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Originally Posted by RiverOfIce
Well yes and no.
Professional video can be shot on almost anything including the evo.
It is the person that creates the video/picture, not the device. If you gave a professional enough time with the htc evo, they could do the same.
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True. It depends on the artists but I just want to say: the Vincent Laforet video.. The guy had like $40,000 in lenses (I remember watching the video and looking at his equipment list).
Also, both videos you showed.... Well, both are edited in... Apple's Final Cut Pro with 30fps H.264 source footage. Something that the iPhone produces ands works well with Final Cut Pro.
I don't know how much a creative artist can over-come the noise & 9-10 fps low-light limitation of the EVO. The only limitation on the iPhone is the smallish sensor and the lack of depth-of-field. Everything else, you can make up for in post production. Good color grading can make up for lousy optics and produce cinematic effects like bokeh and fake depth-of-field. You do have rolling stutter and jello on all phone type sensors but if you compose your shots and use the right dolly gear, you can over-come those limitations.
Pro work aside.... The iPhone 4's video is good for just regular joes like ourselves who want some polish. It produces better quality than a 3CCD AG Panny DV camera I had a few years ago. I went to lunch with a group of friends and one buddy of mine produced an edited video (using iMovie) on his iPhone-complete with titles, transitions, background music before the we had to pay the tip. My 80 yr old dad was very impressed that he could drag-n-drop scenes into a timeline w/ trimming & titles within a $5 app. We copied the movie over to a WDTV and watched it on a HD screen and everyone decided to go order an iPhone: including my dad who is never into gadgets. He doesn't even know how to use a computer. He won't be using the phone either. He just wants something for $300 that shoots and edits with the polish and quality he saw. I told him to wait for the iPod touch w/camera by Christmas because he'll be paying for a data-plan he'll never use.