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CharlesW · 2 years ago
> 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

nazka · 2 years ago
Thank you for the info. It was by far the best camera app. Giving crazy raw data and pro options. It’s insane that they are laid of.
lencastre · 2 years ago
r/TIL thanks so much, I wish I had reddit_silver to give. Have a great Sunday!
k310 · 2 years ago
The same company that bought Evernote and laid off the entire U.S. staff.
happytiger · 2 years ago
There seems to be a trend. I wonder which private equity firm is working through bending spoons? These are hallmark moves.

Oh! Right at the top of the Googles! There it is.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/nb-renaissance-invests...

IndySun · 2 years ago
Trend? I think you mean 'the norm'. Such occurrences have rarely been different.
dehrmann · 2 years ago
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.
Phostera · 2 years ago
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.

m0d0nne11 · 2 years ago
> "[...]the team [...] has been let go."

no, No, NO - They were NOT "let go".

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.

jeffdubin · 2 years ago
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.
liminalsunset · 2 years ago
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.
jeffdubin · 2 years ago
Thanks for pointing out these alternatives - I'll check them out!
steve1977 · 2 years ago
I guess on Android you‘d have to look for hardware specific apps, like the one Sony is offering with their Xperia phones for example.
IlPeach · 2 years ago
I was going to ask if there was anything comparable for Android... :(
liminalsunset · 2 years ago
Try something called ProShot, mcpro24fps, or MotionCam Pro - Seems like they offer the same features and more, without a subscription
deafpolygon · 2 years ago
Aren't they the same company that just bought Evernote out? I always wondered why they bought Evernote. Does anyone know?
edandersen · 2 years ago
Blackmagic basically sherlocked them with Apple's advertising support.
Narretz · 2 years ago
Evernote: chuckles I'm in danger

Is there any big corporation that doesn't fuck over their acquires?

gumby · 2 years ago
Microsoft bought DOS, Excel, Powerpoint, and, effectively Word (via Xerox Alto's Bravo editor) among many others.

Adobe is a good example; their model is to fuck their customers, not the acquired companies.

christophilus · 2 years ago
GitHub, Minecraft... I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but they do seem like a decent place to go if you're acquired.
steve1977 · 2 years ago
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.
jefftk · 2 years ago
YouTube, Android, and DoubleClick seem to have done pretty well.
yareally · 2 years ago
Waze still works pretty well despite being acquired by Google years ago
kiicia · 2 years ago
as abandonware until unceremoniously closed
eptcyka · 2 years ago
It literally hasn’t been updated
baz00 · 2 years ago
Working for a company that got acquired. We're fucking ourselves over more than the acquirers are.
Laaas · 2 years ago
GitHub by Microsoft went OK.
bugglebeetle · 2 years ago
The constant outages suggest otherwise.
woleium · 2 years ago
redhat was okay for a bit, but now its being enshittened
steve1977 · 2 years ago
It’s being IBMed. That was to be expected.