The Ultimate Video Editing Interface: iPad Extreme

iPadThe Apple iPad as it stands (or lies) now does not seem to be capable enough to be a video editing system. I can’t refute it’s usefulness as a great tool to assists pre-production, production and post. Yet the potential that this new interface is huge.

It won’t do as a stand alone system for editing. You certainly could not take it to the coffee shop for some quick editing could you.

However.

Imagine if Apple released a different version of the iPad. A 17″ version that possessed all the capabilities of the current iPad except that it could plug into an existing editing system and be an extension of whatever other interfaces you might use for compositing, 3D, Editing and Color Correction.

Your own personalized interface.

That to be would herald the new era of video editing.

Then you could edit more intuitively; responding better to the way you feel about an edit rather then trying to find a set of keystrokes to try something else.

I picture siting at an architect’s desk; my touchscreen set before me as my main controller/interface where I can quickly have audio, video, color correcting controls available at a single touch. Then a main preview screen to see the result. Gone will be the need for hardware interfaces that cost thousands of dollars, gone will be the need to jump through keystroke loops in order to switch between controls.

Awesome I say – bring it on.


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  3. arines July 21, 2010 at 5:14 pm #

    Very useful ultimate video editing

    Thanks a lot

  4. Free Avatars August 10, 2010 at 7:27 pm #

    A topic close to my heart thanks. Needed more pictures though.

  5. kevin September 23, 2010 at 4:48 am #

    ipads are pieces of shit. pretty, slick, pieces of steve jobs excrement. under powered. shitty memory…. fucking garbage….

    • Phillip Gibb September 28, 2010 at 8:14 pm #

      wow, you feel quite strongly about that. I look forward to the competition, even though I would never spend that much money on something that is not a camera of a fully fledged computer.

    • Marc January 10, 2011 at 9:49 pm #

      Sooooo Jealous of Jobs

  6. mac ipad video converter September 27, 2010 at 8:04 am #

    the weakness of video and flash is keeping people out of ipad . i usually need to convert my favorite vdieo to ipad compatible format ,which takes a lot of time !

    • Phillip Gibb September 28, 2010 at 8:16 pm #

      hmm, strange I don’t have that problem with conversion. As for the Flash story, I don’t know – HTML is looking quite good.

  7. Hannah September 28, 2010 at 5:27 pm #

    Great Blog, thanks for posting. I am thinking of getting an iPad, still undecided, so the more info the better ….

    • Phillip Gibb September 28, 2010 at 8:21 pm #

      I borrowed an iPad for a week, it was great, but Personally – it will take me a while to leave physical books, also the iPad just does not fit in my pocket and I’ld rather have a 30″ screen when using other apps. But having said that – it’s great to work with when wondering around.

  8. convertmovietoipad October 21, 2010 at 12:44 pm #

    Even though how excellent the software is, it is still a pity that ipad users can’t watch video on ipad directly.

    • Anonymous October 21, 2010 at 12:46 pm #

      oh, they can’t?? directly? surely you are revering to flash

  9. Aimerdvd December 8, 2010 at 5:15 am #

    if you want to edit videos on iPhone ,strongly recommend you use Aimersoft video editor. It allows you merge videos into one, split videos into smaller, or add background music for videos.
    for Windows users:http://www.aimersoft.com/video-studio-express.html
    for Mac users: http://www.aimersoft.com/mac-video-studio-express.html( Good news: it will be Christmas special discount for it , which will end on Dec.20.)

    • The crazy Colombian December 26, 2010 at 6:52 am #

      Couple of things worth mentioning (disclaimer:I am an iPad raving fan…)

      1. You can indeed use the iPad as a front end to a video editing system justly using one of the many VLC apps in the market. Not sure how user friendly it would be for the task, but it surely is possible

      2. There is no need to convert video to apple’s format; just download VLC and transfer movies in pretty much any format, you will be able to watch them

      3. There are now a few apps that allow light video editing tasks to be done in the iPad. Reelsoft (iPad) and aimersoft (iPhone) are a couple of good examples.

      Cheers,

      Diego (The crazy Colombian)

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