Awesome for 3G, BUT...
This app is great, and I love all the features! I love it so I can make videos because I just have a 3G.
I think the only problem that I saw was that sometimes, when you play back videos, there's, like, some sort of layer of green, pink, and blue tiny squares all over the screen. I reopen the app and it works fine, but thats kind of annoying.
Also, please please PLEASE improve the quality. There are a few things wrong with this app, but I'm giving you 5 's because I know you didn't intend on doing that and I don't know what kind of trouble you have to go to to change an app. Thanks so much!!
I think the only problem that I saw was that sometimes, when you play back videos, there's, like, some sort of layer of green, pink, and blue tiny squares all over the screen. I reopen the app and it works fine, but thats kind of annoying.
Also, please please PLEASE improve the quality. There are a few things wrong with this app, but I'm giving you 5 's because I know you didn't intend on doing that and I don't know what kind of trouble you have to go to to change an app. Thanks so much!!
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Doesn't work with iPhone 4
IVideo worked just fine with 3GS but with iPhone 4 you'll get all your videos rendered with a blue tint. I have written to iVideo customer support but have yet to hear back from them. iVideo developers have failed to inform we, the purchasing public, that their app doesn't accommodate the iPhone 4. It seems iVideo customer services have their hands too full to respond to such queries. It is only common sense that if Lann Labs fails to release such a simple statement, their long-term business relationships can only suffer. iVideo developers certainly have a in-box stuffed with these same complaints. Until Lann Labs comes clean, I remain put-off by their arrogance and will simply avoid their products. Stay away. They have demonstrated that they simply don't care to take the high road of honesty and respectfully inform their prospective clients that–if it is a fact that Lann Labs is indeed working on a revision–they owe we, their customers, a modicum of honest disclosure. Until Lann Labs does so, my iVideo app remains in the dark room. I suspect you'll never see this review. Why? It's truthful.
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No AppStore Refunds & doesn't work with iPhone 4
Don't take this review as bad, if you own an iPhone 4 then DON'T BUY this app!!!
The developer doesn't appear to be in any hurry too fix it, probably can't afford a new iPhone 4 with all the money they made off this app or Apple took too much from it and it's not worth the hassle.
But if you own a 3G/3GS THIS IS AN AWESOME app and I do recommend buying it!
And to all the people complaining for a refund, DREAM ON. No such thing as a refund with AppStore purchases. Apple wants the money more than the developer and that's the truth, if a developer comes out with a great product and they make good money they do make sure the app is updated usually.
Apple on the other hands only seems to care about, "Show me the money!" - line from the movie Jerry Maguire...If you take a look at all the recent new computers and that's all of them you will find out Apple is building computers out of, (like airplanes are built) out if the cheapest parts!
I have used Apple products since they started with an awesome computer like my old Lisa and still an Apple warranty/service repairman for over 20 years now and the junk they're selling people is costing you the customer more than these $1 to $5 apps.
So stop your complaining and get Apple to start building the kind of product they use too, and continue supporting the little guys, like the developers of this app and many others.
Just my two cents and I hope you listen...
The developer doesn't appear to be in any hurry too fix it, probably can't afford a new iPhone 4 with all the money they made off this app or Apple took too much from it and it's not worth the hassle.
But if you own a 3G/3GS THIS IS AN AWESOME app and I do recommend buying it!
And to all the people complaining for a refund, DREAM ON. No such thing as a refund with AppStore purchases. Apple wants the money more than the developer and that's the truth, if a developer comes out with a great product and they make good money they do make sure the app is updated usually.
Apple on the other hands only seems to care about, "Show me the money!" - line from the movie Jerry Maguire...If you take a look at all the recent new computers and that's all of them you will find out Apple is building computers out of, (like airplanes are built) out if the cheapest parts!
I have used Apple products since they started with an awesome computer like my old Lisa and still an Apple warranty/service repairman for over 20 years now and the junk they're selling people is costing you the customer more than these $1 to $5 apps.
So stop your complaining and get Apple to start building the kind of product they use too, and continue supporting the little guys, like the developers of this app and many others.
Just my two cents and I hope you listen...
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Not great-very unimpressive
We know with the 3g we don't have video like the 3gs, but this was presented as a bridge for that gap. The presentation is INACCURATE. This app takes continuous pictures and streams them together as a video. When you play the video back, it appears unbelievable choppy and distorted. It does not allow for zooming and the quality is terrible. I won't argue that you could find much better with a different app-face it, 3g doesn't do video. But this app is no bridge for the absence of video, so I would hold out for the time when someone much smarter than me or the developers of this app to come along with a real solution. In the mean time, just take continuous pictures and stream them together yourself. You could probably do a better job that this app does.
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records a few coins quality
So I'm glad I can record video on my 3g but if you've ever seen one of those horrible quality unclear Internet videos that you turned off because it was so bad- that's the qualty you will get unless your filming flowers or in animate objects. I have no use for effects when the recording quality is on .99 worth. I've used it twice. Once to see how it worked and a second time to give it another chance. Sure it's .99 but that's all it's worth. My 6 year old Sony 5.1 pixel still camera records 1000x better quality video. Your call to spend the change but be warned you are getting video quality on worth a few coins.
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Worth every 99 pennies
This app for vid recording is worth a quick 99 cents. It's better than $300 for a 3g S that's for sure. If your worried about "quality or sound" like most of the complaints are then go buy a real camcorder and stop your whining! This is a video phone recorder people. You get what you pay for, exactly that. I also purchased Qik video for 1.99, not worth it. This ap loads much faster in about 2 secs to quickly take a video, whereas Qik sometimes takes 5 secs or longer. No probs uploading via facebook or mms for me, Mine works perfect!
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Love this
I love all of the special effects on this little video app. This app definitely works well all across the board with all model iPhones. In my household, we have all 3 types and this surprisingly works well on the 2g. This is the video app that I use instead of the native one on the 3gs. It's cool how there are already 8 free video lenses with interesting special effects. I like how you can sneak a peek at the 2 video packs for sale before buying them as well. It's really fun to play around on This is definitely the apex of all video apps out there and I highly recommend it.
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iViedoCamera
As a pro photographer, about all I can say is...WOW!! The video on the regular iPhone camera is "so-so" and disappointing, but this is awesome! I love the zoom feature and the quality of the video is wonderful. I haven't even "adventured" into the special effects, but am sure they'll be a ton of fun. I'm tempted to take it along to wedding shoots to add some fun to the vdeos of people sayng, "Hi to the newly-weds" and tweaking it to make it "special" and unusual.
Thanks for adding something new to an old dog's tricks...VERY well thought out and created by someone who knows their stuff.
KatsEye Photographer/CEO, "CmdrKat"--BTW, I certainly wish we would have had this available during my days as a forensic photographer before I retired from law enforcement.
Thanks for adding something new to an old dog's tricks...VERY well thought out and created by someone who knows their stuff.
KatsEye Photographer/CEO, "CmdrKat"--BTW, I certainly wish we would have had this available during my days as a forensic photographer before I retired from law enforcement.
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Love it!!!
Finally...I have a video recorder on my 3G! I have no complaints. I think the developer(s) did an awesome job and put a lot into this app. The effect packs are all totally worth the ! I purchased them as soon as I opened my app the first time after using it for only about 5 minutes. I wanted all this app had to offer. I strongly suggest purchasing this app! Especially if your device didn't have a recorder in the first place like mine. I've had my iPhone 3G for just over a year and to finally be able to record with it makes it feel like a new device! Thank you so much!
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Great but no MobileMe support
This is an excellent video recorder and editor for those of us that don't have an iPhone 3GS. It has great options like quality choice, sound, ability to publish to popular video sites, FTP and share right over wifi. The thing I like the most is being able to export directly to the camera roll on my iPhone. After this, I can trim the video and when I sync with my Mac, I just launch up Image Capture and copy the vid to my desktop. Really nice. One thing I have noticed that is missing is the ability to publish videos to Apple's MobileMe service. This is not only missing from this app, it seems that no video recorders here on the App Store have it! I would really really appreciate this option being added and am willing to pay extra for it via am app add on. Please add this!
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Great app. More than worth the price.
Does exactly what it says. After seeing the demos of the 3GS, I just assumed the 3G was incapable of video recording - I am proven wrong by this app. Another thing I was pleased to discover is that the video editing features Apple showed in the 3GS demos are part of the updated iPhone OS. So, as ling as you're running a current OS, and u save the video you take with this app to the picture roll, u can edit it just like on the 3GS. Framerate might be better on 3GS, but this app gets the job done for the older phones. Latest update substantially improved framerates. You see 100,000 "Find Restaurant," "Calculate Tip" and crappy game apps in the app store, and u wish you could come across an app that's actually more than just a gimmick. Here ya go.
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3GS Owner
I'm only giving 4 stars cause it's a good app overall, nice effects (infinite zoom is cool) and the ability to zoom while recording is nice, not the best quality but good enough for what I need it for. 99 cents is a good steal, the other apps cost 2.99 for there vintage video and black and white.
The reason I only gave four stars is because the default camera is poor quality. If I choose to have no effect then the quality is not as good as if I just used the default video cam. I hope they change that at some point.
But, as said before, not bad and at .99 its a no brainer.
The reason I only gave four stars is because the default camera is poor quality. If I choose to have no effect then the quality is not as good as if I just used the default video cam. I hope they change that at some point.
But, as said before, not bad and at .99 its a no brainer.
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Great invention
lol I've had this app the whole time since before the update, when ratings were trashing it because it didnt link to facebook correctly...I could care less about facebook so it never bothered me..Those who knocked it went with Qik camera (which has mysteriously disappeared from the app store??...hmmm) Now this one is back on like #4 out of 50. It does what it says it does so I'm happy, I'm not picky for .99. Plus I'm sure there will be more updates just like the publisher has said many times in response to peoples comments.
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Talk about perfect timing
I couldn't sleep one night and decided to look at some apps meanwhile, and I came across this one so I decided to look at the reviews hoping it would put me to sleep and was amazed at all the great reviews and was wondering could this be true. I was skeptical and thought they probably got a bunch of family and friends to write all these lies but oh well it's only a buck I'll be losing so I downloaded it and to my surprise it works and very nice I might add especially the effects, and about the perfect timing in exactly 2 weeks from now I was gonna upgrade to the "S" just for the video cuz I was tired of everyone in my life showing me vids from their damm phones and here I have one of the greatest phones of all time and no damm video, how can that be anyways thank you so much you saved me 200$ for the upgrade and I now do own the greatest phone ever invented. Now it's bedtime for me with a on my face. P.S. If I could I'd guve u 10 stars fir this one.
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1.5 improvement but needs 24fps
Version 1.5 definitely an improvement.
1. The recording button when OFF is red, and when recording ON is a subtle glowing red. The difference is too small to notice. Please change this to make it clear when the record button is ON and is OFF to improve the UX or HCI of the product
2. Though the video recording is improved. I'm looking for 320x240 video at 24fps. Larger i.e. 320x426 video at slower fps is nice but I'm looking for 24fps at 320x240 which is one quarter of 'TV video' quality. The hardware should be able to accomplish this from other examples I've seen on the iPhone (not on the App Store)
With version 1.5 I am still not getting 15fps. Maybe 10 fps at the lower resolution. Room for improvement. The video effects are nice, but I rather the company focus on framerate improvement and changing that recording button to make it obvious when it is or is not recording.
1. The recording button when OFF is red, and when recording ON is a subtle glowing red. The difference is too small to notice. Please change this to make it clear when the record button is ON and is OFF to improve the UX or HCI of the product
2. Though the video recording is improved. I'm looking for 320x240 video at 24fps. Larger i.e. 320x426 video at slower fps is nice but I'm looking for 24fps at 320x240 which is one quarter of 'TV video' quality. The hardware should be able to accomplish this from other examples I've seen on the iPhone (not on the App Store)
With version 1.5 I am still not getting 15fps. Maybe 10 fps at the lower resolution. Room for improvement. The video effects are nice, but I rather the company focus on framerate improvement and changing that recording button to make it obvious when it is or is not recording.
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Does exactly what it says it does...
Forgive my French, but F&#k Apple for not providing us with video capability on the normal (non 3Gs) iPhone... I love my iphone but I always hated that specific aspect of it. Well now we have an inexpensive solution, it is not perfect- video is OK res, sometimes a bit choppy and sound is kind of OK.. but it fixes the gap! Especially the latest version works a lot better- major improvement - and allows us to share on most of the popular sites... thanks for the good work! I am very glad I purchased your software.
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Really Great
This release of this great app addressed my one and only MAJOR concern with this app. The devs did a great job and went above and beyond the expectations. This finally persuaded me to get this app for my 3gs, while my wife used it for her 3g.
THIS IS THE ONLY VIDEOCAMERA APP ON THE APP STORE TO MY KNOWLEDGE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO ZOOM MID-VIDEO. ALL OTHERS MAKE YOU ZOOM BEFORE YOU START THE VIDEO AND LOCK THAT POSITION IN FOR THE WHOLE VIDEO. Not so with this!!!!! I took multiple videos to test this, and time after time it certainly did work. Nice job Laan Labs!
The only thing left that other video apps have over this one is the 15 fps frame rate. Maybe you could up this limit and exceed our expectations even more. I read what was written in the descriptions so I'm not pressing if you're working on it.
For all those whiners with a 3g who want 3gs quality video, hate to burst your bubble but you're not gonna get it. To achieve high frame rates with smooth motion and fluid transitions you need a lens which supports video. Just be happy that this app is only $0.99 and allows you to take incredibly high resolution video given the cruddy cameras included with the iPhone.
THIS IS THE ONLY VIDEOCAMERA APP ON THE APP STORE TO MY KNOWLEDGE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO ZOOM MID-VIDEO. ALL OTHERS MAKE YOU ZOOM BEFORE YOU START THE VIDEO AND LOCK THAT POSITION IN FOR THE WHOLE VIDEO. Not so with this!!!!! I took multiple videos to test this, and time after time it certainly did work. Nice job Laan Labs!
The only thing left that other video apps have over this one is the 15 fps frame rate. Maybe you could up this limit and exceed our expectations even more. I read what was written in the descriptions so I'm not pressing if you're working on it.
For all those whiners with a 3g who want 3gs quality video, hate to burst your bubble but you're not gonna get it. To achieve high frame rates with smooth motion and fluid transitions you need a lens which supports video. Just be happy that this app is only $0.99 and allows you to take incredibly high resolution video given the cruddy cameras included with the iPhone.
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Decent update, but Facebook broke
Was happy to hear facebook link was fixed only to find out it's not fixed at all. I have a 3G 16gig and still can't get videos to facebook through this app. BUT I figured out a workaround until they do fix it. Facebook now gives users their own personal email address to post straight to their wall using only email. I used this app to send video via email to that address and worked fine. But wish the app worked as described. Needs higher framerate for sure, would jump to a 5-star for me if they could just fix the facebook issue and increase framerate. Other than that nice app, no crashing issues here.
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Fix the facebook connect login screen
I've used other iPhone 3G video recording apps recently, but I like this one better. Mainly because you can specifically choose where to share your videos and not just upload to one main place and share a link to the others,
Only problem is that the facebook connect does not work. I cannot even type my login info in. It is impossible. That's the only negative IMO.
Update: To the people giving negative reviews for the facebook connect issues, they're apparently working on a fix.. but it's been a month already.
Only problem is that the facebook connect does not work. I cannot even type my login info in. It is impossible. That's the only negative IMO.
Update: To the people giving negative reviews for the facebook connect issues, they're apparently working on a fix.. but it's been a month already.
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Finally Facebook that works and nice zoom
It was hard to wait for this update, but I am glad to have it now. Since the previous version's facebook interface broke after a change to the Facebook API. The main way I share videos is e-mail and Facebook, without the Facebook upload I was a bit irritated... but now am very happy. Give it 5 Stars. I've not yet tried the effects, but they look pretty neat. If you want to increase the framerate you need to go into the settings and change the resolution settings, by default they are set to Low.
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