hi today we are ditching the big cinema cameras and only filming
with what's in our pockets [Music]
[Music] i have six ways to level up your mobile filmmaking game and make sure you
stay till the end because the final form will actually capture more detail than pretty much
any mirrorless camera out there now of course for this video we're gonna be using the iphone
13 pro max and the google pixel 6 pro but basically any modern smartphone should work
for most of these setups all right so the first level is using what you have so one
pro of filming on your bare phone is you always have it on you taking videos is fast and easy
smartphone cameras have become so good on their own with multiple focal lengths and lenses
what you get out of the native apps are usually pretty good for social media and sharing
now the con is the various lenses that you have built in are actually not all created equal
leaving you with inconsistent quality over your focal range low light performance and even color
accuracy software limitations are also a factor native apps are supposed to be simple to use so
you rarely get some much needed pro features so once you've grown tired of the basic settings that
native cameras usually come with you can try downloading a third-party app that's going to
give you way more features on android and ios definitely one of the best is filmic pro that's
probably the most known also on ios is beast cam which if you want 4k 60 pro res currently that's
the only app on the market that can do that these third-party pro apps will essentially
give you more control over your shutter speed iso white balance and other various parts of the
image that will give you the creative control over what you are filming now a con of these apps is it
doesn't actually solve the hardware limitations with lenses mentioned in level one and on iphone
apple doesn't really give the developers full access to everything involving the camera
so unfortunately even when you set your camera settings exactly how you want it you may still
notice some exposure shifting due to apple's weird hdr settings that constantly want to take over
your image next up we have my favorite everyday carry for iphone and that is the light chaser pro
bipolar pro now unfortunately polar pro doesn't make any cases for android phones but if you
have an iphone 11 12 or 13 you can pick up a light chaser pro the thing that i absolutely love about
the light chaser is one it's just a great case i use it every day but within a matter of seconds
you can add some pretty cool accessories like this snap-on side grip handle which gives you a
bluetooth shutter and if it starts to get a little sunny out you have different types of filters like
this variable and d and boom awesome setup in the matter of seconds but let's say maybe you're
working on a mobile film or you're doing something a little more intense than just your everyday
carry sort of thing this is the beast cage pro for iphone 13. it's an absolute tank it gives you full
protection of your phone and a solid metal case and it is littered with quarter twenties allowing
you to mount anything you want currently i just have one handle but you could have two handles
on the side one on top or one of my favorite options if you really want to step things up
that's a microphone and now you have a setup that's much more ergonomic has way more features
and a lot more durable if you're wondering what this is on the front this is beastgrip's brand
new 1.33 x anamorphic mark ii we've got a whole video coming about that probably next week so if
you're interested get subscribed but if you don't want this lens you can pretty much mount any other
beastgrip kenko moments almost any other mobile filmmaking lens out there all right so the next
way to level up your mobile filmmaking actually has nothing to do with the physical hardware of
your phone it is the music that you use in your videos music is something that i've been really
trying to work on the past couple months find music that makes sense for each video in each part
of the video to develop whatever sort of mood or style you're trying to create visually and today
we're doing that with audio if you're truly tired of hearing kind of the same repetitive youtube
songs over and over audio has an entirely massive music and sound effects library that gets new
stuff every single day one of my favorite things about audio is been extremely mobile friendly and
that way when i'm on the go and i want to randomly get inspired for the next youtube video i can
check out what's new in their libraries check out the various different playlists it's not
only important to me to get licensed for youtube monetization but as a freelance filmmaker also i
want licenses for commercial broadcast theatrical releases audio's got you covered everywhere
and right now they are actually doing something super intense and that is giving 70 off your
first year with audio pro 59 bucks for the entire year they've already been used by some of the top
creators and brands around the world like nike toyota nintendo so if you want to check out what
audio is all about and get your 70 off check out all the links in the description as well as use
the coupon code michael 70. thanks to audio for sponsoring this video and let's move on to the
next setup and here we have our final form this is the b script pro with the google pixel 6 pro
on a lot of pros there we have our lens of choice which is the b script two times telephoto lens i
love this as a portrait lens and then we have an angel bird pocket to go one terabyte ssd mounted
on top and the reason we have that plugged into the phone is because we are using the motion cam
app which allows you to film in raw dng i actually made a whole dedicated video on the motion cam app
you can check that out up here but essentially raw dng captures the uncompressed version of what
the sensor can capture the codec itself is pretty much a pain to work with but it truly gives you a
glimpse as to what phones can truly capture if you got past all of the crazy compression that
native and third-party apps traditionally do now of course that quality comes at a price and that
price is storage and nearly about five gigs per 20 seconds of capture you're gonna wanna offload
onto an ssd thankfully android makes that super easy now the only downside is you can't record
straight to the ssd itself you have to capture to your internal storage and then once you've
captured it you can export it to an external drive make sure you select that option to
delete after export so that way it deletes it off your internal storage but definitely if you plan
on using motion cam a lot you're going to want a phone with a big internal drive once you get past
the crazy workflow though the quality is unmatched the amount of color grading you can do for this
footage the amount of low-light performance it gives you of course the downside is that this is
an android-only app the closest you're gonna get on the iphone is prores which is awesome in itself
but it is nowhere near the uncompression of raw dng and that's what makes this the ultimate setup
in the final form of mobile filmmaking for 2022. and if you haven't already make sure you subscribe