Monday, November 9, 2015

TomTom Edits Videos with a Phone

Editing videos can be a pain. It usually requires a lot of time after a shoot at a computer, which might crash readily. TomTom, the company best known for its GPS navigation systems, came up with a solution in the Bandit, a camera that can handle both capturing your adventures and editing the best moments together into a movie you can share straight from a phone or tablet. The Bandit addresses a few other shortcomings you might find in competing cameras and has very good video quality, too, but the easy on-camera editing is the star attraction.

When you connect the Bandit wirelessly to a mobile device, you can view all of these tags in your clips. If you want to add a highlight tag, you can do that just by tapping a star symbol overlaid on the video when you're playing back. From there, you can select Create a Story from the app's menu to build a movie. You can manually select the highlights you want to use for your video, or simply give your phone or tablet a shake. If you go for the latter, a bunch of thumbnails for your highlights bounce around the screen and eventually line up on a timeline. Once your highlights are on the timeline, you can move the clips around if you don't like the order they landed in or you can cut them out altogether. You can add music from what's available on your device.

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