ShowTime - Video Recorder for iPhone 2G & 3G app for iPhone and iPad


4.9 ( 5169 ratings )
Utilities Photo & Video
Developer: Polar Bear Farm Ltd
0.99 USD
Current version: 2.0.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 22 Dec 2009
App size: 600.75 Kb

ShowTime allows you to record video on the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G.
Twice the frame rate and higher resolution than other video recorders on the App Store. 4:3 or 16:9 recording.

Two years after we pioneered video recording on the iPhone by developing the first video recorder app, ShowTime, weve brought it out of hibernation, and onto the App Store!

Recording Format:

• 320 x 240 px Portrait or 426 x 240 px Landscape
• 16-Bit Audio @ 22.05kHz
• Motion JPEG File format

Features
• 4:3 portrait recording (320 x 340 px)
• 16:9 landscape recording (426 x 240 px)
• 5x digital zoom (touch and drag up and down to zoom in and out)
• Email videos
• WiFi transfer direct to your computer
• Share on YouTube
• Share on Twitter (via TwitVid)
• Share on Facebook
• No time limit on recording
• Optional Audio Boost plugin

No time limit on recording. Record for as long as you want, or until your phone runs out of free space.

Video files can be emailed and played on your computer in QuickTime or other video playback software supporting Motion JPEG.

Pros and cons of ShowTime - Video Recorder for iPhone 2G & 3G app for iPhone and iPad

ShowTime - Video Recorder for iPhone 2G & 3G app good for

Thought it worked good for a phone that wasnt made to do video. Yeah it is a bit choppy, and sometimes the sound is out of sink, but if you want good video, get a phone that was designed for video.
U have to compress before email Makes video little choppy but overall pretty good
Good app, but you should b able to shoot and or view the video in landscape mode/ presentation.
I do have to say that this has the best video capture frame rate of the 4 other video apps I have tried for 3G and 2G iPhones . The abillity to upload via wifi or load it to camera roll is the only thing keeping it from a 5 star . The ability for zoom is a great feature and Im looking forward to other updates .
this video recording app is prob. the best out there i tell you if u have the 2g iphone this app is probably the best video recording app, really!...buy this app its better than any other app that says that they have the best video recording app..but they dont seriously...! this is the best app for the iphone 2g...highly recommended
Im pretty happy with this version on a 3G and with the fact that the developer keeps regularly updating and improving the application. There is no getting around the limitations of video on the 3G, but I can record them and transfer to the macbook via wifi, so no complaints.

Some bad moments

This thing does not let me delete the first video I shot. Also it does not save videos at all; you cant even see them after you record them which means it doesnt work. It CRASHES a lot to. Dont buy this app or youll regret it.
I Deleted the program almost immediately. Too slow and low volume pick-up. Sorry
Ive successfully emailed ONE video, of about 10 that Ive made with this app. They all look good, and the one Ive managed to email off my iPhone looks pretty decent on my iMac, but attempting to email any video larger than about 30 seconds (or 10MB compressed) crashes the app in one of two ways: black screen then home screen, or I receive an error message then its stuck forever on the email screen. So to summarize, buy this app if you dont ever want to do ANYTHING with your videos. In fact, save yourself a buck and just open the iPhones built in camera app, watch the world through the viewfinder for a minute, then pretend you were making a video and you just cant get it off the phone. Same thing really.
This application works well. But compress is not working. When ever I try to compress, the app is crashing. Also need more flexibility. I am not sure how to use zoom feature.
Not much good. Jerky video playback. Crashes. If you were to j**lbr**k your iPhone you could get Cycorder for free and youd find its much better than this. Novelty item but not much more.
The only thing I would like to see on the app is maybeexport to the camera roll cause is you make the video to big you cant email it so it is stuck on the phone.. What if you want to put it on your computer you cant Thanks Wolf