We had early access to Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 and reviewed the Live Multicam feature which allows for simultaneous live recording from up to four iPhones & iPads without extra hardware. Here’s our Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 Review! First off: Watch the video above to get the full impression of our “live demo” and review of the live multicam feature in Apple’s new Final Cut Pro for iPad 2 (it’s a confusing name, but it’s the second version of Final Cut Pro for iPad, not a version of Final Cut Pro for the long-obsolete 2nd generation iPad …). I’ll highlight some of my key findings in this text here. Final Cut Pro 2 for iPad and the Live Multicam feature. Image credit: CineD Democratising multicam shooting and editing with Final Cut Pro for iPad 2? For the longest time, multicam shooting has been either something easy to do when you only cared about actually dealing with synching in post – meaning, you just record on a bunch of cameras and worry about syncing them later – or a rather hardware-intensive task that required the usage of timecode generators and cameras that could actually accept timecode input. Not a big deal for professional productions and relatively easy to handle thanks to devices such as Tentacle Sync boxes, however, not necessarily something that the average content creator would use. Then came automatic syncing using the audio waveform, which already made things a lot easier. Smartphones and iPhones in...
Published By: CineD - 7 days ago