# Camcorder

> A video camera that gives you a film, not footage.

## Facts

- Camcorder gives you a finished film rather than a folder of footage: the clips you take string together in the order they were taken, and that is the film - no timeline, nothing to arrange, and no evening spent editing it into shape.
- Everyone's clips, one film, in the order the world happened. Nobody pairs while shooting; afterwards the app finds the phones nearby, you pick people, and one press pulls their clips into your reel - over the local network only, never over the internet, and never live while the moment is happening.
- The film leaves in one press. A single share button hands the whole reel to the iOS share sheet - to Photos, or to whoever asked for it - and nothing has to be gathered or assembled first.
- The picture is a rounded square with the corner cut into the pixels, so there is no wrong way to hold the phone: a take made upright and a take made sideways cut together in one film with no black bars. The look is baked in at capture as well, so a take cannot be re-graded afterwards - there is no edit left waiting to be done.
- One control on the screen: hold the red disc to record, let go to stop. The disc is the only thing that touches the shot - exposure rides your finger on the picture and a double tap flips the camera, so neither is a button - and the app shows no numbers about the apparatus. The figures it does show belong to the work: how long the film runs, how long a clip is, and when a film happened.
- Camcorder has a companion Apple TV app, free on the same App Store listing (tvOS 17 or later): it is for watching your films and the channels you follow at the television's full height, score and all. The iPhone links to it once by scanning a code; nothing is recorded on the television.

## Pages

- [Camcorder — a video camera that gives you a film, not footage](https://camcorder.media/index.md): A folder of clips waits for an evening nobody ever spends on it. Camcorder hands back a finished film instead — everyone's clips, in the order things happened. Free for iPhone and iPad, with an Apple TV app for watching.
- [Manual — Camcorder](https://camcorder.media/manual.md): The Camcorder manual: the idea, recording, your film, music, sharing, publishing and the television.
- [Release notes — Camcorder](https://camcorder.media/releases.md): What shipped in each build of Camcorder for iPhone and Apple TV, newest first.
- [Support — Camcorder](https://camcorder.media/support.md): Write to us: a question, a problem, or an idea. A person at Manolab reads every message.
- [Privacy Policy — Camcorder](https://camcorder.media/privacy.md): What Camcorder keeps on your phone, what reaches us, what we don't do, and how to use your rights. There is no sign-in.
- [Terms of Use — Camcorder](https://camcorder.media/terms.md): The agreement you make with Manolab when you subscribe to a hosting plan or publish a film, and what everyone else should know about the Camcorder apps, the website and film hosting. What you may publish, who owns it, how plans work, what happens when one ends, and the limits of what we promise.
- [Notices — Camcorder](https://camcorder.media/notices.md): The sounds, the typeface and the open source software in Camcorder, and their licenses.

## Manual

The app's built-in manual as of the last ship, one raw Markdown file per section (frontmatter included). The Camcorder manual.

### Getting started

- [The idea](https://camcorder.media/manual/the-idea.md): What Camcorder is, what it leaves out, and why
- [Getting started](https://camcorder.media/manual/getting-started.md): The first launch, your first clip, and finding your way around
- [Settings and help](https://camcorder.media/manual/settings-and-help.md): Quick tips, what's new, writing to us, diagnostics, and erasing everything

### Recording

- [Recording](https://camcorder.media/manual/recording.md): The red button, flip, focus, light, zoom, pre-roll and the dual camera
- [Filters](https://camcorder.media/manual/filters.md): The six filters, how to change them, and how your fingers move the look

### Your film

- [The reel and cutting](https://camcorder.media/manual/the-reel.md): The strip, scrubbing, cutting, selecting, deleting, projects and importing clips
- [Moments](https://camcorder.media/manual/moments.md): Keeping a still from your film, as a photo or a print

### Music

- [Music](https://camcorder.media/manual/music.md): Instruments, feel and volume, performing the music, and turning it off

### Sharing

- [Sharing nearby](https://camcorder.media/manual/sharing-nearby.md): Trading clips with phones around you, for free, with no account
- [Saving and exporting](https://camcorder.media/manual/saving-and-exporting.md): Export a film to Photos or anywhere else, for free

### Publishing

- [Channels and publishing](https://camcorder.media/manual/channels-and-publishing.md): Uploading a film, links, PINs, following, and what goes where
- [Hosting Plans](https://camcorder.media/manual/hosting-plans.md): What a plan buys, what it costs, how it renews, and what happens when it ends

### Television

- [The television](https://camcorder.media/manual/the-television.md): The Apple TV app, linking it, sending a film to a TV, and TV sound sync

### Troubleshooting

- [Troubleshooting](https://camcorder.media/manual/troubleshooting.md): A few things that can go wrong, and what to do

## Contact

- https://camcorder.media/support