is anamorphic actually worth it on a
phone time to put the new Beast grip
1.33 Mark II to the test
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so before I really test it out
anamorphic lenses on phones I always
thought they were kind of gimmicky
because most of the marketing revolved
around the blue anamorphic light streak
when you shine a flashlight into the
lens and don't get me wrong if you like
that and you want this lens for that yes
it's it will give you that flare real
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but last week when I was in Vancouver
and I shot a bunch of test footage with
the anamorphic lens I don't think a
single one of them had the anamorphic
cliche flare in it but all of them still
gave a totally different vibe than just
filming with your regular phone but here
is the biggest debate I think when it
comes to filming with any mobile
filmmaking accessories and that is how
much extra effort do you have to go
through to film with that piece of Kit
because if you're going to do something
and it's worth bringing like you know a
big cinema camera or mirrorless camera
you kind of understand like okay I'm
going to bring my batteries my lenses
the this the that a lot of times when
you go out with your phone you're doing
that because you want to pack super
light you don't want a ton of stuff and
so for my Vancouver trip I had like no
room for anything else really and so all
I brought was this setup right here
basically the Bare Essentials to make
the lens work I've done whole videos on
the cage itself and this is a tank of a
cage and you're not necessarily going to
leave your phone in it 24 7. but the
thing I like about it is that it doesn't
take away any functionality of using
your phone a lot of cages will block all
of your like face ID sensors or not
allow you to swipe easily from the top
and bottom and this just like it doesn't
block any part of the screen all the
buttons on the sides are still
incredibly clickable but all your ports
are fully open on the bottom your
speakers everything phone calls not
going to be an issue it makes attaching
something like the lens incredibly easy
the other thing that I like b-script
does on all of their lenses is they have
a threaded front 58 millimeter filters
from any brand but of course they sell
their own ND filters you can just screw
these on and these themselves are
threaded so you can stack different
filters for different effects so now you
can still get proper exposure even Beast
cam app is what I use to film since
obviously why not use Beast grip's
entire workflow and to set up for
anamorphic is super easy all you want to
do in the top left hand corner of those
three little dots right there you can
see hardware and you can choose the dof
adapter which I've done a ton of videos
on and then the anamorphic and there's
the 1.5 5 or the 1.33 X and then the
most important thing when shooting
anamorphic on mobile and this goes for
pretty much any anamorphic lens out
there is you want to make sure the
stabilization is completely turned off
for the phone phones do a lot of crazy
Optical and digital stabilization and
that is going to mess with the Optics of
anamorphic lenses and even some other
lenses as well but a lot of times you
can get a really bad jelloing effect
this is where I thought I'd run in to
some issues because again I prefer to
shoot this setup on my crane M3 which is
I hands down the best mobile gimbal in
my opinion and it handles this setup
like a boss like the motors are strong
like it doesn't balance worth anything
but as soon as I turn it on you can see
that it is plenty strong enough to do
everything I need to but again on this
trip I didn't bring any of that it was
just this and so having image
stabilization turned off the footage
first looks like this
basically the equivalent of using
handheld footage from a camera that
doesn't have stabilization but here's
how you get the best image out of using
an anamorphic lens now first of all
you're going to choose the format in
which you want to film now if you you
guys know me I want to go the highest
quality possible Beast cam app was
actually the first app to have prores
60fps but when you first turn this on
when we get this you'll get this a
little pop-up right here basically
talking about due to Hardware
limitations it won't be able to preview
the D squeeze in camera so you have to
do the D squeeze afterwards so you hit
OK again you pick your recording methods
and so as we're looking at the image
everything looks kind of funky I'll turn
it around so you can see me so I
probably look pretty compressed right so
I'm going to do is just record for a
couple seconds here
record some of me again look pretty
squeezed and so then you go into your
gallery
check out your videos and while you can
de-squeeze in something like DaVinci
Resolve it's much easier just to process
it in here and so you'll notice on the
right hand side to the left of the
little info button which tells you more
about the file on the top one you can
see a little like two arrows circling
each other that means that it hasn't
been de-squeezed yet all the other ones
for my trip I've already done and so if
you had a bunch you could select them
all at once or I can just tap that and
I'm going to hit convert and then it's
pretty short file so it's not going to
take long it's going to go through and
basically convert that file into the two
four to one aspect ratio stretching it
out making everything look proper so now
we see those two arrows go away
and I can preview it and you can see
that everything now looks proper I'm no
longer looking funky and squeezed and we
get a really cool anamorphic image out
of our phone so anyway once you've
de-squeezed all of your footage here you
can select multiple select them all do
whatever you want to do you can save
them to your photos app you can export
them right from here send them off
airdrop them to a computer which is of
course what I always do and once you get
them on the computer if you did the
conversion in the app you already have a
nice two to four to one aspect ratio
60fps clip but it's playing back at 24
FPS so once I drop in the timeline it
still has that like really rough
handheld vibe to it so we can tape that
shaky looking clip we're going to slow
it down 40 percent take advantage of
that 60 FPS slow-mo if the clip needs
some more help we can now add some
digital stabilization and since you shot
10-bit prores go ahead throw on a color
grade and now you can go something like
this to phone footage that looks like
this in the matter of minutes I've
personally fallen in love with filming
anamorphic for phone footage even if
it's just hanging out with the family or
traveling to another country you don't
stick out while having huge crazy big
rigs definitely it doesn't cost anywhere
near the amount of a full anamorphic
setup and if you've been looking for
something to add character to your
videos this is a very good solution for
that but I'm curious let me know what
you guys think down in the comments
below are you a fan of anamorphic on
mobile phones why or why not now if
you're curious how I packed this in
addition to all my other camera gear for
my Vancouver trip make sure you check
out this video right here so you can see
the full setup