This is a most brilliant landing page - flashy, but in a way that directly demonstrates what the product does, and the text is readable even against the white waves. Each of the sequences look beautiful and seem like if I just had this app, I would be able to make my videos just as beautiful. Congrats.
I'm not sure, but I believe the beauty lies in the fact that each of these scenes is something I can see myself trying to capture: the beach, a forest, etc.
It's interesting that you can still see the jitter in the second to last video, through the lens flare. The motion stabilization pans the image around, but the lens flare bobs around and can't be fixed.
I'm noticing the slightest stutters with 32gb, quad core i7 and a gtx 780 on chrome. I'm assuming it's a connection thing.
Same when I watched the video links directly.
Downloaded the tree one (which is where I noticed it) and played it with VLC twenty times or so on loop; didn't pick up any stuttering then. Must be something with chrome or my network (for me)
Just installed it. Seems to work pretty well. This would be useful to real estate agents for doing smooth apartment walk-through videos for listings-- might want to try advertising specifically for that use case.
Thanks everyone for the input. Quick answer to most common questions :
* The video you can see on the landing page (steady.stupeflix.com) were all taken w/ Steady. Try using it outside on a sunny day for best results !
* Steady is not yet compatible with iOS8. Working on it ;)Same for iPad and iTouch.
* We use gyroscope informations to know the attitude of the iPhone while you shoot a video, and uses this information to correct the video.
* The app is not available yet on Android. We're pretty much tied to the iPhone right now, as the algorithm relies on a given gyro / camera pair to work.
If you like the app, a kind review on the App Store would be appreciated !
Thanks for taking the time to try it
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Would you care to post the original as well? It doesn't look very steady to be honest. Anecdotally, i would think iphone's camera is already doing some stabilization because i have filmed from my car using apple's bundled camera app and the video looked impressively steady (but hey, i was in a car).
What is impressive about that movie ? To me it's quite the opposite.. it's not impressive at all (too dark, bad fps) and when I watch it there is something in it that causes head aches. It's very hard to watch.
Shooting while in motion leads to a very shaky video. Being able to shot that steady video while using iPhone on a bike counts as very impressive to me.
I think he's trying to say that it's hard to tell because of the effects and filters added to the video distract from the example of stabilized video. The additional edits are unappealing to some so it's hard to get a feel for how the footage looks.
Just spins the loading animation without showing any video in the camera screen. Wondering if there is any server work and it might be under heavy load due to HN and whatnot. Edit: iPhone 5s. Edit2: its working now!
Yes, Google has had some pretty good video stabilization on Youtube for 2 years now. I wish it happened in the camera app, though, especially since I once posted some private videos on Youtube, and Google deleted them anyway because there was some music in the background. It even said some company made a claim against them (even though they were private).
So yeah, Google's shitty copyright takedown system makes me not want to put my videos on Google's servers ever again, and I'd prefer them on my phone.
"It even said some company made a claim against them (even though they were private)."
The claim system is automatic based on Shazam-style audio "fingerprints"; companies basically pre-complain about any uploads that match audio sources they supply to Google that the claim copyright on.
On one hand, I can sort of understand Google's position with this proactive system because the alternative would mean they have to manually deal with probably hundreds of thousands, if not millions of copyright claims.
On the other hand, it is horribly broken in a lot of ways. In addition to not caring if your video is private, there are basically two classes of people (the ones with lots of subscribers who generate a lot of adwords hits for Google and everyone else), with the former class having a much easier time of disputing bad claims. Also I've run into situations where music that was creative commons licensed was flagged with attempts to unflag it automatically denied (with no legal basis to do so) and most amusingly(?) of all, Google offers a bunch of public domain recordings they suggest you use for your videos, but using them is almost guaranteed to generate a copyright claim from some third party that you then have to manually dispute.
I basically stopped using YouTube for videos because there seems to be like a 80% chance anything you upload will be auto-copyright-flagged, even if there is no recognizable music in it and it isn't worth the hassle to deal with the system.
Looking at the landing page on my iPhone and all I see is a bit of copy and a still image of a forest. Based on the comments in this thread the app seems worth downloading but not so much based just on the landing page. Are other people seeing video on the landing page when viewing on the iPhone?
I downloaded it and gave it a quick try. Walking around the office at a somewhat fast pace yielded some blur on each step. I slowed down a bit and results were better. We have a lot of windows so there was a lot of light/dark issues which is more the iPhones limitations than the app.
Stability was pretty cool though not convinced it would work well on a bike. If you have some untouched videos you captured from the app itself without any post production editing, that would be cool to see. If you said the videos on your website background were all taken with the app I'd be more impressed.
Yes they are legit :) The originals are only longer...
Those in the forest were shot (with an iPhone 5) on a bike, and you can "feel" the footsteps for those on the beach :)
(it was last month in the South-West of France...)
With apps like these (horizon etc) - if they are any good won't Apple simply build it into their default camera app sooner rather than later? I'm curious, what's the product or business plan here?
I often shoot little snippets (cheeky bit of stock footage for behind credits etc) and usually have to use stabilization in post to make it usable
$1.99? The mere possibility of it working at a later date is worth more than $1.99. I'll give it a test run later on for sure but you guys should re-evaluate that price, if it works well you've way under-priced yourselves
Downloaded, looks good. Though it crashes when trying to do slowmo on my iPhone 5, 16GB AT&T. Also when you view "My Steady Videos" the Navigation bar buttons feel reversed, "Back" buttons are usually on the left in iOS, in that case the three dots should be on the right. Keep up the good work, hope it's successful.
iOS 7.1.2 with iPhone 5S here, I haven't had a clean exit from the app yet, seems to crash everytime.. almost consistently after I delete a video I just recorded.
Quick aside to tell that this comparison video was generated a long time ago, when stabilized video were saved at a lower resolution. Since then, we've increased the output resolution and fixed some color correction issues.
You're right that it might not be noticeable if they're not side by side. But it's still fuzzier. Maybe it makes a difference for your application and maybe not.
Yes and no. Going through the paper real quick, we use similar technique, but do not analyze the video to reconstruct the movement of the camera, which allows us to speed up the algorithm significantly.
Downloaded, and like it so far (although I did also experience the crash while trying to record slow motion), but am I correct in thinking it only allows you to record square videos?
Are there any plans to add this kind of tech to cameras? I know they already use optical image stabilization but wonder if the benefit would be additive.
As one of the developer of this app, I'm obviously biased, but we think that we achieve even better results than Luma.
Low light is always an issue (due to intrinsic limitations of the stabilization method), but we added slo-motion and support for the iPhone 5s and iOS7.
Damn. We'll look into that. Thanks for the feedback. IN the meantime, try rebooting your phone and quitting all active app. This might be an available memory issue.
We record data from the internal sensors in your iPhone while shooting the video (mainly, the gyroscope), which allows us to estimate how your camera moves when taking the video and compensate for that.
I'm not sure, but I believe the beauty lies in the fact that each of these scenes is something I can see myself trying to capture: the beach, a forest, etc.