Much like Instagram and Hipstamatic for the still image, a certain suite of smartphone apps can turn otherwise mundane phone videos into visually interesting and memorable clips. “The secret to great smartphone video is to drown it in canned nostalgia,” writes the Wall Street Journal.
Apps like the Super 8 ($1) and 8mm Vintage Camera ($2) allow for mock-vintage camera actions and effects on a smartphone running iOS. WSJ writes that “those two, while relatively old, are still the best of the many vintage-video apps out for iOS.”
As for Android users, there are fewer options, but still some viable ones. Videocam Illusion Pro ($2) offers “a decent selection of filters, though none are as convincingly retro,” according to the article.
For those uninterested in filtering every video, there’s Filmic Pro ($4) available for iOS, which allows users to control other image aspects like exposure and focus. “Filmic Pro also lets you specify frame rate, dropping the unmistakably digital smoothness of 30 frames per second to a more film-like 24 or 25,” reports WSJ.
There are also editing apps available, such as the Avid Studio for iPad ($5).
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