Edits from iPhone to iMovie to FCPX

[Gerald Baria]

If oyur just capturing with your iphone’s camear quality anyway, why bother with fcpx. imovie on an iPad works pretty well and fast already.

The way FCPX’s UI looks, I think its one of the many apple programs that will make its way into an iPad Pro. Its just coded too efficiently and follows a lot of Apple’s UI design philisophy on visual metaphors that its almost sure made for touch.

Quobetah
New=Better

[Kim Krause]

i agree with you..but you can leave out a few steps….just shoot on the iPhone, send it to fcpx and finish…..it’s what i’ve been preaching for awhile now but be prepared to get all kinds of hate mail from so called “real” editors who will call you crazy and unprofessional. i’ve given up trying to convince people that a big change is coming in the way we work….i feel like noah after i built the arc and no one wanted to get in until it started raining! wait until fcpx comes out for the iPad…then the naysayers will really have something to cry about….

[Tony Brittan]

Wanna see a cool app for iPhone/iPad? Check out ColabraCam! Put it on up to our devices, link em together, multicam edit live! Refine edit with ReelDirector, Splice, or iMovie.

[Craig Seeman]

[kim krause] “just shoot on the iPhone, send it to fcpx and finish”

You have described next year’s location scout and maybe the expansion of ENG. The iPhone goes where the news crew can’t.

[Gary Huff]

I don’t think that’s Kim’s mantra. I think he sees the iPhone’s camera as a viable alternative to DSLRs/P2/EX cameras.

[Craig Seeman]

[Gary Huff] “I think he sees the iPhone’s camera as a viable alternative to DSLRs/P2/EX cameras.”

That statement itself is very revealing. Just a very few years ago you’d be thought crazy if you implied a DSLR could be used in high end broadcast of feature work.

Just a very few short years before that, it might have been the same for P2 and EX cameras as well.

In some respects ENG was the point of entry because it’s where the “compromise” was first acceptable. For DSLR it was the photo journalist picking up a few short clips for a news outlets’ online edition.

For P2/EX it was lower budgets and increased mobility as an alternative to the shoulder mount cameras.

Just yesterday I watched a movie with Don Cheadle and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and other actors you might recognize… called Manic. It was shot in 2001 on Sony PD-150.

Of course one would says such cameras haven’t replaced those more appropriate to higher budget projects but they do move from novelty to practical use in some circumstances for various reasons.

Thresholds get crossed and sometimes they sneak up on us.

[Ewan Lim]

technically if you have a controlled situation then u can get some ALMOST good footage with the iPhone. Remember that there are apps like AlmostDSLR that helps to lock focus and all.

I could imagine that with technology ever changing, the iPhone being used in broadcast is quite a possibility in the future. Scary. Just imagine instead of using a proper camera, you have news reporters using iPhones for on site coverage.

“Hey Mr. Reporter. I need you to head on down to Site X to cover the Political Event right this instant”

“… But there aren’t any cameramen or soundmen free now”

“Just make it happen.”

*whips out an iPhone4 and drags an intern for a second cam. Goes on site, shoots it and heads back while scripting on the go as well as making a base edit. Brings back the footage, passes script to be vetted, hands the crap to the editor and does his VO recording.

*Editor suffers in silence and makes the edit. Part of his pride and soul just died while editing with iPhone Footages.

Remember that GoPro footage are being used in broadcast right now. I’ve weedled a few iPhone footage into some programs and behind-the-scenes footages on DVD before.

Ewan
Avid, FCS3, Premiere Pro, After Effects

[Gary Huff]

Then I suggest you start becoming an evangelist for selling all that expensive camera gear and using iPhone 4s and above as the “A” camera for all future projects.

[Gerald Baria]

GoPro has a very good quality already, rumored iPhone 4S/5 is said to have the camera as one of its major selling point. I can imagine placing 30/60p at 1080p in there because the A5 dual core proc + its GPU and iOS grand central dispatch can already handle 1080p edit. That will be a nice tool for journalists indeed. And with the amzing libraryof apps to enhace that video quality…the future is here.

Quobetah
New=Better

[Ewan Lim]

That would be cool. 1080i on an iPhone that doesn’t lose so much of its color info in its h264 mov file would be a dream. Match that with an ability to natively ajdust iso and focus.. That would be an expensive phone.

@gary:
Nothing could fully replace a Real camera, be it an A cam or B cam. Unless one would wanna get that stock home docu look.

Ewan
Avid, FCS3, Premiere Pro, After Effects