Protake - Mobile Cinema Camera

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About this app

Protake brings the filmmaking experience of professional cinema cameras to your mobile devices.

No matter you're a daily vlogger, a commercial director, or a well-established filmmaker, you will benefit from Protake's features including:

# MODES

· AUTO Mode: a mode optimized for vloggers and YouTubers, you can use it single-handedly, with our cinematic looks and professional composition assistants.
· PRO Mode: a mode designed for professional filmmakers. All the camera information and control settings are well aligned on the screen. The feature you want is always there on the screen.

# COLOR

· LOG: it's not only a genuine LOG gamma curve -- we strictly matched your mobile device's color to the industrial standard - ALEXA Log C. Besides the benefit of an outstanding dynamic range, colorists can use all their color solutions for ALEXA cameras with the footage from your phone.
· Cinematic Looks: we provided a dozen of cinematic looks for filmmakers -- the styles are categorized into Neutral Styles, Film Emulation (classic Kodak and Fuji cinema film), Movie Inspired (blockbusters and indie masterpieces), and ALEXA Looks.

# ASSITANTS

· Frame Drop Notice: Mobile devices are not designed as professional cinema cameras, therefore, you need to know immediately when a frame is dropped.
· Monitoring tools: Waveform, Parade, Histogram, RGB Histogram, Audio Meter.
· Composition assistants: Aspect Ratios, Safe Area, Thirds, Crosshairs, and 3-axis Horizon Indicators.
· Exposure assistants: Zebra Strips，False Color, Exposure Compensation, Auto Exposure.
· Focus assistants: Focus Peaking and Auto Focus.
· Recording: Record Beeper, Record Flash, Volume Key Record.
· Zooming and Focusing: A-B Point.

# DATA

· Frame Rate Normalization: Mobile devices don't have perfect frame rate control, therefore, it's easy to get non-standard variable frame rate. Protake solves this problem fundamentally and makes strictly constant FPS of 24, 25, 30, 60, 120, etc.
· File-naming: All the video files saved by Protake use the standard naming system: Camera Unit + Reel Number + Clip Count + Suffix. It's something like "A001C00203_200412_IR8J.MOV"... Sounds familiar?
· Metadata: Everything including device model, ISO, shutter angel, white balance, lens, connected accessories, location, are all well recorded in the file's metadata.

Ratings and reviews

Hi so I just installed it and played with it for 2 seconds, and so far I love it, I am going to fully try tomorrow while filming my next YouTube video, for my channel. And I'll give an updated review. So far 3 starts, for a great interface and features Update So this 2 days after I installed, and I am about to Uninstall it. App has bugs, and there are almost no updates (based on what people said here) so no one to fix the bugs, and it is a yearly subscription, with out support, so no thanks.

Ludicrous claims, but a decent camera app. LOG profile is nowhere close to Arri C, and applying a standard C to 709 lut in Resolve results in extremely high contrast and saturation. Footage from this app is soft and clips badly, while the lower bit rate footage with identical settings in the native LG app was recoverable and resulted in no clipping after grading. This app does have great meters (waveform, histogram, etc) but the resulting image quality is worse overall. Can't recommend it.

Re tested on Xperia 1 (with subscription, so no limitations I guess) and it's gotten a lot better since last time I reviewed it. Completely usable manual controls and settings, bugs fixed, etc. Decent alternative to Filmic Pro (FP) if it works as well on your hardware as it does in mine. And alot cheaper too. On the minus side, when compared to FP, it might come out as a (close) second best for the moment.

What's new

Multiple bug fixes.