I have a bunch of humming birds that are really active on a feeder just outside the kitchen window.
I have an iPhone 11 Max, and put it in 2x mode, which gets me closer, but still a bit away, along with window glass in the way, despite the vigorous application of cleaning attempts it is still degrading the image.
First question: Is there any hardware or better software, to turn the camera (in still or video, especially slow motion mode) when I think the fellows are framed in the field of view. That way I could set up my tripod and little smartphone holder adapter, and get closer without any degradation of the image by glass. I had a Nikon D800 and it would take a software on laptop to do something called tethering where the image was shown on the laptop, and control of the camera was done via a connecting cable.
If I leave the window open from the kitchen to the feeder, I'm afraid one of the little guys will mistakenly fly at what seems like 50 mph into the house and I'd never catch him to turn him loose.
Second question is, when I have the Apple video, it is in .mov format. Are there any good image/video editors I can use to crop the frame down and do a little image tweaking and reduce the end capture, usually of blank background? If I use the built in functions of the phone,it is very imprecise and hard to do on the screen with my fat fingers or attempt at stylus.
Dale