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You may have discovered that by 2019, whether it is a thousand yuan machine or a million machine, taking pictures is an important criterion for judging the merits and demerits of the products – even more important than the signal.

Of course, thanks to the huge increase in the hardware of the mobile phone itself, through the heap of lenses and algorithms, the smartphone attempts to achieve a cornering of the camera through “computing photography.”

On the other hand, it is also related to the rise of various photography apps. You may see more artifacts on the phone, but you can see the app later without the green screen. You may see it for the first time:

Macaron 4.0 is here.

With the green screen, the phone can do special effects

If you are an old reader of AppSo, you should be familiar with Macarons. This is a mobile phone artifact, which was rated as an excellent local app of 2018 by Apple.

After nearly a year of polishing, “Macarons Play” has finally released the 4.0 version, the name has become “Makaron”, because “Macaron” can not only map, but also ” Video video” – in the past, this needs to be shot in the green curtain shed, and with a professional video processing software frame processing, in order to have a better effect.

But this time, open “Macaron”, special effects directly shoot!

Open “Macaron”, select “Camera” to shoot or import “Video”, the algorithm will automatically recognize the video and complete the video image:

After completing the video keying, you can perform various processing on the portrait. “Macaron” provides options for copying, zooming, coloring, etc.:

Of course, there is also the best background for Macarons – you can replace it with a long press of the background image, and you can derive a lot of gameplay:

In addition, there are two important technical details worth mentioning, which is also a great example of the technical strength of Macaron.

First of all, on the iPhone 11 series equipped with the A13 biochip, you can use the macaron to call both the front camera and the rear camera at the same time, which greatly expands the playability – you can simultaneously have two Characters make video videos!

In addition, Macaron also supports importing images or video backgrounds by itself. By importing various personalized materials, you can make a qualitative leap in video creation space.

In general, the operation of “Macaron” for video effects is really incredible, and one of my editorial colleagues experienced it and exclaimed:

Wow! It’s amazing, you can’t see this easy-to-use feature.Now on professional equipment.

Three tricks, teach you to play with the zero threshold to create artifacts

Since the launch, “Macaron” has been developed a lot of creative gameplay, and after adding the “Video Video” function, there are more tricks to play. Today, I will introduce a few tricks to everyone. ————

Travel around the world without leaving the house

To go to the world to punch cards is the basic gameplay of “changing the background”. After all, during the Golden Week, it is not easy to go anywhere. It is not easy to punch the cards in the physical red dot, but cut a section with “Macaron”. The world’s punch video is not difficult:

The shuttle country of the country

With the zoom function of Macaron, you can create the visual effect of “Crossing the Country of the Little Man” and you can make a lot of interesting little videos:

Elegant and indistinguishable shadows

Of course, if you have some performance talents, you can also try “shadows” – take two videos of yourself, take a picture of them and give yourself a performance:

Overall, Macaron provides a very unique and versatile gameplay for video creation. If you have a big brain, there are still many tricks you can play.

In the process of filming, we also explored some tips to greatly improve the filming rate:

• The background is as clean as possible
• Try to be alone in the filming
• Carry accessories such as bags as little as possible
• Character movements should not be too fast or too large to stay active on the screen

Macaron’s new upgrade: good products are no different from magic

A year ago, AppSo received news that Macarons will enter the video field.

The Macarons at the time was not only a well-known “one second map” application, but also an active photo community.

However, how to make a breakthrough in the video field is a headache. After all, there are already too many strong players on the track in the short video community, and the “artifact” of the video later, two hands I can’t count it.

Where is the core competitiveness of Macarons?

The answer is: Technology.

You may not know that behind “Macaron” there is an artificial intelligence company called Versa.

Versa CEO Cai Tianyi is a former Guevara product partner and a serial entrepreneur. CTO Zhao Weijie, once an algorithmic scientist at Huawei HiSili, served as director of the Brain Science Laboratory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

When a super product manager encounters a technical bull, there are always some wonderful chemical reactions. In an interview with AppSo, Scorpio made this point:

Versa has a good technical reserve in the field of artificial intelligence in brain-like computing, and we hope to apply artificial intelligence to the cultural field so that ordinary people can use cutting-edge technology.

Therefore, we realized the “one-second map” by using the “human-separation” technology, and realized the “P-passenger” by using the “smart fill” technology. We believe that artificial intelligence technology will greatly reduce the duplication of human labor. time.

What will future people do? Either consume content or make content.

And what Versa is doing is to use more cutting-edge technology and easy-to-use products to allow more people to create content and empower the creators.

We hope that like Disneyland, although there is a strong technical accumulation, everything that is finally presented to you is like magic.

Be a good product with magic, empowering creation – this is the beginning of “Macaron”. After two years of rapid development, Versa and Macaron have been favored by many big manufacturers. They have cooperated with Apple, Huawei and Tencent. The installed capacity of Macaron is more than 40 million.

In the era of reading pictures, it is not an easy task, but with the simple product logic and deep technical accumulation, “Macaron” can also make most people with only one mobile phone and not PS. Achieve “hairline level map”.

When the short video broke out, “Macaron” chose the most difficult “green screen effect” in the late video, without the need for a green screen, no workstations, or even professional-grade software. Make difficult effects on your phone.

Yes, “Macaron” has been walkingIt’s not easy for others to walk the road – they have confidence in technology, they have confidence in the product, but most importantly, they have confidence in the “creator”:

They believe that once there is a zero-threshold creative tool, creation will be more free.

*Note: Currently Macaron version 4.0 only supports iOS, and the Android version is under development.