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Filmic's New DoubleTake App Lets iPhone Users Shoot Video From Multiple Cameras Simultaneously
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It is an interesting idea. I could see it being useful to cover front and back. I think I'd rather use the main camera (with the best sensor) in 4K and crop when needed for just the back though. 2 1080P streams seems like a downgrade to me. I suppose an ultra wide/tele combo might be worth it in some situations.
It's coming, they mentioned this in the notes of the latest update to Pro.
Incorrect:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/33016/iphone-11-teardown
Also, I'd like to know how multiple lenses that dont move could focus an image onto one sensor chip....
I had the same thought, but then I remembered: one front facing and one rear facing.
What I would like is the app on an iPad and allow three independent iPhones or iPad's (one camera each) to feed into one iPad to manage all of the video captures (iPad Pro with a USB-C drive) as a micro editing station!
That would be cool!
That would be cool!
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Great app / concept. Whose idea was it to use those icons however? They are not intuitive at all. I have no idea what the icons mean until I click them and experiment through trial and error. They will need to improve the interface design but love the overall concept.
Would like to see a variant: record [what looks like] regular video, but by recording all cameras together, be able to "smart crop" (pull in data from other views if needed to fill cropping space or "interpolate" a zoom using actual tight view data).
Drives me nuts watching otherwise interesting videos where the subject partially drifts out of the frame. Better to re-crop into lower-resolution video. Similar with post-capture zoom, filling with real pixels instead of extreme interpolation.
Drives me nuts watching otherwise interesting videos where the subject partially drifts out of the frame. Better to re-crop into lower-resolution video. Similar with post-capture zoom, filling with real pixels instead of extreme interpolation.
I am a little surprised the iPhone 8 and X aren’t supported because the primary difference from Xr is CPU/GPU power and that shouldn’t be a barrier for this app for those phones. Those phones are older but should be able to handle The lower frames settings. Maybe they chose not to lock some customers out of the higher settings, but my thought is they could help sell newer iPhones and gain some extra customers by including those devices. 🤷🏼♂️
It's not CPU or GPU. All phones have separate camera capture and processing hardware, sometimes called the IPU or Imaging Unit. If the IPU can't handle simultaneous capture, or Apple chooses not to expose the capability, then an app can't do it.
Do you understand what a camera is? It’s a sensor that records images to a file. How many image sensors are in the iPhone?
good point. I lean toward Apple isn’t exposing the capability. At least moves likeliness of the blame away from the developer and onto Apple, who are more invested in locking down features for arbitrary reasons in order to push upgrades. It might be that the IPU can’t handle it, but I really doubt that. Obviously I’m not a pro with this hardware so take my opinion with that in mind. 😁
Incorrect:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/33016/iphone-11-teardown
Also, I'd like to know how multiple lenses that dont move could focus an image onto one sensor chip....
I actually think he means co-processing units. Like a camera is an entire system. You're not running multiple systems on one phone.
Same.
Regardless, pretty cool feature. How long before all cameras will be active?
Counting the selfie camera, the 11 Pro has 4 image sensors (technically 5 if you count the True Depth camera)...
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Based on his replies, it seems that he thinks there is only one camera sensor that's being used by all 3 lenses on the back of the Pro.
Laws of optics says this won't work well a lot of the time. It's the same situation as the capture outside the frame feature for photos.
With differing focal lengths and camera offsets, close objects will have a parallax shift. Far objects still have a shift, which is why the recrop feature uses a noticeable blur to blend the two frames.
Other issues are that the differing noise levels between the two cameras become evident, which is why the frame feature only works under bright light.
Incorrect:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/33016/iphone-11-teardown
Also, I'd like to know how multiple lenses that dont move could focus an image onto one sensor chip....
Mirrors and angles.
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Indeed, a camera is a system with lenses and software and hardware. There is only one of those in any iPhone.
You need filmic pro to be able to record from more than 2 cameras at a time, which is cool as it is only 14.99
yea I thought this would have been fantastic for my upcoming trip to Disney - I like to shoot in 4K/6OFPS to give me flexibility in post.
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MultiCam Pro can do 3 at once for $5.99
I am hoping Apple will add it but maybe they want to leave it for 3rd parties to make some money
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With all the image processing happening anyway, I'm sure that could be auto-stitched & polished to an acceptable result - much better than missing much of the image outright (esp. when what's wanted WAS captured, just on another camera).