there are just a few things you need to do to make your pocket 3 footage look professional
and cinematic today I want to show you how to take your pocket 3 footage from looking like
a beginner who somebody just bought this thing to looking like a professional who's out filming with
a much higher level camera because this camera is capable of a lot more so the first and most
important thing you need to do is get the right settings for your pocket 3 because while you can
shoot in auto mode and it does a great job and you can shoot in normal color profile mode and
it does fine if you're doing really quick running gun stuff that's fine but if you want to get the
most out of your pocket 3 and make it look the best you can there's a couple of settings you
need to change so the first thing you want to do is swipe over and change from normal color profile
to dlog M Now using DM does mean you get extra color depth and it means you get the most amount
of dynamic range that this camera is capable of which is actually pretty good for a small camera
but it does mean you have to do extra steps of color gring and post which I will show you how
to do more about about later in the video but I do have a shortcut for you and that's a l pack that
I've made like most YouTubers it's down in the description and while this video isn't sponsored
it is supported by people like you who buy L packs like this so that I can go and do these things in
locations like this and actually make content that hopefully is really helpful to you you want to go
from Auto white balance you go okay that's where it's telling you white balance is right now that
little number there so we want to go to manual and have it just St there there we go so now it's
going to be staying locked at5 900 white balance which is what we want and then next we want to
go from Auto exposure and you can do this this is sort of the cheater way is have this at -.3
and then set this to 50 to 800 and so that will kind of manage your auto exposure automatically
but if you want the best and what you need to do is go manual you want to set your exposure or your
shutter speed for two times your frame rate and we're going to be filming at 4K 60 today because
some of this stuff I'm going to want to slow down and then you can leave that at 50 to 800 and hit
confirm now I have a whole video explaining why you want ND filters and how to choose ND filters
and those will be linked down in the description and there'll be some cards that pop up here but
essentially you want to keep your shutter speed at two times your frame rate to get natural looking
motion blur as you can see here with ND filters you get a nice blurry image without ND filters you
get really sharp imagery because the shutter speed is much higher what we're trying to do
is mimic the natural way that our eyes see the world and when are in fast motion around us our
eyes naturally see some certain amount of motion blur and this is why you want to keep your shutter
speed at two times your frame rate because it most closely mimics what we see with our eyes
now you're going to notice it's way Overexposed so the solution for that is ND filters and this
is a really easy way to pick the right ND filter for any camera you set the exposure where you want
it and then you go through your ND filters and you pick the one that you think is going to give you
the best exposure it's okay if it's a little dark it'll just make your ISO compensate for
it which is why we gave it that ISO range but then for the pocket 3 you just snap it on the
front and now we're looking much better on our exposure here you can see everything looks much
better it's giving it a better proper uh exposure and of course if I flip it around here we still
look pretty good in the footage so I think nd64 is where we're going to be for the day another
setting to be aware of is of course your frame rate if you want to film and slow stuff down
later in post film in 4k 60 if you want to really get slow motion 4K 1220 is obviously fantastic for
getting really nice slow motion and 4K 30 is just fine for most stuff if you're in a hotter climate
you may want to film in 4k 30 because that will keep the camera from overheating or getting too
hot uh especially if you're in warmer places that is not the case for me today but I'm filming in
4k 60 because it gives you the option to slow everything down just a little bit and give it
sort of a dreamy feel hey if you're enjoying this video or getting value out of it then
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when it comes to buying gear but then also to teach you how to use that gear to its fullest
potential in tutorials like this one now there's a couple of things you can do differently to
make your footage look better and one is how you walk around everybody thinks that because it's a
gimbal camera it'll just give you great smooth footage straight out of the box which it will
but if you're walking with it then you need to actually walk a certain way and the way to do
that is instead of just up and down up and down which gives you this up and down motion is walk
heel toe heel toe and keep your footsteps as soft as possible you also want to bend slightly at the
knees that gives you a little bit of spring so that you don't have to go up and down as you're
walking and then keep the gimbal on as straight a line as possible now another thing you want to
do is vary up your movements because it gives you a variety of different shots to edit with
where somebody who's just doing this for fun as a beginner might just kind of pan around and look at
different things and get sort of smooth footage but if you add different movements and different
motions to your footage and get different angles of shots even if it's just of this building back
here it's going to make your footage look a lot better and one tip for this is use a selfie stick
because that'll give you the ability to vary your height quite a bit so you can start really high
and come down low or you can start really low and come up fairly High which adds a lot more
interest to your shot but there's another reason you want a selfie stick with a little tripod on
the bottom that we'll talk about in just a bit and one thing you can do is change the gimbal
from tilt lock to follow mode not fpv mode but follow mode and that will enable you to get pans
up and pans down which definitely add a whole another Dynamic uh movement and motion to the
shot and now I've switched the gimbal back into uh lock mode which means we can go from really high
to really low but the gimbal will stay level and that will give us basically a crane or a
jib shot which can be really useful for places that you know you want to get a little different
perspective now another thing that selfie sticks are good for is being able to get shots of your
yourself without looking like you're getting shots of yourself so you instead of having to hold the
pocket three like this and while that looks fine you can definitely tell that my shoulder
and my arm is out holding the gimbal so we want to remove a little bit of that and make it look
like not quite like we're filming ourselves so now I've attached the selfy stick which means
I can extend it out I can hold it down here like this and walk around in what looks like much more
of a natural way so now I can hold the camera with a selfie stick and not look like I'm holding the
camera and get some more natural looking footage this way but I can also hold it farther away and
get a little bit wider angle shot which is nice for showing your subject in a space but another
reason I like using a selfie stick is the pocket 3 has some really good active track builing to it
and so we can set the camera down somewhere and get shots of moving around in this space and it
looks like we have another camera person actually filming us because the active track on the pocket
3 is following us around now you can always use active track as a way to keep yourself in frame
especially if you're using a selfie stick and holding it out maybe behind you or way off to
the side and you don't want to you know look at the screen or look like you're looking at
the screen or use your phone for remote view with the mimo app or anything like that active track
actually works great to keep you in frame even when you're holding the camera and walking around
active track is a super useful tool to be able to get footage of yourself just like I'm right now
where you just don't want to have to worry about what the screen or what the camera is pointing at
and locked on to it does a great job of locking on to you and gives you a huge variety of types
of shots you can get but even without after track you can use this camera to get a whole bunch of
different types of shots that really will make your footage look fantastic and another thing
to keep in mind is lighting lighting is huge and it's not just like having great lighting setup or
anything like that but even in natural lighting like this in the sun filming in the morning or in
the evening when the sun is lower really makes a big difference in my case here in Alaska the
Sun never gets that high because it's the dead of winter and this is the Noonday Sun basically
right here but it does mean you can take advantage of pretty much a whole whole day 3 and 1/2 hours
of golden hour but shooting straight on like this and having the light coming from the side really
gives it a lot more depth and a lot more feel we can do the same thing with the pocket 3 here's an
example of shooting with a sun directly behind the camera most people would think that this is
what you're supposed to do but actually what you want to do is Sid light or backlight your subject
sidelighting gives a lot more depth because it gives you Shadow side a light side and it really
makes your image start to pop and if you can backl it really gives you something interesting
because you get this sort of beautiful back lit halo effect around your subject the trick with
backlighting is you definitely want to set all the settings manual or the camera will be compensating
for the in incredibly bright sun behind you and another thing you can do with backlighting is
add a Mis filter if you got the Mis filter or if you got the free whe ND set and got the Mis
filter and the Mis filter will just soften some of the highlights and make things look just a little
bit better here you can see an example of with it on and off now I head back to the studio cuz
I'm freezing everything's almost dead and I want to show you how to edit and then also color grade
and put all this footage together with music uh to create a nice little sequence a little
Vlog so to speak and just show what uh what you filmed okay so we're back at the studio I've got
everything pulled in the computer and I started a new project and I'm just going to pull all the
Clips in that we shot first thing I'm going to do is pull the volume out cuz I don't want the
volume from any of this and in Final Cut Pro which is the editor that I use uh you go over here and
basically just you can turn everything on and use if you wanted to use my pocket 3 conversion and
that'll pretty much color grade everything uh just like you want it I say like this one here
this is what it starts out like you add the pocket 3 conversion and it sets it to a pretty good place
overall it's not perfect but it's like 90% of the way there and now you can do all this without uh
L if you wanted to if I turn this off here you can see it's still pretty flat so we can get the
exposure kind of set where we want it pull it up to there pull the dark down to there I don't
know if yeah midtones in there maybe and then you can push the saturation up and kind of get
it to where you want it it's kind of a fine line just depending on how saturated not saturated you
want it and then there you go you got it you know fairly fairly color balanced but for me personally
this is just it's basically one click and you're good to go so now the next thing we want to do is
find a piece of music that works so I'm going to go here I've got a whole bunch of music already
downloaded from art list and I'm going to use something that's pretty [Music] short actually
that one sound bad there so we're going to add some music here and then we're going to make this
just nice little short piece [Music] stop there we're going to edit everything on the [Music]
beat actually want to edit that right there I
[Music] think now obviously there's a lot more to editing way more than than I can
get into in this video but if you follow the basics of what I just did which is find the
best parts of each shot put it it together in a sequence that will tell a story and
then put it with the rhythm of the music you'll end up with a fairly nice little
edited sequence which works great for lots of different types of social media for YouTube
videos honestly it's the basic foundations of editing for pretty much any kind of video
that you're going to put out there let's play the whole sequence real [Music] quick
[Music] now next you're going to want to watch this video right here about the best setup and 0:11:58.960,1193:02:47.295 [Music]
settings for the pocket 3 as always if you have questions ask me in the comments below or join
my live stream which happens most Wednesday nights 4:00 p.m. Alaska time 8:00 p.m. Eastern
or you can have more of a conversation and I can answer questions that maybe I didn't get
to in this video thanks for watching I'll see you again soon in the next one cheers