Apple Final Cut Camera Review: EASY Multicam For Everyone?

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Alongside the announcement of Final Cut Pro for iPad 2, Apple released the Final Cut Camera app. When combined, they allow live monitoring and camera control for multicam shoots with iPhones and iPads. Chris and Jordan met up with local legend Tyler Stalman to see how this system works, and what limitations are there.

0:00 - Intro
0:39 - How it works2:28 - Lack of switching
3:14 - Controls
4:11 - Battery life
6:14 - vs. Logitech Mevo Core
7:13 - Who is it for?

[mvz]

I love seeing their 9 foot long arms and legs on the ultrawide living room cam. Epic.

[ZOB]

Not to comment on the ad instead of the feature, but that Anker battery is my go to when I’m doing live streams at work to power my laptop and directly power my camera. Works great.

[LuigiL]

Dear Apple...NOW would be a GREAT time to bring back "APERTURE"...please and thank you!

[yogamazing]

Great episode and YES I own ANKER products, highly recommend their batteries!

[nobodyshome]

I have a cracked glass Xs Plus and this is fantastic I will be able to put it to use again.

[LIFEISCONQUEST]

Can you use a MacBook front camera as well ?

[loltimno]

This is way more comprehensive than I thought it was going to be.

[RaadVonMambles]

I hope this comes to Resolve eventually

[halimrahman]

Log is only available when using Prores, not HEVC. 60 fps prores is only available when using an external drive.

[jayeye]

Can you use your MAC or Macbook to view the final cut camera? Use it as a viewfinder as such?

[adosq]

Is possible to use it on Zoom? Output as Webcam?

[DoubleTheDom]

Imagine if Apple made a pro photo editing app 😢😢😢

[dsuarez]

Can I use this and bring the video into Resolve?

[HesselFolkertsma]

Ouch, hearing that the iPhone Xs is an old phone hurts me and my iPhone 7 😂

[grahmdoughty]

Sorry if I missed it in the video, but is the audio from the iPhone mics? Or were you using other mics?

[TomBVoxman]

Cool, thanks for this! What if one wants to adjust the input volume? I may be buying some (inexpensive) wireless lav mics. But if the talent is yelling, for instance, the audio would distort.

[RobertLM_]

I have an old XR lying around and it would be good to put it to use as a different camera angle. Cool feature.

[SoraNikkoBour]

Early stages. Not available on Mac desktop. no live switching. Got it all I have is an iPad mini 😂

[MixiMera]

Thanks for great discussion. And you did answer the obvious question “What is the reason behind why this doesn’t exist in the Final Cut Pro version for Macintosh?”. It will likely come later to keep the two versions in sync.

[magic]

No live switching is a deal breaker. Huge oversight. I suppose it'll be in a future updates.