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Hands-On With Apple's New 'Clips' Video App

I spent 15 minutes experimenting with it, and my conclusion is, that Apple should NOT have gone public with it ! ... it has the appearance of something that was cobbled-together in a Workshop by some teenager coders, over the span of just 2-3 weeks !

I could NOT find a single feature or capability that impressed me.

Its now April 2017, and Apple is coming out with this ??? ... I recommend they pull it for six months, and try again (with a much better version) when the iPhone 8 is announced.

Extremely disappointed Clips is NOT more than it is !

Live Titles is the ONLY feature that holds promise !, and the current implementation is NOT ready for prime time !!

The rest of the app is nothing special ... there are thousands of much better (photo & video) apps already on the iOS App Store !

The app defaults to Selfie Video ??? ... seriously ???, who is the target audience ??? ... I think this thing needs to be RE-named as "Mom & Dad's Selfie Social Video App" !

Snapchat has their established market segment ... Instagram has their established market segment ... NO way is Clips going to succeed in either ... it doesn't bring anything new to the table, except perhaps Live Titles, and like I said, thats NOT currently ready for Prime Time (maybe six months from now).

Way to go Phil, NOT only is Clips a poor effort at an app against powerhouses like Snap & Insta, but you've now managed to piss-off many in the Photo & Video (category) developer community ! ... is that strike number four ?, or number five ?, I've stopped counting ... and thats just since September 1st, 2016 !
 
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profets said:
Interesting - looks like a custom share sheet they're using with shortcuts to send as message to predefined/favourite contacts. I've been hoping to see something like that in share sheets for a few years now. Hopefully it's a sign that it could be coming in iOS 11.

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(screenshot from MacRumor's youtube video)
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From Apple Website
http://www.apple.com/uk/clips/
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All the people in the app's intro video are shooting with the device the wrong way up. /facepalm
 
Amen!
Cosmosent said:
I spent 15 minutes experimenting with it, and my conclusion is, that Apple should NOT have gone public with it ! ... it has the appearance of something that was cobbled-together in a Workshop by some teenager coders, over the span of just 2-3 weeks !

I could NOT find a single feature or capability that impressed me.

Its now April 2017, and Apple is coming out with this ??? ... I recommend they pull it for six months, and try again (with a much better version) when the iPhone 8 is announced.

Extremely disappointed Clips is NOT more than it is !

Live Titles is the ONLY feature that holds promise !, and the current implementation is NOT ready for prime time !!

The rest of the app is nothing special ... there are thousands of much better (photo & video) apps already on the iOS App Store !

The app defaults to Selfie Video ??? ... seriously ???, who is the target audience ??? ... I think this thing needs to be RE-named as "Mom & Dad's Selfie Social Video App" !

Snapchat has their established market segment ... Instagram has their established market segment ... NO way is Clips going to succeed in either ... it doesn't bring anything new to the table, except perhaps Live Titles, and like I said, thats NOT currently ready for Prime Time (maybe six months from now).

Way to go Phil, NOT only is Clips a poor effort at an app against powerhouses like Snap & Insta, but you've now managed to piss-off many in the Photo & Video (category) developer community ! ... is that strike number four ?, or number five ?, I've stopped counting ... and thats just since September 1st, 2016 !
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[doublepost=1491544358][/doublepost]Why has apple done this? It makes no sense? There's nothing in there that can't be done by existing apps like Instagram etc. what are they trying to bring to the table?

Plus the design/layout is ugly, unintuitive and confusing?

I'm not usually one to moan online but honestly... apple is losing it!
They should have spent this money on cloning Steve or something.
 
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Apples design language is all over the place. What happened to consistency among their own apps? This may as well be a android app
 
LiveM said:
All the people in the app's intro video are shooting with the device the wrong way up. /facepalm
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Since the app shoots in square format, it doesn't seem like there is a "wrong way up", and, realistically speaking, shooting the way most people hold the device most of the time would be more "right" given that.
 
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C DM said:
Since the app shoots in square format, it doesn't seem like there is a "wrong way up", and, realistically speaking, shooting the way most people hold the device most of the time would be more "right" given that.
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I tried MS Sparkles and that is actually pretty decent, well designed. Almost like an app Apple would design.

Clips however, is dreadful. I used it for about 2 mins and then deleted. Why would they release such a garbage app?
 
Mouse man said:
so why does it make s static sound when just using pictures
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It's recording live audio while you set the photo length. Tap the clip(s) in the timeline and mute the audio track(s). I had to mute the audio track in each clip and then apply an Apple audio backing track prior to export. Not muting the audio in a clip interferes with volume/levels in the Apple backing track.
 
macjoshua said:
Oh, so this is what they have the old Aperture team working on :rolleyes:
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*sigh*

When they killed Aperture, they killed the last killer app for the Mac. At least for me Aperture was the last unique selling point for the Mac -- Aperture was a perfect match for my work flow, no alternative ever got close. I could forgive all its many bugs and glitches simply because it was a perfect and intuitive match for the way I work with photos.
 
Thank god they released this as a standalone app - and it wasn't held back to be a major feature of iOS11.
 
haydn! said:
Thank god they released this as a standalone app - and it wasn't held back to be a major feature of iOS11.
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I am guessing they want to test some of the APIs to be used in iOS 11. Seems like they are using AI to intelligently refine your sharing options.
 
C DM said:
Since the app shoots in square format, it doesn't seem like there is a "wrong way up", and, realistically speaking, shooting the way most people hold the device most of the time would be more "right" given that.
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Spot-on. In fact that's exactly why they chose to make it in the square format. Research has shown (in large numbers) that when people use mobile social media apps, by and large they don't rotate the phone to landscape format even when watching video.
 
I haven't downloaded the app (mainly because I don't need anything like it), but I am disapointed that Apple has dedicated time to this (how much or how little). Why not just increase the capability of it's camera app for iOS 11? Why even spend time developing such an app when there's many others that do the same thing? It just seems like a waste of resources and really not where Apple should be putting their focus. The focus should be on standardizing and improving hardware (set release timeframes, next gen technology, simple product lines), and improving their software across iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. This app is essentially useless, regardless of how good it might be for a small group of people.
 
Abazigal said:
I am guessing they want to test some of the APIs to be used in iOS 11. Seems like they are using AI to intelligently refine your sharing options.
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So rather than a serious product, this whole app is some undercover test and learn? I wouldn't put it past Apple. Ha!
 
haydn! said:
So rather than a serious product, this whole app is some undercover test and learn? I wouldn't put it past Apple. Ha!
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No reason it can't be both. I am guessing iOS 11 may place more emphasis on extending AI to more aspects of the OS.

The one thing I have come to realise about Apple's apps is that they tend to just give you 80% of functionality compared to other competing apps. The kicker is that Apple usually has a knack for selecting that 80% which most people need. The end result is a fairly bare-bones, albeit rather functional app.

The clips app appears to have Apple's renowned polish in terms of UI. Will need to play more with it to see if it's with all the fuss though.
 
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