hey in today's video i'm going to show you how to take iphone footage like this
and turn it into this without any editing involved
as you all know i get super pumped anytime there is a progression to kind of the state of mobile
filmmaking so a number of days ago when vadim the founder and ceo of bscrip calls me up and is super
excited to tell me about a recent software update they had i too got excited and we ended up on the
phone for over an hour and a half just talking about all the technical jargon that went in to
the software update and the years of trial error testing development that went into it
so what i want to do today is compress that very long and technical conversation and simplify it
down to a couple awesome new hacks to get much better footage from your iphone and in case you're
wondering what the setup is today yes we have been using the iphone 13 pro max inside the brand new
beast cage for iphone 13. beast group tells me that the cage is coming very soon so if you want
to keep your eyes peeled for that check out the link in the description below i've actually got
a whole detailed breakdown and review of this new cage and this whole setup coming in the next week
or two so if you're not already make sure you get subscribed so first up we have a new feature in
the beast cam app called stitch this for me is one of those super underrated features that i've
always been jealous of on my android phones that i haven't really had on my iphone there's a lot
of times where i'm filming my kids or filming some sequence that i would love to have kind of almost
a montage at the end of it but it's also not like professional work and i don't really want to sit
there and edit it a bunch again as a parent i think most of us have like these days where
we like go to the zoo or something and you end up with like 50 different clips all shot in the same
area but they're just like oh this kid's running over here and then up there right there and then
going down the slide and then whatever it may be well with stitch you can essentially hit record
record whatever you want and then when you hit the record button again it pauses you can reframe move
kind of hang out for a second wait for the next thing to happen as soon as it does hit the record
again it's going to unpause and keep recording and you basically can just keep pausing and recording
pausing and recording as much as you want and then when you're finally done to say i'm finished
press and hold the shutter button and it will fully stop recording and save all of those
different scenes as one clip so now when you watch it back and now you essentially have this finished
movie right out of the gate without having to edit anything together it is perfect for those casual
moments that you want a bunch of different shots cut together without all the hassle of editing
next up 4k 60 in pro res and this is huge prores was already an amazing feature that apple released
in this past year but a lot of us love shooting 60s so that we can slow it down in post it is
perfect to get b-roll and with this feature you get all the flavors of prores but he did tell me
that in their extensive testing that if you plan on shooting prores proxy it's basically not worth
it for some kind of unknown reason it actually looks way more compressed than the regular just
h.265 mode but you still have the ginormous sizes of the prores however if you're a nerd like me and
want to squeeze every bit of detail and data rate out of this phone as possible hit that prores hq
4k60 and you're going to get up to 15 to 17 1800 megabits per second data speeds probably the most
common question that any content creator gets is oh i want to do that too what camera should i get
and it's features in updates like this that just prove that if you don't have the budget for big
cameras and expensive lenses and all that stuff just using any decent modern uh smartphone you can
do so much so let's move on to the biggest feature that we talked the most about and that is smart
exposure now i'll admit when the app update first came out i saw smart exposure and i'm just like
okay i've seen different things like that before i don't i don't like when apps do things behind
the scenes i'm a professional i want to set my iso i want to set my shutter speed don't tell me what
to do smartphone that's how i felt and while i proceeded to get my mind blown on this phone
call phone companies like apple will always have so much control over the image that the phone will
produce in past videos i've shown this where you can go into any professional video app set your
manual exposure lock everything in your iso your shutter speed your white balance all that stuff
but when you move the phone around especially from light to dark and mid-tones and skin tones
you'll still see slight differences and that is from the more recent past couple of years
tone mapping features that apple has come out with that developers straight up can't override to
some extent and so they spent the past three years developing this new smart exposure feature now the
interface is insanely easy to use when you first go into your settings change from manual to smart
exposure you're going to see that your iso and shutter speed are now locked what's really nice
is you can actually see the values still you just can't manually adjust them however when you lock
your exposure reticle it will bring up a slider where you can over or under expose it by eight
stops it looks very similar to the native camera app where you tap to focus or expose and then
slide up and down to adjust the exposure i like how simple it is how close it is to the native app
but also the fact that it gives you actual numerical values so that you can remember it for
different scenes or it just allows my professional mind to be like yes i know what's actually
happening i'm underexposing by a stop my shutter speed is this i can still see all the data so
that's how the smart exposure actually works but how do you get a cleaner image so when you open
up your camera app and hit record your phone is essentially analyzing that entire scene where the
shadows were the highlights were the mid-tones and especially in a now hdr world is trying to achieve
this best balance of contrast ratio between all three what happens a lot of the time in a high
dynamic range scene and what happens is you get a lot more noise and not just noise but really ugly
color noise and so what he taught me is in order to get the cleanest image possible what you want
to do is again have smart exposure turned on and then zoom into the shadows so that's taking up
your entire screen and the highlight area is now kind of out of view for a moment lock your
exposure on that and it's going to analyze that scene and only see what you know is the shadows
but what it thinks is the entire image it's going to do all of its analysis in order to get
the cleanest image possible for that area and now when you zoom back out with that locked exposure
use that slider to manually kind of adjust back to a proper exposure your shadows are going to be
so much cleaner blacks will look way more true black you're going to get a lot less noise the
only negative to this is in certain scenarios you will lose out on some of that highlight retention
so he sent me one of their test videos and the difference just kind of blew my mind you can just
see how much cleaner the shadows are and images overall but if we zoom into the soft box in the
top left you can see that it is slightly blown out technically overexposed a bit so you kind of just
have to judge what you want more of in each scene and kind of do your own testing and that's exactly
what i did i went outside and if you have a very sunny day then you want to expose for the ground
and then when you pan back up slide around kind of manually just to get a proper exposure and you'll
get a cleaner image lower noise profile than if you were to just try to manually expose the entire
thing and if you look at the values of the iso and shutter in smart exposure somehow through whatever
phone apple beast cam magic the values will look off but it will still be a cleaner image now one
thing that does remain consistent with larger real cameras is the use of nd filters especially
in a sunny scenario using an nd filter along with smart exposure is going to give you the best final
result so what's great about smart exposure is no matter what format you want to shoot in whether
that's prores 4k 60 or just regular h.265 hdr 10bit sdr whatever you want you can utilize this
tip in order to get cleaner footage now of course i'll leave down in the description the link to the
beast cam app that you guys can check out it's got a ton of other great features they've really
updated it a lot from cinematic stabilization to being able to control which microphone and
audio input is being used and it's even got a great professional photo mode built in so if you
want kind of a two for one photo and video pro app beast cam's a great option so let me know what you
guys think down in the comments below are you a fan of all these new features which one is your
favorite huge thanks and shout out to the team at beastgrip for developing this amazing software
update hopefully you guys enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to give it a like and get
subscribed if you haven't already thanks so much for watching i'll see you all in the next video