 How's it going everyone? And welcome back to another exciting video. Today I'll be answering the question if the iPhone 12 Pro Max is good enough as an editing computer. What I like about using the iPhone 12 Pro Max as a content creator is that it's an all-in-one system, meaning that you can film, edit and publish everything from your mobile device. And I want to see how powerful the A14 processor on the iPhone 12 Pro Max is for video editing. So I have set up the iPhone 12 Pro Max sort of as a desktop computer. I have connected the keyboard and the mouse with the iPhone 12 Pro Max and I mounted the iPhone onto a tripod stand to make it look like a desktop computer. And I also angled it in a way to have a better view of the screen. To import all of the footages I used a lightning 2SD cable. The downside to using this is that there's no progress bar showing which makes it hard to see if the transfer has been completed. Now to better demonstrate this I will be doing a screen recording on the iPhone while editing the video which already shows how powerful this small device is. Now I could connect the iPhone onto an external monitor but for this video I will just be using the small screen. As for the video editing application I will be using LumaFusion. I find LumaFusion one of the most affordable and powerful mobile editing apps out there. Another reason why I prefer LumaFusion is because I can edit on the go and once I get back home to my real desktop computer I can export the project as an XML file and continue editing the project in Final Cut Pro which is my main editing software. So some of the footages that I imported into LumaFusion will be 4K 10-bit in the log which was shot on the Sony a7S III and I also imported 4K 10-bit Dolby Vision footage shot with the iPhone 12 Pro Max just so we can see how it will perform. With that said let's open up LumaFusion. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create a new project. I'm going to press the plus button and I'm going to name my project tutorial. The frame rate is going to be 25 frames per second because I live in a PAL region and shot everything in 25 or 50 frames per second. The frame aspect ratio is going to be 16 by 9 landscape and the color space will be standard Rec.709 10-bit for now. Once I'm done I'm going to hit the plus button over here and we now have everything set up. So the files are in the shared folder. As you can see I have five clips over here. So what I'm going to do first is I'm going to select an in and out point. So I'm going to go over here probably going to start from here and end this video around here. I'm going to hit o and I'm going to put it on to the timeline. Now this footage was shot in 4k 10-bit in log using the Sony a7s3. Let's now see how well it plays back. Plays back pretty smooth and I don't see any delays so pretty pretty amazing. And also the scrubbing works really good and that is really important for me when I edit a video is that it doesn't lag so so that I don't have to always wait. So I'm now going to drag the other footages onto the timeline. I'm going to select this one just like this as well and I'm also going to select this clip and the last clip which was shot using my iPhone 12 Pro Max Dolby Vision. So I'm now going to play back the video which was shot on the iPhone 12 Pro Max Dolby Vision and let's listen to the sound of it. So this doesn't sound that bad coming from the iPhone 12 Pro Max and you can also use your headphones if you're doing sound design but from what I'm hearing right now straight out of the iPhone 12 Pro Max it sounds really nice. So let's start color grading this particular clip I'm going to double click on it and I'm going to head over to the color and effects and I usually go with the original. Here I have all the important parameters to start manipulating my footage. So what I'm going to do here this was shot in a log so I'm going to pull down the shadows and lift up the highlights as you can see and the mid-tones I'm just going to pull down a little bit and this was shot during sunset so I don't want the highlights to be too high and I can also decrease the brightness over here and increase a little bit of the contrast not too much actually. I'm also going to increase the vibrance and the saturation make it a little bit more colorful and what I'm also going to do is I'm going to change the hue a bit making it a little bit more reddish and if I want I can also apply a lot on top of the footage but I think this already looks great. What I'm also going to do is I'm going to apply a zoom in so I'm going to move the clip all the way to the beginning I'm going to hit the keyframe and then I'm going to move it to around here then I'm going to zoom in a little bit like that. Let's go back let's play the clip let's see how it looks like. For demonstration purpose this looks really good so let's take this clip for example I want to remove the audio from it so I'm going to double click on it and I'm going to pull back the volume so that you can't hear anything and I'm actually going to cut it right here and hit the scissors tool and I'm going to delete this one so because this clip was shot in 50 frames per second I'm going to slow it down so I'm going to double click on it and I'm going to go to this icon over here the speed and reverse and I'm going to reduce it to around half the speed and when playing it back I get a nice slow motion video and what I'm also going to do is I'm going to color grade this beautiful clip and double click on it head over to the color and effects and I'm going to hit original again and I'm going to pull down the shadows and also increase the mid tones I'm just going to decrease and I'm going to decrease the mid tones just to give it a little bit more contrast so this already looks really nice and the brightness I might increase it a little bit and also increase the contrast not too much just a little bit increase the saturation vibrance what I'm also going to do is I'm going to change the hue a bit make it look a little bit more dreamy and this already looks really awesome so let's see how it looks like when playing it back that looks amazing okay the editing works really well using the mouse and the keyboards if you know the shortcuts you'll be way faster when editing what's also cool about this setup is that I can not only use the mouse but also my fingers to zoom in or zoom out or quickly tap on a clip which is also great but you probably won't have to do it that often because if you know your shortcuts you'll probably be faster so let's now export the video the video in total is around one and a half minutes I'm going to hit this icon over here head over to movie and then go to the photos and over here we have resolution which is set to 4k and the frame rate is 25 frames per second the video quality I will set to standard depending where I want to upload it web or economy would work well if you upload it to youtube the audio quality is 48kHz HEVC video and audio included and below you have the export info so this will be around 413 megabytes and it will take around one and a half minutes to export the video so let's test that out okay I have now set the timer over here and let's do this 3,2,1 the time is running so the export is going to be finished soon all right it took almost one minute to export that one minute and 30 second clip so this is pretty amazing because we have 4k footage shot in 10 bit in lock and also a 4k 10 bit Dolby vision and this is pretty amazing for a smartphone to accomplish so you have now seen a basic video editing workflow importing the files, editing the video and exporting the project I see issues when importing the files onto the iphone I mean not having that progress bar visible makes it really hard to see if the transfer has been completed now a solution to that would be to use the narbox 2.0 which I don't have but basically it's a portable SSD drive that is compatible with luma fusion that allows you to edit off the external drive the editing part worked really great and it felt very smooth the reason why I still prefer using a final cup pro is because luma fusion doesn't have any scopes and waveforms to color correct the footage accurately as for the rendering process I was amazed how fast the iphone 12 pro max exported the video I don't think it could export as fast as the iMac pro that I have but for a phone like this this is very impressive so I think you can really use the iphone 12 pro max as you're all in one tool filming in 4k 10 bit Dolby vision editing the footage smoothly in luma fusion and fast exporting the project and as you can see you can use a setup like this and even connect the iphone 12 pro max to an external monitor to improve your workflow now let me know in the comments do you solely use your iphone as an all in one system would love to know leave a like if you enjoyed this video and make sure to subscribe so that I can keep creating awesome tutorials for you guys now if you haven't downloaded my free smartphone filmmaking guide make sure to do that which will help you find the right tools to get started thank you so much for watching have a great day and I will see you soon