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Have you seen this new iOS Switcher app? After five years working on MixEffect, I wanted to build a switcher of my own. SwitchEffect handles the video processing.

ASKED BY · Guy Cochran · SEATTLE USA · 30 OCT 2026 · ▶ 00:03:11

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Native platform development provides performance advantages over cross-platform solutions; the SwitchEffect app demonstrates effective use of iOS libraries.

SwitchEffect is a native iOS app by Adam Tao that uses iPhone/iPad cameras and can accept remote contribution feeds; available free on the App Store with Zoom integration in public beta.

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2:52You may be right about that. I may be crazy, and that's a Billy Joel reference. Next question. All right, this next question is coming in from Guy Cochran in Seattle, USA. Have you seen this new iOS switcher app? There's a link there. After five years working on Mix Effect, I wanted to build a switcher of my own. switch effect handles the video processing.

3:14So that's an Adam Tao. Adam Tao, this is so cool. So we, a lot of us know Adam Tao for the absolute, he's like the ATEM ninja of reverse engineering all of the chatter that's coming in and out of an ATEM and then creating mix effect, which allows us to take the ATEM and make it really useful, actually make it nice to build super sources

3:36and just have better control in general. this is something completely different so switch effect is actually using your iPhone or your iPad as the switcher and it's using the cameras on the device as well as a remote contribution camera if you have the switch effect camera app to get video sources in and as well as out so this is on the App Store it is free

4:04Look at this already. I can run this on the Duo. I'm so excited. But I haven't got a chance to play with this yet, but this looks very exciting. It is on the App Store right now. And if you go to switcheffect.app, you can see the website where you can actually look at, even he's even got a public beta with getting some Zoom integration.

4:28So this is pretty exciting. switcheffect.app if you haven't seen it. it, Courtney. Yeah, it looks great. I think, you know, maybe, I don't know if it's going to be available with all these days of vibe coding. I wonder why Adam hasn't had it, write it in Rust, so it'd be cross-platform. That would be a unique situation and you run it on, you know, some

4:52powerful touchpad, touchpad Android things, and maybe even some Windows tablets, you know, be cool maybe maybe but i think there are some i think there are still some advantages if you're writing directly for the platform with their with their libraries as opposed to something that can work everywhere but might not might not be as efficient or as fast um i think that has a little

5:19bit to of what he's able to get out of literally iphones and ipads is because of being of writing for them as opposed to something's going to go everywhere but maybe we can get a port I don't know I don't but we like our iPad and iPhone apps thanks Adam very nice I'm gonna be checking this out Chris completely unrelated last question

5:45when you set the thing for audio recording I did an audio test at maximum It records in AIFC. Never heard of it, but 32-bit, big Indian, linear PC, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, that's what QuickTime does. I'm going to look into targeting where it records. Next question. This one is one of my questions. Thoughts on the new touchscreen OLED screen MacBook Pro?

6:14Steve Jobs once said that it is ergonomically horrible, and if you put a touchscreen on it, you blew it. clearly the new regime thinks different. Ah, here in the land of the toaster fridge, Chris Sabato. So I don't have any opinions on the Mac itself, but I have my current laptop. I just got a new laptop a couple months ago and it came with a touchscreen. I didn't ask for a touchscreen.

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