Kino aims to bring pro video features to the iPhone (Source: Lux Optics)
Photography app Halide now has a sister video app for iPhone called Kino, with grading presets, smart exposure, and free lessons for beginners.
Chief among Kino’s features is Instant Grade, which is intended to provide cinematic video without the enormous file sizes that Apple’s Log format produces. Kino comes with a growing list of Lookup Tables (LUTs) that are color grading presets designed by expert filmmakers, and automatically applied during recording.
There is a manual mode, and everything is adjustable even with the automatic settings. But the company says that Kino also has an exposure logic feature called AutoMotion, which applies motion blur to suit whether video is being shot indoors or outdoors.
Those include composition guides, audio levels, RGB waveform, white balance and automatic exposure lock, and so on.
Kino requires iOS 17, and is available on the App Store at a launch price of $9.99 for a short time. After that, it will rise to $19.99, but will still be a one-time purchase with no subscriptions or ads.
