Do you really know how to use the cinematic mode on iPhone properly?
In this tutorial, we'll go through settings, filming
tips, pros and cons of cinematic mode you should know about.
I'll show you editing by using key frames directly
in native camera app and color grading.
We've got lots to do.
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If you never wandered into camera settings,
it's probably a good idea to do it now.
So you get the most out of your phone.
I am going to go to the settings.
Lets select record recording video
Enhance stabilization.
I have on the video will zoom in slightly,
but you will get that smooth stabilization in cinematic mode.
As you are filming, you will not see the final stabilization,
so it is going to be a bit shaky.
Once you play the recorded video that you will see the enhanced stabilization.
I have out. ofB is off.
If it was on, it would automatically reduce frame rate
to improve low light video and to optimize file size.
I don't want that.
Let's go back to camera settings and select record cinematic.
Here I have default selected as 4K at 24 frames per second.
If I go back, I have also record stereo sound enabled and the preserve settings.
I have pretty much everything enabled.
This means that every time I'm
going to close the camera app, it's not going to go back to default,
but it will stay on the settings I used the last time.
Those are two main settings.
Let's open up the native camera app and select cinematic mode.
Here I have a 24 frames per second rate selected in a 4K resolution.
I always want the best quality possible.
You can see that you can film with standard or telephoto and selfie cameras.
You're not going to get an ultra wide angle lens in this mode.
Before we get to the F, which is aperture settings, let's talk about the exposure.
When you tap on the screen, you can lock focus,
but it cannot lock exposure.
You can do it with the help of an exposure slider.
Smartphones expose the overall picture.
That's why it is a bit bright for me.
It's a little bit too bright.
Every photographer will tell you that we expose highlights you.
You're not going to end up with blown highlights and you will have
an easier time.
Once you start color grading.
Most of the time my setting is at minus seven.
Sometimes I even push it to minus one.
Once you set it, you can just keep filming.
It's not, however, truly locked exposure.
I could clearly see it when I was filming this video in Bobcaygeon.
It's not locked, so there are some limitations.
You can see how it's going bright and dark.
Bright and dark.
Some shots are simply not possible in this mode.
Keep that in mind.
Now, let's talk about the F stop.
It's aperture.
It's digital. It's not optical.
It goes from 2.0 to F 16.
The lower the number, the more softer look
you are going to get around the edges of the selected object.
The higher the number, the less bulky softness in the background.
You are going to get more of the area.
It will be sharp.
Sometimes it's too much and the edges end up looking not the best
that the white dots will tell you the best option for the particular shot.
I'm totally okay for me and higher aperture values
and if you want to lower it, you still can.
Once you already found it, how do you film?
It's all about the focus.
You can leave it as it is for scenes where you want.
The came out to change focus on its own.
Another
option would be selecting autofocus lock.
Just tap on the screen to see this yellow square.
If you press and hold, the focus will lock.
If the camera sees a face, you will see this tracking indicator.
If you are filming multiple people and want
constant focus on one person,
you can lock the focus by tapping on the screen.
It is better to select the focus when you are already filming.
Again, I wanted the system limitations,
so I let it to slow the focus on its own in this clip.
When I tried to select Focus after I filmed it, it was not working the best.
It just didn't really want to slow the focus properly.
Then once I filmed and I selected
Focus here and there, guided the camera.
Then once I was editing further
the clip, it was already a lot more precise.
How do you edit after you filmed a clip?
Here is a random clip I filmed in cinematic mode.
Once you hit edit, you manipulate the clip
further, either in vertical or horizontal mode.
I prefer horizontal so I can see it better.
You can enlarge the video with this icon
and then with your fingers you can make it smaller or bigger.
First of all, you can shorten the clips by dragging the sides.
You can increase the aperture by hitting the icon at the top
when you are dragging the white point had any hold.
You will see that you will automatically zoom and the timeline.
So you have precise look where you want to place a play hat.
This will pull out the slide on the right
when you see the dot
that is suggested aperture by software.
You can, however, decide what looks the best for you.
I'm going to leave it on f 2.0
on the left side from the F stop icon.
You see this square with a dot, which is manual tracking.
When you tap on the screen, you can select focus.
Yellow dart on the timeline is a key frame.
This means that no matter what the moment
is, the focus is on that area.
If you don't like what you've created,
you can delete the key frames by tapping on the yellow dot.
You will see a trash icon.
Hit that to delete.
You can also select an object and create a focus tracking.
If you tap again, you will lock the tracking.
You will see another yellow dot created.
You can create focus. Pull this way.
What's that?
Let's tap on this object to focus.
I'm going to play a bit of a clip and then tap here.
Now this object is in focus, and another keyframe has been created.
Now, when you play back, you can see how it's
going to go from one object to the next.
This is called Focus Pull.
You can create as many keyframes as you like.
Once you are finished with the changes head done.
If you change your mind after this, you can go back to edit and select
a revert to get it back to the original way it was formed.
Some of you would already grab the footage, opened up video editor
and imported it all there and started editing and color grading.
But what if you want just one or two clips
color great and you don't want to go to any other app.
Let's hit the edit video again.
I'm going to hit the second icon at the top here.
I could just hit the auto icon
and the phone would automatically enhance the footage for me.
But I don't want that.
I want to create my own look.
I could also hit one of the filters as a starting point.
Select the strength you want and then adjust it further.
I don't want that.
Let's do everything from scratch and share my thinking process.
So first, I'm going to check if my brightness,
my exposure is correct, and you can lower it.
You can make it brighter here.
I'm actually going to keep it as it is because I feel that
it was exposed just well.
Next thing I'm going to look at is highlights.
In this case, highlights are pretty good Sometimes I turned them down a little bit,
but maybe I'll do just like, hmm, I'm going to do very, very, very little.
So maybe minus nine, but it's just personal preference.
Next setting is shadows.
You can bring those shadows up or you can bring them down.
Now, I like a little bit more dramatic look,
so I'm actually going to bring them a little bit down
to about -25.
Next is contrast.
I feel that the photo has already enough contrast.
I don't need to do anything else. I could try.
But no, I'm just going to leave it at zero.
I'm happy with
the contrast brightness.
The photo is exposed properly.
That means it's not too bright or too dark.
I'm going to leave it
Black point.
You can take the blacks a little bit out.
Kind of washed out or you can bring them in.
I'm just going to leave it as it is.
Saturation.
The photo is already colorful enough, so I'm going to leave it.
Saturation is something which also affects skin tones.
So if you have a person standing there, any I crank it up,
the skin is going to get a little more orange.
If you have a person in a shot, it's actually better
to use the one control below, which is vibrance.
Vibrance will just take the mid-terms of the image and it will save the skin.
So I'm going to go that orange.
So if you want to boost it out, make it more colorful.
Use vibrance.
If you don't have any people in the shop, you can use saturation.
Saturation will make all the colors pop,
warmth.
The photo is quite warm,
but I think that I'm going
to make it a tiny bit warmer.
In this case.
Tent.
Tent is going to change the tone so you can go to reds
or you can go to greens.
I'm going to go a little bit higher, about 20.
Sharpness.
I'm not going to touch dead.
The photo is already sharp enough.
Definition again, I don't want to create more of a definition.
It's already sharp enough.
Noise Reduction.
The clip was filmed in a very good lighting conditions, so
there's no noise in the shot and vignette
that will give you kind of old looking cinematic style photo.
So I can add that just a tiny bit.
The darker frame
and that will be pretty much it
for this particular look.
Once you're done editing, you will head done.
You will save it now
finished, or if you have simple clips, do this one and wants to have the same look,
you can hit the three dots and the right copy edits.
Go to the next clip, hit edit and those three dots again
and select paste edits.
Now you have the same look as in the previous clip.
I hope this video helps you understand cinematic mode and a little bit better.
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