iPhone video on the air
A Miami television station aired a story completely shot on an iPhone, as they covered the launch of the iPhone 3GS. The video looks pretty good, and once it was shot it was uploaded to Final Cut Pro for editing. Although you can trim the beginning and end of clips on the iPhone itself, you really can't edit.The story aired on WFOR's 5PM News. The reporter, Gio Benitez, also used the iPhone Voice Memo app to record his narration, so the piece really was a true iPhone production.
Here's a link to the WFOR web page and that contains a link to the video as it aired on the news. If you want to go directly to the video it is here.
Of course there is nothing new about video on a cell phone. It's been around for quite a few years, but with a faster processor giving the user a nominal 30 frames per second, decent video is now a reality.
Don't confuse the video from the iPhone with what a good consumer camera can do, and my Flip minoHD cam looks a bit better, but for capturing something on the fly, it's a nice thing to have.
One other note. If you upload the video to MobileMe or YouTube the phone will compress the video before you upload and it won't look nearly as nice when you get it right off the phone before that compression step.
Thanks to John in Indianpolis for the tip.
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Still has CMOS sensor wobble - try to watch it without vomitting.
Incredibly at the end of the video it transitioned into their breaking news with the Michael Jackson news.
Sorry. I forgot to state that I used my iPhone 3G to watch the video.
June 24 2009 at 8:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis is what i get when I access the video:
You need the latest Flash player to view video content.
Click here to download.
Irony.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong here, but if this dude had to wait three hours to get his iPhone, how was he able to record the people standing in line in the morning? I don't care to watch this "news" clip again to check whether he filmed those people after he got his device, but perhaps I'm onto something.
What I'd like to see next is a news article on Engadget/TUAW which has been copied-and-pasted (all on an iPhone!) directly from Apple's press releases.
Oh wait, that's how you guys seem to do your content anyway.
looks to be about mid morning in that shot. Apple and ATT opened early on launch day. 7AM + 3 hours = 10AM = midmorning. what do you think you're on to exactly? do you think everyone went home after the news guy got his, or do you think, maybe, just maybe, there were people still in line before lunch?
i pass an apple store every morning on my way to work. there was a line. yesterday.
thats the Falls Store in Miami, Fl.
June 24 2009 at 1:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYup!
Thats where I work
Movies @ the falls :D
"so the piece really was a true iPhone production." Except for the part where it was edited on an NLE.
I like the iPhone too, but do not understand the hype over video recording. Big deal my V3 could do it more than 5 years ago.
When the iPhone can do traditional B roll editing, with a preview monitor and program monitor at once, let me know. That will be something to tout.
Yes, your V3 could do this 5 years ago. Would you like to show us a video you shot with your V3 to show off the superb quality of the recording? ;-)
Seriously, I think the video recording thing is a good example to show how Apple does things. They don't put a thousand features in a product that work poorly, instead they put a feature in only if it_really_ works. Yes, other cell phones had video recording capabilites years ago, but it plain simply sucked! No one would ever use it for any serious purposes, because the video quality just sucked. But still, on every ad banner for mobile phones they would say "yeah, with video recording" and everybody laughed about the iPhone because it doesn't have that too. Now that the iPhone does have video, it is again years ahead of what other cell phones have. It has good quality, it works reliable, it's easy to get the file off the phone or on the web. I missed that with all ohter cell phones so far.
http://www.anythingcoolnow.com/index.html
great iphone tips here
The people at the end made an error. It's not $299, it's actually $199 or $299 with subsidization.
June 23 2009 at 6:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThats funny I live in miami and those interviews were taken at "The Falls" which is a very nice mall here i was right in front of the guy when he interviewed that priest guy so funny never expected to see what the videos were all about.
June 23 2009 at 5:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAnyone else out there having problems with the video orientation. My video recordings work perfectly on the phone, in iPhoto and in QT but if bring them into iMovie this happens
http://img38.yfrog.com/i/t6d.png/
I am left handed so I am wondering if this is an issue.
We need more info on the prob but honestly, it looks like an accelerometer problem. Maybe youre not giving it enough time to adjust to its orientation in your hands before you hit the record button, which explains why part of the video isn't flipped, only the beginning few frames.
Also, cocks.
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