Oftentimes I find myself out in the field looking for the perfect site for a photo of video shoot. During a given day I may drive to 10 locations… and by the end, things can get a little blurry. It’s easy to forget what I’ve seen or even where I’ve been.
Fortunately there’s a great app called Panascout (from Panavision makes of professional cinematography cameras). The app offers some great features for cinematographers and photographers.
You can use it to capture photos (or videos) as you scout locations and store useful info.
- PANAFRAME (2.40, 1.85, 1.78, 1.33). See your shot masked how it will look for video or film projects.
- Date/Time. See when exactly the shot was taken with a text overlay.
- Sunrise/Sunset. Know when you’ll get and lose sunlight.
- GPS coordinates & Compass direction. Be abel to tell where you stood for the shot and which direction you faced. You can also keep maps of each location
- Add Voice Notes. Keep your hands free and record information about each shot.
- Add Captions. Label images to give others important details.
- Organize into Albums. Keep your project organized and ready to share.
This is an app designed for professionals, so it comes with a slightly more expensive price tag than the typical $1.99 apps. But at less than $10, I find it quite useful for getting information about potential locations and really planning out my shoots.
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This sounds like a great and very usable app, thanks for writing this up. I am a location scout and will definitely be trying this out.
Hold off buying this app because it does NOT run on iOS 7.
I’ve run it under iOS 7… but perhaps an update is needed.
I can’t get it run on IOS 7 on my IPhone. My iPhone is up to date. A quick google search seems to indicate this is not an unknown issues. Are you using an iPhone or iPad Rich?
I am not very happy with Panascout to say the least
Got a reply that they are working on an update. I got it to run on iOS 7 beta… not sure what happened. Sorry… looks to be fixed soon. The Lite version of the app does work (and is free). Start with that one.
A good app … very useful. But have to wait for an update
Are their any Android options out there?
http://fwdlabs.com/resources/apps/
Thanks Richard! i’d just downloaded Map-A-Pic right before I saw this reply. There are a ton of other resources on this page though, so thank you for sharing!
FYI, I just released an Android app very similar to Panascout and Map-A-Pic into beta, called “Location Scout”. I’m actively working on improving it so if you are still interested I would love if you gave it a try and provided your input on what features it needs!
http://sndurkin.github.io/locationscoutapp/
What about for computer?
Why would you take location scouting photos with your computer?