Worlds Made on iPad: Apple's Latest Ad Showcases Animating With Apple Pencil Pro

[stinksroundhere]

Green screen removing can be done in iMovie ;-) or DaVinci Resolve – both available for iPad.

Yeah we know that but if you want a really clean mask including hair there's nothing I'm aware of on an iPad that does it. Even on the desktop version of Resolve and After Effects these are very tough processes.

The making of video doesn't show the masking process. It only shows the comping and background creation. That's fine if the video's purpose was to highlight animation and background creation.

If the green screen and the camera footage have been properly lit, I don't think that this is such a big deal.
You can see in the clip that the compositing was also made on iPad.

Comping is the easy part.

No matter how perfectly you light a green screen shot, masking a person with long hair and a lot of fast body movements is difficult and on a desktop computer it eats a ton of memory and chews up a CPU/GPU. It has to load a lot of frames and the mask into memory. It can turn a high end workstation with 4090 card into a slug.

 

[rp2011]

But but but… YouTubers told me they can’t do anything on an iPad.

The makers of Procreate and other apps always make it a point to say that the additional power in every new version of their app has made it possible to include more sophisticated features. Make more things possible. Any little bit of power and memory helps the CAD programs I use. One day, I would like to do some light scene renderings to preview ideas on the go. It takes a lot of computing power to do these things. The amazing tandem layer display alone requires a more powerful chip to effectively be able to render the image twice, once for each layer.
The devices get heavy in the hand and every bit of lightness helps. The more capabilities they add, and the more comfortable to use, the more developers and consumers can take advantage of them.

But I guess Youbers who only use the iPad to browse the web know better than all of us right? The power is only useful if it improves Final Cut Pro for them right?

 

[Digital Dude]

My gosh Apple; is this really the best you can do with all of your sofa change? This took about as much effort as using a stir stick. ☕️

 

[Algr]

But but but… YouTubers told me they can’t do anything on an iPad.

This comes from the really clumsy file handling on iPad. Something as simple as copying a file to a thumb drive, or backing up a file to a platter drive can be a nightmare of complexity and confusion on iOS. There is no hardware reason why MacOS can't run on iPads: These devices are in every way more capable than PowerPC macs. But Apple maintains limits so they can sell web services and overpriced ram.

 

[stinksroundhere]

This comes from the really clumsy file handling on iPad. Something as simple as copying a file to a thumb drive, or backing up a file to a platter drive can be a nightmare of complexity and confusion on iOS. There is no hardware reason why MacOS can't run on iPads: These devices are in every way more capable than PowerPC macs. But Apple maintains limits so they can sell web services and overpriced ram.

FFS users hold the device in their hands, they rest their hands on the device when they are drawing. Hot devices are not nice for hands. macOS and macOS apps are just not suitable for putting on a tablet that you use with your hands, not just because of the heat but also because some people have fat fingers and need a UI optimised for touch.

Some of the iPad apps already warm the iPad up too much and Apple warns those developers to optimise.

 

[tomtad]

Blimey 👀

That's all I'm going to say

 

[Algr]

Hot devices are not nice for hands

iOS has a file system. Using it isn't remotely as power intensive as the media and graphics stuff that iPhones and iPads do. Playing a video from a thumb drive is not going to generate any more heat than playing it from the internal storage, and would probably be less power intensive than streaming a video wirelessly.

 

[stinksroundhere]

iOS has a file system. Using it isn't remotely as power intensive as the media and graphics stuff that iPhones and iPads do. Playing a video from a thumb drive is not going to generate any more heat than playing it from the internal storage, and would probably be less power intensive than streaming a video wirelessly.

What does that have to do with using the device productively? A tablet isn't suitable for a desktop UI or the amount of resources a desktop OS consumes if you want to be productive with touch and pen. Surface tablets are crap. Don't Microsoftify Apple's products. iPads outsell Surface by miles and have a lot happier users.

There is historical precedent where a desktop operating system was used on a non-desktop computer and it caused problems. The Playstation 3 had the ability to install Linux. However, the console could also run hot and die under very high load. Sony realised that if games could kill the console then so could people using Linux to compile code and run programs that were too power intensive for the console.

Therefore Sony removed the ability to install Linux, even on latter PS3 models that ran more cooler, because it was too risky for system stability.

Every device has to use an operating system optimised for its design type and use case.

 

[Algr]

I very much doubt that that is why Sony killed PS3 linux. But that is probably off topic.