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The Mevo Start 3-pack is a tiny, powerful live streaming studio
The Mevo Start 3-pack kit ($1,000) consists of three streaming cameras that connect together wirelessly through the companion app. With the ability to instantly switch and stream between three different camera angles, it has the potential to overhaul how streamers broadcast. These cameras were built for live streaming.
MultiCam for iOS can greatly improve your photos
Since cameras were first invented photographers have gone through this drill: Focus, set exposure, take photo. Some innovative cameras like the Lytro let you interactively change your focus after you take your image, but the Lytro hasn't set the world on fire due mainly to buggy software and small sensors. MultiCam (U.S. $1.99) cleverly turns the whole process around. You take your photo, then select the proper exposure and focus. The app works by taking a series of three or six exposures almost instantly. It does the same with focus, taking up to 15 shots with varying focus. When you are done, you see the photo with two sliders: one to change the exposure, another to see all the focus options. Moving those sliders, you see the changes in the picture all happening smoothly and in real time. When you have the combination you like, you save the photo. Both the front and back cameras are supported. You can save the MultiCam shots in the app's internal library, and if you throw those away you will have only the image you saved. Chances are good that once you have selected the best combination of focus and exposure, you won't need the originals anyway. I was a little dubious when I started my tests, but Multicam works really well. The multiple exposures/focus stream takes just a few seconds, so you'll want to hold the camera steady. Picking out the best focused and exposed photo is easy on the iPhone's excellent screen, and you can pinch zoom to enlarge the image and check your precise focus. MultiCam is innovative and can truly capture photos that are better exposed and focused that your usual images. I thought it was especially effective on closeup subjects like flowers and insects, and even moving objects at a distance where you might not get the focus right in one shot. Of course the iPhone under iOS 8 allows for the rapid taking of multiple photos like the motor drive on convention DSLRs, but they will all be exposed the same and at the same focal plane. MultiCam is a universal app and it works very well. It's innovative in the way it takes your pictures, and it can certainly make sure you get something better than you might with conventional photo apps. The only suggestion I would make to the developer is that since the app can take multiple exposures, I'd love to see an HDR option added. Then you'll get sharp focus and better dynamic range all in one app. MultiCam requires iOS 8 or later and is highly recommended.
Apple releases updated Final Cut Pro X, brings multicam support, broadcast monitoring love
The X version of Final Cut Pro was supposed to be all things to all people -- easier and more power for the serious amateurs and yet refreshing and comprehensive for the pros. In reality it seemed that neither camp quite saw it that way, but Apple has at least been listening. Today the company has announced version 10.0.3, which finally adds the one feature everyone's been clamoring for: multicam support. But that's not all. Join us after the break for a deeper look.
Apple posts Final Cut Pro X FAQ following backlash, promises multicamera support and other updates
Though Apple took to the pages of The New York Times last week to respond to a chorus of criticism about Final Cut Pro X, it's clear the company is going to have to go a little further in assuaging videographers who were alarmed to learn that the built-from-the-ground-up software omits certain key features found in Final Cut Pro 7. The outfit has posted an FAQ page on its site, which answers oft-repeated questions, yes, but also reassures users that some -- but not all -- of these features are on the way. Specifically, Apple promised that multicamera editing is coming as part of the "next major release" and that XML exporting is on the agenda, too. Additionally, volume licensing for orders of 20 or more will be available "soon," while an update this summer will allow you to use metadata tags to categorize audio tracks by type and then export them from Final Cut Pro X. Still, you're going to have to get used to the fact that you can't import old FCP files without data loss-- and don't expect updates for tape-based editing, either. As always, hit that source link for the full spill.
