Film together
Everyone films the same event from where they stand. Nobody has to press record at the same moment. Angles lines the clips up afterwards using their sound.
Open your camera
Tap Open camera on the shoot's screen. The first time, tap Allow camera and microphone. Angles needs the microphone because the sound is what lines everyone's clips up.
The camera screen has very little on it:
- The record button at the bottom. It is a red dot. It turns into a red square while you record.
- MARK (the star) to mark a big moment.
- LENS to change lens before you record. It reads 1× or .5×, or SELF for the front camera. Which lenses you get depends on your phone.
- A clock at the top, and the letters of every camera in the shoot. A letter turns red while that camera is recording.
The screen stays on while the camera is open.
Record a take
- Hold your phone upright or sideways. Both work. The shape of the clip is set when recording starts, so pick one and keep it for that take.
- Tap the record button. The edge of the screen turns red while you record.
- Tap the button again to stop.
You can record as many takes as you like. Each one is saved on your phone first and then uploads by itself.
Keep Angles on screen while you film. On iPhone, recording stops if you switch to another app or lock the phone.
Film when you like
Nobody is in charge of the filming. Your record button starts and stops your own camera and nothing else, and nobody else can start or stop it for you.
You don't need to start at the same moment as anyone else. Angles lines the clips up by their sound afterwards, so film in short bursts or long takes, whenever something is worth filming.
When someone else in the shoot starts filming, your phone shows a short note such as "Sam is filming". It is only a heads-up. Tap it to open your camera, or ignore it.
Get everyone filming
If something good is about to happen, open Cameras and tap Get everyone filming. Everyone who isn't already recording sees "Sam is asking everyone to film" with a button to open their camera. Anyone in the shoot can do this.
Watch every camera
Anyone can open Cameras from the shoot's screen, or by tapping the camera letters at the top of their own camera. It shows a small picture from every phone, updated about once a second.
Under each picture is the person's name and what their camera is doing:
- A running timer and a red outline: recording.
- Ready: camera open, not recording.
- Standby: in the shoot, but the camera isn't open. The picture says "Camera closed".
- Offline: Angles is closed or has no connection.
The line under the pictures says how many cameras are rolling. It also warns you about a camera with low battery (under 20%), less than 10 minutes of space left, no sound, or uploads waiting for Wi-Fi.
Ping someone
To ask one person to film, tap their picture. They see your name and "is asking everyone to film" with an Open camera button.
Film from the Cameras screen
The Cameras screen doesn't record by itself. To film, tap your own picture, which says "Tap to film". On Android you can also tap My camera.
Mark a moment
When something good happens, tap MARK on the camera screen. Everyone with their camera open sees "★ Marked".
To add a few words, press and hold MARK, type a label such as "Goal", and tap Mark.
You can also mark from the Cameras screen with ★ Mark moment (★ Mark on Android).
Marks show up as stars in the editor. They are also what a Highlights video is built from. A shoot can hold up to 500 marks.
If a call or another app interrupts
On iPhone: if a call comes in, another app takes the camera or microphone, or you leave Angles, the recording stops. What you filmed up to then is saved. The screen says "Recording stopped" and why. When the camera is free again, tap Resume recording to start a new take.
On Android: if a call or another app takes the microphone, the recording keeps going but has no sound. The phone vibrates and a red message says "No sound: another app is using the microphone". If another app takes the camera, the take is stopped and saved.
A clip with no sound can't be lined up by sound. See No sound.
If the phone runs out of space, recording stops and what you filmed is saved.
Add videos from your library
You can add videos that you already shot with your phone's normal camera. This is handy when someone filmed the event without Angles.
- Open the shoot. You need to be in it, so join with its code if you are not yet.
- Open Footage.
- Tap + Add from camera roll on iPhone, or + Add from your phone on Android.
- Pick one or more videos.
The videos upload like any other clip. Angles uses the time each video was recorded, and its sound, to put it in the right place. The originals stay in your library.
Videos saved from a chat or a shared album often lose the time they were recorded. On iPhone, Angles then offers Use Photos' date. If you agree, it asks to see your photo library so it can read the date for those videos. Nothing else is read. If you tap Not now, the video goes in without a time and is left out of the sync.
If you can, add the original video from the phone that filmed it.
If you don't want to give Angles the camera at all, tap Just add videos instead on the screen that asks for it.
How clips upload
- Uploading starts by itself after each take. You don't have to do anything.
- While you are recording, Angles holds back the heavy work of getting clips ready, so filming always comes first.
- Uploads carry on when you lock the phone or leave the app.
- If you have no signal, clips wait on your phone and go up when you are back online.
- The Footage screen shows each person's progress.
On iPhone, Angles first makes smaller copies of each clip, and it can only do that while the app is open. After a long shoot, leave Angles open for a few minutes so every clip gets ready to send.
On Android, Angles asks once if it may show a notification while your clips upload.
Upload on Wi-Fi only
Open Settings from the home screen. It is the word "Settings" on iPhone and the gear on Android.
- On iPhone, turn on Videos on Wi-Fi only. The video waits for Wi-Fi. The small sound file used for syncing still goes over mobile data, so clips can be lined up early.
- On Android, turn on Upload on Wi-Fi only. Clips wait on your phone until you are on Wi-Fi.
While a phone is waiting, the Footage screen shows "Waiting for Wi-Fi" next to that camera.
Where your own takes are kept
On iPhone, takes are kept inside Angles for a week after they upload, then removed from the phone. To keep your own copy of everything you film, open Settings and turn on Save my takes to Photos.
On Android, each take is saved to your gallery when it ends, in Movies › Angles. The copy inside Angles is removed once it has uploaded.
To free up space, see Storage.
Limits
- Up to 60 people in a shoot.
- Up to 200 clips per person, and 1,000 clips per shoot.
- One clip can be up to 2 hours long.
- A shoot can hold up to 100 GB of clips.