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#58 Shocking: The downfall of a brilliant mobile video editing app on Android & iOS! — 26. February 2023

#58 Shocking: The downfall of a brilliant mobile video editing app on Android & iOS!

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It’s time for another rant. As you might be well aware of, I’ve been a big fan of the Korean video editing app KineMaster (available for Android and iOS/iPadOS) which was the first video editor on Android that could actually be described as fairly „advanced“ – at least when judging it by mobile app standards. It launched in December 2013 and I still remember praising it in a presentation at the original MoJoCon event in Dublin in 2015. The UI was absolutely brilliant for touch screen use, it had a rich set of features to work with and it was also widely available for basically all Android devices. But ever since the original lead engineer and some team members left the company in 2017, development of the app has become very sluggish and mostly disappointing. Even darker clouds in terms of user experience have been accumulating over the last months…

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Welcome to smartfilming.blog! — 21. May 2021

Welcome to smartfilming.blog!

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If you want to learn about how smartphones and other compact mobile cameras can be powerful and fascinating tools for videography, you have come to the right place! I’m covering a variety of aspects on this topic including mobile devices/cameras, operating systems, apps, accessories and the art of mobile videography, particularly what I like to call “phoneography”. This knowledge can be very useful for a whole range of professional and/or hobby videography enthusiasts and visual storytellers: mobile journalists, smart(phone) filmmakers, vloggers, YouTubers, social media content creators, business or NGO marketing experts, teachers, educators or hey, even if you’re “just” doing home movies for your family! Your phone is a mighty media production power house, learn how to unleash and wield it, right here on smartfilming.blog!

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#44 Split channels (dual mono) audio from the Rode Wireless Go II in LumaFusion — 4. May 2021

#44 Split channels (dual mono) audio from the Rode Wireless Go II in LumaFusion

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Rode just recently released the Wireless GO II, a very compact wireless audio system I wrote about in my last article. One of its cool features is that you can feed two transmitters into one receiver so you don’t need two audio inputs on your camera or smartphone to work with two external mic sources simultaneously. What’s even cooler is that you can record the two mics into separate channels of a video file with split track dual mono audio so you are able to access and mix them individually later on which can be very helpful if you need to make some volume adjustments or eliminate unwanted noise from one mic that would otherwise just be “baked in” with a merged track. There’s also the option to record a -12dB safety track into the second channel when you are using the GO II’s “merged mode” instead of the “split mode” – this can be a lifesaver when the audio of the original track clips because of loud input.

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#40 A whole new video editing experience on a phone! — 28. February 2021

#40 A whole new video editing experience on a phone!

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Let’s be honest: Despite the fact that phone screens have become increasingly bigger over the last years, they are still rather small for doing some serious video editing on the go. No doubt, you CAN do video editing on your phone and achieve great results, particularly if you are using an app with a touch-friendly UI like KineMaster that was brilliantly designed for phone screens.  But I’m confident just about every mobile veditor would appreciate some more screen real estate. Sure, you can use a tablet for editing but tablets aren’t great devices for shooting and if you want to do everything on one device pretty much everyone would choose a phone, right? 

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