- Filmic Pro is our number one pick
when it comes to the best camera apps
for Android and iPhone.
So in this video I'm gonna show you how to use it
step-by-step in this complete Filmic Pro tutorial.
Now I'm gonna be taking you through using an iPhone
but the process is exactly the same on Android as well.
So looking at the overall interface up the top here
we can straightaway see our key settings.
We can see our ISO,
we can see our shutter speed, our Kelvin temperature,
we can see our estimated record time left,
we can see the video codec that we're gonna be recording in,
and we can also see our picture profile here too.
Now, all of these things is not just information.
All of these here are tappable
so we can actually dive into each one of these settings
directly from this front screen.
Up in the top right-hand corner here
we have our custom function button.
Now currently I have this set up for the thirds grid.
You can see that it's just triggered on and off
when I touch that.
We can actually customize up what this button does.
So if I long press on it then there are some presets here
that we can choose from,
or if we press the little plus button
in the top left-hand corner here
there is a full list of what you can assign this button to.
So if there's some settings or features in here
that you're using constantly,
it's a good idea to set it here
as your custom function button.
Let's back out, out of that.
Next around from that we've got
our audio control button up here, the little microphone.
You can see we've got access
to our Automatic Gain Correction.
We've also got our volume levels here as well.
We can slide this up and down to lower
or to increase our volume.
And you can see that as I am doing that,
it's also making the adjustment
on the right-hand side as well.
So we can also make our audio adjustments here too.
Now, we can also use these arrows down the bottom here
to cycle between the different microphones.
So we can switch this out
to the front microphone on this phone,
or we can actually even come across here
to enable the stereo microphone too.
Or obviously if you've got an external microphone
you'll be able to select that here as well.
So I absolutely love that these are fast ways
that you can access these critical settings.
So on the far right-hand side here
we can see we've got our audio bars,
the volume level indicator here, as we've already covered.
Down in the bottom right-hand corner here
the white button here, this is your record button.
So once you're all set up to record,
that's how you start and stop your recording.
We've got a zoom slider here as well,
so we can zoom in and out using that.
We've got our playback button down the bottom here
if we wanna preview or playback any of our recordings.
We can access all of our video overlays
and extra information about our shot.
Things like Focus Peaking, False Color, Zebras,
Reactive mode here as well, or we can disable them.
Down the bottom here, we can also see our time code,
which is set to time of day currently,
we can also see our battery level indicator
and our storage here, just as a quick glance as well,
we can also see our recording settings 4K,
30 frames per second.
And if we tap on little box too,
then we can actually trigger some of our scopes
and things here, quickly and easily as well.
The Wi-Fi looking icon down here
will enable remote control on and off,
so you can remotely control and monitor your main device
from a secondary device.
I'm gonna go ahead and leave this one off for now.
The next one across here,
this is where we can choose our camera lens.
So you can see here we're currently set to the rear camera,
which we can switch to the front
if we press this button here.
Hey, let's switch it back.
And we can also see we can get options
of the three different cameras that are on this phone.
So we've got the ultra wide, we've got the wide,
and we've got the zoom lens here too.
And you can actually grab this slider here
and slide between them if you'd like as well.
Down the bottom left-hand corner
we've got our color adjustments
and our white balance settings,
all of these things are in here.
And then back up in the top left-hand corner
we've got our focus adjustment options
so we can leave it here on Reticle.
We can also switch to Center Weight or to Manual,
and I'll show you how these work very soon.
And the last thing on the main screen here
is the settings button up in the top left
and this is where I'd recommend you start first off
to get everything dialed in the way that you want it
before you start recording.
So let's work down our Video modes first
so we can come up here to Video,
then we can come down here to where it says 4K,
let's tap on this.
So we can choose here on this phone 4K, 3K,
all the way down to five 540p.
So we're gonna leave this here at 4K.
We also get to choose our recording bit depth.
So you can see here it's currently on eight,
we can go to 10, or we can also enable Dolby Vision HDR.
I'm gonna leave this one here on 8-bit.
Now just down below that we can adjust the recording quality
essentially this is your bit rate setting.
So the default here is set to Filmic Quality
which is normally where I leave it most of the time.
But if I do want a higher bit rate
then I can actually bump this up to Filmic Extreme.
But your other options here if we go back,
again, Filmic Quality,
we can actually just set the Apple Standard here.
So you can see that even by default Filmic is recording
at a higher bit rate or a higher quality
than Apple's Standard settings.
But we can also lower this as well,
if you do want a smaller file size
then you could enable Economy quality here.
We're gonna go ahead and leave this on Filmic Quality.
Then from here we can choose if we wanna record in H.264
or HEVC, High Efficiency Video Coding.
Now for compatibility in the videos that I make
we normally just leave this here on H.264.
You can see you've also got the ability
down below that here to enable HDR
if you wanna record in High Dynamic Range.
But let's come back up the top here,
let's go over to Frame Rate.
And in here, so we've already chosen 4K 8-bit
but we get to choose here our frame rate.
And you can see that you've got some presets up here
24, 25, 30.
Depending on the resolution and the mode
that you're filming at and your device itself,
then you'll be able to choose here
up to 240 frames per second.
Because we've chosen 4K on the previous screen
I can choose up to 4K 60 with this device.
There's also a timelapse mode in here as well
if you want to record timelapses
but I'm gonna leave this here back on Standard
and we're gonna choose 30 frames per second in this case.
Now you can also manually dial in a specific frame rate
if there's something that you need,
you can use these arrows here
to get really granular on that,
but I'd imagine that most people
are just gonna be using these presets at the top.
Now if we scroll down here further
we can also set our recording frequency as well.
So if you are getting flickering from lights in your scene
then you can switch it here from 50,
if you're in a power region to a 60,
if you're in an NTSC region,
or there is also an auto setting here as well.
Now, I am in a PAL region here in Australia
so I'm gonna leave this on 50.
Now let's go back over here to Encoding.
And the other thing that I wanna point out here
on this screen is that you also have the ability
to add different overlays here as well.
So if you wanna see what your video will look like
with different aspect ratios or different crops applied
the black bars top and bottom,
you can just see that in the background there.
Then you can actually enable those previews here.
If we tap back out we can see
we've now got those black bars on it.
But a really cool feature in here,
if we go back to the settings, let's go back to Video,
is that we also have the option here to crop our source
or our recording to that overlay size as well.
Meaning that if we do want to create a square video
we can actually do that here,
or we wanna record in one of these super wide screen
aspect ratios as well, then we can do all of that
with this Crop Source featured enabled.
And it's not just previewing it at that point
it's actually going to record the video at that size.
So for this video, I'm gonna turn that off,
I'm gonna come back over here to 16:9,
so standard wide screen,
we're gonna tap on the screen here to go back.
So now we've got our video settings locked down,
and again we can preview those on the main screen here,
4K 30, so that we can quickly see
that everything is set up correctly before we hit record.
Now if we go back to the settings here,
let's take a look at our Audio settings.
Again, we have control over which microphone
we're going to use.
We also get to choose here how our audio recording type.
So we're currently set to PCM,
but we can also choose AIFF and AAC as well.
I'm gonna leave this back at default.
We can also adjust our audio frequency
and our audio bit depth in here as well.
The default here is 16.
We can go up to 24-bit recording too.
We'll leave this at 16.
Now you can also enable in here Bluetooth Microphone.
So if you want to use AirPods
or an actual Bluetooth Microphone,
you can turn that on here.
If you don't wanna record audio at all
and just record video,
then you have the option to turn that on here.
Let's go back outta that.
From here, let's jump into the Hardware settings
and this is where we can enable things
like Clean HDMI output if you want to connect your phone
or your device to an external recorder,
or to an external screen, or even a computer.
And then you can also choose if you wanna have audio output
over that HDMI feed as well.
But this is also where you can enable
the different gimbal stabilizers that are supported in here
like the OSMO Mobile, like the Zhiyun Smooth Gimbals,
or even Movi Cinema Robot here too.
If we keep scrolling down
you can enable your phone's torch as well
so the light on the back, low, medium, or high.
And you've also got Anamorphic Adapter support in here too
depending on what type of lens you are using.
Not only do you get to preview your anamorphic video,
here you can see in the background we've already got,
again, these black bars or this anamorphic look applied
so we can preview it.
But if we go back to our settings there, scroll back down.
Right now this is set to actually record de-squeezed.
So what we'll actually see
is already got an anamorphic effect applied to it.
But if we just wanna record as a normal anamorphic file
if we're using an anamorphic lens,
then we can just have a preview correctly
on the app here while we're recording.
But the video file that's recorded
is a true anamorphic file.
You've also got things in here
like having the ability to flip your image, flip your video,
and again, either as a preview only while you're recording,
or whether it's going to be baked into your recorded video.
Let's tap anywhere on the screen here to go back.
Let's look at our device settings in here.
Now, the default with Filmic Pro is it's going to record
all of your clips to its own library,
which again, we can access back on the front here
under that little play button.
But there is also a setting in here back under Device
where we can actually save our video clips
directly to our camera roll.
So if you're gonna be sharing on social media and things
it might be quicker for you to save things
to your camera roll for faster access to your files.
So you can see you've got extra customizability in here
with things like Orientation Lock, Dropped Frame Indicator.
If there's any issues with your recording
it's going to let you know.
You've also got the ability here
to stitch your recorded footage together.
So if you're gonna do a bunch of small clips
but you want one big file at the end,
then that's what that will do.
But the one I like here is use the volume keys
to trigger your recording.
So you can just use volume up
or volume down and it will start and stop your recording
to save you touching the screen.
If we come over now to stabilization,
again, depending on the types of videos
that you're gonna be creating
whether you're a static locked off shot or moving around,
you've got the ability here to turn on or off
image stabilization.
So you've got your Standard one here
which is Apple's built-in stabilization
but there's also two others.
There's Cinematic and Cinematic+
which will give you a greater level of stabilization
if you're gonna be moving around.
But currently just set up on a tripod,
so I'm gonna leave this one off.
Now if we come down here to Interface
this again is another area where we can customize up
our Filmic experience.
So I currently have Show Touches on,
that's what this little dot is here on screen,
to make it easy for me to show you how to use this app.
And we can also customize up what that looks like.
I can make it bigger so that those dots are bigger.
I could also change the color on them
if I wanted to as well.
Let's just go back to default here.
If we scroll down, we can turn on or off our Framing Guides
and choose what that looks like.
So you can see mine's set to the rule of thirds grid there.
Let's keep coming down.
We've got Focus Assist in here
to help you with your manual focusing.
So this is where it's gonna digitally zoom in on your video
so you can make your minor focus adjustments
and then it will zoom back to your regular video
once you've got that dialed in.
And you can see you can also do things
like hide your interface,
you can hide your zoom rockers,
really just to tailor, again, the experience for yourself.
But generally, this is how I will leave it.
So if we come back to our main screen here,
let's look at locking down our focus and our exposure.
So right now we are in Reticle mode.
Again, we can change that up in the top left-hand corner.
But essentially this gives us the circle
and the square on screen
and we can pick these boxes and circles up
and we can move them around our shot.
So the square is for our focus point.
So you can see if we wanna focus on this lens here,
I would just put the box here
and that's going to focus on that point.
Likewise, if we want to say focus on my hand here
then I can move this box to my hand
and it's going to lock the focus.
Now if I wanna lock the focus,
I would just tap on it and it turns red,
and the focus is now out of auto mode
and it's manually locked at that point.
Now the circle works exactly the same for the brightness.
So we find the area that we want to
set the exposure or the brightness for,
we can tap on it at that point.
And we can see now in the top corner here
that we are locked at ISO 33 and at 1/50 shutter speed.
Now anytime we want to unlock, we can just tap on the square
or tap on the circle, and we're back to automatic mode.
Now as with any good app,
there's a few different ways that you can do things.
So if we come back up to the button
in the top left-hand corner
we can also change it to Center Weighted,
which again is gonna take a reading from the center here.
Then essentially this will let us do the same thing
but everything is locked to the center of the screen.
So you can see we've still got the inner box here.
I can't pick it up, I can't move it around,
but it's taking a focus reading
from the center of the screen.
If I wanna lock it at that point
then I can tap on it and it is locked.
Same for the exposure too.
I can't move it around, but I can lock it at that point.
Now if we come back up to the top left-hand corner here
and choose Manual then this is where we can manually get
really granular with our focus and exposure.
So I can grab this slider here on the right
and I can drag up and down,
and you can see I'm able to make minor adjustments here
to the focus.
Now, I've also had a slider up here on the left.
This one is our Zoom.
So you can see I can zoom in and out using that one.
And if we wanna now adjust our exposure
we'll just tap on screen
so that we can hide those manual adjustments sliders.
And we're back to having our circle here,
but we can also control this from up the top.
So you can see we can just tap on ISO up the top here
and we can use these presets for different ISO levels,
or we can grab the slider here to again,
get more granular and increase or decrease our brightness.
And the same here works with our shutter speed as well.
So you can see we're currently locked at 1/50.
We can either select different presets down the bottom here
or we can grab that slider bar
to dial something specific in.
Okay, so now that we've got our focus locked,
we've got our exposure locked down as well.
Next we're gonna look at our white balance.
So we need to come back up to the top here
where we've got our Kelvin reading and tap on that
to bring up our white balance adjustments.
And this kind of quick access to those settings.
So you can see that we've got our color temperature here
with the top slider.
We've also then got our tint if we want to add more green
or pink to our shot.
And there's also a bunch of presets down the bottom here
that you can easily switch between,
or you can even customize up your own here under A and B.
Let's say this is the white balance adjustment
that we want to save.
We can now hold in on A and we can save our current values
to that preset.
So now whenever we tap on A,
we've now got that white balance preset saved.
But for more control over this,
if we come back down to the bottom left-hand corner
then we get those exact same settings
but we also get so many more.
So we're currently on this first tab up the top here,
but if we come down to the one below it
and this is where we can apply some different filters
or different looks to our shot.
So we've got here adamant, charcoal,
so black and white, novus, infrared.
So we can apply these, essentially like Instagram filters
to our shot from here as well.
Now, if we go to the next tab down here
you can actually choose your picture profile.
So we've got Natural, Dynamic, Flat,
there's also a Log mode here as well.
And you've also got settings here to customize things up
the way that you want it.
You can adjust your whites,
and you've also got your gray level here too,
likewise with your shadow and highlight adjustments
down the bottom here.
So it's awesome that you've got so much control in here
to really get everything looking the way you want in camera
to save you later in your editing.
Now, anytime you wanna reset this,
there is a little reset button at the top here
to take that back to default.
And then below that, you can also adjust your saturation
and your vibrance here as well,
if you wanna make adjustments to the colors.
And again, for quick access to those picture profiles
you do have access to it along the top here.
So we can just tap on Natural,
and we can choose our Dynamic, Flat,
or our Log profile here too.
So now that you've got everything dialed in
and you're good to go,
good idea is to come back here to settings down to Presets
and you can save your settings here as preset
so that next time you're using the app
you don't need to come and configure everything up.
Or also you can configure different settings
for different types of shots that you're getting.
So we can come up here to Save.
Let's call this filmic and hit Save.
And we can see we've now got that profile here
to choose from.
Likewise, with some of these other ones
that I've added here before,
like I have a 4K 30 frame per second mode.
If I tap on that, that's going to be enabled.
So this way you could have a preset for a slow motion,
for 1080p, one for 4K,
different shooting modes in different settings.
So I absolutely love this new overhaul with Filmic Pro
with the new interface and just being able
to easily see everything
and access all of your key functionality
just with the tap of a button,
without needing to dive into the menus and everything.
These fast access buttons here are super powerful.
But also that the app now is the next level
of being intuitive.
So whereas we're going through the settings there
I must have left it on video only mode here.
So you can see this here.
So there's no audio being recorded.
I can just tap on this,
I don't need to go back to the settings.
And it says here, not available in Video Only mode.
Tap here to disable Video Only mode.
So I tap on that and we're now back
with our audio being recorded.
So it's much harder now for you to make mistakes
and to miss things here because this new app overhaul
and interface is so intuitive.
I absolutely love it.
And then when you're ready to record, you just need to,
again, come down to this big white button
down the bottom here, we can press on that.
Recording has started
but we still have the ability to do things
like zoom in and out.
We can adjust our exposure, adjust our focus,
we can view all of our different scopes,
and histograms, and things.
We can bring up our overlays while we're recording here
just to make sure we've got everything dialed in
making sure that our shot is exactly how we want it
while we're recording too.
So we're not losing any of these features
while the recording is actually happening.
To stop the recording, we press the stop button
down the bottom, and our file is now saved to the phone.
So then if we hit the little play button
down the bottom here now,
we can see the clips that we've just recorded in here.
We can tap on them to play them.
We can actually trim them down from in here too.
So if we hit the pair of scissors there
we can adjust the start and the end time on a clip.
We can hit the little Trim button there and hit Trim,
and we can actually make some minor adjustments
to our clips before we actually get them
into our editing timeline, or before we share them out.
So that is a walkthrough of Filmic Pro.
Now that you know how to use Filmic Pro,
if you wanna level up your overall filming
with your smartphone,
then check out the videos linked on screen
for iOS and Android where we take you through
step-by-step how to get the most out of your phone camera.
I'll see you in there.