Remote Legacy Reviews

I’m changing my review after getting really great tech support from the Filmic crew. I had an issue of the remote not being able to control both the iPhone 12 and 13 Max Pro as camera A and B because it was calling them the same name, and still doing so after I changed the names of both phones to be different. Turns out RemoteLegacy was using the old names from cache inside the Filmic Pro app - so reinstalling the remote app was not getting it to see the new names! I reinstalled Filmic Pro on both phones and it now sees the new phone names and allows me to control both phones. Thank God they explained it to me and that resolved the issue, now I can control both phones and all is well with the remote app again.
Being a one man film crew, I use RemoteLegacy on my iPad to lock the exposure and focus with me as the subject from both camera angles, and for this RemoteLegacy is great!

How is a 1 second delay acceptable? I get there has to be a delay but this is ridiculous. I’ve use many apps like this and this one by far has the worst latency.

There is lag as others have mentioned but it’s transmitting and controlling over WiFi so it’s to be expected. It’s NOT supposed to be a Teradek system.

My issue is switching between 2 iPhones, doesn’t work. Tested with an iPhone 5s and 8 Plus. The Remote app needed to be restarted to display the feed that was not the first one viewed. Even though the other appears in the list of devices, RemoteLegacy had to be quit and restarted to switch to the other device and see video. Both phones are running different version of iOS (12.4.5 and 13.3.1) so possible API differences could be a factor. Dunno.

RemoteLegacy is a good idea in principle but the implementation needs work.

The video on my 2020 iPad Pro lags behind the video on my iPhone 11 by 2-3 seconds, which makes RemoteLegacy pretty useless as a viewfinder for blocking motion.

I think it would be far more useful if the developers would compress the video by a factor of 5-10 to reduce the lag to a couple hundred milliseconds. I’d much rather sacrifice preview quality to reduce lag.

I have an iPhone 12 Pro and iPad Air 4 and the Filmic Remote app on my iPad will not connect with the Filmic Pro app on my iPhone. It reads it and starts to connect then disconnects. I am on a strong WiFi system but that doesn’t seem to matter. Have tried everything, including reinstalling but get the same result. Very disappointed with this product and expected much better after watching several videos about it.

Video showed yesterday. Black today. What else. Basically unstable. Support not responding. Dead in the water. Will request refund soon. Expensive for a pro app that only does remote control.

Deletes remote app again. Got picture but now it’s upside down. 😂😂 On-Screen controls are right-side up.

Oops! Can’t quit RemoteLegacy . Loses picture again. Must delete app and reinstall again and again and again. . .

I love RemoteLegacy. I personally use it for my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Unfortunately, this update has left me unable to effectively use its remote capabilities. The latency gets worse and worse the longer you have RemoteLegacy open. It was consistently greater than 30 seconds till I finally gave up.

If you decide to try it anyway, please take the time to back up your device before updating.

I hope a fix is coming soon!

I love the capability of RemoteLegacy, though it would be much better if the Filmic Firstlight photo app was also able to be remote controlled by this. That way you could compose the shot, figure out focus, lighting, and colors, all while being in the shot yourself.

Hoping you can support for Mac Catalist to see the iPad app work in macOS as well. Wish it can be viewed in n two devices at the same time, iPad and MacBook. Also be great if we were able to see load Luts to see how it world look if one added a lut after. Not to be recorded with the lut. Just to preview while recording.

I don’t know if this is the case for others, but my Filmic remote app is just not pairing up with my phone. I have an iPhone XR so it’s a pretty new device. I follow the steps as displayed on the “ how to connect “ screen and when I get in, the screen is just black. After a couple seconds, it then takes me back to the previous “how to Yvonne this” screen. Any solutions? I just purchased the Filmic app bundle.

This is the first day that I started working with the FILMIC PRO REMOTE application. This is fantastic! I wish I had discovered this sooner. Thank you guys for this amazing tool!
Piotr

Filmic pro always crashes within one or two minutes after remote is engaged. I received a response to my initial review. I followed the developers instructions to delete and reload both apps. Same problem. I advised the developer but have not received a response. That was about two weeks ago.

Works as intended. 1 star off for the lag, as others mentioned, but impossible to work around that without a tether.

When using the remote app, trying to change my frame rate settings causes it to crash and I have to restart. Every. Single. Time.

For an extra $10 there shouldn’t be that bad of a lag

This only shows me a preview of what my iPad Pro 2020 is seeing. ZERO ability to actually CONTROL the camera remotely. A total waste of $10. Running iPhone 6s+ / iOS 14.1

USELESS unless all you want to do is monitor.

If I was able to connect this to my watch instead in would help so much imagine

Black screen no matter what I do. The remote part of this thing is trash. It controls the phone but what good is that if I can’t see what it’s doing? Totally useless. I’d love a refund but it’s been a while.

When I connect to my iPhone all I get is a black screen. Then after a few seconds I get kicked back out to the device selection screen. How can I get a refund?

Could not use at all saying can’t find device and please enable blablabla but nothing you can do. Want my money back