Video Question : Cropping & Taking Underwater

[stickypaws]

Hi, am new to Android so you'll probably be seeing a lot of me and having to put up with my daft questions :smileyexclaim:.  For my first post I have two questions that I hope you can help me with.

Firstly, when taking a video underwater do you need to start recording BEFORE going into the water as my screen does not respond when under the water and it also takes a while after coming out of the water to respond for me to stop recording?

Which then leads me nicely into my next question ..

If you have to start recording prior to going underwater and have to wait until you're back to stop recording is there a way to crop the movie?

I should also mention I do have a screen protector on the phone (not the one supplied by Sony as I made a right hash of applying that one so I ended up buying another)

Thanks in advance guys 

[Archanos · Accepted solution]

Hi

Your questions are not that daft actually.

There is a simple way to operate the camera in video mode underwater. You don't really need to start recording before it goes underwater and stop this long while after. You can control the video by the shutter button the same way you take pictures Your screen can stop responding (it's pretty normal) but the shutter button still works You push it to start and push to stop recording. This works of course in manual mode, in Superior Auto you can only take pictures with this shutter button while recording a video.

So there is no need to crop the video if you do this the way I just told you

I hope it helps

[stickypaws]

Ah that's awesome - it works!! Thanks so much. Glad to know the screen is slow to respond after coming out of the water too (I didn't panic (much) considering it feels sooo wrong submerging a phone in water LOL.) 

But, out of interest, is there a way you can crop your videos via the phone (like you can on the iPhone)?

[markusyamaha]

Hey stickypaws, there are many apps in store which you can use for this. I use 'vidtrim pro'. good luck swimming with the phone!

Gr mark

[JmspZoid]

Hey.. I saw in this video. The guy just give the phone a shake after it was in the water and the screen works again. ive tried it.. it works. link below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HZbsf6JZPk