Gadgetory

I'm Lindsay Turrentine editor-in-chief of cnet.com and everyday I work with a really large staff to decide what we are going to publish on SEANET the reviews that we're going to write the videos we're going to shoot I do a lot of thinking a lot of talking and a lot of emailing my name is Mark Mandel and I had product design for CBS Interactive I oversee the design teams that create the the product experiences for our websites or mobile websites and native applications hey I'm Arielle Nunez I'm a video producer here at scene it I shoot and edit videos daily and I got to play with the iPad pro as a video editing suite the form factor it feels like a full-size tool whereas before I preferred the the mini for its compact form its portability it's something that was just really easy to put in my back pocket and take with me but that came with a lot of sacrifices in terms of the fidelity of the work that I could create I the metaphor I'd say is it was going from a toy to a tool as a person who consumes a lot of media it was really nice to have lots of room on the screen to really sit back and relax with the content but I have to evaluate every day particularly good for video watching video which I do a lot of is that's really nice to have the keyboard having the keyboard was really nice it made the iPad pro seem like more of a video editing tool you could do things like hit the spacebar for pause and play you can also hit the arrows so you could scrub frame-by-frame which could be a little bit hard if you're just scrubbing with your finger and although it wasn't necessary it was nice having the pencil to do edits like trimming which might be hard to get pretty precise with your fingers and also pulling up small menu items it's got a great way I like it it feels good in my hand it's got what I'd call a shock absorber in that when you you use it it does react there still is an artificial feeling of kind of a glass on glass effect and that doesn't always emulate a brush pen or pencil type of experience some styluses they have a rubber tip that comes over the top of the hardbound and that way when you draw on the tablet it emulates the drag that you get from a brush or a pencil and as you use the side there's a resistance that you get and you don't get it with this one and that's something that I miss so it was really easy to pick up and figure out how to edit right away I think anyone who has no experience could easily grab this and figure it out I would recommend anyone new to video production to go ahead and look into this you have all the tools you need to create a nice piece and you can edit 4k I would recommend if you want to do more intricate editing if you want to do some compositing some key framing you should still stick to a laptop or a desktop for that I don't know that I would run out and get it as a productivity tool I think it's still something that I really love as a consumption device but I think it takes it to a deeper level that is further than I thought yet maybe not as far as it could go to replace my laptop I think right now I would say that this is a really compelling device for anybody who needs to use the pencil and anybody who needs to see a lot on a screen if this executives are creative professional I would say I think you're really going to love it and I think you should get your hands on it so that you know what's coming in the future I think if I were talking to somebody who works mostly with spreadsheets somebody who really is doing a lot of number crunching I'd say stick with your laptop for now