Halide makers just made Kino the ultimate iPhone 17 Pro video app

Kino, the pro video capture app for iOS, just received an update that makes it the ultimate filmmaking app for iPhone 17 Pro.

The team at Lux Optics, the company behind both Halide and Kino, explains how today’s version 1.4 update lets iPhone 17 Pro users take full advantage of their camera hardware:

Today we’re launching support for Apple Log 2 in our award winning video app, Kino. Apple Log 2 is a new format that launched alongside the iPhone 17 Pro. To understand what makes it special, let’s dig into the concept of Log and RAW video, why every camera maker uses a unique format, and why we took our time to add support to Kino.

Naturally, a super informed and detailed blog post accompanies the update, providing a great resource for learning more about Apple Log 2 and how Kino 1.4 takes advantage of the Apple technology. The blog post even contains a preview of what could come in the future for Halide and Kino:

I love working on Kino, our users love it, and I have ambitious plans ahead. However, the final version of Halide Mark III is still our top priority. So what do we do? Probably bounce back and forth between the apps for a bit. Big Halide updates will follow shorter Kino updates.

The long term plan is to unify the rendering system between the apps. As we just showed you, RAW photography and Log video are very similar. By unifying some technology, we can share technical improvements across both apps with less duplicated work.

If video is more your speed, there’s that too for learning more about Apple Log and what Kino 1.4 supports:

Kino is available for $9.99 on the App Store. Today’s release is available as a free update for existing Kino customers.

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