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Hi Xavier!
Would be really important to be able to use Image stabilization on OMTake. Now with V1.4 its very hard to get a decent video from a hand held iPhone.
Enabling Image stabilization would also increase the video delay and/or crop the video? if so, then this should be an optional setting.
Would also be essential to be able to set White Balance, HUE and Exposure adjustments = Exposure Compensation.
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Hi Jani, Thanks for the feedback. Image stabilization will be available in OMTake 1.5, which should be released by next week. You're right that it comes with a trade-off: enabling it adds some latency and a slight crop of the frame, so it will be an optional setting you can turn on or off depending on your setup. Version 1.5 will also add manual image controls: white balance, hue, and exposure compensation. I'll post here as soon as the update is out. Kind regards, Xavier https://omtake.app/
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Hi Jani, As promised, OMTake 1.5 is now available on the App Store. A new settings button next to the microphone lets you adjust the picture, even while you are live. The button turns yellow when a manual setting is active, so you can see at a glance that the image is not in auto mode. Image stabilization is now an optional setting with four modes: Off, Standard, Cinematic, and Low latency on iOS 26 and later. As you anticipated, stabilization crops the image slightly, and Standard and Cinematic add latency, so Low latency is the best fit for a live source when your device supports it. White balance can be set to Auto, Lock, or Manual with temperature and tint controls (tint corresponds to the hue adjustment you mentioned). Lock is handy to keep auto white balance from drifting in the middle of a shot. Exposure compensation is available from -3 to +3 EV. All these settings are saved between sessions. This version also displays the time and battery level at the top of the screen during streams, and fixes several issues: rotating between the two landscape orientations no longer interrupts the stream on the receiver, tap-to-focus only reacts to taps on the video image, releasing a pinch-to-zoom no longer triggers a focus change, and the focus indicator stays inside the image. Let me know how it works on your side with hand held shots, your feedback has been very helpful. Kind regards, Xavier https://omtake.app/
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Hi Xavier! V1.5 is a great leap forward! Will try it soon on production environment. Noticed that there is still that issue renaming the OMT stream if the phone is in horizontal mode. The Pen icon next to the Stream name does nothing when tapped - only the focus/exposure point is set there.. It would better to set this Renaming to the new Menu and remove the current renaming functions altogether from the Main screen. I would also move Framerate and Resolution settings to a completely new Cog-menu. This Cog menu should also contain the Stream name -configuration setting. So all or almost all stream specic settings would be found there - which are settings that are seldomly neccessary to be changed and definately the settings that you don't want to be changed accidentally.  OMTake 1.5.jpg (26kb) downloaded 128 time(s).Also it would be better to move Lens buttons where the other functions like Resolution is set, so them would not be so close to the Start/Stop button and it would be easier to choose them. Now its very easy to miss these buttons and set focus/exposure instead.. Noticed also when the Settings menu is visible and in the largest size it darkens the video image below. This is not a good thing because image adjustments are made in that Settings menu and it makes adjusting the video harder. Kind regards, Jani
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Feature request:
Choosable 'Start Stream Automatically on Startup' -option.
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Hi Jan,
Thanks again for the detailed feedback, it's really helpful. For the next version I'm planning a dedicated cog menu for stream name, resolution and framerate, so they can't be changed by accident (this also takes care of the rename issue in landscape). I'll also make sure the camera settings panel no longer darkens the preview, and add an optional "Start stream automatically on launch" setting. For the lens buttons, I'm looking at the best way to keep them away from the record button.
I'll let you know as soon as a build is ready.
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Feature request:
Choosable 'Lock orientation' would lock the straming orientation to current orientation
or select it from Orientation mode list like:
'Auto' (this woud behave like it does in V1.5),
'Only horizional (Landscape)',
'Only vertical (Portrait)',
'Lock to current orientation' (this would lock the orientation whatever it is when stream start)
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Originally Posted by: xcapetir  Hi Jan,
Thanks again for the detailed feedback, it's really helpful. For the next version I'm planning a dedicated cog menu for stream name, resolution and framerate, so they can't be changed by accident (this also takes care of the rename issue in landscape). I'll also make sure the camera settings panel no longer darkens the preview, and add an optional "Start stream automatically on launch" setting. For the lens buttons, I'm looking at the best way to keep them away from the record button.
I'll let you know as soon as a build is ready.
Best regards,
Xavier Hi Xavier! Sounds Great! Would be handy to have Exposure Compensation also on / moved to the Main screen. Kind regards, Jani
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Feature request:
Optional Lens Correction
Now seeing at least with wide shots that there are visible lens distortions.
I dont't know if this Lens Correction is possible to enable and if it is then it's obviously adding render time to the video, but it would be definately a welcome feature addition to OMTake.
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Hi Jani,
Thanks for the request. I looked into it, and the good news is that lens correction is already there: when you use the 0.5x ultra-wide lens, iOS applies geometric distortion correction directly in the camera hardware by default, and OMTake does not disable it. It costs nothing in rendering time, but it cannot remove everything. Some distortion remains at the edges, and above all an ultra-wide lens naturally stretches subjects near the borders of the frame because of perspective. No lens correction can fix that part, as it comes from the field of view itself.
For wide shots, the best result is usually to switch to the 1x lens and move the phone back a little. The main lens has much less distortion and generally better image quality.
To make sure nothing unusual is happening on your side, could you tell me which lens you were using (0.5x or 1x), the resolution and frame rate, and whether white balance was set to Auto or Manual? A screenshot of the shot would also help. If something in a specific format turns out to bypass the correction, I will fix it.
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Originally Posted by: xcapetir Hi Jani,
Thanks for the request. I looked into it, and the good news is that lens correction is already there: when you use the 0.5x ultra-wide lens, iOS applies geometric distortion correction directly in the camera hardware by default, and OMTake does not disable it. It costs nothing in rendering time, but it cannot remove everything. Some distortion remains at the edges, and above all an ultra-wide lens naturally stretches subjects near the borders of the frame because of perspective. No lens correction can fix that part, as it comes from the field of view itself.
For wide shots, the best result is usually to switch to the 1x lens and move the phone back a little. The main lens has much less distortion and generally better image quality.
To make sure nothing unusual is happening on your side, could you tell me which lens you were using (0.5x or 1x), the resolution and frame rate, and whether white balance was set to Auto or Manual? A screenshot of the shot would also help. If something in a specific format turns out to bypass the correction, I will fix it.
Kind regards,
Xavier Hi Xavier! Don't recall the actual lens that was initially selected (0.5x?). Just zoomed with a pinch to corret framing. Next time I have to remember to select 1x and see if all fits and use it.. and then in vMix crop the 4K OMT source if needed. Used Manual WB, 4K 25 fps. Kind regads, Jani
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