Cinema Effects: Video Studio App Reviews
First the praise: for the price, the feature set is absolutely amazing. It must have every imaginable filter, adjustment or colour correction on this earth. Literally hundreds of filters, well categorised. Whatever you have in mind, from simple brightness-contrast to chroma keying, tilt shift, lighting filters, “instagram” filters etc. It also has audio effects, lots of post-processing and compositing options etc etc. It’s very fast and snappy. The user interface is single-window and seems very professionally designed. Now the criticism - it doesn’t seem like the author actually uses his own app. - There are NO keyboard shortcuts, not even to play/pause. - While the video is playing, NO adjustments to anything are possible. Because of no keyboard support, you will constantly be moving the mouse back and forth between the play button and the rest of the app. - There is NO way to reorder the effects, you can only remove them. Adding an effect adds it to the end of the list. - There is NO documentation whatsoever, in-app, online or offline. Because of these issues, I have to deduct one star. If it was any more expensive, I would have given it 3 stars only because the app is frustrating to use if you want to experiment at all. However, if all you need to do is apply some filters and adjustments in a pinch, this app is well worth the price, and more.
I got 3 of these Apps. I use Final Cut Pro X, and have also purchased some quite expensive 3rd party plugins, Colour Finale, Luster Grade… This, the phenomenal HDR one, and Ceiling Annihilate them on every conceivable creative level. They are stand alone, and somewhat slow to render but if there are more stunning, artistic, CHEAP video FX out there, I want to know. I am 100% blown away by all of them, and other than Logic Pro X, Final Cut Pro X, GB, MainStage, and a few other Apple developed Apps, I have been investing much more in the iOS stuff: better, cheaper, a million times more innovative…This is the first time in a very long time I have been stunned by an Apple App Store Purchase for OS X. How come there are no reviews anywhere on the internet for these things? Because of the Italian factor. Wow. Wake up to this...
I just bought it and I loved how I could transform the photography of the video I’m working with! I’m still trying to figure out somethings about sound. What I don’t see anywhere is a tutorial or guide. Still, it was worthy!! :)
I bought the application and to my surprise when I tried to open it, It does take to a Document folder where there is nothing of Cinema Effects, I assume it has a bug. I hope to get an answer from manufactures, other wise I won’t recommend it.
I needed something quick to add old movie effects. I had been using After Effects, but was working on a computer that didn’t have it. Almost as easy to use for adding effects. When I started using it for editing, it wasn’t as intuitive, but I got my audio mixed in and made a few cuts. It wouldn’t save in as many dimensions as I wanted, but I found another inexpensive app to change the dimensions. It let me save my effect settings, so I could run a number of videos through it and not have to reset my settings each time. That was a big time saver.
Was not robust enough for my application. I’ve been used to the color correction abilities of Final Cut Express on my old computer and this newer app just didn’t have the ability that I needed.
I bought the first version, and it was a little slow. But the new version is faster and there are quite a few special effects you can add to video clips, which can be exported and used inother programs. If you need to do something quick like slow a clip down without having to launch iMovie or another application, this little program comes in very handy.