Can I use iPhone 6 plus as live video camera connected via USB

[yauh]

Hello folks,

I plan on using my iPhone 6 plus for recording talks and conferences. Is there a possible way to connect the iPhone to a MacBook via USB/Lightning cable and record in 720/1080 resolution directly?

Eventually I want to process the data in Screenflow and I was hoping I could avoid the need to download the video from the iPhone first to the MacBook. Perhaps there is an app I could use to get the picture from the external iPhone to the Mac. I am not looking for a wireless solution like EpocCam unless you know of a way that is both stable and offers a good latency (again, not action shots, just slow moving talkers at conferences).

 

[rigormortis]

you might not like my answer, but the answer is YES!!!!

a new feature of quicktime and image capture on os x 10.10 and iOS 8 is the ability to record live video off an iPhone screen over the lightning cable, but the files can be very large. but after you are done recording , you can re-encode them using a program like "handbrake" to make them smaller

in order to get sound ( from the app that was running0 i had to select ' use iPhone microphone '

this is great for recording demos , and to record iPhone screens for presentations.

when i first heard about this, my natural reaction was to run out and try to record something off of netflix. sadly this feature was disabled, but i was about to record other apps like wwe

it records whatever app is running, so if its running camera, it will record the camera

here is lame video i made to show the captured video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNvdTy-2ipA

 

[yauh]

Thanks, but if I record the video I need to get rid of the controls. Any way to do that?

Sound is not an issue as I would always use an external mic to record talks.

 

[rigormortis]

yeah i don't know about hiding the controls though if you hide them from the screen , they won't be on the video


maybe image capture?

if use iPhone microphone is not checked then quicktime cant record whatever sound is coming off the iPhone

 

[Damolee]

Does this work in Windows?