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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! (And LumaFusion review)
An epic 2017 to us all!!!
Dimitri.
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Wonderful playing and thank you! Have a Happy New Year 2017
Appy new Year!
Happy New Year, Dimitri. Thanks for sharing your tunes with us this year.
Thank you all!
P.S.: first video edited with LumaFusion. A lot of impressions! Will post a review later.
Beautiful. I love that song and your arrangement was perfect. Thank you.
Thank you!
So, about LumaFusion:
1 - the lack of a manual is a bad move. There is no such thing as a perfectly friendly GUI: for example, when I needed a title or transition, how could I possibly infer that I needed to look for them in the same place where I look for media to import?
2 - it has a magnetic timeline, much like Final Cut Pro X, which is a huge plus. It allows for three simultaneous video "tracks", which is also a nice surprise.
3 - on the other hand, stability could improve: when you apply a fair amount of zoom out, it will become buggy very fast, and will freeze the iPad in a way that even switch apps will become a no-go. I had to do some hard resets because of this. In portrait mode, it will stutter even in very close zoom settings.
4 - some essential editing tools, like multi-selection, cut (meaning deleting a selection while copying it, so it can be pasted somewhere else) and cross-fading are either lacking or not easily accessible (an user manual, please?). dragging a clip from large distances in the timeline can be a huge pain, specially without the possibility of zooming out enough to do it by short swipes.
5 - detaching audio from a clip seems to be also lacking. But I enjoyed the audio mixer.
If I remember something more, I'll post. It could look like I'm being somewhat a harsh critic of LumaFusion, but in fact I enjoyed it pretty much, and it's head and shoulders above any other iOS video editing option. Fact is, I have an iPad Pro 9.7'', and its benchmarks for CPU and video performance are roughly the same as my (wife's) 2010 MBP (core i7, some AMD video card that I don't remember the exact model), yet FCPX in the MBP, which is not retina btw, have a far superior real-life performance. It could be iOS' inherent limitations, of course, rearing their ugly heads, but could be the fact LumaFusion has to mature a little.
Again, quoted the post I was trying to edit...
beautifull!
Thank you!
Nice
Thank you!
Do a triple tap on the video clip to detach the audio and then you can also delete it.
Thank you very much indeed, @skiphunt! I had to mute all audio but the main track in the mixer.
Yeah, I was doing that too. One of the users on the Luma-Touch forum helped me out. Figured I'd pass it on. And yes, a manual would be welcome. Cheers!
Perhaps the user base will actually develop an informal manual in the forums. They at Luma should release one ASAP.
Hi - Terri here from Luma Touch (LumaFusion)
Lovely song!
There is currently a video Quick Start Guide for LumaFusion at
which should help with the basics, and there are more in-depth video tutorials coming soon. I would be happy to write a manual for the product but it would be in English only as it is too costly to translate into the 10 languages we will support with the next update. We also tend to add features very often so it can become a huge overhead.
Multi-selection and grouping of clips will be coming soon. They were in the original design, but just didn't make it before feature cut-off for V1. Also you can add an audio crossfade by dropping a dissolve from the library between two audio clips. Admittedly there is a little bug with this in V1 where some level changes aren't respected during the crossfade - that will be fixed with our first update coming very soon.
I will check on the zooming out problem - we have already fixed the most common crashes for the coming update, but I will make sure these are addressed.
All the best!
We also tend to add features very often so it can become a huge overhead.
Once you have the main body done, surely it would not be too time consuming to shoehorn new bits in as and when? A proper manual would help.
As I said in my App Store review, LumaFusion has the potential to be the gold standard. You are off to a very encouraging start, and we're all keen to see what develops.
Thank you for the explanations and the compliment, @tmorgan. Yes, please, release a written manual, whatever the language: when a doubt arises, it not necessarily happens when we're connected to the internet. Specially with an iPad, which we usually carry with us almost anywhere.
Looking forward to the next updates and fixes!
I will do my best to get the manual done sooner rather than later. We are just 3 people, (1 developer, 1 designer and product manager - that's me, and 1 tester) so we are working long hours to make this product the best video editor ever conceived for iOS. But if a manual will make it better, then that's what we'll do!
Nice song Dimitri. I always enjoy listening to your creations. Also thanks for the review of the nice app lumafusion. I have not had a chance to really try it out yet so appreciate you sharing your experience with and thoughts on using it.
I always try and promote an ethos of Documentation-Driven Design. Write the manual at the design stage, then manufacture the parts of the program such that they obey the way it says it should be in the manual.
wow,
Thank you, @studioAB! Also, I'm glad my brief review was of any help.
Great!
It'll definitely be a benefit to new users. The tutorial vid is good, but it's difficult to follow in some places so it took me while to pick up key framing, for example.
The app itself is brilliant though, so thanks for your work and wish you all the best for the future.
I really like the app, and I'm so impressed that it was created by an independent team of three people. Well done!
Having said that, of all the open source software I've used, the aspect I've struggled with most often was shortcomings in the documentation. And in commercial software, I've always felt that one of the things I was paying for was the included comprehensive documentation. In general commercial software producers don't charge extra for manuals, as if they were an optional in app purchase.
I have difficulties with imagining the idea of software documentation as "optional".
Like "if" a manual will make the app better? "If"? As far as improving undocumented software is concerned, how can a manual possibly even approach being an "if"?
So, not so much "'IF' a manual will make it 'BETTER' ..."
More like ...
... A manual will make it.
Full.
Stop.
Just in case I was unclear in any way, I feel very strongly about documentation.
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