Blackmagic Design confirmed Thursday that its DaVinci Resolve professional video editing application will be released for iPad before the end of 2022.
It puts the third-party software developer ahead of Apple, which has yet to bring Final Cut Pro to its tablets.
DaVinci Resolve makes iPad a professional video-creation tool
While many professionals prefer iPad to Mac, others don’t have the option because the pro-grade applications they need aren’t available for iPadOS. Blackmagic Design is doing what it can to change that.
The company announced via Twitter, “Introducing DaVinci Resolve for iPad! Get professional Hollywood quality editing and color correction tools, as well as Blackmagic Cloud multi user collaboration, Dropbox media syncing, Blackmagic RAW, H.264, H.265 and ProRes, and more! Available in Q4.”
Not just a shadow of the Mac app
Photo: Blackmagic Design
Blackmagic Design promises the tablet version is “optimized for MultiTouch technology and Apple Pencil, DaVinci Resolve for iPad features support for cut and color pages providing access to DaVinci’s award winning image technology, color finishing tools and latest HDR workflows.”
It will open and create standard DaVinci Resolve project files that are compatible with the desktop version of DaVinci Resolve 18.
The iPadOS software delivers 4x faster Ultra HD ProRes render performance on the new iPad Pro with M2. HDR is also supported on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the M1 chip.
As noted in Blackmagic Design’s tweet, the iPad application will support files in a variety of formats. These can be imported from the iPad Pro internal storage and Photos library, or externally connected iCloud and USB-C media disks.
DaVinci Resolve for iPad will be available in Q4 2022 from the Apple App Store as a free download, with an upgrade to DaVinci Resolve Studio for iPad also available as an in-app purchase. The price for this has not yet been announced.
Source: Blackmagic Design
