cropping iPhone 4 video
Still nothing much happening around here.
Just another sailboat drifting by (sped up 12X).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11776703/littlesailboat.mp4 (4.15 MB)
Since my old 2010-era iPhone 4 only records 720p video, there are only so many pixels to work with when applying a "digital zoom" The lack of any optical zoom on the phone and its limited resolution are particularly obvious when trying to capture something decent of a critter that is inclined to run away.
Original critter video (uncropped):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11776703/unstabilized_critter.mp4 (12.0 MB)
Post-processed critter video (cropped):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11776703/stabilized_critter.mp4 (2.05 MB)
Still, it's not like I'm complaining: I'm old enough to be impressed with any device I can keep in my shirt pocket that not only records 1280x720 video to solid-state memory but then also wirelessly uploads it to the cloud. This stuff used to be science fiction. (And it's not like I need to make better critter videos anyway.)
Just another sailboat drifting by (sped up 12X).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11776703/littlesailboat.mp4 (4.15 MB)
Since my old 2010-era iPhone 4 only records 720p video, there are only so many pixels to work with when applying a "digital zoom" The lack of any optical zoom on the phone and its limited resolution are particularly obvious when trying to capture something decent of a critter that is inclined to run away.
Original critter video (uncropped):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11776703/unstabilized_critter.mp4 (12.0 MB)
Post-processed critter video (cropped):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11776703/stabilized_critter.mp4 (2.05 MB)
Still, it's not like I'm complaining: I'm old enough to be impressed with any device I can keep in my shirt pocket that not only records 1280x720 video to solid-state memory but then also wirelessly uploads it to the cloud. This stuff used to be science fiction. (And it's not like I need to make better critter videos anyway.)