New iPhone Video App: FiLMiC Pro, the Filmmaker's App

If you're an iPhone videographer, then FiLMiC Pro, billed as "THE Filmmaker’s App" from Cinegenix, LLC may just be what you've looking/waiting for.

App Store Description: FiLMiC Pro is THE Filmmaker’s App. A dedicated video camera app that builds upon the high definition capabilities of the Iphone 4. FiLMiC Pro enables users to take their mobile cinematography to new heights by asserting as much manual control over camera functions as possible and including additional variable frame rates from 1-25 frames per second.

MAXIMUM CONTROL:

The FiLMiC Pro control bar is thumb based to enable a rock solid grip on the camera. Designed by filmmakers it provides the best camera UI in the business with perfect access to all camera controls from a fixed, two hand grip position.

THREE FOCUS/EXPOSURE MODES:

At the heart of FiLMiC Pro’s superior manual control functionality are three separate focus and exposure modes. This gives you more ways to personalize your shooting method than any other video camera app. Combined with the lockable control buttons and you have complete control of your shots.

• Double Reticle Mode gives you two separate adjustable reticles for spot sampling focus and exposure for precision shot set up.
• Single Reticle Mode provides a center positioned spot sampling reticle for both focus and exposure for sports, action or quick run and gun scenarios.
• Full Frame Mode samples both both focus and exposure from the entire frame for expedient and simple shot set up.

ADVANCED FEATURES:

The FiLMiC Pro settings menu offers some features not offered in any other video camera app as well as a host of other useful tools.

• Variable Frame Rates (1-25 and 30fps) including both the US (24p) and European (25p) film production standards.
• Four Selectable Resolutions (iPhone 4 or 4th Gen iPod Touch).
• Framing Guide Overlays (4:3, 16:9, & 2:35.1).
• Thirds Guide for composition.
• Audio Metering.
• Color Bars for Post Production.
• Film Production Style Slate for adding info to your clips, syncing dual system audio, and organizing your clips.

BUILT IN SLATE:

The slate function within FiLMiC Pro enables a world of control from a simple, configurable menu. FiLMiC Pro loads the slate before you shoot to preview and then prepends the slate to your footage before depositing it in the Clip Library within FiLMiC Pro.

• Inform your editor with production, camera, scene, take, date, director, DP (cinematographer), frame rate and external audio fields.
• Automatic escalating take numbers.
• Sync Flash and Tone for syncing from an external audio recorder or mutli-camera shoot.

UPLOAD OPTIONS:

• DropBox
• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Facebook
• FTP Server

App Store Link: FiLMiC Pro; Price: £1.79/$2.99/€2.39

Comments

[Bow Street Whiskey]

Nice app and easy to use once I read the instructions. I though the slate function would be a gimmic but it is actually quite useful. I couldn't work out how to delete footage and emailed the developed but a week on, no reply. I worked it out in the end, just swipe right to left and delete button appears. If this app were combined with Steady Lens you's have a brilliant app, but alas not possible.

[Uwe Steinmueller]

Thanks for showing how to delete.

This leaves:

1. Delete all
2. Auto save to Camera Roll

[sydeem]

How do you delet camera rolls?
Swiping right to left does nothing.

[Uwe Steinmueller]

Touch "Edit", select clip and then delete.

[eva]

be careful this lousy thing does not have intuitive deleting. I selected the ones to delete in the new release, but instead it DELETED ALL OF MY CLIPS. I'm completely screwed. No way to recover....
I've tried emailing them we'll see.

[David Esp]

I tried Filmic for the first time, on an iPad 2. I shot 200 clips on a tourism visit. I found it very cumbersome to manage these afterwards (on ipad, while still traveling). Some simple suggestions for workaround and for improvement are below.

The easiest work-around to "delete all clips" is to uninstall the app! Of course I then re-installed it. Otherwise I could not find any "select all" option for deletion. My intuition wrongly guessed "select first one then double-tap last one", to select a range of clips. Would something like that be possible?

For reviewing footage it would be better to have a "delete clip" option in the player window. Also some "previous clip" / "next clip" buttons in the player. It would then be much easier to manage large numbers of clips, e.g. when traveling.