I am on the go a lot, so I need a sturdy stand that, preferably, is attached. This is a big pet peeve of mine – terrible tablet stands - but the Surface sports a great one. The Surface Pro 4 weighs an incredibly light 1.73 pounds, measures 11.5×7.93x.33 inches and has the best stand I’ve ever used on a tablet. Resolve looks great, but the words and icons might be a bit smaller than what you are used to seeing. Keep in mind that when working with high-resolution displays like an Apple Retina 5K or this Surface Pro 4, some apps will be hard to read even with the scaling bumped up. K 1.9:1 aspect ratio that would be comfortable when working in video, but it’s not bad. The display sports a b eautiful 3:2 aspect ratio at 2736×1824 resolution not quite the UHD 16:9/1.78:1 or true 4 Under the hood it was packing a dual-core 2.2 GHz Intel i7, 6650U CPU, 8GB RAM, NVMe Samsung MZFLV256 (256GB SSD) and an Intel Iris graphics 540 GPU. Thankfully, I received the higher-end version of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 tablet. Especially media with resolutions over 1920×1080 and 10-bit color! Well, let’s see how all of that played out. Everyone who works in post knows that you need a pretty monstrous workstation to play, let alone edit, media. I really thought this seemed like a pipe dream for Microsoft and Blackmagic.

I was dubious, and wondered, “Do they really think I can edit, color correct, and deliver footage on a tablet?” Not long ago, I was asked if I wanted to check out Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 12.5 on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4.

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