iStopMotion Remote Camera 4+

Needs work

Works but what I would find useful is for the app on the iPhone to act more like a capture button. I could put the iPad on the table or something like that and stand at one end of the room with the iPad camera facing me. I would then use the capture button on the iPhone to take picture of me on my iPad. If you do this I'll give you 5 stars.

Such a shame this doesn't work

We have the full iStopMotion app and it's brilliant. However, filming from the iPad is clunky so we invested in a cheap camera stand and an iPhone attachment thinking the iStop Remote Camera app would be the perfect solution. Unfortunately the connection is terrible. The image quality is useless: a massive lag and often so pixilated you can't see the objects. Even at its best the image quality is too low to be able to see the 'onion skin' image on the main screen, which is this app's biggest selling point. We have really high speed, high quality wifi and I made sure nothing else in the house was running on it at the time. I also frequently use remote cameras on the same network for things like video conferencing, so it's not a network issue. I'm going to try disabling HD on my iPhone to see if that helps, but as we're using an iPad Pro with HD function I doubt it. At the moment it's unusable, which is a massive shame because if it worked the whole iStop package would be phenomenal. I would still recommend the main app, but only if you're not planning to use it for a project that will rely on a remote camera.

Developer Response ,

Hello Alicebaxy,

I am terrible sorry, that you aren't satisfied with the video preview quality of the iStopMotion Remote Camera.

The poor quality comes from bandwidth problems while transferring the video signal from the cam iOS device to the iStopMotion iOS devices. The quality automatically adopts to the transfer rate. As you pointed out you can omit your own network as the problem however do you have the chance to test this on other networks? Did both devices were connected to the same WiFI hotspot? How fare away did you separate the devices?

best,

Achim Breidenbach

Awful

The iPad app is intuitive and fun to use. This companion camera app is hopeless. You can take about 8 frames before it disconnects from the iPad and then the app needs restarting. This then results in multiple entries for the camera choices on the iPad. Incredibly frustrating.