If you’ve got the itch to create content, what’s stopping you, what’s your excuse?
These days as long as you’ve got one thing in particular that you’ll usually find with
you at all times then, as long as you’ve overcome the barriers from within, then there’s
no excuse to do anything but press that record button.
Hey it’s André and I’m going to show you just how easy it is to film, edit and
publish a video using one thing and that’s your iPhone.
While I’m showing you just how easy it is to get through those three stages with this,
I’ll also show you a few levelling up suggestions with accessories or apps that can also help
enhance your filming and editing experience.
Firstly, let’s start off with the most important thing you’ll need, your phone, this is mine,
the iPhone 13 Pro, generally most smartphones these days are capable of producing an acceptable
or high level of video quality.
This iPhone can record in 720p, 1080p and 4K at various fps rates, so if you want your
videos looking as good as they can, film in the highest resolution possible.
On this phone, it’s 4K, but if you’ve got an older phone, it may be 1080p.
One of the restrictions to remember is that the higher the resolution then the more space
the video clip will take up on your phone, so bear that in mind when you press that record
button.
The best way to start off, if you’re using an iPhone and just want to begin is by using
the native camera app in video mode.
If you want to be able to see yourself in frame while you’re filming you’ll have
to use the selfie camera, which unfortunately isn’t using the iPhone’s best lens.
If you do want to utilise the best lens on the phone, you’ll have to sacrifice being
able to see yourself while recording, but if you set and frame everything beforehand
or have help from someone else, then you can overcome that obstacle quite easily.
With the native camera app, there aren’t many settings that you can customise in the
video mode, other than the exposure which is the reason which sometimes forces people
looking for more advance features to choose alternative apps to use, but for simple pointing
and shooting as a beginner, and with the appropriate lighting conditions, that should be all you
will need.
If you want to level up the camera app, then as well as loads of free camera apps that
give you more advance setting control, the paid app that I use whenever I’m not filming
on my Sony camera, which costs about £12.99 on the app store, is Filmic Pro, this app,
gives you full manual control of all your iPhone’s different lenses such as the exposure,
which you can do in the native app, the ISO, shutter speed, focus, zoom, gives you the
ability to see your live scene analytics and support for certain third party accessories
like gimbals, all of which give you more of a professional control of your video production.
And if you’ve got an Apple Watch or another iPhone or an iPad, you can install Filmic
Remote and have remote control of the iPhone while in the Filmic Pro app.
I’ll leave the link to my review on the Filmic Remote app up there and in the description
below.
A sneaky trick that you can do if you film with Filmic Pro on your iPhone and Filmic
Remote on an Apple Watch, is that you can strap your Apple Watch to your iPhone to use
as a viewfinder and to start and stop the recording when you are filming with the main
back camera lens, this way you will always be able to make sure your framing within the
shot is perfect while utilising your phone’s best camera lens.
The microphone on the iPhone, in my opinion is pretty good for general shooting, particularly
if you’re filming with the phone close to you, which fortunately the iPhone lenses allows
you to do.
To level this up, you could go for an external mic that attaches directly into the lighting
port of the phone or compatible lav mic, that via the appropriate adapter, should it need
one, will allow you to be a little further away from the phone and with a wireless lav
mic, even further away.
In a studio setting, as well as levelling up with the smaller external mic or lav mic,
you can also go for a USB microphone like this one from Fifine, which is more suited
if you’ve got more of a permanent setup.
So now you’re ready to press record right, so go on do it.
When recording, you can simply, just hold the phone to give your video more of a personal
touch if that’s the effect you’re looking for, but a simple inexpensive level up is
using a selfie stick, or like I’m doing here, a phone mount attached to a mini tripod.
If you’re in a more permanent setting, you could swap the mini tripod for a normal sized
tripod and as a further level up to the handheld method, using a gimbal like this one, will
not only give you a bit more handheld control but also stabilisation, important if you’re
finding your handheld footage a bit wobbly.
Ok, so now you created your video and it’s sitting in the photos app, how are you going
to get it to the stage where it’s presentable?
You’re going to need to edit it.
Remember, we are still doing everything on your iPhone.
The free and perfectly capable option for you on your phone is the app iMovie, Apple’s
own default video editor across all of their devices, capable of creating great edited
videos, and it even gives you the option, if you’re totally new to this, for help,
with storyboards and magic movies.
If you want to see me edit a whole video in iMovie on the iPhone, just let me know in
the comments below.
If you’re a regular to the channel, then you’ll probably know what my level up option
is, it’s Lumafusion, for me and many others, probably the best mobile video editing app
experience you’re going to get, and even on a small screen like on the iPhone, which
may be a bit small to use for some, lumafusion offers the opportunity to create some great
videos and if you want to, upload directly to Youtube from within the app.
Check out, one of my lumafusion tutorial videos after this one.
So that’s a quick intro into just how easy it is to get started and it just shows that
you don’t need to spend loads of money to start and continue making great videos by
just hitting that record button on your iphone, for me, for the majority of this channel’s
life up to this point, I was (and still am sometimes), shooting on my iPhone with Filmic
Pro and with the Apple Watch or iPad using Filmic Remote and editing that footage on
Lumafusion and uploading straight to YouTube, all without spending too much, only levelling
up, even now, when finances allow, little by little.
If you’ve got any questions about anything in this video or want to add your own levelling
up software or accessory suggestions, pop them down in the comments below.
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