Way back in 1999 I remember clearly telling a friend "you know, eventually video cameras will just be a credit card with a screen on one side and a camera on the other, and it'll fly." We're not quite there (drones come close), but I thought about that conversation for the first time in 25 years when testing out the new Final Cut Camera and iPad Final Cut Multicam features that are rolling out today. We really are in a "the future is here now" moment.Lots of folks have camera apps, of course (we have been shooting with the Blackmagic app a lot lately ourselves). And multi-cam on an iPad is something a few others have tried already. But Apple is pulling their signature trick here once more and made it "just work" in a way nobody else has managed to achieve.What is the Update, Exactly?It's this simple: you install Final Cut Camera on your phone and you get a dynamite camera app. Then you fire up Final Cut Pro on your iPad, create a multi-camera project, and search for and pair phones that have Final Cut Camera installed. They all come up as sources on your iPad, which can navigate to one source.From there you can simply work in multicam editing with ease. You can directly record (now with a ton of storage options thanks to USB-C), or you can livestream it to a variety of platforms automatically.But here's the key: it works. Each phone records full resolution video...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 20 June