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Updates a poppin’!

Greetings campers!  Here’s a few recent app updates you might not be aware of.

Vintage Video Maker 1.5 – This great app for adding a old-time look to any video is now iPhone 4 friendly.

ProPrompter 1.5 – Some BIG improvements here.  When using the app on your iPad, you can now feed live prompter video to any VGA monitor using the iPad VGA connector!  Also in this update comes the ability to edit your prompter scripts in a WYSIWYG editor mode.  This means you can edit your scripts while knowing exactly what it will look like for your talent.  That’s awesome if you want to add very specific line breaks, etc. They’ve also addressed some bugs.  Here’s a look at ProPrompter (and some related hardware) in action.

mRelease 1.0.3 – They’ve made it iPhone 4 friendly, and added an optional ‘Witness field.  Useful, I suppose, but I’m really looking forward to editable releases.  You can read our review here.

Toland ASC Digital Assistant 1.1 – Yup, there’s already update!  This new version adds high-res graphics for the iPhone Retina display.  It also squashes a few bugs and such.  You can watch an interview with the developers right here.

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Dear iPhone fanatics and filmmaking friends, This will be the final post for Hand Held Hollywood. To loyal HHH readers, I’m sure this feels somewhat overdue. Probably because it is.

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Shang-Chi Director Directed From His iPhone

I enjoyed reading this brief ScreenRant story, so I thought I’d share it here. It describes how Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Marvel’s Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, was forced to direct an important scene via his iPhone while in the hospital for the birth of his child! Sadly, it doesn’t divulge the details of that unusual workflow, but it’s an excellent reminder that we’re all toting the world’s most versatile piece of filmmaking gear in our pockets and purses!

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  1. Woah! Charlie, you are not kidding! There’s a flame war going on over there. That’s quite a bummer, as previous versions were pretty damn nifty. Guess we’ll have to see how this one pans out.