Action Movie FX app turns iPhone users into blockbuster directors

• The free iPhone app comes with a 'missile strike' and a 'car crash'

By Ted Thornhill

Last updated at 1:11 PM on 30th December 2011

Bored of your surroundings and want to liven things up? Or fancy destroying that broken bit of office machinery?

Now there’s an app that’ll add a bit of action movie magic into your life by super-imposing dramatic special effects over mobile phone footage.

Action Movie FX for iPhone comes courtesy of J.J. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot Interactive, which is behind Star Trek, Super 8 and Mission Impossible 3.

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The free app comes with two effects â€" a missile strike and a car crash, and the results are incredible.

Simply hit record and film a scene, then use a slider to mark the point at which you want the ‘fx’ to begin.

 

The missile strike is gigantic and a burning pile of rubble is left behind after the initial explosion.

The car crash is equally professional-looking. Swirls of dust precede an SUV dropping out of the sky and flying into the camera.

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There are even action-movie sound effects to accompany the carnage.

More effects, such as a helicopter falling from the sky, can be added for a small fee.

So far it’s proving hugely popular, with one user, Jimmo Olson, commenting: ‘I ordered a missile strike on my office calendar. Looks like I’m leaving early today.’

 

 

source: www.dailymail.co.uk