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Paul Veugen

Detail - Upgrade your camera & turn your Mac into a production studio

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Detail is a virtual camera that you can use in Zoom, Loom, Twitch, Whereby, or your favorite streaming software. Use your iPhone or iPad as your camera, switch between cameras, pick your favorite filter and record high quality video while streaming live.

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Paul Veugen
Maker
Hey Product Hunters 👋 I'm Paul, one of the makers of Detail. We're thrilled to launch on Product Hunt today and I almost forgot how exciting (and scary) a first product launch can be. Today, we're launching Detail for macOS in beta for the Product Hunt community. We're thrilled to open up our beta for the first 1000 people who sign up. Signup through the Product Hunt URL, and we'll send you a download link and unlock code within 24 hours. Our goal is to enable everyone to create professional video without investing a ton in new equipment or spend countless hours to master video editing. We want to improve the production quality of your video while reducing the time taken to produce it. Install Detail for macOS to upgrade your camera for Zoom, Loom, Twitch, or your favorite streaming software. The first features we're launching today: 📱 Use our iOS app to connect your iPhone camera with USB or wifi to your Mac. 💅 Select one of our 9 filters to look better than ever. 🎥 Easily switch between different camera's and iPhone lenses, while streaming, to capture the best shots. ⏺ Record high-quality video locally, while you're streaming or in video call. We're a bit scared but super excited to onboard you to our app and upgrade your video. We'll be hanging out here today to answer any questions. We're looking forward to your feedback 🙇‍♂️
Samuel Beek
@pveugen Hii! Very curious about this product. Currently I'm using Camo, but that's not very user friendly. I like the simple approach you took and I'm curious to see wether it's easy enough for the non-tech-savvy masses. That being said, I haven't been able to try it out! On your website, I need to fill in my e-mail address and there's no download link yet. Would be cool to just make that accessible for everyone here on Product Hunt :).
Paul Veugen
Maker
@samuelbeek Thanks Samuel! We're inviting everyone who signs up today through ProductHunt. You should've received your invite just now. I'll be keeping an eye on the list and will work through the invites as fast as I can.
Simon Barker
@pveugen This looks very nice, I hate how bad most webcams are
Paul Veugen
Maker
@simon_barker1 Totally! Even a lot of expensive devices look very bad. Your phone is an insanely capable device with excellent camera, sensors, and processing power. We want to move video post-production into your live camera feed, our virtual webcam is just the start.
Joseph Abraham
@pveugen : Congrats on the launch! Love this idea - iPhone as a camera source. I use Ecamm live with a external camera but this is so much fun 😎
David Notté
Maker
🙌 Hello everyone! I'm David, and I am the designer at Detail. I am also a part-time actor now 😬. Designing both apps for iOS and macOS has been a great journey. It was my first time designing for macOS, getting to know all the small details that go into that process. It also gave me the change to work closely with @larkef once more. Which turned out to be an even greater success, because he joined us as a brand designer. We will be sharing more design related things in the coming weeks, so also please keep an eye on our Dribbble page: https://dribbble.com/detailtechn... If you have any questions about the design (process), don't hesitate to reply, or find me on Twitter (link is in my PH profile). And finally, congrats to the entire team! 🎉
Vince Schwidder
Intrigued. What is better or different from Camo? https://reincubate.com/camo/
Paul Veugen
Maker
@vschwid Thanks Vince! Camo and EpocCam are great products to use your phone as a webcam. We think using your iPhone is the best camera upgrade for picture quality for most people, but see that as our starting point. We enable you to use your built-in webcam, a connected DSLR or fancy webcam, or your iPhone and easily switch, to give you most flexibility. With our first foundation in place with recording, high-quality streaming, and the first filters, we're now focused on camera transitions, multi-camera support, auto-framing, and other ways to make your video more engaging. A virtual camera is the easiest way to support for different live video platforms from day 1. Some more background on what we're after, in case you're interested: https://medium.com/detailapp/the...
Vince Schwidder
@pveugen Cool! I was expecting a bit more from "a production studio", but time will tell. Great plans Paul, keep it up!
Paul Veugen
Maker
@vschwid We're setting the bar high. Stay tuned!
Andrew 💥
Just tried the app on iPhone XR + MacBook Pro: - Set-up is instant (it imidiatly recognises devices on the same network and connects) - Picture quality & speed is great, no delay ( I wonder how it performs on a slower internet though) - Was able to connect to Zoom with no problem All in all I love Detail attention to detail 😳 This icon that shows you phone battery when using back camera is such a nice touch! Also, feature request: be able to add it as a camera to Google Meet as well
Paul Veugen
Maker
@the_andriy_bond Thanks Andrew! Appreciate the feedback. > Also, feature request: be able to add it as a camera to Google Meet as well Safari on macOS unfortunately doesn't support virtual camera's. Chrome and Firefox do support the camera.
Andrew 💥
@pveugen oh, now I see - just tried on Chrome and it works great
Sasha Briu
Seriously! NOW IT IS SO EASY! I need to try it out!
Alexey Shashkov
I like the idea! I’m going to record the founder’s video for the YC application today and your product can help me. I requested an invitation. When can I try? Is that possible right now?
Paul Veugen
Maker
@shashcoffe Thanks Alexey! We're inviting people signing up today as fast as we can. You should've just received your unlock code. Thanks for giving it a try.
Bilal Chaglani
Awesome product. Love the fact that I can change my camera to my phone for zoom.
Paul Veugen
Maker
@bilal_chaglani Thanks Bilal! We use our phone camera for most video calls (hard to beat image quality) but sometimes like the flexibility of using the built-in camera. In Detail, you can switch between camera's without interrupting your Zoom stream. Also useful to capture different angles or when you use a DSLR as camera.
Russ Gavrilyuk
wow, it looks really easy and cool
Craig Paterson
Hi there @pveugen. Detail sounds really good. I am currently using Camo, but just wondered if you could let us know what devices/iOS versions Detail will work with. Update: just received my invite – thank you. I see it requires iOS 13 and macOS 11 with an M1 capable Mac (which I don’t have - yet). Will you be supporting older hardware at all? Or will these be the minimum specs required going forward?
Paul Veugen
Maker
@craigcpaterson We currently support iOS 13 and up, and Big Sur and up. You don't need an M1 to be able to run the app. If you use your iPhone, we do most of the image processing on your phone, so the system requirements for the Mac are relatively lean.
Johan Cutych
This is super cool @pveugen! Curious to see more. Would love to connect and chat about how this can be used with our getwelder.com
Gilles Bertaux
Just tested on Livestorm and it works like a charm ;) kudos
Tom Fellenz
Look forward to getting started! I'm a maker of music and launching my first NFT today. This will undoubtedly lead to some Discord/Twitch/YouTube sessions. Curious if Detail allows audio to be captured from the iOS device, or only from the Mac (or other device) running the streaming session?
Paul Veugen
Maker
@tfellenz Exciting, good luck with the launch! When you select Detail for iPhone as your camera, we currently record audio from your iPhone. If you select other camera's on your Mac, we record from the audio input your select in the Detail menu. In the near future we hope to create some more flexibility around audio inputs and enable you to override what audio source to use, independent from the camera. This way you could for example record with your iPhone and select a USB microphone on your Mac.
David Ola
Go Team Detail! Epic product that I can't wait to use every day! :)
Luís Jesus
Hey guys, congratulations on your release! Looks super polished and the setup is very easy since it searches your local network. I will definitely use it and keep an eye for future features 😃
Cica-Laure Mbappé
Interesting! Looks so easy to use. Congrats on your launch. Yay to the first place 🚀
Paul Veugen
Maker
@cica_laure_mbappe Thanks Cica-Laure 🙌
Johannes Grenzemann
Looks very cool. Will try it out as soon as you support for intel macs! Do you have a timeline for this?
Paul Veugen
Maker
@jgrenzemann Hey Johannes. We distribute our Mac app outside of the App Store and support Intel and M1. The iOS App Store listing is unfortunately a bit confusing: it is the Detail iOS app that also works on M1, which is not our Mac app. I'm trying to make that more clear on the App Store.
Aditya
Wow! ?makers this is what I needed!! I tried my hands on a logitech webcam... but didn't find it worth the investment. Btw, when can we expect a Windows version?
Paul Veugen
Maker
@adityavsc 🙇‍♂️ A windows version is unfortunately not on our schedule yet. We're focused on expanding our macOS and iOS apps first. Once we feel like we have a good stable feature set, we likely build for Windows too.
Tom Phillips
congrats Paul and team!!
Alibek Datbayev
Congratulations on the launch, David! Amazing idea! Best of luck!
Iwe Blessing
Thank you. It's very helpf