Freezing, lost video, unresponsiveness, etc
I recently picked up a Moment anamorphic lens for my iPhone 12 Pro (my iOS & apps are completely up to date). Been wanting one for a long time, so I finally made the purchase for a trip I was taking this summer. I used Moment’s Pro Camera app to shoot video and desqueeze the anamorphic while shooting because…of course- it’s their lens. I experienced several issues: • the app would frequently be unresponsive while tapping the stop button while recording. So the app just kept recording even when I kept hitting the stop button. Often, when this occurred, I’d let it keep going in case there was a delay for some reason, but it never helped. I had to quit the app to get it to stop. And whenever I did that… I completely lost all of the footage I had been recording for the last several minutes. I honestly lost several very important clips that I will never again be able to reshoot or re-experience. It’s EXTREMELY frustrating. • There are parts of video clips taken with the app where the video sorta stutters and freezes for extended periods of time while the audio keeps recording. So upon playback, the imagery eventually freezes while the audio continues. So, that renders extended durations of video footage as useless. • While shooting still photos with the app (desqueeze turned on) + anamorphic lens, the first few shots worked well, but then the app suddenly stopped de-squeezing while I was shooting. So I ended up with a bunch of photos that have severe distortion and no convenient way to desqueeze them in post unless I want to import them to a video editing app and the export screenshots at a lower resolution. Very frustrating, very disappointed. Use the app for its convenience, but only if you’re shooting something insignificant. Because, with this buggy app, you will risk losing footage and wasting time. Update: I’m on a 14 Pro now. They totally made fixes to improve on my previous issues, to Moment’s credit. Things were great for awhile too, but now the footage is suddenly remarkably shaky. WAY too shaky. The iPhone’s stabilization features used to work while using Moment’s app, but now my footage is suddenly completely unusable with the Moment anamorphic lenses because of how shaky and wobbly it all is. Even with added stabilization in post, everything looks just absolutely awful. I REALLY wish I could see how bad it was while shooting. The viewfinder is so small, in part due to the size of the iPhone’s display itself, but it’s especially difficult to see th