This has been known for a long time Apple’s intentions with the iPad They are in the process of turning them, especially the Pro models, into a PC alternative rather than a supplement. In fact, a few years ago there was an advertising campaign in which a girl performed various tasks in front of a screen throughout the day. At one point, a neighbor asked her what she was doing with the computer, and the girl replied:What is a computer?«. Obviously, the little girl was using an iPad Pro running iOS 11. Apple welcomed her into the post-PC era with open arms.

Both tablets and smartphones have been offering it for some time computing power needed to perform most of the tasks for which a computer is used at regular intervals. Communication, office automation, consulting documentation, project management, programming… the list is very long. However, there are of course also much more demanding tasks, for which we are used to relying only on computers due to their higher performance.

Content editing undoubtedly falls into the latter category, whether we’re talking about audio or especially video. Both for the volume of “raw” that is usually worked with, and for the computing capacity required for assembly, editing, post-production and encoding-compression of the output file, we tend to associate these tasks with particularly powerful computersenough resources for virtually any other purpose.

However, Apple seems willing to show that a workstation isn’t necessary for these purposes, to the extent that it just announced the arrival of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro on the iPad. In case you are not familiar with these applications, which are the reference in the Apple world, Final Cut Pro is a professional solution for video editing, and as you may have already guessed, Logic Pro is its namesake in the field of editing and music montages. ..

As we can read on the official websites of Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, both applications will be available from May 23, and yes, on this occasion Apple uses a subscription model exclusively, so they won’t be able to be obtained and used permanently, a model I’ll admit I’m not too fond of. The price of each of them will be 4.99 euros per month or, if we decide to make one annual payment, 49 euros.

Apple claims to have completely redesigned the interface of both apps adapt them to the peculiarities of the iPad, both with regard to the size of the displays and, above all, to its touch mode. Final Cut Pro requires an ‌iPad‌ with an M1 chip or better, while Logic Pro is somewhat less demanding, requiring an ‌iPad‌ with an A12 Bionic SoC or better.