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Filmic's entire staff laid off by parent company Bending Spoons
- edandersen 3y agoBlackmagic basically sherlocked them with Apple's advertising support.
- k310 3y agoThe same company that bought Evernote and laid off the entire U.S. staff.
- happytiger 3y agoThere seems to be a trend. I wonder which private equity firm is working through bending spoons? These are hallmark moves. Oh! Right at the top of the Googles! There it is. https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/nb-renaissance-invests-app-developer-bending-spoons-eyes-ipo-2023-08-03/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/nb-renaissance-invests...
- IndySun 3y agoTrend? I think you mean 'the norm'. Such occurrences have rarely been different.
- dehrmann 3y agoBut honestly, Evernote was at a point where VCs were tired of it, it was probably over-staffed, it's a mature product, and it's TAM wasn't that big. Companies like that are run differently and have different investors than IPO-track companies.
- CharlesW 3y ago> Considered for years as the best video capture application for mobile devices… I'm sad to see Filmic die, but as the story suggests, iOS users can now use the excellent Blackmagic Camera, made by the same folks who make a ton of great pro video hardware and the great DaVinci Resolve (macOS, Windows, Linux): https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera
- Narretz 3y agoEvernote: chuckles I'm in danger Is there any big corporation that doesn't fuck over their acquires?
- Laaas 3y agoGitHub by Microsoft went OK.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoThe constant outages suggest otherwise.
- Mavvie 3y agoGitHub outages have always been fairly common, I don't think that changed since being acquired.
- woleium 3y agoredhat was okay for a bit, but now its being enshittened
- steve1977 3y agoIt’s being IBMed. That was to be expected.
- gumby 3y agoMicrosoft bought DOS, Excel, Powerpoint, and, effectively Word (via Xerox Alto's Bravo editor) among many others. Adobe is a good example; their model is to fuck their customers, not the acquired companies.
- christophilus 3y agoGitHub, Minecraft... I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but they do seem like a decent place to go if you're acquired.
- jeffdubin 3y agoFilmic was for a while the app for turning your phone into a pseudo-pro video camera. But Blackmagic Camera wasn't the executioner - it was their own doing when they abandoned what had been a pay-once app and suddenly turned to a (quite expensive) subscription model. That didn't sit well with the community - the app's rating tanked by hundreds+ of one-star reviews. At least iOS users have BMD's camera app - Android users don't have anything comparable.
- IlPeach 3y agoI was going to ask if there was anything comparable for Android... :(
- liminalsunset 3y agoTry something called ProShot, mcpro24fps, or MotionCam Pro - Seems like they offer the same features and more, without a subscription
- steve1977 3y agoI guess on Android you‘d have to look for hardware specific apps, like the one Sony is offering with their Xperia phones for example.
- liminalsunset 3y agoOn Android you actually have something better than Filmic Pro, you can use something called MotionCam [Pro], which allows you to record RAW video, or optionally ProRes or HEVC (still in beta/alpha right now) in various log formats. There's also mcpro24fps for a slightly more traditional video app (free in Russian language). Between these, the video recording situation appears to be signficantly ahead of iOS even without Filmic Pro.
- jeffdubin 3y agoThanks for pointing out these alternatives - I'll check them out!
- Phostera 3y agoI developed Filmic pro in the early days though I haven’t had anything to do with it in ten years. The market for subscription video cameras on iOS is dead and I am happy to help it stay there. I have a set of videography tools I released last week (free camera) using what model I believe is viable and useful; truly give away the camera like Blackmagic, sell privacy focused tools to get and manage footage over the network. I haven't posted here about them as I want to post the next update with some key features before most know, but if you need some tools have a look and let me know what you think.
- m0d0nne11 3y ago> "[...]the team [...] has been let go." no, No, NO - They were NOT "let go". A balloon on a string, a hostage in a dungeon, a bird in a cage - these are all things that are struggling to get free and of which it can therefore be said that we "let go". But a human being who would, presumably, remain at their job if given any choice in the matter has not been "let go" - that person has been jettisoned, discarded, fired. The author does us all a disservice by hiding the truth with shallow euphemisms.
- deafpolygon 3y agoAren't they the same company that just bought Evernote out? I always wondered why they bought Evernote. Does anyone know?