VSCO Wraps Up 2025 By Adding Video Recording to its iPhone Camera App
VSCO has added an oft-requested feature to its VSCO Capture iPhone camera app launched in June: video recording. The new video recording capabilities work with the app’s 50+ photo presets and arrive alongside a new film grain function.
Video recording in VSCO Capture comes with some caveats, including that it does not offer the same effects options or manual control as the app for still image capture, and that resolution is capped at 1080p. However, it does enable VSCO Capture users to shoot video with the same presets they love for photography.
“We’re excited to see how creators will capture their creative point of view by applying the presets to motion in real-time,” VSCO explains.
Alongside video recording, the VSCO Capture app’s new grain filter aims to emulate the look of real analog film. The lab-developed film grain effect “perfectly complements” VSCO’s film-inspired filters, the company says.
Users can tweak the grain filter’s effect with controls for strength, size, and color, ensuring it can range from subtle to dramatic. VSCO notes that its Members can combine the grain filter effect with over 40 different Film X preset filters inspired by real-world film stocks and different eras in photography.
The new grain filter complements the app’s existing tools, such as halation and bloom effects.
As a refresher, the VSCO Capture app marked VSCO’s return to mobile photography this past summer, giving mobile photographers a wide range of presets, filters, and manual controls to influence the look of their images. While VSCO had a mobile photography app before that included image capture, editing, and filters, that app eventually gave way to VSCO’s social media platform efforts.
Now, VSCO Capture channels the company’s past and is VSCO’s first standalone mobile app in over a decade. It lives alongside a wide range of iPhone camera apps, and will need to receive regular feature updates to compete against the best of the bunch.
VSCO Capture is free to download, but does require the user to have at least a free VSCO account. Certain features are available exclusively to premium VSCO members. Paid memberships start at $2.50 per month.
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