Kino - Pro Video Camera

September 16, 2024

This small update fixes a crash affecting some users on launch. It also fixes some quirks on "newer hardware." We've got a busy fall ahead, so stay tuned for our big release. ---- Welcome to Kino 1.1 — “Blade Runner” Kino 1.1 is our first big update to Kino, coming hot on the heels of our initial big release. “Blade Runner” packs in 3 new Grade presets, powerful white balance controls, toggleable tap to focus and more. This has been influenced by your comments, emails, and other feedback - so thank you for telling us what you want and please send us more of your feedback if you have it! Here’s what’s news: GRADE NEWS Great news for those that love our grades: new! grades! Stalman Film 03 is a brand new beautiful balanced film look by Tyler Stalman and earns a new slot at the top for all of you Apple Log shooters. Our own Sebastiaan de With has also added a moody, cool set of presets called Wallace and Tyrell. Tyrell is a cold-tinted, moody contrasty Apple Log grade perfect futuristic and architectural shots. Wallace is a Rec709 preset, packing all of Tyrell’s moodiness into all other color spaces. BALANCED, LIKE ALL THINGS SHOULD BE Speaking of color, white balance is a crucial aspect to shooting video. We now give you full control of white balance with our new, powerful white balance controls, in the Kino Quickbar. Choose from a set of presets or get precise with our new manual white balance dial, allowing you set a range of Kelvin temperature values. You can also quickly lock or unlock white balance in the new white balance menu. REVOLUTIONARY NEW TAP TO FOCUS Kino has great manual focus with our long-throw focus dial. But in Kino 1.1 a unique, intuitive new focus method is packed in too: you can now tap anywhere on the screen to set a focus point. We think you are going to love it. And if you do not, you can turn the feature off entirely to prevent any accidental taps from ruining your focus. A note: our focus attention point stays until Kino detects a scene shift. You can always tap the focus reticle to immediately dismiss it. QUICK(ER) START Are you a new user or still learning, or curious about Kino’s features? Those setting up Kino will be presented with a few quick tips, including our new 10 minute Quick Start video where Sebastiaan will show you around. Not new, but interested? Find this via the Settings - just tap the top card to view it. BUGS, TWEAKS, SECRET STUFF This update also packs in numerous tweaks, fixes and more. You’ll be delighted at the little touches we added and improved. And if you’re a particularly thorough fan of our apps, you might find a really nice bonus hidden somewhere in there. It might take you a few taps, though! Thanks for being a Kino user! Team Kino is shifting a bit towards our big Halide update next; stay tuned. If you love the work by our small team, spread the word, leave us a review, and share your beautiful videos with us on social media. Thank you!

August 20, 2024

Hey everyone! There are no new features in this update. Instead, we focused on improving performance and stability on older devices. We've also improved how recordings are handled should Kino close unexpectedly, or if you accidentally unplug your hard drive mid-recording. But please don't do that. It's still bad. We have much more planned for Kino, so stay tuned. In the mean time, check out everything we did with our last major update. ---- Welcome to Kino 1.1 — “Blade Runner” Kino 1.1 is our first big update to Kino, coming hot on the heels of our initial big release. “Blade Runner” packs in 3 new Grade presets, powerful white balance controls, toggleable tap to focus and more. This has been influenced by your comments, emails, and other feedback - so thank you for telling us what you want and please send us more of your feedback if you have it! Here’s what’s news: GRADE NEWS Great news for those that love our grades: new! grades! Stalman Film 03 is a brand new beautiful balanced film look by Tyler Stalman and earns a new slot at the top for all of you Apple Log shooters. Our own Sebastiaan de With has also added a moody, cool set of presets called Wallace and Tyrell. Tyrell is a cold-tinted, moody contrasty Apple Log grade perfect futuristic and architectural shots. Wallace is a Rec709 preset, packing all of Tyrell’s moodiness into all other color spaces. BALANCED, LIKE ALL THINGS SHOULD BE Speaking of color, white balance is a crucial aspect to shooting video. We now give you full control of white balance with our new, powerful white balance controls, in the Kino Quickbar. Choose from a set of presets or get precise with our new manual white balance dial, allowing you set a range of Kelvin temperature values. You can also quickly lock or unlock white balance in the new white balance menu. REVOLUTIONARY NEW TAP TO FOCUS Kino has great manual focus with our long-throw focus dial. But in Kino 1.1 a unique, intuitive new focus method is packed in too: you can now tap anywhere on the screen to set a focus point. We think you are going to love it. And if you do not, you can turn the feature off entirely to prevent any accidental taps from ruining your focus. A note: our focus attention point stays until Kino detects a scene shift. You can always tap the focus reticle to immediately dismiss it. QUICK(ER) START Are you a new user or still learning, or curious about Kino’s features? Those setting up Kino will be presented with a few quick tips, including our new 10 minute Quick Start video where Sebastiaan will show you around. Not new, but interested? Find this via the Settings - just tap the top card to view it. BUGS, TWEAKS, SECRET STUFF This update also packs in numerous tweaks, fixes and more. You’ll be delighted at the little touches we added and improved. And if you’re a particularly thorough fan of our apps, you might find a really nice bonus hidden somewhere in there. It might take you a few taps, though! Thanks for being a Kino user! Team Kino is shifting a bit towards our big Halide update next; stay tuned. If you love the work by our small team, spread the word, leave us a review, and share your beautiful videos with us on social media. Thank you!

July 23, 2024

Welcome to Kino 1.1 — “Blade Runner” Kino 1.1 is our first big update to Kino, coming hot on the heels of our initial big release. “Blade Runner” packs in 3 new Grade presets, powerful white balance controls, toggleable tap to focus and more. This has been influenced by your comments, emails, and other feedback - so thank you for telling us what you want and please send us more of your feedback if you have it! Here’s what’s news: GRADE NEWS Great news for those that love our grades: new! grades! Stalman Film 03 is a brand new beautiful balanced film look by Tyler Stalman and earns a new slot at the top for all of you Apple Log shooters. Our own Sebastiaan de With has also added a moody, cool set of presets called Wallace and Tyrell. Tyrell is a cold-tinted, moody contrasty Apple Log grade perfect futuristic and architectural shots. Wallace is a Rec709 preset, packing all of Tyrell’s moodiness into all other color spaces. BALANCED, LIKE ALL THINGS SHOULD BE Speaking of color, white balance is a crucial aspect to shooting video. We now give you full control of white balance with our new, powerful white balance controls, in the Kino Quickbar. Choose from a set of presets or get precise with our new manual white balance dial, allowing you set a range of Kelvin temperature values. You can also quickly lock or unlock white balance in the new white balance menu. REVOLUTIONARY NEW TAP TO FOCUS Kino has great manual focus with our long-throw focus dial. But in Kino 1.1 a unique, intuitive new focus method is packed in too: you can now tap anywhere on the screen to set a focus point. We think you are going to love it. And if you do not, you can turn the feature off entirely to prevent any accidental taps from ruining your focus. A note: our focus attention point stays until Kino detects a scene shift. You can always tap the focus reticle to immediately dismiss it. QUICK(ER) START Are you a new user or still learning, or curious about Kino’s features? Those setting up Kino will be presented with a few quick tips, including our new 10 minute Quick Start video where Sebastiaan will show you around. Not new, but interested? Find this via the Settings - just tap the top card to view it. BUGS, TWEAKS, SECRET STUFF This update also packs in numerous tweaks, fixes and more. You’ll be delighted at the little touches we added and improved. And if you’re a particularly thorough fan of our apps, you might find a really nice bonus hidden somewhere in there. It might take you a few taps, though! Thanks for being a Kino user! Team Kino is shifting a bit towards our big Halide update next; stay tuned. If you love the work by our small team, spread the word, leave us a review, and share your beautiful videos with us on social media. Thank you!

June 25, 2024

I was expected to just write ‘bug fixes and minor improvements’ in here, but I refuse! I am a creative, a writer, and this is my canvas. A blank sheet of expression, like a block of marble for a sculptor. Can I, instead, take you, my humble reader, on a journey into the world of Kino? A story of a small team that relished its user feedback and bug reports so it could make its video app even better? Dive in: Kino 1.0.6 is here! Kino hasn’t been out for a month yet, but here is our sixth (!) update. And if you think that’s impressive, you should see what’s coming very soon. In this update, Ben worked hard on this one: • Fixed audio dropping if the device is under heavy load Sometimes, iPhones can get extremely heavy system load from recording video and audio. It is about the most intensive thing for the hardware for your iPhone to do. This can degrade recordings, but we do our best to keep things running smoothly. We found an issue, however, where audio would very rarely get affected by this and skip or fail to save properly. This update fixes that. • Persist the grid and waveform settings between launches You asked, we shipped. We now persist your last chosen setting for the grid and waveform between launches. • The 2.5× lens label looks nice now It didn’t before. It had a makeover. It is happy about the result, which “represents [my] character and personality much better”. It’s said the 2.5 lens label is living its best life and “vibing”, whatever that means. • Added volume button capture support Click the volume button to start or stop recording. This also means Kino can capture / start recording with a host of accessories. If you have one, please test it and let us know if it works! • Fix onboarding getting stuck if photo library access is denied We would love to get Photo Library access if you intend to save videos to Photos, or want to apply a filter to your videos in Kino. Just a reminder: we have no analytics and do not gather any personal info or photos and videos — that’s how a camera should work. We should also respect it, however, if you choose not to share access to your Photo Library with us, and we previously had an issue around that. This update fixes that. We hope you love Kino. If you do, please leave us a review, and give us a shout out on social media! It really helps. Thanks from the Kino team!

June 17, 2024

Hello folks, welcome to another episode of Kino: Pro Video for iPhone. In this episode, our characters spoke to users and tested things to find and fix issues relating to audio, stability and grade presets. Read on for the plot summary of this week’s intruiging events: [Spoilers ahead!] **Crash**: Kino 1.0.5 fixes a crash some users could see when recording / writing a huge file under stress. Thanks to everyone who helped us troubleshoot this. If you had any issues with crashing, please let us know ASAP and we’ll work hard to fix it! This particular issue was caused by the system being under heavy stress. A note from the team: recording 4K video at 60FPS in ProRes is amongst the most intense things your phone can do, so while we of course shouldn’t crash, you can except occasional slowness and high battery drain when in these kinds of settings. **Audio Stutter**: Similarly, when under extremely high stress and when iPhone was hot, Kino could occasionally suffer from audio issues, including stutters or cut-outs. This version should fix that. **Where are my Grades?** Our top question by far via support has been, 'hey, where are all my grades?'. In Kino, when you are picking a grade preset, we only show the ones compatible with your record settings. That means that you will see our special Apple Log presets for Apple Log, and regular presets in non-Log. That can be confusing when you see all of them in Settings. If you are looking for your preset, try switching capture modes from Apple Log to say, SDR P3. We will have a way to swich settings quickly in the Grade picker in a future update. That being said, only iPhone 15 Pro can record in Apple Log. Despite this, we still showed all presets that Kino has bundled in our Settings menu, which was confusing. We now only show the presets that are compatible with your device in the Settings menu for Grades. **Posterization**: Some LUTs showed some banding at times, which we addressed. Less banding at lower quality settings for all. There’s, of course, little tiny changes, improvements and touches about. That is it for this episode. If you enjoy Kino, leave us a nice review — it really helps us a lot! Our tiny team is thrilled with your feedback, so send us any including any bugs you might encounter so we can fix them for you promptly. All the best from your Kino + Halide team.

June 7, 2024

Thank you for using Kino 1.0! We're humbled by the kind words, and listening carefully to your feedback. We have big plans ahead, but first, we're releasing these small updates to add some more polish and fix bugs. In 1.0.4 we've fixed an issue where recording might stutter, an issue with banding on HEVC files, and worked around a bug in iOS that prevents the telephoto camera from working. If you have any issues, please let us know at support@lux.camera. If you appreciate our hard work, we'd love it if you could leave us a nice review. It goes a long way! Thanks, Team Kino

June 5, 2024

Thank you for using Kino 1.0! We're humbled by the kind words, and listening carefully to your feedback. We have big plans ahead, but first, we're releasing these small updates to add some more polish and fix bugs. In 1.0.3 we've improved performance. This means that Kino will feel more responsive, animations will run smoother, and your phone will use less power. If you have any issues, please let us know at support@lux.camera. If you appreciate our hard weekend work, we'd love it if you could leave us a nice review. It goes a long way! Thanks, Team Kino

June 4, 2024

Thank you for using Kino 1.0! We're humbled by the kind words, and listening carefully to your feedback. We have big plans ahead, but first, we're releasing these small updates to add some more polish and fix bugs. In 1.0.2 we... * Fixed an issue where the first few frames of your first recording might flicker * Fixed grades not being applied in the reviewer if you were at the end of the clip * Fixed a crash when switching capture configurations and toggling stabilization * Fixed the UI breaking in a few places if you have a large text settings * Fixed the remaining storage estimate being off when Instant Grade is enabled * Fixed files having long, random looking filenames when you share them * Fixed USB-C microphones sometimes not connecting * Fixed audio sometimes playing through the earpiece instead of the speakers * Fixed a crash if you tried to contact support after deleting the Apple mail client * Updated the Lektar Grade * Added lots polish around padding and spelling If you have any issues, please let us know at support@lux.camera. If you appreciate our hard weekend work, we'd love it if you could leave us a nice review. It goes a long way! Thanks, Team Kino

May 29, 2024

Welcome to the very first Kino update! (that was quick) We’re addressing a few small items in this update: * Some recordings had an issue with the first moment of video not capturing audio correctly; this has been promptly fixed * We removed a few high-frame-rate settings that caused issues with Apple Log * The footer at the top of the Libraries hierarchy would confidently, yet incorrectly claim you were saving to Files when you had actually set Photos as storage for your recordings. It has been reprimanded and corrected in its behavior It would mean the world to us if you could tell your friends about Kino during our limited-time launch sale, and leave us a review if you love the app! Thanks from Ben & Seb.

May 29, 2024