Why no iOS control surface app?

[Brett Sherman]

[Oliver Peters] “Logic Pro X has a companion mixing and control app that runs on an iPad for use in tandem with a Mac running Logic. Why is there no equivalent app from Apple for FCPX?”

One thing about Logic Pro is that if you’re recording yourself, you’re usually not next to the computer so it is enormously helpful to have a remote control panel. Secondly you’re making audio changes, which means you don’t need to look at the screen, you only need to hear what you are doing. With video you have to see what you are doing, so you can’t look down from the screen.

I do think with FCP X there would be uses for an iPad screen. But as many have said, not so much as a replacement for tactile controls, but rather an information screen. For example, with the new time-synced captions, it could show you the text of the timeline which would allow you to quickly jump to a specific word by touching it on the iPad.

[Robin S. kurz]

[Warren Eig] “You have to look at the small iPad screen or iPhone screen to see what you are doing. “

Exactly that.

And it’s not like some haven’t been done many times over for FCP. All useless for that exact reason and why Apple won’t be making one. Because they, too, know how senseless they are. At least as far as the control and video aspect part is concerned. With AUDIO staring at the screen is not a necessity. You could even be sitting in the next room doing your mix, who cares?

If and when they add the the hooks for audio i.e. mixing panels etc., then maybe.

– RK

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[Robin S. kurz]

[Scott Witthaus] “Your framing makes it look like Apple is ignoring the “long suffering editor” by not giving them a vital tool.”

Agreed. Why ask why they’re NOT making one as opposed to why SHOULD they even make one to begin with? Since any level of necessity is the only real reason to even be asking, no? That is if it is to be a constructive inquiry and not in fact “argumentative just for its own sake”. ????

Fact is, due to the lack of ANY tactile feedback whatsoever, the notion is completely counterproductive in the context of video editing. If you need this, simply get one of the MANY external control panels there are, and best of all… save a LOT of money doing it.

– RK

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[Oliver Peters]

[Robin S. Kurz] “Fact is, due to the lack of ANY tactile feedback whatsoever, the notion is completely counterproductive in the context of video editing. “

That argument has been undermined for FCPX by Apple itself, since they have developed touch UI capabilities for the Touchbar on MacBook Pros. So conceptually and maybe even programming-wise, they are already more than 50% of the way there.

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Robin S. kurz]

[Oliver Peters] “That argument has been undermined for FCPX by Apple itself, since they have developed touch UI capabilities for the Touchbar on MacBook Pros.”

Nothing that you can do with the TouchBar requires continuous touch, such as shuttling or the likes, which is what the various app try to do, so that hardly compares. And if you just want a button panel full of shortcuts, you can already get that. Just as you can get shuttling apps. Just get one and it’ll take you about 30 secs to figure out it’s useless. Which, again, is why nothing along those lines is going to come from Apple imho. And the fact that zero functionality has been added since it’s inception I’d say pretty much proves that it was meant as little more than a proof of concept (in the context of X that is).

– RK

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[Scott Witthaus]

[Oliver Peters] “That argument has been undermined for FCPX by Apple itself”

Man, I just KNEW I felt “undermined” by Apple…! 😉

Scott Witthaus
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[Niels Baldus]

If you search for PROCUTX from Pixel Film Studios you’ll find what you’re looking for ☺

I’m running the latest OSX and FCPX and it works, but you have to use an older iPad as it doesn’t work on iOS 11

Cheers

[Pt Sandiford]

Sorry for being late to the party but I had a need and you had the question. Ignoring the elite editors, of which I am not one, (I only have 24-years) I can say an iPad app would be a great help if it could locate the tiny frack’n pull-down menus (that are currently located on, what I consider, the wrong monitor) on a larger, easier to see touch interface. There are 18 widgets, pull-downs and pallets on the UI’s various windows and bars. And, from my perspective, they are uncomfortably tiny targets for the mouse pointer.

I can work with them now, sure: I do work with them now. But I just feel it would be a boon for ME if they were on this iPad I have open under my main monitor, just above my keyboard. Maybe not? Reading the other answers, I seem to be a limited use case.

Again, just my 2¢.

[Scott Thomas]

I remember a couple of years ago, seeing Stu Maschwitz’s iPad, hooked up to After Effects. He posted a article about it on ProLost.

https://prolost.com/blog/miseenplace