- Hey it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
Recently we did a video talking about
the best camera apps on iPhone,
and we narrowed it down to three.
They were FiLMiC Pro, MoviePro, and Kinematic.
So in this video I'm gonna take a look at MoviePro,
and walk you through step by step
the best settings, or the settings to get
the best results out of your videos.
Now it's important to note here
that this video isn't gonna be a full review,
it's also not gonna cover every feature
or every setting in the app.
But what it will do is take you through, step by step,
how to set up and get great results using MoviePro.
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Now before we jump into it,
the main reason you'd want to be using
one of these third party camera apps,
or after-market camera apps for your videos
is so that you can lock everything down.
So that you're taking that automatic adjustment
that may happen during your videos out of the picture,
so you're literally locking down things like your exposure,
like your color temperature, like your auto-focus,
so that nothing will change and everything will stay
the way that you want it to
instead of how the camera thinks it should look.
So that's really powerful, but not only that,
it will allow you to get the best quality picture
out of your phone camera.
So we're gonna take you through the process
of setting that up now.
Alright, so we're here in MoviePro.
The first place to start to lock down your settings
and get everything set up right is in the settings,
so open up settings.
And here you've actually got the ability
to set presets, so if you're gonna be filming
in different locations you can create presets
for different filming styles or different resolutions,
to match different locations.
So we'll just leave it on preset one,
and we'll get that set up for this location.
So we're gonna start off with then, with our resolution,
so the quality of the video that we're gonna be recording.
Now in resolution you've got heaps of options here,
for video resolutions to record at.
Where I'd recommend that you start
is under basic resolutions.
And it's going to pick the highest quality record setting
for your phone under basic resolutions.
So I'm currently using an iPhone six, which has
native recording capability of 1080p, so 1920x1080.
If you're using one of the newer phones
that supports 4K, then pick 4K here in this option.
So I'd always recommend to pick
the highest quality native resolution
for the camera that you've got.
So even though there's other
higher resolutions we can pick down here,
our camera doesn't natively support these resolutions,
so I personally wouldn't recommend them.
So we'll leave ours set to 1080p here.
We'll come back up here, settings.
Next up we need to lock down our frame rate,
so click on frame rate.
And you can see in here we've got a heap
of different frame rates to choose from.
Now the two most common or most popular frame rates
will be 25 frames per second or 30 frames per second.
Now you pick 25 if you're in Australia or in the UK,
and you'll pick 30 if you're in the U.S.
Now you want to make sure that you're picking
the right frame rate for your region
so that there's a lot less chance
of having things like strobing or flickering
coming into your recorded videos.
So, if you're in Australia or the UK pick 25,
if you're in the U.S. pick 30.
And there are other frame rates here, higher frame rates,
that you can pick as well.
If you're looking to do some smooth
60p or 50p video recording,
then you've got those options there of 50 or 60,
or anything above that is classed as slow motion
and different degrees of slow motion,
so 96 right up to 240 are all slow motion frame rates.
So if you're after slow motion
then this is where you pick them.
But I'm in Australia so I'll pick 25.
Next up we've got the video quality, click on that one.
It's automatically selected 225% for us,
which is saying 225% corresponds to 50 megabits per second,
as a bit rate.
So how bit rates work is the higher the bit rate,
the higher the quality of the video you're recording,
the larger the file size.
So it says here that the iPhone normally shoots
at around 22 megabits per second,
so this app lets us record at a higher quality,
or higher bit rate, of 50 megabits per second.
So if you're looking to create a smaller file size,
I would recommend choosing 100% as the lowest.
Don't drop your quality below 100%.
If you've got the storage capacity in your phone,
and you want to record at a higher quality level,
then pick at least 225% so that you're recording
at 50 megabits per second.
And really, that's where I feel that most people
should be setting their cameras to.
So I'll go back now.
And next we're gonna lock down our audio.
So if I click on that.
And the first option that you should pick here
is either 44.1 kilohertz or 48 kilohertz for your videos.
Most people won't be able to tell the difference
between the two, but in my opinion
you're better off setting this to 48 kilohertz.
So once you've picked your kilohertz,
then we can come up and pick the quality
of the audio that we're recording.
So you get a choice of silent or no audio,
low quality, medium quality,
normal quality, or uncompressed.
Now uncompressed will give you a much much larger file size,
and personally I think it's a bit of overkill
for any video that you're gonna
be creating with your iPhone.
So I would suggest that you leave it as normal.
We'll go back now.
Now you've also got the option in here
to turn on or off video stabilization.
Now if you're gonna be walking around
or if there's gonna be movement in your shot,
then I would suggest that you turn on video stabilization.
If you're gonna be recording with your phone on a tripod,
then I would suggest that you leave this off.
Now if we come down here through the settings here,
we've got some audio options that we're gonna adjust next.
So, your built-in microphone is just normally set to auto,
which is where I'd recommend that you leave it,
but you can also manually select
to use the bottom microphone or the front top microphone,
depending on which microphone you'd like to record from
if you're just gonna be using
the in-built microphones in the phone.
So we'll come back out of that.
So I suggest you leave that to auto,
unless you specifically would like to pick.
Next up, if you're using a Bluetooth microphone
then you can enable or disable this feature here.
We won't be, so we'll disable that feature.
Audio measuring is a setting
that I would recommend you turn on,
this will show you your audio bars,
and show you your, it says there your audio signal strength,
to show you how loud or quiet
your audio is in your recording.
The last setting that you'll really want to check in here
is the record duration.
You'll want to make sure that it's set to unlimited
so that you're not getting halfway through a video
and hitting a limit that you might have accidentally set
of maybe five minutes, well your recording
will stop at that point.
So make sure that your record duration is set to unlimited.
Now there are quite a few other features in here,
so feel free to come in and have a play,
but all of the ones that we've run through
are the critical ones that you need to get right
for best results.
So we'll hit done now.
We'll come back and actually set up our shot.
And we can see our audio bars there on the left,
we can see that our audio is coming in,
and you can see that it's not peaking,
it's not hitting red, so the audio levels are pretty good.
Now if we do want to adjust our audio levels
and make them louder, then we can come up here
to the microphone and we can slide up and down,
to adjust the volume and make it louder or quieter.
Okay, so now we're gonna lock down our brightness,
or our exposure of the shot,
so we'll come down here to the middle one
and press on our exposure,
and you can see that it's currently set to auto exposure.
So we've got a couple of setting in here that we can change.
The first should be your shutter.
And here it's automatically set to 1/25.
So where I recommend you set this is to 1/50
if you're in Australia or the UK,
or 1/60 if you're in the U.S., and again,
this is to match the lights in your area
to match the flickering in your area
so that you're going to eliminate or reduce the chance
of having any flickering or strobing
coming through in your videos.
So set this first before we adjust the rest
of the brightness in the shot.
So 1/50 if you're in Australia or the UK,
1/60 if you're in the U.S.
Now if you need to make your shot darker
you can also set this to a multiple of that number,
so double that number.
So in Australia or the UK it can be 1/100,
or in the U.S. it can be 1/120.
Now a multiple of that number will still match the frequency
so that you won't get any strobing
or flickering in your videos.
So once you've locked down your shutter,
we'll come back over here to ISO,
and this is where we'll adjust the brightness
or the darkness of our shot.
So the higher the number here, the brighter the shot,
the lower the number, the darker the shot.
So for us here, in this shot,
I'll probably say around 100 or 110
will be where we want the brightness for this scene.
So lock down your shutter
and then brighten or darken your shot using your ISO.
Now if you are filming outside in really bright conditions
and you've got your ISO right down
to the darkest that you can for your phone,
so 30 in this case, and the shot is still really bright,
then you can darken your shot by coming back to the shutter
and increasing the shutter.
Now especially if you're filming outside,
and you're not using any additional lights,
that may produce flickering,
then you can really set your shutter speed
to any number in order to get
the brightness right for your shot.
But if you're indoors and you're using lights,
then that's where it's important to stick
to the correct numbers for your region.
So I set this back to 50 here now.
We'll come back over to ISO
and we'll brighten that back up to around 100.
So that's looking pretty good,
so once we're happy with those
we can lock those settings down by pressing AEL,
or exposure lock.
Right, so that's our exposure locked down,
next up we want to adjust our white balance.
So we click on the white balance down here,
you can see it's currently on auto,
so white balance is the color temperature
of the video we're recording.
So normally a good place to start
to lock down the white balance
is with your auto, you can see
it's automatically picked something that looks pretty good,
if you want to lock that so that it's not gonna change
in your shot while you're recording,
then you just want to press the auto white balance lock.
And then we're locked in at that setting.
If you want to customize it
and really refine the look of your shot,
then you can come across to temperature,
and you can adjust the number here,
you can see that we're at 4800 Kelvin,
and we can use this slider to adjust the look
that we're getting for our videos
by changing the numbers here on the screen.
So that's locking down your white balance.
Next up we need to lock down our focus point.
So if we come down the bottom left corner here to focus,
you can see that we're currently on auto focus.
So the easiest way to lock down your auto focus
is to tap on the screen on the area
that you want to focus on,
the phone will adjust, and then press AFL,
which will lock the auto focus at that point.
Now if you want to manually adjust
the auto focus beyond that point,
you can click on manual, and with this slider here
you can drag back and forth
to get the focus that you're after.
So those are all the settings that you need to lock down
in order to get the best results with this app.
Now before you actually jump in and record your videos,
it's a good idea to record a short test,
15 to 20 seconds, come back, play it back
and make sure that the audio and the video
are exactly how you want them
before you go and record your full videos.
So there you have it, that's how you can set up MoviePro
on iOS for recording your videos.
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