Bricolage User Reviews

Top reviews

Great processing and compositing app!

Bricolage 5.0 is awesome. With the addition of spatial stereo and workflow improvements, Bricolage remains my favorite app for image processing and compositing.

Does so much

So many features to explore!

Just wow.

It’s amazing you can do all this on an ipad!!! I’m amazed that a media consumption device can handle nodes and fx! I do wish it had tracking, rotoscoping and a few emitters, but for the price, it’s crazy powerful!

Both apps very buggy and missing critical features but are also surprisingly robust.

In the motion graphix app there is no apparent way to have a video layer as a moving object. This missing feature destroys my workflow.

The bricollage app often loads videos upside down? No obvious node available to correct that issue, or to scale and reposition video layers.

Overall I can make some fun but very glitchy animations.. thank you for you efforts.. I wish it was a more popular app so it would have more drive to get fixed.
Show less

Response from developer

We've just released new versions with a ton of stability and performance improvements and a fix for videos coming in upside down sometimes, as well as some great new features. We hope this will improve your experience. To move a video, try the Move, Rotate, Scale node under Transforms.

Still the best!

Latest update makes this better than ever! Fast video and image processing that rivals desktop apps with everything one could want. I've used this since release with excellent results! Thanks so much for the update for my favorite app!

Elegant, easy to use node-based compositing with fantastic results for still images and video. Especially love the stereo nodes. Well worth the cost.
Show less

A very serious piece of kit

Must say, this is the business. I work in film Vfx, many years as a 3D and 2d artist, have used many node based programs, was not expecting this to deliver at all.
What you have here is a pocket sized stripped down Nuke (and its not THAT stripped down!)
Once you understand the interface, you’re flying - looking forward to playing with it on the new iPad at work.
Just brilliant!
Show less

Green screen broken

Green screen remover doesn’t keep checker pattern, it just turns it black in the final product don’t waste your money on it

Response from developer

Exporting movies with an alpha channel is not supported by the Apple movie exporter, but transparency will be preserved in PNG and GIF files. We’re looking for a workaround for this problem. Thank you for your patience.

It has professional editing, but does not work like a professional app

This app has many great tools for editing. However, it is loaded with bugs. Sometimes, when I create a new project, the video doesn’t even show, only a black screen. Sometimes the effects don’t even work and it crashes. The app is good when it works, but the constant bugs have to be stopped.

Edit: The new update is good but source over using greenscreen remove and move rotate scale is messed up. When you try to scale a greenscreen video using source over, the area that is not part of the greenscreen video turns black and covers the background video. I have used this before without any problems, but it is giving me problems now. Please fix this.
Show less

Response from developer

Please let us know how v2.0 is working out for you. If you still have an issue, please use the 'Contact Us' button to describe the problem.

Hope

This is really a unique application with a great functionality. I hope for updates with more parameters and building blocks for more variable image and video manipulation . I like also to see more generators such as bricks, viens,.... so that this application will be able to produce textures and materials like a dream!! Thanks alot
Show less

Exports wrong FPS

This app exports videos with one less frame per second then the original video sources. I’ve tried both 24 (23.98) fps and 30 (29.97) fps videos with 1080p resolution. Both videos were rendered at 23.00fps and 29.00fps), resulting in lots of skipping frames.

There are other minor issues/bugs that needs some attention, however the above bug is a showstopper. Literally.

iPad Pro 10.5” , latest iOS 12.2.

This review and score will be edited as soon as this is taken care of.

Dev: Please update me on any status for a fix. Thank you.
Show less

Alternatives to Bricolage