So people say that the best camera is going to be the one
that you always have with you and that is especially true if
you are a user of the iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max; even
the iPhone 11 because this takes some outstanding photos
and videos. Now I recently had the opportunity to go and
travel to Switzerland and walk across the high suspension
bridge in all of Europe. Spoiler alert It was amazing.
But I think would be a great opportunity to showcase the
double take app which allows you go in and capture multiple
video streams from your iPhone and really use it kind of as an
effective way to go out and tell stories. Now in this video
I want to show you what it is how it works and when you want
to use it.
Let's get started. Now you might not know anything about
Switzerland but Mount Titlis is located in central Switzerland.
Real close to Lucerne and it is home of the highest suspension
bridge in all of Europe. Ten thousand six hundred and maybe
twenty three feet above sea level and the suspension bridge
is 320 feet across 150 steps. And it's nothing short
of exhilarating, exciting, breathtaking, and scary to walk
across it because it's all of nature you're so high in the
air and it's windy right. You feel the bridge can swaying
from side to side. It's definitely worth it.
So I would say if you have the opportunity I would consider
going. Now the app I've been talking about is
called DoubleTake, it is a free app from the same folks who
bring you FilmicPro and you don't know about FilmicPro is
probably the most robust was a camera app for the iPhone
because you can almost setup configure any number of
settings to really dial in the type of video and the quality
of the video that you want on the iPhone. So I'd say it's
it's part of the premiere video app that that people who shoot
on the exclusively tend to use now when it captures multiple
streams of video.
Those two video streams are capped at 1080p and they can be
either recorded at 24 25 or 30 frames per second. Now everyone
knows 24 frames per second is really the only way to record a
video unless you're going to slow something down in a post
and then maybe you would record at 30. But I digress. 24 frames
for life. Now that resolution like I said is capped at 1080p
and that's not really the developer being lazy and not
wanting to give you a 4K but that is a limitation of Apple's
API. Well we'll look at the reviews. Not that they're bad
but some people complaining about the resolution being
limited 1080 and that's not necessarily something that
developer can go ahead and manage to.
It's only something that they can work with because that's
all the API for Apple supports hopefully in iOS 14 Apple will
go ahead and increase the resolution giving you some 4K
maybe who knows maybe 8K whatever the cases of a better
resolution in their next version of my iOS. All
All right. Now we talked about what double take is, let's go
ahead and setup our phone to record some video. All right.
Opening the app we are presented with really with the
viewfinder is and there are four different glyphs in each
of the four corners. So top left hand corner is going to
save icon, bottom left hand corner is going to
select cameras, top right hand corner is going to go allow us
to choose a recording mode, and the bottom right hand corner is
going to be the record button. Let's go and start with the
camera selection. So now we're presented with all four cameras
off me. It's gonna be all four cameras. I have an iPhone 11
pro Max and we see each of the four cameras listed ultra wide
wide tele and selfie camera.
Now whatever camera you choose as the camera is going to be
your primary camera. Now for me let's go and choose the ultra
wide and we're in choose the selfie camera so that's going
to show "A" and "B", let's go and click confirm. And now we
have the what is going to be the primary window which is the
ultra wide in what's going to be here in the was gonna be in
the picture picture. Camera is going to be that the selfie
camera. Now if we click in the top right corner and going into
the recording mode clicking it once brings in the picture in
picture mode. And what that means is that everything that
we record is gonna be shown and in the video file this could be
an integrated video file.
If we do the split screen it's going to show 50 50 split.
Again this is getting integrated video file. Now if
we go ahead and hit record here is gonna be this two discrete
video files and we can go and move this selfie camera all the
way around on the screen just by dragging and dropping it we
can move it around the screen we can bring it back out. All
right. Now again this is gonna record us to seperate video
files so it doesn't really matter where you put it on the
screen. You can go to the main camera. Go on tap here in the
center. Now allow me to focus on me which is great. How you
doing. We go back here and we can then individually focus on
another part of the screen if we want to lock it.
We're just going to hold down focus folks but until it is a
solid rectangle. Now we see here and these two focus are
being trolled independently. Now we have to stop. Let's go
to the File menu and we see here camera a camera B are
recorded as two separate video files. Now if we go here and
changes back let's go and change it from individual the
picture in picture. Let's snap record and really this is the
same experience except for the recording file is going to show
everything that we do in move along with this video files if
I hit stop here
I go to the files now instead of saving to files like we
would have expected. It actually shows one file that is
in there you see that "B" cam moving all way around from
different places inside the video file now split screen is
really the same thing. So it's going to give you a 50/50 even
split of the front facing camera. Camera "A" and Camera
"B" then it can reveal here on the side. There's going to be
integrated video file. You can't change that. I don't like
particularly recording that way.
I like doing the discrete files where I'm having an individual
file for each camera allows me to go and mess with them post
and that's actually what I did when I was in Switzerland
crossing the bridge. So I had two different video files and I
was able to manipulate the B camera which is my selfie
camera any which way I wanted to to go ahead and come a
certain look. Otherwise I would have been stuck with having
that picture in picture view during the video file. Now in
terms of pros I'd say you know you can records two
simultaneous video streams those video streams can be
either recorded into a single file or into a integrated file.
Third thing is that it is going to go ahead and allow you to
lock the focus and expose your controls independently per
frame. In addition to allowing that to be independent of one
another. The downside is that you know the app doesn't allow
you to go and snap frames you know allow it to take
individual pictures while you're recording one. Two,. It
doesn't allow you to go ahead and record anything higher than
10 ATP listeners limitation of the API and three three what
three I don't remember oh and 3 it doesn't appear to leverage
the individual mics there on the back of the phone. So I
know each time that I recorded the back camera and the front
facing camera it did seem to use only one of the mics.
You could just tell the difference in the audio quality
but let me know if your experiences are different in
the comments below. Now that is gonna wrap it up for me folks.
Let me know how you plan to use a double take app to go and
become a better storyteller in the comments below. I am Mike
and I will talk to you the next one