It’s been a couple of month a half since we launched the video companion to Halide, Kino. At present, we’re excited to launch our first main replace. Say hiya to Kino 1.1, codenamed “Blade Runner”.
This replace packs in tons of enhancements, polish and even a couple of secret issues, however we’re particularly proud of how a lot suggestions has formed our first giant replace. Because of your many emails and messages, we knew what to prioritize and what you wanted to make use of and love Kino much more.
Holding with our objective of serving each excessive finish and informal customers, we’re transport some huge options requested by professionals, and likewise some requested by informal customers. Completely balanced — a chic digicam software, for a extra civilized age.
Handbook White Steadiness
This was an enormous request from our customers, and rightfully so: generally you want guide management over the white stability of a picture.
We’ve gone forward and did this proper: Kino 1.1 brings a brand new, stunning set of white stability controls to Kino. The brand new “AWB” button within the Fast Bar will allow you to decide from computerized white stability, a sequence of white stability presets, or dialing in a particular setting in Kelvin.
This may be useful should you’re capturing with a number of cameras, or if you wish to be certain that each shot in a sequence has the identical settings. Or perhaps you simply need to deviate from impartial settings, to present your picture a hotter or cooler look.
No matter your motive, now Kino helps you to dial in that guide worth, or decide from a set of presets. Additionally good: beforehand, Kino allow you to toggle whether or not or to not lock the white stability when you begin recording in our Settings, however the brand new white stability menu helps you to toggle it proper out of your viewfinder.
Faucet to Focus
Whereas professionals are comfy adjusting a spotlight dial, informal customers anticipate the tap-to-focus expertise they get out of Apple’s digicam. Kino was launched by us with the objective to make the digicam really feel steady, and safe: no mistaken faucets ought to damage your shot or change your settings. Regardless of that, faucet to focus was nonetheless sorely missed by customers, and we get that: it’s an excellent methodology to set focus.
We have gone forward and added help, with an equally essential new choice in Kino’s settings which disables it. If you’re organising Kino recent, “Starter” could have faucet to give attention to by default, however Superior setups can decide a setting themselves.
Kino’s faucet to focus works nice in additional professional manual-focus heavy workflows, too: you may set a spotlight goal after which drop into guide focus to get a begin for refining your focused depth of subject. Faucet the main target goal once more to take away it.
Up-Grades
Kino 1.1 is a serious replace, which implies new Grades! Say hiya to Tyler Stalman’s model new Stalman Movie 03. Model new and made for Apple Log from scratch, all iPhone 15 Professional Kino customers can get proper to work with this stunning balanced grade. You possibly can take a look at extra of Tyler’s Apple Log grades right here — they import nice into Kino.
We additionally developed a chilly, moody set of latest grades for Apple Log and common video alike as nicely: Tyrell and Wallace add a moody, contrasty and funky look to your pictures.
A Recent Begin
When you’re studying this weblog publish, you are most likely already acquainted with Kino and its superior options, however we need to spotlight how we’re investing in making issues extra approachable as we roll out new options sooner or later. To that finish, we have made some enormous enhancements when new customers launch Kino for the primary time.
Beforehand, we configured Kino’s recording settings to imitate the settings of Apple’s digicam app, for the sake of consistency. Looking back, we notice it’s even higher to configure Kino in a approach that stands out from Apple’s digicam. So now should you decide the “Starter” choice the primary time you launch the Kino, it defaults to capturing Apple Log with an attractive grade utilized. Nice outcomes from the get-go. For non-iPhone 15 Professional, we nonetheless default to the most effective settings obtainable, after all.
To make issues even smoother the primary time you run Kino, the second change we made is providing a brief walkthrough of On the spot Grade. This fast tutorial walks you thru choosing a grade and capturing with it.
Lastly, we finish the On the spot Grade walkthrough with a hyperlink to our fast however complete video tutorial. In 10 minutes, we information you thru the interface of Kino and all its greatest options, so you can begin making nice movies immediately. It’s our Fast Begin information:
With extra content material coming, it’s a good time to subscribe to us on Youtube or observe on different social media as we crank out extra polished assets filled with info, suggestions and methods that can assist you get nice pictures.
Pricing
And at last, one thing everybody likes: a sale!
Usually, Kino prices $20. To have a good time our huge launch, the app is 50% off for one week.
That’s all of Kino for $9.99, paid as soon as — with sufficient presets included to arguably hit a $40+ worth.
After this sale, we predict we’ll experiment with totally different costs a bit till we discover a candy spot. Possibly it is $15, perhaps it is $60. When you’re on the fence, we strongly suggest you get in on this sale!
The Future
It’s arduous to think about this, however one yr in the past, Kino wasn’t even on our radar but. Improvement on Kino began on the finish of final yr.
It’s nonetheless the very early days of Kino, however thus far we’re tremendously proud of the app, its reception and its future. This yr will little question be eventful when it comes to updates, however we’re additionally desirous to summarize the story of how we shipped Kino in a simply few months time — with all its twists and turns. Keep tuned for our publish on that very quickly.
Previous that, we’ll proceed to hearken to customers and switch our consideration towards… Halide!
One of many secret motivations for Kino was to check the waters round the place to take Halide. A part of it was testing new expertise, comparable to SwiftUI and constructing a recent picture processing pipeline. A part of it was testing the product, and whether or not we may construct a software that was beloved by each novices and professionals alike.
We will likely be opening up signups in Halide for members to check some extremely anticipated new options within the close to future. Keep tuned.
Thanks!
We need to thanks all for offering a lot nice, actionable suggestions for us to make this replace with. We actually couldn’t have achieved it with out you. We hope you’re keen on this new replace, and we’re excited for all we now have coming within the yr forward!