New iPhone Photo App: Video Zoom

Description from the AppStore: Video Zoom - one of the iPhone 3GS's most desired features is finally here (please do read the features and limitations).

Features:

1. Upto 3x digital zoom of video with real time zoom preview,
2. Option to save original video vis-a-vis zoomed video,
3. Choose between three recording resolutions(high, medium, low), and three max video recording durations(2 min, 5 min, 10 min). Default max duration is 2 min which can be changed via settings.
4. Option to use it as a plain video camera without zoom(by disabling zoom in the settings).

Limitations:

1. Currently supports only single zoom level for whole video. As an example, you can not have first 10 seconds of video at 2x zoom and the next 20 seconds of the same video at 3x zoom with this app. If you change the zoom level from 2x to 3x on-the-fly while recording, the whole video will be zoomed 3x from the start to end.
2. Needs post processing to generate zoomed video. Under default settings, it takes time ~ 1.5 multiplied by video-duration to post process. As an example, for 30 seconds video clip, it would take around 45 seconds(=1.5x30) or less to post process. So the app is best suited for short video clips(less than 90 seconds in length).

AppStore Link: Video Zoom - Price £0.59/$0.99

Editors comments: Digital zoom finally comes to iPhone videos, but like with the camera versions, don't expect too much.