100k Slowmographers Can Now Save Their Videos To Adobe’s Creative Cloud

Tamas Szakal
Everyday Slowmography
3 min readJun 16, 2016

The latest update to Slowmographer now offers connection to Adobe desktop tools through an integration of Adobe’s Creative SDK. A small but powerful change to our app!

Creative users, mobile photographers, and videographers often capture moments spontaneously, not knowing whether they’ll be using these shots in future projects or not. Clips become valuable at first but it’s often challenging to get those little snippets of video over to a professional working environment.

From App Store reviews and user interviews we know that people often send multiple files via email or transfer videos using AirDrop when the computer is nearby. However, we wouldn’t call that a good user experience. It was clear: sooner or later users will need to be able to save files online.

While we were thinking about a solution, we started a discussion with Adobe’s Creative SDK team about the cool possibilities to better connect our products. Adobe and it’s Creative Cloud platform can help our professional users to get their jobs done more efficiently. Perfect timing, isn’t it?

We’re super excited to be in touch with the software company who created amazing design tools that we’ve been using along the years. We absolutely love the Creative Cloud desktop publishing product family as well as the entire Flash platform, which we have used in almost each of our projects until we started developing for iOS. So, our reaction was: Wow, this is cool.

We started a conversation about the benefits of a potential integration a few weeks ago, looked into the Creative SDK documentation and thought that the best idea would be to start with their cloud synchronization feature. This will enable professional users to easily save their content to the Creative Cloud and synch with tools they use on their laptops or desktop computers every day.

Long story short: we’ve built it, here we go, just update the app to try the feature now!

  • When sharing a slowmograph, hit the Creative Cloud button (a notification pops up with a brief summary of the benefits)
  • Sign in with your Adobe ID or register if you’re new to CC
  • You’re done, the upload process is super-quick on most connections.

Once signed in, you’ll be able to save your work to the Creative Cloud the same way you’d do with the ‘Save Video’ & ‘Save GIF’ options which export your files to your phone’s camera roll.

From there, the files are easily accessible on your laptop’s browser in ‘My Assets’ as well as in Adobe Creative Cloud desktop apps like Premiere and After Effects.

On mobile, there’s currently only one app (Adobe Premiere Clip) that can access the files but we can be quite sure that others will follow soon.

The ecosystem around the Creative SDK is growing rapidly and there are so many cool apps among the partners! We’re delighted to join the ecosystem today and looking forward to seeing more & more integrations coming to popular mobile video editing apps in near future.

We hope you’ll like the update and please, let us know how you can make use of the feature, how it fits your workflow and if there is anything we can improve.

👉 Have a look at Adobe’s blog post too.

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