Ever since the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad have fallen in to the hands of filmmakers, there has been an increasing number of apps made available that offer some incredible capabilities in the palm of your hand (or hands, for iPad users). I have taken a look at many of the recommended lists of these apps and come up with those that I find most useful. All these apps should be available from the iTunes Store.
ReelDirector is the 1st and the most feature rich, powerful video editor for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
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If you really dig video editing and want to take full control, you should get ReelDirector:
☑ High quality HD output, only re-compress when necessary, quality loss due to editing is minimal.
☑ Highly customizable text treatment – where you want it, how you want it.
☑ Unique transitions: out of focus fade, white out – 28 in total.
☑ Use your own intro and splash videos that were not recorded with iPhone.
☑ Real multitasking, renders in the background and no need to restart the whole export if interrupted.
DSLR Slate is the perfect companion for the DSLR Filmmaker. As a Universal App, DSLR Slate runs natively on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Designed for all needs from student to hollywood, DSLR Slate will be just as useful as the traditional film slate, if not more. “Slating” shots has become standard practice on set and helps streamline shot logging and post production.
Along with a color chart and selectable running timecode, DSLR Slate has all the traditional items for input such as Scene, Take, Framerate, Director, etc. DLSR Slate also provides unique items aimed specifically for DSLR cameras such as ISO Speed, Aperture, Shutter Speed, White Balance, Lens, Filter, and more. While being invaluable on set, these items also prove useful when shooting tests in varying lighting conditions.
“Movie★Slate is the the Rolls-Royce of slates” says HandHeldHollywood.com. This convenient, all-in-one digital slate, clapper board, shot log, and notepad is used for film, TV, documentaries, music videos, and interviews. This professional production tool is the easy way to log footage and take notes as you shoot— saving you valuable time later when capturing/editing footage, and creating reports. All at a mere fraction of a bulky digital clapperboard’s cost.
DIGITAL SLATE
Tap a field to edit production info. Choose info from default/custom snippets, contacts, or saved history. Enter new info from the keyboard. Use the optimized keypad to quickly enter numeric info like: roll, scene, take, timecode. Or swipe up/down on fields to increment/decrement numbers.
TIMECODE
Setting timecode is simple and fast using our specialized keypad. Sync timecode to the clock, or between multiple iOS Devices (iPad/iPhone/iPod touch) via Bluetooth– or with a song from your iTunes music library (for use in “Music Video” mode).
Want to learn your lines? This is the app for that. Rehearsal 2, featured in the Times, Fast Company, LA Magazine and BACKSTAGE, is the entertainment industry standard for cast and crew to organize their scripts for auditions and working on set. Battle tested in Hollywood and around the world by actors on shows like Heroes, LOST, Psych, Human Target, Castle, CSI, Dexter, Outlaw, Body of Proof and more.
Rehearsal 2 is a brand new update that
- is extremely easy to use, solid and reliable
- is intuitive and obvious: it reminds you of what you do with physical scripts
- works with any iDevice
- NEW: costs one low price for unlimited usage – no more in-app purchases
Cinemek Storyboard Composer for iPhone and iPod Touch is a mobile storyboard and pre-visualization composer designed for Directors, Directors of Photography, Producers, Writers, Animators, Art Directors, film students and anyone who wants to be able to visualize their story.
It is the world’s first mobile storyboarding application which allows you to acquire photos with your phone or by Artemis Directors Finder for iPhone, then add traditional storyboarding markups such as dolly, track, zoom and pan. You can even add your own stand-ins. The user can set a duration for each storyboard panel and then play it back to get real time feedback on pacing and framing.
Storyboard Composer Features:
* Add and arrange images in an intuitive GUI interface.
* Re-Arrange panels in any order you choose.
* Auto-Save feature keeps your board always up to date.
* Set user defined “duration” for each panel in Minutes/Seconds/Frames.
* Intuitive Multi-touch interface allows for smooth markups for camera moves.
* Add Audio Clips to each panel for dialogue or audio notes.
* Add notes and scene description to panels.
* Shot and Scene picker wheels.
* Realtime playback of Storyboards.
* Export and email a PDF of the storyboard for distribution.
* Export QuickTime Movie of Storyboard
pCAM Film & Digital Calculator
• Imitated, but never duplicated! Originally developed in 1998 for the Palm device, this award-winning app has become a time-tested industry standard.
• A Cinematography and Still Photography calculator for Photographers, Directors of Photography, Camera Operators, Camera Assistants, VFX Supervisors, Script Supervisors, Gaffers, Grips, Motion Picture Editors, Production Designers, Art Directors, Film and Photography Students.
• Calculates: Depth of Field – Hyperfocal – Image Circle – Splits/Aperture Finder – Field of View (Picture Sizes) – Field of View Preview (with images to size shots) – Angle of View – Focal Length (lens) Matching – Triangulate – Exposure – Running Time to Length – Shooting to Screen Time – HMI Flicker-free – Color Correction (choosing color correction filters) – Diopter – Macro – Time Lapse – Underwater Distance – Scene Illumination (beam intensity) – Light Coverage (width/distance) – Mired Shift (with suggested color correction gels) – Conversion calculator – Siemens Star (Focus chart) – Insert Slate.
• Differs from other Photography apps because it has a hi-res graphical interface that is both easy to use and helps the user understand how each calculation is applied. It was designed specifically for professional photographers and filmmakers and has the correct Still, HD Video and Motion Picture Camera manufacturer’s specs for Image Size and Circle of Confusion.
• 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, 2010. Won an Engineering Plaque for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Developed by professional teleprompter manufacturer Bodelin Technologies, ProPrompter allows you to use your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch as a smooth scrolling professional teleprompter.
Our ProPrompter App features professional settings for fonts, font sizes, background colors, scroll speeds, mirroring, looping, landscape, portrait and automatic orientation modes, adjustable countdown, cue points for fast re-cueing, support for international language fonts, editing, direct script creation, remote control and a complete help menu.
Scrolling is smooth and can be adjusted on-the-fly. Readability is excellent even in bright sunlight. If you have two devices (combination of iPad/iPhone/iPod touch) and each have our ProPrompter app installed, one device can remotely control the other device’s scroll pace via a wireless Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection. Perfect for podcasts, field reporting, corporate videos, commercials, steadicams, jib shots, music videos and speeches.
Made in Oregon by Bodelin Technologies, the creators of the award winning and highly mobile ProPrompter teleprompters. Currently there are over 32,000 ProPrompters used by mobile production crews from Podcasts to Live news standups throughout the world. Bodelin created the ProPrompter App with the highest regard to quality and full featured prompting capabilities to serve those professionals who depend upon it.
When writing in desktop screenplay programs, you forget about the program all together and are focused entirely on writing your story. The same thing is true with Scripts Pro because there is no cluttered interface or complex solutions to writing. With Scripts Pro you can write your ideas in screenplay format whether you’re on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. Fast element switching using the TAB button, suggestion pop-ups for character names, as well as scene re-ordering, character renaming and more. CELTX and FINAL DRAFT 8 support is included! Since Scripts Pro comes as a package, it will run on both the iPad AND iPhone. No need to purchase two separate versions.
✦FEATURES✦
✔ Supports .FDX and .CELTX files!
✔ TAB Key!
✔ Use external keyboard TAB button (iPad)!
✔ Import via Email! (iPad)!
✔ Hiding Toolbar!
✔ Weekly updates!
✔ Suggestion Pop-ups!
✔ ONLY YOU have access to your files!
✔ Lowercase to Uppercase!
✔ Scene Editing and Re-ordering!
✔ Rename and Edit Characters!
✔ Hiding Keyboard!
✔ Import/Export scripts!
✔ Title Page!
✔ Preview Mode!
✔ Emailing Scripts!
The AJA DataCalc computes storage requirements for professional video and audio media.
Designed for video professionals, this application works with all the most popular industry video formats and compression methods, including Apple ProRes, DVCProHD, HDV, XDCAM, DV, CineForm, REDCODE, Avid DNxHD, Apple Intermediate, 16 bit RGB and RGBA, uncompressed, and more. Video standards supported include NTSC, PAL, 1080i, 1080p, 720p, 2K and 4K.
AJA DataCalc allows you to change settings and calculate storage requirements in a single screen with simple controls and a clear concise display. Media durations can be entered in units of days, hours, seconds, or even as precise as frames using time code mode. Advanced settings allow for more detailed configurations. Summary information obtained by DataCalc can even be optionally emailed.
Easy Release by ApplicationGap replaces inconvenient paper model release and property release forms with a slick, streamlined application designed by professional photographers for professional photographers. Fully supports iPad, iPhone and iPod-Touch.
- Lets you collect all the data and signatures you need right on your iPhone, then mails a PDF and JPEG of the release right to you. For convenience and ease of use: Lets you retrieve model and witness information from your contacts. Get location data from a list of previously used.
- Comes pre-bundled with industry standard model and property releases in 13 languages that are currently in use by leading photo agencies like Getty Images, Alamy and others.
- Use the iPhone, iPad2, or iPod-Touch (4th Gen) camera to shoot and embed an ID photo right into the release PDF.
- Customizable “branding header” for logo image, company name, and contact info can be turned on/off per release or release type.
- Release legal text is now fully customizable. Add your own TFCD, TFP, or any other kind of releases!
- Add as many custom model and property versions as you want.
- Custom releases may contain “field-placeholders” for inserting data into the body of your legal text. Simply prepare your custom releases in an email to yourself then copy/paste into Easy Release!
- Select legal text version to use on a per-release basis.
I will continue to review recommended apps and post new ones in the near future. In the meantime, here is a list from MovieMaker magazine:
http://www.moviemaker.com/producing/article/best_25_apps_for_moviemakers_iphone_20100630/
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