Cinema FV-5 Lite

3.3
37K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

Cinema FV-5 is a professional video camera application for mobile devices, that puts professional manual controls in your fingertips. Tailored to enthusiast and professional videographers and filmmakers, with this video camera application you can capture the best footage with top-of-the-line controls for perfect postproduction purposes. The only limit is your imagination and creativity!


Major features:

● Adjust all the image sensor parameters that you only thought pro-videocameras had: exposure compensation, ISO, light metering mode (matrix/center/spot), focus mode and white balance.
● Change sensor parameters (like ISO, exposure compensation or white balance) also during recording.
● Focus adjustments during recording: lock focus on your subject before recording and change focus planes while recording.
● Professional viewfinder: 10+ compositing grids, 10+ crop guides available, safe areas display and much more.
● The most advanced electronic viewfinder on a video camera: live RGB and luminance histogram are available also during recording.
● Professional sound metering options: display audio peaks and sound clipping warnings during recording.
● Use any audio input source for your video: built-in microphone, external (wired) microphone or wireless (Bluetooth) headset.
● Choose video and audio codec, adjust the bitrates, audio sampling rates and number of channels.
● Record in 4K UHD (Ultra High Definition) video on supported devices.
● All camera functions assignable to volume keys. You can adjust EV, ISO, color temperature, zoom and more using volume keys (including those in cable-headsets) as well as focusing and recording. Devices with hardware camera shutter keys are also supported.
● Video geotagging support.
● Autofocus, macro, touch focus and infinity focus modes, plus a focus lock switch (AF-L).
● Autoexposure (AE-L) and auto white balance (AWB-L) locks in Android 4.0+. You can also lock exposure and white balance during clip recording automatically.
● Zoom after and while recording. Set specific focal lengths thanks to the 35mm equivalent-based focal length display.
● Powerful video clips organization options: different storage locations and fully customizable file names (even with variables).


Cinema FV-5 is the perfect app for producing the best footage for any short- to medium-sized production. With it you can record the best material possible with any medium- to high-end device. Cinema FV-5 specially supports Android-based compact cameras, so you can even leverage a high-quality, optically stabilized zoom. The footage captured with Cinema FV-5 can be easily edited on any NLE.


For more information, visit the official website http://www.cinemafv5.com or download the official Cinema FV-5 User Guide at http://www.cinemafv5.com/tutorials/user_manual.php. For technical support, please read the FAQ (http://www.cinemafv5.com/faq.php) or write to support@cinemafv5.com.


The Lite version is a fully-functional version without any time or feature restriction: it just limits the maximum length of the individual clips you can record. Please acquire the paid version to remove this limitation and record clips of any length.


Permissions explained:

- Approximate location and precise location: only used for geotagging functionality (disabled by default, and requires manual GPS activation).
- Modify or delete the contents of your USB storage and take pictures and videos: required for the usual camera operation.
Updated on
Oct 27, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.3
35.5K reviews
Paul Roberts
October 13, 2024
Needed a camera app that can take a Bluetooth mic input, this one works when using the rear camera, but inexplicably switches to the internal mic when using the front facing camera, and there doesn't seem to be a way to use the Bluetooth mic even though it's selected in the menu, maybe it's a bug I don't know, but I want to use an external mic so I can use my phone's front facing camera from a distance. If the developer fixes this then I will give it 5 stars.
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August 13, 2020
Thank you. I just need an app to stop my Samsung camera to constantly (and annoyingly) auto focusing every time I tried to make a tutorial. Imagine making something so tiny and difficult and when you finished you finally realized that you actually recorded a 30+ minutes *BLUR* video on it! I hope that won't happen again. One thing though, why does it ask to be allowed to connect with my contact, location, etc that don't really have any connection with a video app...? It made me paranoid.
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Heidi JC
June 12, 2020
It really does great work as it allows me to adjust the focus before recording. I was really sick of my phone camera keep adjusting the focus while recording videos. But luckily I found this app and it just solved the annoying problem. My camera does not keep adjusting the focus any more, and it just stay at the right spot throughout the whole video.
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What’s new

Specific support for Android 13 and 14 and fixes for a couple of bugs.