Next iPhone to Easily Record, Edit and Share Movies?

[t0mat0]

Forget about editing and recording movies, I have a nice camcorder that will do that. I'd just like to be able make phone calls without them dropping and see landline-like speed like we saw in Apple's commercials when the iPhone 3G was introduced. Although I'm a Mac fanboi, I've had enough of AT&T's lousy service and will be selling my iPhone and going back to Verizon this month. First and foremost, I need a reliable *phone*.

Or rather, as you point out, you first and foremost want a reliable network...

Apple so far, seems to have brought features to customers, that the customers actually use regularly - I'd imagine it would be interesting to see video recording usage on current phones, then compare this to the 2010 J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction data.

By making basic applications and features easy to use and providing functionality in a thin, lightweight device, Apple has performed well in exceeding customer expectations.

For the 2008 business set- the largest key factor for satisfaction was ease of operation just ahead of OS.

Even if video isn't all that - a bump on the sensor will bring the possibility to have decent barcode recognition implementation - bringing a whole new swathe of app possibilities.

How many people have their camcorder, or digital camera with them, in their pocket/bag? That's the utility of having the option on a phone -It's not going to take up any more room for that feature on your phone.

Turning DJ Steve's post on its head - if they're indicating the feature in the OS - it's a potential indication of the minimum capabilities of the next phone.

 

[CitizenSnips]

Jailbreaking..i know i know...

Releasing one feature that is far superior and technologically advanced than the previous version's is great, but releasing a feature that has been tested by other manufacturers and has been here since the year 2000 is an insult to consumers and Apple fans alike.

Absolutely agree. Am I missing something here guys? My iPhone takes decent videos (for a phone anyway) with the current design (2G btw). Sure it's not as easy to retrieve the videos by say just syncing with iTunes, but the point is it's absolutely doable now with it's current components.

Don't get me wrong, it's great that they're going to implement it now and make it easy to use/edit-on-the-go, but why are we praising them for pretending they needed 3 years, when it's been doable since day 1?

In any case, I do hope this rumor is more than just that. Add this, Speed up that hardware and I'm sold

 

[needthephone]

I think I'm missing something here??

So can I use it as a video recorder to record TV then?

Sorry can't see the point of being able to edit crappy mobile phone video?

Or can you import video and use it as an editor?

Sorry just can't see what the excitement is about and how this is as big as the ipod??

 

[Bodypainter]

the apple-effect

guys, i am a bit surprised about your behaviour: have you noticed that nearly every other mobile phone with a camera can also record video and still, no one gets so enthusiastic about it like you?

there won't be an imovie mobile! to cut the beginning and end of a video is not an imovie mobile. even the sony ericsson mobile phones has a program that cuts and connects videos and is capable of sending them via mms.

at the end the iphone suffers from the same old problems: the weak battery. in theory it sounds so nice that the new iphone can record video and you can edit it. but who is going to use it, if it reduces the telephone-online-time from 20 hrs to let's say 3 hrs?
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[SpitzerCR]

There could be some AMAZING apps based off the vid recording though.

Photoswap anyone???

imagine videoswap with like a 10 second video swapping.

 

[t0mat0]

guys, i am a bit surprised about your behaviour: have you noticed that nearly every other mobile phone with a camera can also record video and still, no one gets so enthusiastic about it like you?

there won't be an imovie mobile! to cut the beginning and end of a video is not an imovie mobile. even the sony ericsson mobile phones has a program that cuts and connects videos and is capable of sending them via mms.

at the end the iphone suffers from the same old problems: the weak battery. in theory it sounds so nice that the new iphone can record video and you can edit it. but who is going to use it, if it reduces the telephone-online-time from 20 hrs to let's say 3 hrs?

Those who want to record/upload/stream video. Put another way, it would be potentially an emergent set of uses, emergent properties much more so than recording from a Sony Ericsson. Imagine WWDC with nearly every developer having a phone that can record/stream video for example.

What's to stop Apple adding in picture editing and video editing functions (if feasible) to MobileMe? Or youtube to add streaming video? For the MMS, they could do something akin to the ringtone creation - have a set max length, then move the start position, end position, then share the MMS.

 

[jpine]

Has anyone ever watched a video recorded by a cell phone? They are incredibly prone to accentuating even the smallest of "camera" movements. If you want to record video, get a camcorder. Cell phone video is video of last resort. It's good if you are out in the woods and happen to run across Big Foot.

 

[neutrino23]

Huge

I think this will be huge. I'm thinking kind of like when iPhoto first came out. Remember Steve referring to the shoe box of photos? Apple won't just add video capabilities to the iPhone. They'll add video capability with a software environment that makes videos easy to browse, replay, edit (simple cuts), and share via Youtube and Mobile Me and MMS.

It used to be that video projects were hour long affairs - weddings, soccer games, football games, graduations, etc. You downloaded two hours of video and distilled it down (mercifully) to 30 minutes or so of video that you burned to DVD.

With an iPhone you'll be taking bunches of short videos, 15s to maybe 3 minutes. Clips of friends in new clothes, your car, a cute dog or cat, friends snowboarding, skiing, swimming, hiking, dancing, goofing off, laughing, telling jokes, party invitations, etc. This is much more akin to iPhoto. You can just see Steve talking about how you've got a disk full of video clips and you can't find them easily or share them easily but now Apple has solved all that.

The name iMovie is already taken. I think Apple will come up with a new app like iPhoto but for movies. It could look quite like iPhoto events. You see a screen full of thumbnails. As you scrub across a thumbnail you see play the video. Double click to go full screen. Simple adjustments like crop, brightness and contrast, color adjust. Switch to iMovie and you'll have an option to import clips just like you can currently import photos.

 

[celtikmind]

I think this will be huge. I'm thinking kind of like when iPhoto first came out. Remember Steve referring to the shoe box of photos? Apple won't just add video capabilities to the iPhone. They'll add video capability with a software environment that makes videos easy to browse, replay, edit (simple cuts), and share via Youtube and Mobile Me and MMS.

It used to be that video projects were hour long affairs - weddings, soccer games, football games, graduations, etc. You downloaded two hours of video and distilled it down (mercifully) to 30 minutes or so of video that you burned to DVD.

With an iPhone you'll be taking bunches of short videos, 15s to maybe 3 minutes. Clips of friends in new clothes, your car, a cute dog or cat, friends snowboarding, skiing, swimming, hiking, dancing, goofing off, laughing, telling jokes, party invitations, etc. This is much more akin to iPhoto. You can just see Steve talking about how you've got a disk full of video clips and you can't find them easily or share them easily but now Apple has solved all that.

The name iMovie is already taken. I think Apple will come up with a new app like iPhoto but for movies. It could look quite like iPhoto events. You see a screen full of thumbnails. As you scrub across a thumbnail you see play the video. Double click to go full screen. Simple adjustments like crop, brightness and contrast, color adjust. Switch to iMovie and you'll have an option to import clips just like you can currently import photos.

iTube? i (I) wouldn't know since I don't give whether it has video function or not. I'd rather see some more proper functions like a 5 mp camera and "todo"-items in the calendar...

Come on, Apple. Let iPhone grow up!

 

[SpitzerCR]

Itube.... federal trade commission will love that... lol