VideoBro / Guides

The guides: film it, collect it, finish it.

Every how-to on the site in one place, grouped by the problem you actually have. Start with the one closest to yours.

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Collecting everyone's footage

The problem no editing app solves: the clips are on eight different phones. These are about getting them into one place, with or without us.

GuideCombine videos from multiple phonesEvery way to get footage off several phones and into one film, with the steps for each. GuideCollect everyone's videos after a tripThe trip's already over and the footage is on everyone's phones. How to get it back and make one film. GuideGet friends to contribute videosEveryone says they'll send their clips and nobody does. When to ask, who to ask, and what to say. GuideTurn a Shared Album into a filmWhen a shared album is genuinely enough, and how to turn the one you already have into one film. ChoosingCollaborative video apps, comparedFive different products get called that. What each is for, and when it's the wrong one, including us.

Making something out of it

Footage isn't a home movie yet. These are about the distance between a camera roll and a thing you'd sit down and watch. Why that distance exists at all is its own story.

GuideMake a home movie with your phoneNine steps, from a boundary and the right settings through to actually watching it, including where most attempts stall. GuideMake a video without editing for hoursFive honest ways to turn the clips already on your phone into something you can hand to someone. GuideWhat to do with all your videosA plain decision guide for the pile already on your phone, whether or not a tape is the answer. GuideMake videos look like VHSWhat made tape look like tape, the three honest ways to get the look, and which one leaves your footage clean. GuideMake a year in review videoOne tape for the year, from your camera roll, a Shared Album and everyone who was there.

Sharing it, and keeping it

Getting the finished thing to the people who were there, without posting it anywhere, and knowing where it lives afterward.

GuideShare family videos privatelyWays to share family video with friends and family, and why an unlisted link is not a password. FeatureThe Tape CabinetWhere a finished film lives: shelves, a hidden shelf behind Face ID, and one unlisted link per film. FeatureStorage and the free plan2 GB free, what counts toward it, who pays for a shared tape, and what stays after Develop. ToolVideo storage calculatorHow much space iPhone video takes at each setting, and how a crew splits a 2-hour tape.

Deciding what to film

For when you want footage worth keeping and don't know what to point the phone at. If you're planning around an occasion, a trip, a wedding, a season, start from the occasion instead.

GuideWhat to filmThe unglamorous footage of kids and family that actually holds up later, and how much of it is enough. IdeaFilm a year of your kidTwo or three repeatable anchors instead of a documentation project. IdeaThings worth a tapeWhat's worth filming when there's no occasion at all: a last year in an apartment, a slow phone call.

What every guide here assumes

None of these need VideoBro to be useful, and each one says plainly when a shared album, a cloud folder or a free editor is the better answer. Where a tape does fit, the rules are the same on every page, because they're the same in the app: how it works has them in one place.

If you'd rather start from the occasion than the problem, the ideas hub is organised that way: trips, weddings, a season, a night. And if you just want a short answer to one specific question, the questions page has them.

Start with 2 GB free.

The free plan is the real product, not a demo: make tapes, fill one with up to 8 people including you, trim, Develop, and share films by link. Storage is the only thing a paid plan will ever change.

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