We Edited This Video on an iPad Pro! By Linus Tech Tips

- We completed the shot on iPhone challenge over two years ago. That's right, our Amazon Go Store video was shot almost entirely on iPhone. And none of you noticed until we pointed it out. Now you can accuse the Apple Evangelist of going out of their way to do stuff like that, to paint Apple in a favorable light. As for us, we only did it because of the store policy forbidding real cameras. Which makes the motivation behind today's challenge all the more confusing.

- Yeah, why am I, what is this, what am I doing? - Riley is going to be using our iPad Pro to edit a video. This video, in 4K off a Windows based file server. It sounds so wrong. - But it kinda feels right. - Right this same way to our sponsor Thermal Grizzly.

Thermal grizzly's conduct out a liquid metal thermal interface material out for its maximum cooling performance for your PC. Check it out in Keep Your PC Cool at the link below. (upbeat music) The idea for this video really came out of our experience reviewing the magic keyboard for the iPad Pro. In that video we concluded that the iPad Pro is now in every sense of the word, a laptop computer And that now the discussion is really more about how to do computer type things, on the iPad Pro. So, Riley replaced his work laptop with iPad Pro for a week.

Unbreathed an external monitor and mouse, he did research, entered emails and worked for on files on our company server while editing thumbnails and videos. And as a notorious lunch break gamer, he even managed to sneak a little bit of entertainment and on the side with an Xbox controller. And why not? Since the iPad Pro's processor is more powerful than a Xbox one anyway. First off, the external monitor situation. iPad Pros have supported external displays since the 2018 model arrived with the USB type C port.

But despite the massive progress made elsewhere in transforming the iPad Pro into more of a computer, surprisingly little has changed in the display department.99% of the time, a connected monitor will simply mirror the iPad screen with its frustrating 10 by 7 aspect ratio in all. - Yeah. The other 1% of the time you'll be able to expand the playback window in video editing apps, or play a game in full screen. But you're still not able to simply use a monitor as extra real estate to do with as you please like you can on a PC, or a Mac. We couldn't even find a simple list of iPad apps with external display support.

We did find an app called Shiftscreen that lets you fill up the entire display but it's only compatible with a handful of apps. It forces you to use its weird build-in wed browser and it does something nasty to your refresh rate. So, it had us regretting the 14 Canadian dollars we spent on it but there could have been a big old box of 10 bytes buddy and it's no joke either. - Connecting a display requires some sort of dongle or if your monitor has a USB-C video input, you can connect your iPad Pro directly. We ended up using this LG monitor.

It has a USB-C connector that serves as a video input and the hub for the two USB 3 pots that are built into the back, which we were able to connect our accessories like an ethernet adapter or external hard drive. What you cannot use is a Thunderbolt three USB-C display or hub. We tried a couple of models that we have here in the office and none of them worked because the iPad does not support Thunderbolt. So if you setting up your own iPad work station at home, you wanna stay away from Thunderbolts, just like real in life. Whatever set up you use, once you get used to the pillow boxing, the iPad Pro as a desktop computer is, surprisingly great.

Chrome still needs you to specifically request the desktop version of a website everytime but both safari and Firefox can be setup to fetch desktop versions of great websites like LTTStore. com by default, awesome. Come to of think of it though actually, most of google's apps still kinda suck on the iPad. Particularly gmail and docs, I guess they just prefer you get a Chromebook. Good luck with that.

Otherwise the experience of full on desktop browsing on the iPad Pro, with a mouse and keyboard is pretty smooth. Most of the time, I mean Riley did have to take the LTT logo out of his email signature because it was causing the gmail website to crush in safari, but other than that after getting used to some iPad specific gestures kind of like a Chromebook actually, if most of what you do is in a browser, you might even forget at times that you're using and iPad Pro. And this next bit is actually how you know the iPad Pro is a computer now. It breaks Youtube Premium, so if you use the YouTube app a video will stop playing when you go to the home screen. Sometimes you'll even see a pop-up asking if you'd like videos to keep playing when you close the app because boom you could do that with YouTube premium.

Ha ha, I guess YouTube doesn't know that safari and Firefox will both keep playing YouTube audio when you switch to other tabs unlike the YouTube app. And it even works when you lock the screen and close the folio. You can just listen to music on your blue tooth headphones with out YouTube premium. If that's not proof that the iPad Pro is a computer I don't know what is. The biggest weakness of the iPad Pro as a desktop however, is the RAM.

A bigger display and better input devices make it very tempting to push its multitasking boundaries a little harder than you normally would. And more than three or four apps of safari tabs cause them to reload quite frequently. Now while the standard six gigs of RAM found on all the 2020 iPad Pro models was an upgrade. The problem is it's simply not enough for professionals who are constantly jumping between multiple apps. - Yap.

Next step in our work station tests is file management. iOS 13 brought the ability to connect to servers with SMB and we were able to connect to our in-office servers no problem but the files app is still far from perfect. Every time we'd reconnected to the network the files app wouldn't show anything in the server until we ejected then re-established then SMB link. And sometimes transferring a folder would elicit the drag and drop sound but the files wouldn't actually appear in the new location until we happen to check on it later. Video playback chugged a bit even on a 1080p MP4 file, and we know it's not because of our network.

Our network's good baby, trust me. There's a few things like that, that make it clear that the files app still has a ways to go in matching once available on Windows and macOS. It was fantastic when Apple added support from multiple windows, and dragging and dropping files to external drives but the lack of basic things like a progress bar, so you can check the status of a file transfer while in another app, really makes you start asking questions like OMG I am using a tablet as a computer? What am I, stupid? What? No! - Until you start using some of the apps that you would think of using a tablet for like for drawing and photo editing. Photoshop has come a long way from its early days on an iPad, when it sort of existed as like three or four different iPad apps, like at least it's just photoshop for iPad now. But unfortunately, it's still missing really basic functionality, like adding drop shadows.

Fortunately, apps like Affinity Photo exist. Which have all the features of the vast majority of people using photoshop and all for a one time purchase instead of a subscription. As for video editing, if you're a video professional who's used to programs like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut. LumaFusion is actually pretty impressive in the amount of features that it packs in. There is definitely a learning curve as there is for every editing program.

But the basics are surprisingly intuitive and there is way more depth than you would expect in a mobile editing app. We're talking multiple video and audio tracks, reverse color grading with light support excellent speed ramping, video and audio key framing and it was actually like really easy to pull footage off of our server. Even if the playback did suck, just like in the files app. Now someone like Tyren, our very own Tyren, might turn his nose up at the very thought of editing on an iPad, but for the average one man band doing simple video editing, LumaFusion is kinda fantastic. Unfortunately, while these creative type apps are feature rich and run smoothly on the iPad Pro, they're really not optimized for use with a mouse.

And so again they kinda, break the illusion that the iPad Pro is just a more different type of Mac. Because it's not a Mac, it's an iPad Pro and apps that take advantage of that like the excellent drawing app Procreate make the iPad Pro a joy to use for designers, artists, basically anyone for whom the Apple Pencil would be a help rather than an hindrance. But what about us, will Riley be switching to an iPad Pro as his daily driver? Riley, we all see you there. Are you gonna switch? - Oh, ah. I won't, but the fact that even think about that question is impressive.

During my testing for this script, I wrote down that it was surprisingly hard to be objective about comparisons between the iPad Pro and a real laptop. Because it actually feels really good to just navigate around the iPad OS with the track pad. And that's dumb but it's also really important. The user experience here is polished. It's Apple at their best and going through the process of setting up my iPad Pro work flow, actually made me appreciate why people who daily drive the iPad put up with its weaknesses.

The more stuff that I discovered, I could actually do with this thing. The more fun I was having learning about it. It makes sense, I mean if the iPad Pro sucked that much as a computer, then there wouldn't be this whole genre of YouTube videos made by people who love their iPad as a computer. Anyway, I haven't joined the ranks just yet but when I switch back to my Windows laptop, apart of me is going to miss the iPad Pro. Goodnight sweet prince.

No, no it's too soon. Am not, am not ready. (sighing) - Hopefully Apple and the passionate developers writing third party apps for the iPad continue to make this thing better. Because as much as gives weird feeling to say it out loud, I'm actually, I don't know, it's hard to use the word excited, but I'm definitely open minded. - Ah common Linus.

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If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out on our total complete review, total complete review, see I'm ad libbing right now. Maybe check out our full review of the Magic Keyboard. It really does change this device and change the way that, well, I think about it. - Changed your life.

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