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App to shoot video and take pictures simultaneously full rez

qtrim

qtrim

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I know there are plenty to apps that can take a snapshot while shooting video on the iPhone. But they usually cause a momentary glitch in the video (audio dropout or lost frames) or it's just a single frame image pulled out at the same resolution as the video.

I was wondering if anyone has an app that uses the iPhone + wide angle camera for video and the normal camera for true high resolution photos, so that you get the highest quality image from both.
 
qtrim said:
I know there are plenty to apps that can take a snapshot while shooting video on the iPhone. But they usually cause a momentary glitch in the video (audio dropout or lost frames) or it's just a single frame image pulled out at the same resolution as the video.

I was wondering if anyone has an app that uses the iPhone + wide angle camera for video and the normal camera for true high resolution photos, so that you get the highest quality image from both.
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What about Apple's on iOS Camera app?
 
C DM said:
What about Apple's on iOS Camera app?
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Not "High-Res". Only 4K at most (which is incredible considering...).

To answer the OP: No. There is no app that will allow you to do anything but essentially take a screenshot of the video being taken. It's a limitation of the hardware from what I understand (from the old days of jailbreakers trying to do it).

Only one or the other. Otherwise it'd be a pretty killer feature for Apple to advertise I'd think!
 
Well, they need to work on that. Or open the API for both cams.
 
qtrim said:
Well, they need to work on that. Or open the API for both cams.
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The trouble is, even when jailbroken, devs were unable to get it working. I'm the wrong guy to ask about the specifics, but someone had the same request a few years back and it ended up being a hard "can't do it" because of the way Apple designed the camera system. Something about the way it writes to the internal memory or something? I would think it could multi-task, but maybe when it's recording/writing video taking full 12MP stills is just too much (or would cause an impact on the vid like you described (like a start/stop effect while the pic was taken).

It might be possible with a jailbroken two-lens (plus) model now that I think about it, since there would be two cameras addressable at separate times, but even that might have a flaw I'm not thinking of.

At any rate, for now, we get 4K stills while also shooting insanely fast FPS 4K Video/Audio. Not too shabby for a PHONE.
 
I'd like an app that allows front and back cameras to film at the same time. Would be cool to record your reactions to something you're filming.
 
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