Halide cofounder Ben Sandofsky has a message for everybody who’s requested if video seize might be added to the favored iPhone pictures app: “By no means.” Lux, the event workforce behind Halide, is as an alternative engaged on Kino — a brand new, devoted video seize app for iPhones that goals to supply skilled recording options now that Apple helps log video encoding. Its launch is scheduled for February… if all goes as deliberate.
Simply because the Halide pictures app was launched in 2017 to coincide with Apple including RAW help for iPhone, Kino’s growth was prompted by Apple saying help for log video encoding in September, a format that enables extra element to be preserved for post-production coloration grading. In Sandofsky’s personal phrases, “Log video is to filmmakers what RAW is to photographers” — a strong file format that enables for extra enhanced modifying capabilities. At current, Apple Log — the corporate’s personal model of the log video encoding format — is just supported on the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max.
Details about Kino’s options is slim, and pricing hasn’t been revealed but. Sandofsky says he used a “easy model” of the Kino app to report his video announcement however didn’t run via any particulars. The workforce behind Kino has set a deadline to launch the app by February 2024 to keep away from any delays which may be attributable to the arrival of Sandofsky’s first baby (congrats!) and might be brazenly sharing developmental updates alongside the best way. “We now have an concept for what we would like the app to be, however we don’t know the way we’re going to get there,” stated Sandofsky.
