> Considered for years as the best video capture application for mobile devices…
I'm sad to see Filmic die, but as the story suggests, iOS users can now use the excellent Blackmagic Camera, made by the same folks who make a ton of great pro video hardware and the great DaVinci Resolve (macOS, Windows, Linux): https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera
But honestly, Evernote was at a point where VCs were tired of it, it was probably over-staffed, it's a mature product, and it's TAM wasn't that big. Companies like that are run differently and have different investors than IPO-track companies.
I developed Filmic pro in the early days though I haven’t had anything to do with it in ten years.
The market for subscription video cameras on iOS is dead and I am happy to help it stay there.
I have a set of videography tools I released last week (free camera) using what model I believe is viable and useful; truly give away the camera like Blackmagic, sell privacy focused tools to get and manage footage over the network.
I haven't posted here about them as I want to post the next update with some key features before most know, but if you need some tools have a look and let me know what you think.
A balloon on a string, a hostage in a dungeon, a bird in a cage - these are all things that are struggling to get free and of which it can therefore be said that we "let go". But a human being who would, presumably, remain at their job if given any choice in the matter has not been "let go" - that person has been jettisoned, discarded, fired. The author does us all a disservice by hiding the truth with shallow euphemisms.
Filmic was for a while the app for turning your phone into a pseudo-pro video camera. But Blackmagic Camera wasn't the executioner - it was their own doing when they abandoned what had been a pay-once app and suddenly turned to a (quite expensive) subscription model. That didn't sit well with the community - the app's rating tanked by hundreds+ of one-star reviews. At least iOS users have BMD's camera app - Android users don't have anything comparable.
On Android you actually have something better than Filmic Pro, you can use something called MotionCam [Pro], which allows you to record RAW video, or optionally ProRes or HEVC (still in beta/alpha right now) in various log formats. There's also mcpro24fps for a slightly more traditional video app (free in Russian language). Between these, the video recording situation appears to be signficantly ahead of iOS even without Filmic Pro.
They kept pretty hands off for a few years, but the last 2 or so have been getting pretty bad.
Their product designers don't even understand some of the key parts of the platform (watching vs starring a repo), which has led to all kinds of bizarre problems.
The worst part is they completely ignore user feedback:
But to be fair, MS didn’t let those products die but developed them further. They only became really successful after Microsoft acquired them. Not comparable to the situation with Filmic IMHO.
Have you uses the app? It hasn't changed since I started driving. It feels like its being left in maintenance mode. I am very happy it hasn't been killed off yet.
I'm sad to see Filmic die, but as the story suggests, iOS users can now use the excellent Blackmagic Camera, made by the same folks who make a ton of great pro video hardware and the great DaVinci Resolve (macOS, Windows, Linux): https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera