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Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by popcalc »

zer0zzz wrote: post #31
pavel_lishin wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

That lux camera company is a very Apple heavy shop and they seem to only make apps that cost 10-20 dollars plus. Why would they waste time on android when a large corpus of their skills and codebase are already probably in ObjC and Swift programmed against many of Apple's iOS frameworks? To sell a $20 camera app to android users who are pretty much guaranteed to not buy it? Total waste of time to bring software like…

You can just say what you want to say: Android users are poor.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by phren0logy »

sandofsky wrote: post #5
phren0logy wrote: post #4

I didn't see it mentioned here, but is there any support for timecode?

Not at launch, but it's on the roadmap.

Thanks - that seems like a must-have for anyone anyone working with this level of tools. Glad to hear it's on the way. I would love to be able to use this with both external mics and storage, but I'm not sure how well the iPhone would handle both of those through a hub.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by sandofsky »

z5h wrote: post #26

As a long time amateur photographer (using physical cameras and lenses), I have Halide (by the same company) on my iOS home screen for when I need to take a real phono on my iPhone. I use it all the time without issue. And would recommend it to any photographer. So I paid for Kino without hesitation. Just fired it up, set BNW grade, pressed record, and it immediately crashed. Tried again and it crashed again. Tried A…

Sorry you ran into that. I distinctly remember testing the 13 mini, due to notch layout issues, so this is unexpected. As soon as the crash reports come in, we’ll dig into that.

Unfortunately, while we had a QA person on this, and nearly 100 beta testers, the iPhone camera APIs are a mine field. We’ll get a fix out as soon as we have details.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by ValentineC »

As a former happy Halide user, I bought their previous new app Spectre on launch, but sadly haven't found a good chance to use it.

(Why "former"? I switched over to Apple's Camera app for the bulk of my casual photography when Apple introduced Live Photos, since I really like the added vividness of having a video moment attached.)

I don't do many videos, and the Camera app (along with their Action Mode software video stabilisation) seems to do everything I need it to, so I'm not sure if I would be able to use any of the "pro" features here at all.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by atan2 »

"one simple principle: make good products and charge money for them."

Thank you for the one-time purchase option. It's a win already on today's software world.

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by stnmtn »

dylan604 wrote: post #13
masto wrote: post #6

For a video recording app, it's an interesting marketing decision that there's only one video on the page. And at least on my computer, it doesn't play, I only hear the audio. These folks have a stellar reputation, and I'll be buying this app on that (and the I-was-expecting-more-digits price) alone, but I would have enjoyed seeing some kind of short film "shot on Kino". If only to see some professional work.

> These folks have a stellar reputation The name they've chosen for the app, Kino, is a bit weird to me. When I hear the word Kino, I immediately start to think about lighting as that's how people refer to lights from Kinoflo which gained popularity from their fluorescent lights in the years before LEDs took over.

I think of the internet "meme" of calling movies you like "Kinography", or saying that a movie you watched was "kino".

Example: Movie XYZ is pure kino

Re: Kino: Pro Video Camera

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Post by ertgbnm »

atan2 wrote: post #47

"one simple principle: make good products and charge money for them." Thank you for the one-time purchase option. It's a win already on today's software world.

I give it 2 years before they have regressed to a subscription model.
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