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Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake at RobertoBlake.com,
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome back to another tutorial video.
Today, I'm gonna teach you
how to make pro videos with your iPhone.
Android users, don't worry, I've got you.
While you can use most of these tips
for filming with your Android,
I will cover a specific video just for you guys,
so stay tune, make sure you hit the Subscribe button.
You'll want to catch that.
There are few specific things you need to do
when shooting with your iPhone
if you want pro quality videos.
First of all, you have to be able to control
all the settings in your phone
if you really wanna get the best videos.
And for that, I recommend an app called FiLMiC Pro.
FiLMiC Pro will give you pretty much full control
over the iPhone's camera
and is fantastic for managing that.
I would recommend that
over just the default camera app in your iPhone.
One of the other tricks for shooting with your iPhone
is to stop getting the autofocus to jump around.
When that's happening,
especially when it's happening on your face, it's not cool.
So if you just actually hold down,
you can actually not only do autofocus lock
but you can adjust the exposure value of your image,
so you can make it brighter or darker
just depending on the lighting conditions.
Speaking of lighting, lighting for your videos
is really important and is actually cheap and affordable.
So I'm gonna cover a little thing that you can do
that will help with your lighting.
I'm gonna also cover some accessories for your audio
and some stabilization, and I'm gonna give you
the favorite app that I use
for editing videos on my smartphone.
But first of all, I have to tell you guys,
stop shooting vertical videos.
Flip the phone and shoot horizontally.
Trust me, your videos will be better.
You'll stop getting the black bars on the sides YouTube.
If you're not shooting for Instagram or Snapshot,
don't do this,
do this, it matters.
Now that we covered that, we can just move on
and I can tell you guys about selfie ring lights
'cause those really matter.
If you just go ahead and put a selfie ring light
on the top of your phone,
this can give you external lighting
and you can go ahead and flip it around
and you can actually go ahead
and light yourself with it whenever you need to,
if the lighting conditions aren't great.
So that's fantastic.
A lot of live streamers use this.
I will link to several version of this
in the description below.
Most of these are dimmable,
so you won't have it completely blown out
or washing out your face.
You can control how much light is coming through it.
So again, I'll link some options
and I think that one of the best ones
is actually produced by Arkon Mounts,
so you'll definitely wanna check that out.
They also have a great stabilization rig
that you can use that's similar to the JOBY GorillaPod
but it's infinitely cheaper.
So while I recommend the JOBY GorillaPod,
you might wanna check that out.
Speaking of, this is the JOBY GorillaPod
along with an adapter, and this is what I use
whenever I want to get stabilization for my iPhone
and I'm just putting it all in one place.
So you can adjust that however you need to,
whether it's gonna be horizontal and vertical,
you just screw that on and you're good to go.
The great thing about this is that you can go ahead
and you can use these JOBY GorillaPod legs
to arrange this to work with whatever you need to.
You can put it on the back of a chair.
You can put it on a shelf.
You can do whatever you need to do.
So I really like that.
When I'm on the go and I really wanna capture great footage,
even while I'm walking around, I use the DJI Osmo Mobile
and this is from my friends over at GearBest.
This is an easy-to-use stabilization rig
that also lets me control pretty much all of the direction
while keeping the camera steady with the iPhone.
So this is amazing
and it lets me do a lot of walk and talk stuff
and it could let me do
some very interesting captures and pans,
so I highly recommend this.
This will be linked in the description below.
Thanks to my friends at GearBest for sending this over.
I really appreciate it.
Alternatively, you can use the Zhiyun Crane Smooth.
I use the Zhiyun Crane V2 for my DSLRs
and mirrorless cameras,
but this is just another affordable option for you
for stabilization with your smartphone.
This basically turns this into a film studio
when I combine it with other accessories.
Finally, let's talk about audio.
When it comes to your smartphones,
the internal audio is pretty okay,
it's not that bad, but a lot of times on the go,
I'll just plug in this simple RODE VideoMic Me
and all of a sudden, I've got a shotgun microphone
attached to my smartphone.
For those of you on newer iPhones
that lack a headphone jack, unlike my iPhone 6s,
I have the Sennheiser Live Mic here,
and so this is a clip-on lapel mic
just like I use for my speaking engagements.
The difference is instead of being wireless,
this connects to the iPhone via a Lightning Cable.
So you can just plug this in to pretty much any newer iPhone
and then you can just go ahead and you can just clip this on
and you've got quality audio.
When it comes to video editing,
I prefer to do that on my desktop in Adobe Premiere Pro.
However, if all you wanna do is use your smartphone,
then one of the apps I'm gonna recommended
is Adobe Premiere Clip.
This is a great and convenient easy-to-use app.
It's one of my favorites, and I use it to do little things
that I do for social media all the time,
but also, I use to film and edit
my Dear Entrepreneurs' web series using this app.
So it's actually pretty decent
when it comes to just doing basic jump cuts
and everything you need,
and you can also change little things
like exposure values, you can add background music to it,
there's all kinds of nice little things you can do,
including some minor color grading,
so I definitely recommend it
especially if you're someone who's getting into video
specifically through your smartphone
and you're just not used to doing heavy video editing.
So, those are my tips on how you use your iPhone
like a pro to do filmmaking and make online videos.
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Would you like me to do a rundown
on maybe five or six video editing apps for the iPhone?
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