In the middle of an exciting hardware upgrade announcement, Apple featured a new M2 iPad Pro running DaVinci Resolve.

It was certainly surprising the previously unannounced iPad version of Resolve featured in this way.

The new specs on the iPad Pro are certainly impressive, and since it’s using the same chip available on Apple’s Desktops, it’s not a stretch to assume the performance of Resolve on an iPad will be impressive.

According to Apple, the iPad Pro is:

A complete movie studio in your hands.

The high-performance media engine on M2 accelerates ProRes encode and decode. You can convert video projects to ProRes up to 3x faster than before.³ And with the image signal processor in M2 and advanced cameras on iPad Pro, you can now capture ProRes video. Five studio‑quality microphones and four-speaker audio with support for Dolby Atmos let you record and deliver theater‑qualilty sound.

– Apple

M2 chip.
Next-generation performance.

The M2 chip has strong support for ProRes, and the iPad Pro’s camera will also support capture using ProRes.

That makes this a strong shooting and editing combo device for content creators.

Based on the screenshots available on the Apple page, the available features will be limited to the Cut & Color pages.

It remains to be seen if other pages will be unlocked, but this makes sense for now.

iPad users had already taken advantage of editing apps like LumaFusion, and image retouching apps. So Resolve will users on the go the ability to edit and grade their footage with a similar experience to the desktop version.

1000 nits

full-screen brightness

1600 nits

peak brightness (HDR)

True Tone

for comfortable viewing

1,000,000:1

contrast ratio

ProMotion

adaptive 120Hz refresh rate

P3 wide color gamut

If Blackmagic Cloud will be supported, that would allow a number of exciting possibilities for collaboration between creators. Also, plenty of flexibility for editing between desktop and tablet devices.

It could also function as a powerful option for professionals to tweak or review a project while away from the post-production studio.

At the time of publishing this post, there has not been any public comment from Blackmagic Design about the availability, pricing, or other details about DaVinci Resolve for iPad.

The new iPad Pro is available starting October 26th.