Live video capture from external device & selecting hardware

For video takeaways, if you’re doing social sharing, do you mind me asking if you built your own solution or used something off-the-shelf?

In the past, I’ve been required by a couple clients to integrate with social photo and video sharing apps (I capture, nearby iPad allows takeaway) and I’ve been unimpressed or completely frustrated by their quality, performance/reliability, and lack of customizability.

My current client has budgeted for me to build a completely custom flow and to retain authorship so that I can continue to use it in future projects, which is great!!

But I’ve told them that I will (and I intend to) attempt a thorough survey of off-the-shelf solutions out there to see if there’s anything decent…

(Apologies, not exactly a Cinder question, but a real-world integration that doesn’t seem to be going away. While corporate clients I’m working with don’t seem to care, at least half of entertainment-related projects lately seem to require video or photo takeaways.)