TiltShift Video 2.0 is an update to Fidel Lainez’s innovative iPhone app, which now boasts a streamlined user interface for the iPad. The program allows the users to process their videos in a way that gives them a miniature look, simulating an effect achievable with an interchangeable-lens video camera and a selective-focus lens. The app also lets the user adjust several settings, including playback speed, image saturation, contrast, brightness, vignetting, start and end titles, fades and soundtrack. Version 2.0 adds iPad support, a redesigned interface for the iPhone and iPod Touch, a number of new image adjustment options, important improvements to to the rendering engine and better organisation in the “Select Video” interface. The app retails at $1.99.

Website: TiltShift Video

Press Release

TiltShift Video 2.0 - Tilt-Shift Videos Easier Than Ever - Now Universal

Independent developer Fidel Lainez today releases TiltShift Video 2.0, an update to his innovative app for iOS. TiltShift Video allows to apply the popular Tilt-Shift effect directly to videos using an iPhone 3GS/4, 3rd or 4th Generation iPod touch or iPad, achieving the “miniature look” with ease. During the whole editing process, the app provides a constant feedback of how the video will look like with the current settings. Version 2.0 includes several new features and makes the App Universal.

Zaragoza, Spain - Available for $1.99 on the App Store, the TiltShift Video app allows the users to process their videos with the tilt-shift effect, giving a miniature look to them. Until now, tilt-shift videos required very expensive DSLR lens or a professional video editing software to edit the videos and simulate the effect. In both cases, a good deal of patience was necessary. TiltShift Video removes all those requirements by providing the necessary tools to simulate the effect with an easy and intuitive user interface.

With just a few steps, the app allows to adjust several settings, including playback speed, image saturation, contrast, brightness, vignetting, start and end titles, fades, soundtrack… The blur adjustment controls deserve a special mention: in addition to provide the possibility of configuring the blur strength and the smoothness of the transition between blurred and non-blurred areas, the app provides multi-touch controls that offer a lot of freedom when defining the blurred sections.

During the whole editing process, the app provides a constant feedback of how the video will look like with the current settings, making much easier to get the desired results. The export process only requires the user to choose the desired video resolution. Processed videos are directly saved to the device’s Camera Roll.

The App includes some additional features like the possibility of applying the tilt-shift effect to images or taking snapshots of selected frames from the videos being processed.

The 2.0 update incorporates changes in almost all the App functionalities. Some of the most important ones are:
* The App is now Universal, with a streamlined user interface for the iPad
* Redesigned user interface for the iPhone and iPod devices
* Better organization in the “Select Video” interface
* New image adjustment possibilities: brightness, vignette and the possibility of reducing image contrast and saturation
* A brand new shape for defining blurred areas: ellipse
* Important optimizations in the render engine for better image and sound quality
* Improved performance with shorter rendering times

Feature Highlights:
* Process any video (recorded in one of the supported resolutions) present on the device’s Camera Roll or Photo Library.
* Several different resolutions supported (both for input and output): The complete list of supported resolutions is: 16:9 - 1280x760 (HD), 960x540, 640x360, 480x270 and 4:3 - 640x480, 480x360, 192x144
* Process still images from the Camera Roll or Photo Library or extract still frames from the videos. (The image resolution output is limited to 2048x2048)

Several adjustments available for achieving the “miniature” effect in the videos, including:
* Playback speed, for simulating time-lapse movies
* Blur position, strength and smoothness
* Image saturation, contrast, brightness and vignetting
* Soundtrack
* Titles and Fades

Device Requirements:
* iPhone (3GS or 4), iPod touch (3rd or 4th Generation) or iPad
* Requires iOS 4.1 or later
* Universal Application
* 2.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
TiltShift Video 2.0 is only $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.

Fidel Lainez: http://web.me.com/flainez/flainezapps/Welcome.html
TiltShift Video 2.0: http://web.me.com/flainez/TiltShiftVideo/English.html
Purchase and Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiltshift-video/id395953517?mt=8

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