This is a most brilliant landing page - flashy, but in a way that directly demonstrates what the product does, and the text is readable even against the white waves. Each of the sequences look beautiful and seem like if I just had this app, I would be able to make my videos just as beautiful. Congrats.
I'm not sure, but I believe the beauty lies in the fact that each of these scenes is something I can see myself trying to capture: the beach, a forest, etc.
It's interesting that you can still see the jitter in the second to last video, through the lens flare. The motion stabilization pans the image around, but the lens flare bobs around and can't be fixed.
Just installed it. Seems to work pretty well. This would be useful to real estate agents for doing smooth apartment walk-through videos for listings-- might want to try advertising specifically for that use case.
Thanks everyone for the input. Quick answer to most common questions :
* The video you can see on the landing page (steady.stupeflix.com) were all taken w/ Steady. Try using it outside on a sunny day for best results !
* Steady is not yet compatible with iOS8. Working on it ;)Same for iPad and iTouch.
* We use gyroscope informations to know the attitude of the iPhone while you shoot a video, and uses this information to correct the video.
* The app is not available yet on Android. We're pretty much tied to the iPhone right now, as the algorithm relies on a given gyro / camera pair to work.
If you like the app, a kind review on the App Store would be appreciated !
Thanks for taking the time to try it
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Would you care to post the original as well? It doesn't look very steady to be honest. Anecdotally, i would think iphone's camera is already doing some stabilization because i have filmed from my car using apple's bundled camera app and the video looked impressively steady (but hey, i was in a car).
What is impressive about that movie ? To me it's quite the opposite.. it's not impressive at all (too dark, bad fps) and when I watch it there is something in it that causes head aches. It's very hard to watch.
Just spins the loading animation without showing any video in the camera screen. Wondering if there is any server work and it might be under heavy load due to HN and whatnot. Edit: iPhone 5s. Edit2: its working now!
Looking at the landing page on my iPhone and all I see is a bit of copy and a still image of a forest. Based on the comments in this thread the app seems worth downloading but not so much based just on the landing page. Are other people seeing video on the landing page when viewing on the iPhone?
I downloaded it and gave it a quick try. Walking around the office at a somewhat fast pace yielded some blur on each step. I slowed down a bit and results were better. We have a lot of windows so there was a lot of light/dark issues which is more the iPhones limitations than the app.
Stability was pretty cool though not convinced it would work well on a bike. If you have some untouched videos you captured from the app itself without any post production editing, that would be cool to see. If you said the videos on your website background were all taken with the app I'd be more impressed.
Yes they are legit :) The originals are only longer...
Those in the forest were shot (with an iPhone 5) on a bike, and you can "feel" the footsteps for those on the beach :)
(it was last month in the South-West of France...)
With apps like these (horizon etc) - if they are any good won't Apple simply build it into their default camera app sooner rather than later? I'm curious, what's the product or business plan here?
I often shoot little snippets (cheeky bit of stock footage for behind credits etc) and usually have to use stabilization in post to make it usable
$1.99? The mere possibility of it working at a later date is worth more than $1.99. I'll give it a test run later on for sure but you guys should re-evaluate that price, if it works well you've way under-priced yourselves
Downloaded, looks good. Though it crashes when trying to do slowmo on my iPhone 5, 16GB AT&T. Also when you view "My Steady Videos" the Navigation bar buttons feel reversed, "Back" buttons are usually on the left in iOS, in that case the three dots should be on the right. Keep up the good work, hope it's successful.
Yes and no. Going through the paper real quick, we use similar technique, but do not analyze the video to reconstruct the movement of the camera, which allows us to speed up the algorithm significantly.
[+] [-] kevinalexbrown|11 years ago|reply
I'm not sure, but I believe the beauty lies in the fact that each of these scenes is something I can see myself trying to capture: the beach, a forest, etc.
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What, if any, details can you reveal about the implementation? How is the tracking/smoothing different than other SOTA approaches?
How tightly coupled are you to the Apple environment? Is an Android port plausible?
[+] [-] duncans|11 years ago|reply
http://blog.evilwindowdog.com/post/88969373226/extreme-car-e...
[+] [-] kaahne|11 years ago|reply
* The video you can see on the landing page (steady.stupeflix.com) were all taken w/ Steady. Try using it outside on a sunny day for best results !
* Steady is not yet compatible with iOS8. Working on it ;)Same for iPad and iTouch.
* We use gyroscope informations to know the attitude of the iPhone while you shoot a video, and uses this information to correct the video.
* The app is not available yet on Android. We're pretty much tied to the iPhone right now, as the algorithm relies on a given gyro / camera pair to work.
If you like the app, a kind review on the App Store would be appreciated ! Thanks for taking the time to try it
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Trueduke, Olotiar, Madlag, thomas 759 and Kaahne at Stupeflix
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We'll probably update the landing page soon. In the meantime, visit the landing page on your desktop, or see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mt286dTNFg
[+] [-] joshmlewis|11 years ago|reply
Stability was pretty cool though not convinced it would work well on a bike. If you have some untouched videos you captured from the app itself without any post production editing, that would be cool to see. If you said the videos on your website background were all taken with the app I'd be more impressed.
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$1.99? The mere possibility of it working at a later date is worth more than $1.99. I'll give it a test run later on for sure but you guys should re-evaluate that price, if it works well you've way under-priced yourselves
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Unfortunately the app does not appear on https://reportaproblem.apple.com/.
[Edit] The app finally showed up on the "Report a problem" page
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[1] http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~fliu/project/3dstab.htm
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[+] [-] ivanlubenko|11 years ago|reply
1) Is it at all feasible to do the stabilisation on the fly so that the screen shows already-stabilised video (if not then why)?
2) Do you envisage building an API so that a third-party app can use your technology?
[+] [-] kaahne|11 years ago|reply
On the fly stabilization is not really an option, as smoothing is done by averaging movement from the past and future, up to 5s on both sides.
The API thing might be a good idea, shoot an email at [email protected]!
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