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#304309 22-Apr-2023 15:03
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I'd like to record my daughters upcoming gig using my phone, which, is easily done.... however is there an app out there that would allow me to record from multiple Android phones at once ?

 

So I'd use one phone to record from front of stage, one from side, etc etc.... 

 

Yes, I could just use each phone individually but if there was some easier way for control/merging, that'd be great..... anything out there ?

 

Sound wise I'm not concerned with, my phone tends to do a good job with that or else if theyre using a proper sounddesk at the the venue (unlikely tho) I'll find a way to plug into that.

 

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  #3067086 22-Apr-2023 23:10
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Hey. If it's multiple Android phones that you'll be shooting with it would likely be easiest to record of them individually and edit everything together afterwards.

There are a couple of video switcher options that come to mind, but the setup would be elaborate...and I'm not 100% how reliable they'll be with an all mobile setup.
You could look into something like the Yolobox Pro (rent from rubbermonkey, run multiple video sources into it, record directly to it via SD card) but you'll need adaptors in order to get the phones to output to HDMI and each phone would need a camera app like Filmic Pro in order to output "clean HDMI".
Similarly you could use a laptop running OBS (popular open source streaming app) and run multiple phones into the laptop. Not actually sure how easy this is to do, but you'd still need something like Filmic Pro for clean HDMI.

With this setup you'd need someone manually switching cameras during the gig in order for the Yolobox/OBS to capture the camera switching. There maybe a way automate switching, but that may not be the best way to capture the gig.

So yeah, personally for an all mobile setup, I would film on each individual device and edit the files together afterwards. If you don't have an easy to way to edit, flick me PM, might be able to give you a hand :)

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