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  What $8 can buy – networked multicam iPhone video production

  Posted by Rick Lang on January 27, 2012 at 2:42 pm

  Certainly may not approach professional grade, but fascinating what you’ll be able to do with up to eight iOS devices recording an event.

  https://www.macworld.com/article/165002/2012/01/expo_notes_video_camera_shooting_editing_and_sharing_app_debuts.html

  Rick Lang

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  Andrew Kimery

  January 27, 2012 at 9:15 pm

  Interesting. Hopefully the person selected to be the Stage has a 64gig iPhone!

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  Craig Seeman

  January 28, 2012 at 11:08 am

  Kinda like using Teradek Cubes and Telestream Wirecast but that would be live switching.
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  Rick Lang

  January 28, 2012 at 2:23 pm

  [Andrew Kimery] “Interesting. Hopefully the person selected to be the Stage has a 64gig iPhone!”

  That does point out a limit with the initial workflow on the ’Stage’ device. Shooting 1080p on the iPhone, the capacity of a nearly empty 64 GB iPhone is about 6 hours. So using 8 iPhones certainly sets a low limit to the event time! If however, only 2 or 3 iPhones were used, you might record 2 hours from each which is very useful. This assumes it uses the same compression or APIs in iOS libraries. Apparently a future offering of the product will include a remote server so we’ll need to wait to see how that alleviates recording time constraints although with trade-offs to transmit many GBs of data.

  Rick Lang

  iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

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