Twitter announced last year that it would discontinue Vine, the video sharing service popular for its entertaining content shared on the platform. Later, it was announced that Vine would be replaced by Vine Camera on January 17.
Yesterday was the last day when Vine users could download their videos from the platform, as the Vine app was officially discontinued and replaced by Vine Camera. The latter is a simplified version of the highly popular application, with tools for capturing and editing videos.
Specifically, Vine Camera allows its users to shoot six second videos with the front and rear cameras on their phones. They can also import videos from their phone’s gallery and use the editing tools found inside the Vine Camera app.
Videos can be shared on Twitter
The new edit mode allows Vine Camera users to edit and preview screens before creating a loop with the videos. Users simply need to long-press on the phone’s display in order to capture videos, which they can later trim.
The second layer of tools includes features like the grid and front and rear focus lock, ghost mode or torch. Users can undo videos that you’re not quite satisfied with and the app also allows its users to save drafts for later editing. Resulted clips can be on Twitter with a caption.
What made Vine app so popular was the bunch of funny and entertaining videos that users could discover on the platform. Now, users would have to go on Twitter and search for such videos among their tweet feed, which will surely take longer than discovering clips on a dedicated platform. Moreover, Vine Camera doesn’t include some of the most popular Vine editing tools like Soundboard, Snap-to-Beat or Featured Track soundtracking options.
The new Vine Camera app is available in the Play Store for smartphones running Android 4.1 and up. iPhone owners can install it from the App Store, provided that they’re running iOS 9.0 or later.
