Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
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Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
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Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#2This is a very nice idea and should really be available in stock cameras. Maybe they could license it to phone manufacturers to include it in their camera apps?
Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can record?
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#3This is a very nice idea and should really be available in stock cameras. Maybe they could license it to phone manufacturers to include it in their camera apps? Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can re…
> Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can record?
Who says they do? The app seems to show the entire input so I don't think there could be anything tricky in terms of using only part of the sensor.
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#4Great product, but a question about the trailer video...
Since the app seems to seamlessly adjust the picture so it doesn't rotate when you change the actual smartphone's physical orientation, what's the point of rotating the phone mid-shot?
Take the example of the two women sitting for coffee... why does the camera-person bother rotating the phone to horizontal in the middle of the shot? Why not just stay in place?
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#5This is a very nice idea and should really be available in stock cameras. Maybe they could license it to phone manufacturers to include it in their camera apps? Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can re…
> Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can record? Who says they do? The app seems to show the entire input so I don't think there could be anything tricky in terms of using only part of the sensor.
> Who says they do?
They advertise certain resolution. I assumed it's for the final video. If they just crop it and stretch it.. that's disappointing.
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#6Great product, but a question about the trailer video... Since the app seems to seamlessly adjust the picture so it doesn't rotate when you change the actual smartphone's physical orientation, what's the point of rotating the phone mid-shot? Take the example of the two women sitting for coffee... why does the camera-person bother rotating the phone to horizontal in the middle of the shot? Why not just stay in place?
They wouldn't fit in as nice. You get quite wider shot when holding it horizontally.
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#7Great product, but a question about the trailer video... Since the app seems to seamlessly adjust the picture so it doesn't rotate when you change the actual smartphone's physical orientation, what's the point of rotating the phone mid-shot? Take the example of the two women sitting for coffee... why does the camera-person bother rotating the phone to horizontal in the middle of the shot? Why not just stay in place?
There's a mode that zooms in and out when you rotate. There's also another mode that just keeps it level, and there's no point in rotating it in that mode, you're right.
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can record? Who says they do? The app seems to show the entire input so I don't think there could be anything tricky in terms of using only part of the sensor.
> Who says they do? They advertise certain resolution. I assumed it's for the final video. If they just crop it and stretch it.. that's disappointing.
When Crisp mode is used (in iPhone 5S), we use the full camera resolution (2592 x 1936 pixels) and after transforming it we project it to the output resolution (1080p, 720p). So, the final video is.. crisp :)
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#9This is a very nice idea and should really be available in stock cameras. Maybe they could license it to phone manufacturers to include it in their camera apps? Anyway, what I wanted to ask.. how do they go around the loss of quality? It's not a simple crop? Can they somehow utilize any part of the chip they want (as long as the maximum is the same?) since the chip is much bigger than the max possible video it can re…
License it? Is this such a revolutionary idea that other companies can't "invent it" themselves without licensing it?
This is an obvious idea that everyone has been craving for, and I don't think such ideas deserve patents. If stock cameras adopt this idea, tough luck, they'll just have to compete like everyone else and add more differentiation.
It's not the implementation that matters here, it's the idea. And companies can do their own implementations of it. They don't have to license it.
Re: Horizon – Record horizontally. Always
#10Extremely shaky result, see unedited demo video on http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/14/horizon-shoots-all-of-your-...
For those wondering, it's not free. It used to be $1, now it's $2.