Filmic PRO is easily the best app for shooting video for iOS. WIth many essential features such as shooting flat and working with stabilizers. I would say anyone shooting on the iPhone should be using FiLMiCPro. It is just too bad it had to go subscription.
As a former owner of FiLMiCPro I get a download from within the app of FiLMic Legacy which has all the old features, but won’t keep being updated, so will stop working before too long, but at least it works for now, and a discount off the subscription.
New Features of FiLMiC Pro 7
The Update does look great, and the subscription model had better mean a steady stream of new features (I would love them to figure out how to get 23.976 if that is even possible). And I love the manual control sliders vs the wheels it previously was.
I just honestly hate subscriptions, especially on IOS. I already have to have he full Adobe Suite, I have Maxon’s Red Giant Suite, and a few others, and I don’t need IOS ones.
Honestly I hope EU regulators get on this and force Apple to be able to sort the store by purchase vs subscription.
I am OK Adobe which has fairly regular updates, and the beta channel, but others give less value, especially than they used to, when you paid a price and had software for at least a year.
And the worst is all the iPad apps that have moved to subscription. You used to e able to buy them, but now you have to subscribe to even use most creative apps.
Already I have been annoyed by YouTube, a recent update on Apple TV, has my TV showing a lost connection at every commercial break, which means huge delays on every commercial break. I have seen speculation that it might be the addition of HDR to the Apple TV app, which means that the commercials are different than the stream, and causing the lost connection and pause at every commercial break.
Both Apple’s app stores for iOS and Mac have a huge problem, and that is subscriptions.
When the store started, it was all purchases, so you bought the app you owned it, but then they enabled in app purchases and subscriptions. Both are used to enable all features in apps, in fact some apps barely function or don’t function at without the additional purchase. And the subscription prices have been going up. It has gotten so bad, that there should be a way to filter out subscription apps, but that would cut into Apple’s profits too.
Apple acts like they are all noble, wanting privacy for their users, but then they hide subscription prices and in app purchase prices in the store.
The price is not shown in the first page, then hidden in a drop in the app info page itself. This info should be displayed on the main page, not hidden. And for subscriptions you should be able to not only filter them out, but set limits on subscriptions when you pay. An example being that you could say yes I subscribe but for only 1 month, and automatically cancel unless I re-subscribe. To have to know how to unsubscribe in the settings app is not putting the customer first, but instead Apple’s paycheck.
The app stores are getting so much pressure from regulators, but for the developer cut to apple and opening up devices, and not for things like subscriptions. The problem with 3rd party apps is already apparent on Android, with a plethora of malware, and how easily it can be installed, to steal your data. And with a phone acting as your digital wallet with ID and Bank Cards as well as your location, 3rd party apps could endanger so much in your life, but then it is not like Apple hasn’t allowed in scam apps that are still available in the app store! And even worse most congress people don’t understand technology enough to properly regulate it, other than who is paying them that is. I have no hope of US regulators making things better, but the EU is pretty consumer oriented, so maybe they will force changes.
App stores need to get better, and the companies are only worried about their bottom lines, not their customers (who become the actual product making the companies money in many ways), and regulators focus on the wrong things. Being worried about Apple’s cut, instead of how companies prey on people with subscriptions. And honestly they are Apple Devices, and an Apple built and maintained store, how can you say they don’t deserve a cut to allow access to their store.
And we have too many subscriptions in our lives. Before i could buy software and could wait on upgrades that weren’t absolutely necessary, now I have to pay or I lose use of the software. And I pay enough for Adobe Creative Cloud and Maxon’s Red Giant Plug-Ins (which have changed their licensing from 2 installs 1 in use to 1 install) and all the streaming services, plus phone bill, cable, rent/mortgage, that I can’t afford subscriptions for all my apps! At least Adobe Creative Cloud gets tons of upgrades, many subscription apps don’t get constant new features so why pay constantly?
New features include Forge Dynamics with Collision events like visibility and colour.
Improvements in Text which include a preview of Style Behaviors with procedurally styling text.
Enhanced Drawings tools with Bezier manipulation and a stabilizer mode for pencil to automatically smooth curves.
And a bunch of other new stuff.
I really do need to give Cavalry a try. It looks really powerful for motion graphics, though it will never have the integration with Premiere that After Effects has. Still want to give it a try.
Now this has been one of the great things about Final Cut Pro X, if you bought it once you own it for good, and that is how DaVinci Resolve works, but Premiere Pro from Adobe is a subscription service.
The question does Apple just subsidize Final Cut Pro X with computer sales, or do they want it to make some money and make it subscription. I understand wanting it to pay for some of it’s development costs, but if they are going to do that I expect updates, and fixes.
Honestly I think a better idea is to have upgrade fees to new versions, not full price, but pay for the upgrade how things used to be. I can justify the subscription to Adobe as I make my living using it, as very few companies edit in Final Cut Pro X. I think they should update the App store to allow upgrades instead of just subscriptions, or full priced new versions.
And with a subscription Apple has better take a long hard look, and start looking into the many issues the program has as I have posted about before. If they go subscription I want them to seriously be developing, and it would be nice to have forums that the developers actually read and work on issues that professionals are having.
It is funny to see so much outrage, and how everyone will now move to DaVinci. Well as a professional, since both AVID and Premiere are subscription, I am totally used to it. I will get a month to month as needed and it won’t bother me, but I won’t keep the subscription around because I see it having too many problems that I just don’t think they will every fix or even care about. If I need it I would get it basically.
