Is video editing and color grading on your smartphone useful or useless? My
last video was about 7 indoor transitions you can try to do with your
DJI Osmo mobile 3 gimbal and smartphone, in my case it's Android. And since many
of you asked me if I can show how to edit video on a smartphone and color
grade, I decided to give it a try. Normally, I would edit it in Adobe
Premiere Pro but I grabbed my smart phone which is Samsung Galaxy S10+ and I
went ahead. So in this video, I'm gonna show you exactly how I did it step by
step. What app I was using and I'm gonna tell you exactly what I think about it.
What I think about video editing on a smartphone and color grading, what
problems I ran into, what went good, what went wrong. Is this really worth it? Is it not
worth it? Is video editing on the smartphone and color grading useful or
completely useless?
And for the new faces, my name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn how
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in creative camera challenges, consider subscribing. Let's just play the video
sequence with those 7 indoor transitions.
Now I would like to return to one transition which did not work out for me
the way I really wanted and it's this one, frame match. When I was filming this
I told myself that everything has to be filmed with this gimbal DJI Osmo
Mobile 3. The reason I was doing it not because I wanted to show off my filming
skills but because I wanted to see, I wanted to test what truly is possible to
do and what's not. I wanted you to see all the positives and also all the
negatives in case you're in a market for either shopping for your next gimbal or
if you are still deciding, if you want to do smartphone film making or if you want to
film with something like Canon M50 mirrorless camera. I simply want you to
see the real deal. And there are limitations. Here is one for example. My
gimbal drifts. That means that if I leave it sitting on a table, it will eventually
move on its own. It will tiny bit change the frame and I wanted to see how
much it will move and it moved quite a bit. After filming the first clip I went
to change very fast. I run back to film the second clip and once I was editing
those two clips, this is how much it drifted. And on top of it the room lights
changed a bit too as the Sun came out outside stronger. So the frame match
transition is the only one to do without the gimbal, smartphone on a tripod only.
The app I was using for video editing on my smartphone is Filmora Go. It is quite
popular app. It is actually recommended by Android users. It is quite
easy to use. You press the plus button to import videos and then you just can edit
each clip further. There are many controls available and many transitions
in the app. It is quite user friendly because I was editing in camera
transitions. I needed to do very precise editing because I wanted to see exactly
the frame the first clip is gonna end on and I wanted
to see exactly the frame the next clip I'm gonna start with. Before I'm gonna
say anything further before I'm gonna say anything about my experience, let's
just run through those 7 indoor transitions and exactly how I edited
them in Filmora Go. First transition was dip to black. First clip
is cut on all black frame and second one starts on all black frame as well when I
was just about to uncover the lens with a spoon. Second transition, changing the
floor or level follows. First clip ends when I'm just about going over the edge
of the table. Second clip starts when I'm just about to go down from the door
frame. Transition number three is the one where I whip on the wall and here when I
was filming it actually made a very big mistake and I was actually waiting to
see if any of you will catch it. I was reading all the comments, I was expecting
to read about it but nothing was there so I guess nobody really knows. In the
first clip I whip with my right hand on the wall like this. In the second clip I
also whipped with my right hand from the wall on me back but I didn't realize it
was the wrong direction. So when I cut those two clips together, the transition
didn't have the same continuous move. It was not going in the same direction so
what I did, I simply flipped horizontally the clip in the app which made it work.
4th transition is the frame match I was already talking about at the
beginning. You basically cut it together on the frame with empty room when there
is no action. 5th transition is the whip up and down. First clip finishes on
the frame with just gray floor and the second clip starts from the gray
floor just about to go down. 6th transition is a pole or the wall
corner transition. I cut the first clip when most of the pole covered the frame.
The 2nd transition started as the wall covered the frame and the last
transition was a little bit tricky and that is the fun socks whip. I've got the
first clip when the frame had still the purple t-shirt. The next
clip I started still at purple t-shirt just about to get on legs. What was my
experience editing in this app on my smartphone? I actually edited few
different videos in different apps before so I'm finding that
every time you are editing in these apps, the experience is pretty much always the
same. When you are editing just basic stuff, just adding clips together, you
don't need to be super precise and you're just using built-in transitions
and effects. It's actually pretty good. It's very easy to do, it works great no
doubt. But when you need to do very precise editing like editing to the
beats of the music or in a camera transitions and it needs to be super,
super precise, it is actually very difficult to do. It was almost nearly
impossible for me to get the results I really wanted. For example, when I was
cutting the clip, I could sort of see where I cut it and then I returned to
preview screen but it showed a little different result. It was also a little
bit stuttering. It was like jumpy so I wasn't sure how it will come out
once I save the final video. Once I saved the final video, I noticed that the app
added this black frame to my transitions, to some of them. I also couldn't fix the
frame match transition as I couldn't zoom in precisely and move the frame
around to match it so I got about 80% of being finished. I'm going to show you the
end result of video editing on my smart phone very shortly but first I'm gonna
show you exactly where I color graded the final video sequence. The app which I
got is VSCO. You can import your videos there, do color adjustments on your own
or select one of the huge amounts of presets they offer. You can even save
your favorite presets and I love this app, I linked it in a video description
below so you can actually check it out on your own. So now let me play the video
sequence purely edited and color grated on my smartphone.
And now let me play that video sequence again once I literally fixed it in Adobe
Premiere Pro. I got rid of some of the black frames, I got rid of some of the
transition problems. I made them just better and I also fixed the frame match.
I gotta say I don't have an iPhone, I have Android. This is Samsung S10 plus
but I'm actually planning on getting iPhone just because I want to do
many videos where I'm gonna be comparing those two platforms and I would like to
really see the difference between editing on iPhone versus video editing
on Android. All I can say right now, there's certainly big difference between
video editing on smartphone and video editing on your desktop or laptop in
full programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro and the same goals when you are filming
with your smartphone and smartphone gimbal. It is actually very difficult to
do. It is very difficult. The settings are just changing on its own all the time,
there's many things you need to keep watching, there are sometimes even
glitches. If you can get pretty decent result filming on your smartphone then
if you grab something like Canon M50, you are absolutely pro in filming
because it is just so much easier to do. Once you set your settings, there is no
headache anymore. You just go. Filming with smartphone it's just very
convenient because it is small, it's always in your pocket and it is light
but comparing to filming with mirrorless camera, there is just so much room for
improvement and so much room for development. Well, hit the thumbs up if
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