**A Test of Mobile Video Editing: Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus vs iPad Pro**

In this article, we will explore the capabilities of mobile video editing on two popular devices: the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and the Apple iPad Pro. We will be using PowerDirector, a software that is designed to provide advanced features for video editing and color grading.

One of the key aspects of mobile video editing is the speed at which footage can be encoded and exported. To test this, we recorded one minute of footage and compared the encoding times of both devices. The Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus uses an Exynos 9810 processor with a Snapdragon 855 SoC, while the iPad Pro features an A12X Bionic chip.

We began by exporting the footage from our Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus to internal storage using PowerDirector's 4K highest preset bitrate quality setting, which is approximately 50 megabits per second. We then repeated this process on our iPad Pro with its timer running. To our surprise, the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus was able to export 4K faster than the iPad Pro. The encode time for the S10 Plus came in at around 42 seconds, while the iPad Pro still had about 30 seconds of work left to do.

**The Results**

This unexpected result highlights the capabilities of mobile devices when it comes to video editing and encoding. While synthetic benchmarks often favor the iPad Pro's performance, our test shows that a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus can keep up with some of the fastest mobile processors on the market. This is particularly impressive considering the device's compact size and portability.

We also tested PowerDirector, a mobile video editing app that offers advanced features such as color grading and keyframe animation. The app is designed to work seamlessly with both Android and iOS devices, making it an ideal choice for creators who want to edit their footage on-the-go.

**The Setup**

For our test, we used the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, a smartphone that may not seem like the most obvious choice for video editing. However, with the right software and accessories, it can be a powerful tool in the creator's toolkit. We also set up an external tripod to provide stability and support for our camera.

In contrast, the iPad Pro is a dedicated device designed specifically for content creation. With its larger screen and more powerful processor, it is well-suited for tasks such as video editing and color grading. However, our test shows that even with these advantages, a mobile device can still keep up with some of the fastest processors on the market.

**Conclusion**

Mobile video editing has come a long way in recent years, thanks to advancements in software and hardware. While devices like the iPad Pro are often touted as the gold standard for content creation, our test shows that even smaller, more portable devices like the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus can hold their own. With apps like PowerDirector providing advanced features and tools, creators no longer need a bulky laptop or external monitor to edit their footage on-the-go.

For those just starting out in YouTube, this setup could be an ideal starting point. By using a phone as your primary device for recording audio, you can take advantage of its portability and convenience without sacrificing quality. Of course, there are many other factors that will affect the final product, such as sound quality and lighting, but with these tools, you'll have a solid foundation to build upon.

In our next article, we'll explore some tips and tricks for getting started with mobile video editing on your Android device or iOS smartphone.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI relearned Chris here so what if I told you that this entire video was edited on my mobile phone and it's been filmed on mobile phones solely as a little bit of a test here and that editing this video was actually faster than editing for example with my iPad pro 2018 this is the twelve point nine inch version with 256 gigabytes of storage an expensive machine with a luma fusion you can edit video on-the-go quite easily fast and fluid but I was surprised to learn that encoding times are actually faster on my samsung galaxy s 10 plus so the reason behind this video isn't to add more fuel to the fire of iOS vs. Android or iPad always now with the beta that I'm currently running beta 6 vs. Android no I'm not worried about any of that it's just to keep things simple so when I went to Mobile World Congress at the beginning of this year I took my sony a6300 along with me some lenses external mics tripod heavy windows team laptop to edit and i had to lug that around for a week and it became quite bothersome and I saw also others around huge YouTube channels even Chinese television using just an iPhone 10 and I thought well something's going on here about keeping things very simple and let's face it at these Expos at these events lighting is not like it is now controlled so I have to 5000k studio lights on here at the moment and his events you're getting blue light coming through you're getting red light from logos you've got all this mixed light everywhere and initial first impressions and hands-on videos to me even though it's not that professional shooting on a mobile phone is still fine the quality you can get from that and most people gonna be happy we'll just a quick look edit a quick first impressions and I'll show you this video my set up well I'm gonna take to IFA Berlin the week that I'm going and September and just how simple and easy it really is okay so it's not in the shot here my samsung galaxy s tm+ is being used to film this and you can see there's my main camera they use for YouTube there so you know that I'm not filming on that so how did I get that fluid shot just then that's because I'm using my man photo fluid tripod with a mobile mount but when I go to events taking a more portable travel tripod which is a lot smaller lightweight actually fits in a backpack so for audio I use this right here this is a lav mic here from rode so this video is not sponsored by sony road highway anyone I don't do sponsored videos it's just an informative video just to let you know and there's no affiliate links in the description either okay so I do have a highway P 30 Pro and the reason I'm not going to use this phone is because let's face it let's be honest here video quality it takes fantastic photos video quality on this phone is kind of bad it's terrible really because you get a lot of dropped frames and stutter when panning and that's why I will probably not use this it also doesn't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack but yeah course you can use an adapter and then it does work now why I have right here an old phone this is my s7 edge sorry nan edge and it's a it's a great phone I like my galaxy assuming because it still has manual mode with video and it's something samsung has not brought back they dropped it when they moved over to one UI and that really annoyed me so we've got no manual video modes at the moment so focus if I tap the screen on my s10 I can lock the focus and it doesn't lock the exposure either which isn't very professional to have the exposure kind of go all over the place there's a way around that to use an application called open camera which I highly recommend then you get full manual controls so before when you saw me talking in front of the camera I was using this right here this is my Road wire let's go set up and I used that when I talk around the camera most times in fact all the time now I'm using this right here and I think it's quite good because it's wireless so using an adapter here so you need TR s 2 TT e iris or the other way around I think it is so I can use this with my mobile phone so I plug this straight into the s10 and that gives me good audio if I'm going to speak in front of the camera there's no cables in between because it's all Wireless this actually has a built-in microphone here you can see right at the top so just bring that up to the camera you can see there is the mic and it doesn't support plug in external mics as well if you wanted to use that so just plug there now the road external mic 3.5 Manami de and this is again using the stock camera application with Samsung and you can hear the audio quality has probably changed a little bit before I was using this right here which is a direction or plug-in mic which uses 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and it's got currently what they call the dead cat on there I hate that name but it's a wind filter okay so this is very handy if you got a lot of wind around this thing just blocks out all the wind and it also acts as a pop filter too as well so if you're speaking into the mic at these events its directional it's just going to get your voice whereas a lav mic can sometimes pick up a little bit of other voices around you so that's another mic that I will use this thing comes right off if I can get it off there you go and you can see there's the mic itself so if you don't need the when filter on it then you just use this by itself so recently I swapped my 11 inch version for the 12 point 9 inch version of the iPad pro I've been using luma fusion which is fantastic for video editing but then I thought well what about the S 10 plus using Samsung decks as an alternative and using either a dope rush or PowerDirector which is from cinema link power directors also another app you can use for editing now this setup this is fantastic it's very fast the encoding time with the iPad pro for 4k that I'm gonna always be using 4k is about a 1 to 1 ratio so 1 minute of footage takes about one minute to encode which is really fast it's very quick and the good thing about you luma fusion I won't get into lots of details with this is that you can color grade you can do a lot of things so it's almost like a fully featured video editor it is very good so I have switched over now to my samsung galaxy s7 an old phone but for me it's still a good phone in the 4k video quality is good because you still got the pro mode but I'm not actually using it at the moment so then power director here I've got one minute of footage that I'm gonna export you can see right here the exact same 1 minute of footage is also on my iPad pro this is the 2018 model 12 point 9 inches so it is 50 megabits per second both of the files both the files are 30 frames per second as well so I'm going to go now to export both of these files to the internal storage and the sitting I'm going to use with PowerDirector this is the 4k highest preset bitrate quality which should be about 15 me what's per second and then I'll do the same here with the iPad pro so it's bought those two photos that is the internal storage and it is 4k 30 frames per second 50 megabits per second so with my IP 30 Pro here with its timer I will time this now so hopefully I can do this at the same time so just to get a an estimate here hit produce at the same time and quickly of course the timer so this is what really surprised me is the end results of this the fact that an s10 with a Snapdragon 805 can export 4k faster than an iPad pro okay so there we go the s10 plus has finished that was at 42 seconds and the iPad is still going to almost done it's just about to come up to the minute mark so one minute of footage on the iPad will take about one minute to encode whereas it's about 42 seconds on the S team okay there we go it has done that was at just over a minute there and there was that timer so 43 seconds you can see right here 43 seconds with the Samsung Galaxy S 10 plus that's a lot faster than I thought it was going to be because we'd have a look at synthetic benchmarks of course the iPad absolutely kills the s10 plus in performance alright so there we go you can see that it's all possible from the mobile phone to shoot and edit video and even encode faster than an iPad pro I think a lot of us fall into that trap we just assume that because synthetic benchmarks on the iPad pro just be anything out there in Android okay on the Android ecosystem it is a lot faster but you as you've seen there that it has actually took quite a good job of editing video and it's fast in fact all this video you're looking at now has been edited on PowerDirector I could have done it on a rush there as well - that's not to mean that of course this is a bad setup for mobile video editing it's what I got it for and lumo fusion is a basic fully fledged video editing app and it is really quite good for that but you can do some color coding and other little bits and pieces as well with say a dough brush and PowerDirector so sit up you can just use your mobile phone you don't even need to have the deck setup that I have you don't need to go for the external monitor Bluetooth keyboard and mouse you can just do it all from your phone if you're one of those people but I find that just using a phone so small and doing it all like that even though it is optimized for finger use for your scrubbing ahead and cutting and editing and things like that I just find it to be a little bit too small and annoying so thank you so much for watching this video because it's just a little test of mine and I will be going with this setup in IFA Berlin oh yes I will say it again that of course it's not super professional but I want to make things easy for me this time around I don't want to spend a week lugging around as mentioned at the start of the video the camera the big tripod I'm taking a smaller tripod and my huge heavy powerful Windows 10 laptop is not needed at least not anymore so if you're also starting out in YouTube something like this is idea or just work on perhaps maybe your audio audio use an external recorder you don't have to use your phone for recording audio as well you can use say just the Getty Michael something like that and shoot separately and you get semi-decent as you can see quality at least here with 4kI relearned Chris here so what if I told you that this entire video was edited on my mobile phone and it's been filmed on mobile phones solely as a little bit of a test here and that editing this video was actually faster than editing for example with my iPad pro 2018 this is the twelve point nine inch version with 256 gigabytes of storage an expensive machine with a luma fusion you can edit video on-the-go quite easily fast and fluid but I was surprised to learn that encoding times are actually faster on my samsung galaxy s 10 plus so the reason behind this video isn't to add more fuel to the fire of iOS vs. Android or iPad always now with the beta that I'm currently running beta 6 vs. Android no I'm not worried about any of that it's just to keep things simple so when I went to Mobile World Congress at the beginning of this year I took my sony a6300 along with me some lenses external mics tripod heavy windows team laptop to edit and i had to lug that around for a week and it became quite bothersome and I saw also others around huge YouTube channels even Chinese television using just an iPhone 10 and I thought well something's going on here about keeping things very simple and let's face it at these Expos at these events lighting is not like it is now controlled so I have to 5000k studio lights on here at the moment and his events you're getting blue light coming through you're getting red light from logos you've got all this mixed light everywhere and initial first impressions and hands-on videos to me even though it's not that professional shooting on a mobile phone is still fine the quality you can get from that and most people gonna be happy we'll just a quick look edit a quick first impressions and I'll show you this video my set up well I'm gonna take to IFA Berlin the week that I'm going and September and just how simple and easy it really is okay so it's not in the shot here my samsung galaxy s tm+ is being used to film this and you can see there's my main camera they use for YouTube there so you know that I'm not filming on that so how did I get that fluid shot just then that's because I'm using my man photo fluid tripod with a mobile mount but when I go to events taking a more portable travel tripod which is a lot smaller lightweight actually fits in a backpack so for audio I use this right here this is a lav mic here from rode so this video is not sponsored by sony road highway anyone I don't do sponsored videos it's just an informative video just to let you know and there's no affiliate links in the description either okay so I do have a highway P 30 Pro and the reason I'm not going to use this phone is because let's face it let's be honest here video quality it takes fantastic photos video quality on this phone is kind of bad it's terrible really because you get a lot of dropped frames and stutter when panning and that's why I will probably not use this it also doesn't have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack but yeah course you can use an adapter and then it does work now why I have right here an old phone this is my s7 edge sorry nan edge and it's a it's a great phone I like my galaxy assuming because it still has manual mode with video and it's something samsung has not brought back they dropped it when they moved over to one UI and that really annoyed me so we've got no manual video modes at the moment so focus if I tap the screen on my s10 I can lock the focus and it doesn't lock the exposure either which isn't very professional to have the exposure kind of go all over the place there's a way around that to use an application called open camera which I highly recommend then you get full manual controls so before when you saw me talking in front of the camera I was using this right here this is my Road wire let's go set up and I used that when I talk around the camera most times in fact all the time now I'm using this right here and I think it's quite good because it's wireless so using an adapter here so you need TR s 2 TT e iris or the other way around I think it is so I can use this with my mobile phone so I plug this straight into the s10 and that gives me good audio if I'm going to speak in front of the camera there's no cables in between because it's all Wireless this actually has a built-in microphone here you can see right at the top so just bring that up to the camera you can see there is the mic and it doesn't support plug in external mics as well if you wanted to use that so just plug there now the road external mic 3.5 Manami de and this is again using the stock camera application with Samsung and you can hear the audio quality has probably changed a little bit before I was using this right here which is a direction or plug-in mic which uses 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and it's got currently what they call the dead cat on there I hate that name but it's a wind filter okay so this is very handy if you got a lot of wind around this thing just blocks out all the wind and it also acts as a pop filter too as well so if you're speaking into the mic at these events its directional it's just going to get your voice whereas a lav mic can sometimes pick up a little bit of other voices around you so that's another mic that I will use this thing comes right off if I can get it off there you go and you can see there's the mic itself so if you don't need the when filter on it then you just use this by itself so recently I swapped my 11 inch version for the 12 point 9 inch version of the iPad pro I've been using luma fusion which is fantastic for video editing but then I thought well what about the S 10 plus using Samsung decks as an alternative and using either a dope rush or PowerDirector which is from cinema link power directors also another app you can use for editing now this setup this is fantastic it's very fast the encoding time with the iPad pro for 4k that I'm gonna always be using 4k is about a 1 to 1 ratio so 1 minute of footage takes about one minute to encode which is really fast it's very quick and the good thing about you luma fusion I won't get into lots of details with this is that you can color grade you can do a lot of things so it's almost like a fully featured video editor it is very good so I have switched over now to my samsung galaxy s7 an old phone but for me it's still a good phone in the 4k video quality is good because you still got the pro mode but I'm not actually using it at the moment so then power director here I've got one minute of footage that I'm gonna export you can see right here the exact same 1 minute of footage is also on my iPad pro this is the 2018 model 12 point 9 inches so it is 50 megabits per second both of the files both the files are 30 frames per second as well so I'm going to go now to export both of these files to the internal storage and the sitting I'm going to use with PowerDirector this is the 4k highest preset bitrate quality which should be about 15 me what's per second and then I'll do the same here with the iPad pro so it's bought those two photos that is the internal storage and it is 4k 30 frames per second 50 megabits per second so with my IP 30 Pro here with its timer I will time this now so hopefully I can do this at the same time so just to get a an estimate here hit produce at the same time and quickly of course the timer so this is what really surprised me is the end results of this the fact that an s10 with a Snapdragon 805 can export 4k faster than an iPad pro okay so there we go the s10 plus has finished that was at 42 seconds and the iPad is still going to almost done it's just about to come up to the minute mark so one minute of footage on the iPad will take about one minute to encode whereas it's about 42 seconds on the S team okay there we go it has done that was at just over a minute there and there was that timer so 43 seconds you can see right here 43 seconds with the Samsung Galaxy S 10 plus that's a lot faster than I thought it was going to be because we'd have a look at synthetic benchmarks of course the iPad absolutely kills the s10 plus in performance alright so there we go you can see that it's all possible from the mobile phone to shoot and edit video and even encode faster than an iPad pro I think a lot of us fall into that trap we just assume that because synthetic benchmarks on the iPad pro just be anything out there in Android okay on the Android ecosystem it is a lot faster but you as you've seen there that it has actually took quite a good job of editing video and it's fast in fact all this video you're looking at now has been edited on PowerDirector I could have done it on a rush there as well - that's not to mean that of course this is a bad setup for mobile video editing it's what I got it for and lumo fusion is a basic fully fledged video editing app and it is really quite good for that but you can do some color coding and other little bits and pieces as well with say a dough brush and PowerDirector so sit up you can just use your mobile phone you don't even need to have the deck setup that I have you don't need to go for the external monitor Bluetooth keyboard and mouse you can just do it all from your phone if you're one of those people but I find that just using a phone so small and doing it all like that even though it is optimized for finger use for your scrubbing ahead and cutting and editing and things like that I just find it to be a little bit too small and annoying so thank you so much for watching this video because it's just a little test of mine and I will be going with this setup in IFA Berlin oh yes I will say it again that of course it's not super professional but I want to make things easy for me this time around I don't want to spend a week lugging around as mentioned at the start of the video the camera the big tripod I'm taking a smaller tripod and my huge heavy powerful Windows 10 laptop is not needed at least not anymore so if you're also starting out in YouTube something like this is idea or just work on perhaps maybe your audio audio use an external recorder you don't have to use your phone for recording audio as well you can use say just the Getty Michael something like that and shoot separately and you get semi-decent as you can see quality at least here with 4k\n"