Update: I’m looking for more great video apps for the iPhone. Let me know of any you’re using or have heard about and I’ll check them out.
I noticed my review video had over 1000 views in a 24 hour period and wondered what was up. Turns out Philip Bloom included this video in his recent post, Adventures in Film…and fake 8mm.
I saw a review of the 8mm Vintage Camera App posted on Nino Leitner’s blog and I had to give it a try. I downloaded it and took it to hockey practice. This video review shows the results. This little app is really a lot of fun. It has several different film looks, as well as several lens looks that are all easily selectable while the app is recording. Besides being fun, I think filmmakers can get creative with this and come up with some great ideas for how to use it.
Someone asked about the window in the app looking like it’s 4:3 and then my video being 16:9. I thought that was interesting too. I didn’t do anything to stretch it out. I simply saved the clips in the app. Saving the clips transfers them into your video/stills library. Then I downloaded the clips into iPhoto and edited this video using iMovie. All of that worked really seamlessly and the resulting aspect ration was 16:9. I haven’t tried to take any of these clips into Final Cut Pro yet.
If you don’t have the app yet, you can get it HERE.
iPhone 4 using 8mm Vintage Camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7gZWms-FQ
Great review. I noticed that your video was in 16×9 an the app appears to be 4×3. Did you crop in post or is there an option to shoot in 16×9 right in the app?
-Scott
I just updated the blogpost to address your question. All I did was save the clip in the app and then when I brought it in to edit, it was 16:9. But it doesn’t look stretched or anything. It was my first time working with the footage in post, so I’ll have to take a closer look to see what’s happened there.