Use it for an electronic slate
Use it for camera back focus test chart
Use it for shot review and logging
I do use my iPad mini with an Iographer rig and lens kit for casual video recording. One could use it in this way for location scouting, but a 12.9 is awkwardly large for a camera.
I use my iPad rig with a Shure MV1 preamp and short shotgun mic on a monopod for shooting at political events and street demonstrations where I would not risk my good camera.
With an audio preamp interface and good mics it makes a very good field recorder.
I've used it to record interviews and presentations for personal record, though with adequate lighting and one of the IOS filmmaker apps it does shoot decent quality HD video and PCM audio as good as most cheap camcorders.
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Together with the Hollyland 400s, it becomes a nice director's tool. The 400S will will send live video to multiple phones/tablets (without the need of a receiver). The Hollyview app allows the user to watch, record, playback, make notes and diagrams. Several people on set can use it for their needs.
Accsoon CineEye is similar, and much cheaper, but I don't think it has the same set of tools.
Accsoon CineEye is similar, and much cheaper, but I don't think it has the same set of tools.
puredrifting
Major Contributor
Cineeye definitely doesn't have the same tools, can't record or playback but functions quite well just as a basic monitoring system with some entry level monitoring tools.
I'm using mine quite a bit, it's super handy and it didn't cost me thousands of dollars like a Teradek, monitor, battery system. Use it with my iPad 4 and a cheap smaller Anker battery Velcroed to it that keeps it running all day.
Probably the most useful piece of gear I bought in 2018.
If you buy the pencil, can use it for storyboarding - there is a whole bunch of storyboarding apps that are specifically iPad focused. And of course you can use it more generally for production software, budgeting and so on - including even screenplay writing with iPad specific apps - especially if you get a keyboard. I bought the new Air back in 2019 a few months after it came out, and I also bought the Apple Smart Keyboard and pencil, and I find them very useful. You already have the iPad, but if anyone is thinking about it, my advice would be to get a bit more internal storage (I got 256GB), that way you're not limited if you're in a situation where you don't have immediate access to the internet.
filmguy123
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Stephen Mick
Totally Usable
I’ve been editing for almost 25 years now, starting on Avid Media Composer (back when we thought 3GB drives were huge), and having cut on everything from Media 100 to FCP to Premiere to Resolve to FCPX.
I just finished cutting an actual paid client gig on an iPad using LumaFusion. I can’t wait to see what new features they launch in version 3.0 (hopefully coming at NAB).
I just finished cutting an actual paid client gig on an iPad using LumaFusion. I can’t wait to see what new features they launch in version 3.0 (hopefully coming at NAB).
LumaFusion is, hands-down, the best video editing app for iOS. I’ve been following them since they were Pinnacle Studio for iPad (the app developers left the project and started their own, which they branded LumaFusion and made more out of it than Corel could ever hope to have done). The last couple of years especially have seen some major leaps in its capabilities.
Stephen Mick
Totally Usable
Agreed. And a lot of folks would ask why would you want to edit on an iPad if you have an edit suite with Resolve or FCPx or whatever. And I totally get that. For some projects, an iOS workflow with LumaFusion wouldn’t make sense. But I’m finding that, for about two-thirds of the work I do, LumaFusion has the tools I need.