- In this video, we're gonna run through a complete
FiLMiC Pro tutorial showing you step by step
how to unlock DSLR-like settings
on your iPhone or Android smartphone camera
and exactly how to use them
to shoot your videos like a pro.
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FiLMiC Pro is one of our top picks
for best iPhone and Android camera apps.
It's packed with a ton of features
and it instantly unlocks DSLR-like settings
on your iOS or Android camera.
So at first glance though
there is a huge range of features in there
that can definitely be overwhelming,
but with just a basic understanding and a simple process,
you can get some amazing results shooting video
with your Android or your iPhone.
Now, we did a FiLMiC Pro walkthrough a little while back,
but there's been some big changes since then.
So in this video we're gonna do a full update.
We're gonna cover everything you need
to get started and start getting awesome results
with the latest FiLMiC Pro version, step by step.
And while you're watching,
make sure to let me know in the comments,
what's your number one camera setting
that you couldn't do without on your iPhone or Android?
And remember to take a look
at what the rest of the community is posting as well
because there's always some nuggets of gold down there.
And as an added bonus,
once we're done with the walkthrough,
I'm gonna cover a bonus tip and show you
how you can easily monitor your shot
while you're shooting with your phone's rear camera,
so the one facing away from you.
This one is gonna make everything a ton easier.
Alright, so here we are in FiLMiC Pro.
Now, just looking at this interface,
straight out of the bat, you can see on the right hand side,
we've got our audio bars.
So you can actually see how loud the volume
is coming through on our recording,
and also that there is actually audio coming through,
which is a great tool to have
if you're going to be creating videos
so that you've got that reassurance
that your audio is actually working.
So we'll start off by going through the interface
really quickly.
We've got your big record button down the bottom here.
You've also got a play button, settings.
Here you've got your battery indicator
and your storage indicator too, showing you
how much you've got left of both.
You've got your time code or your counter
to show you how long you're recording for.
Over here you've got your current frames per second
and your video quality displayed there.
So you can see it says 25 frames per second for K currently.
The next one across, the A
is for some advanced filming options.
I'm sure that's not what the A stands for.
But in there you'll get things like peaking,
and you'll get some other displays
that you can overlay on FiLMiC Pro while you're filming
to get some more advanced control.
The next one along, the round circle, it looks like a target
is where you can control your focus and your exposure
and lock that down and set everything to manual.
And the three colors there is to adjust the white balance
or the color temperature of your shot,
which you can see is also displayed on the side here
at currently 62,500 kelvin.
Now everything here right now
is just as it is when you open the app,
and everything is totally set to auto.
So the first thing I'd recommend you do
when you open the app
is to go into settings
and make sure that everything is set up correctly.
Now, there's a heap of settings in here
and we definitely aren't gonna run through them all,
but I am gonna run through the most important ones
for you to set.
So the first place you should go is to framerate.
So if we tap on that, you can see in here,
we've got 24 frames per second, 25, and 30
that we can pick at the current resolution
that is set for this phone.
You can see we've got grayed out options there
for 48, 50, 60, 120, and 240.
Now, obviously, if we change the resolution,
the recording quality, then we also have control then
to change the framerate as well.
Really, anything above 30 frames per second
could actually be classed as slow motion.
So for most videos you're gonna be creating,
you're going to want to use one of these three framerates,
24, 25, or 30.
For most videos that you're going to be creating,
I would say to stick to 30 frames per second
if you're in the US.
If you're in Australia or Europe,
then set your phone to 25 frames per second.
This is gonna help you remove or reduce the chance
of any flickering happening from any lights
that are in your scene.
So I'm in Australia right now,
so we're gonna set it to 25.
And once you've selected that,
you can just tap anywhere on the screen
to go back to the previous menu.
The next setting you need to look at is the resolution.
So this is the actual quality
of the files that you're gonna be capturing.
Across the top, you've got the different aspect ratios,
or that you can actually crop the footage down
so that it is square or so it's got the black bars
if you're creating a more cinematic style video.
But the default here should be 16 x 9.
But the settings you're gonna want to change here
is where it says 4K 2160p.
Now, obviously, with this phone, it supports 4K,
but we can also change this resolution.
We've got the options of 3K, 2K,
1080p, 720p, and 540p.
Now, ideally, here you would want to be using
at least 1080p, but if your phone supports it,
then you could go up to 4K,
which is obviously going to give you a higher quality video,
but it's also gonna chew up some more storage space as well.
It also sounds like we've got a couple of birds
in the background.
So once you've got your resolution picked, 4K,
you can choose the actual bitrate, or the quality
of that 4K recording.
So if we go back through here, you can see
economy is the lowest quality setting we have.
You've then got standard, FiLMiC quality,
and FiLMiC extreme.
Now, FiLMiC extreme is the best quality
that you can actually get in this app,
and it's actually, in a lot of cases, going to give you
a much better quality video
than the built-in camera apps will on your phone.
So if you've got the storage space available
and you want the best quality recordings
out of your phone's camera,
then you want to be using FiLMiC extreme.
So we'll tap on the screen to get back out of that.
Also, in here you've got control over your audio.
And you get to choose
if you want to use your camera microphone,
or if you do have an external microphone plugged in,
then you can pick external microphone as well.
And you've also got control over the quality,
once again, of your audio recording.
I'd suggest leaving this at 48 kilohertz.
But if you want to record your videos without audio,
then you can turn that on there as well.
Go back out of this.
Now, if you want to switch to the front-facing camera,
you can do that down here as well.
There is the camera button that will swap that out for you.
And you've also got the option down here
to turn on or off optical image stabilization
or stabilization if it's built into your phone.
Once you've got all your settings locked down
the way that you like them,
you can actually come up here to presets,
and you can save presets in here.
So you can see in the presets here,
I've got a preset for JB 4K.
So that would be my preset with everything set
to the highest quality for 4K recordings
because that will be the default
that I'm going to use for most recordings.
So you can save your presets in there.
You might have one saved for 1080p, one for 4K.
It really depends on what you're looking to achieve
with the videos you're creating.
So we'll go back out of here and back out of here again.
OK, so now that we've gone through the settings,
the next thing you want to do before you start recording
is to set up your actual shot.
We've got a square and a circle on screen.
So this square here, you can actually pick it up
and you can move it around.
This is your focus square.
So it's gonna focus on whatever you drop it on.
So if I put my hand in front of the screen here now,
if I drop the square on my hand,
it's going to change the focus so it's focusing on my hand.
Now if we actually press on that square,
you can see it's gone red now,
when I move my hand away,
then that isn't going to change,
that's locked the focus point at that point.
So that's an easy way that you can lock down your focus.
And exactly the same with the circle.
So the circle is your exposure
or your brightness of your shot.
So whatever I let this go on here,
it's going to adjust the brightness accordingly.
So if we move it over here,
you can see it darkens the shot down.
If I move it back here,
then it's going to adjust for wherever I've left it.
And if I tap it again, you can see it's gone red.
It's now locked in the exposure and the focus
at that point.
So as things change here,
it's not going to automatically adjust,
which is really, really powerful for creating
professional-looking videos.
You don't want the light to be constantly changing
and automatically adjusting as you move your camera around
or as things change in your scene.
And obviously, if you want to go back to auto,
then you just tap on the circles or the square
and everything will go back to normal.
So in this case here, if we were filming this shot here,
we would probably want to lock down our focus
on the chair here, so we'd move it there
and we would tap on the screen to lock it at that point.
And exactly the same for the exposure.
So we might want to expose for the chair here,
so brighten that up a bit.
And tap on that once we're happy.
Now our shot is locked off at those settings.
So that's the most basic way that you can do it.
Now, you can actually go into a lot more control on those.
You can either long press on either the circle or the square
to bring out more advanced options,
or you can come down the bottom here to this target,
this circle with the smaller circle inside it.
If we tap on that,
you can see that we get these sliders on either side.
So now that we've locked our exposure,
we can actually come across here
and swipe this slider up and down
to brighten and to darken our shot,
to really dial in and get the look that we're after.
And exactly the same with the focus.
We've got a focus slider here
that we can adjust, manually, the focus as well.
So if I put my hand back in here,
I can adjust it until my hand is in focus,
let it go, pull it away,
and everything is locked off at that point.
So that's really, really powerful,
especially to have these controls
on our smartphones.
And the last key setting here
that I'd highly recommend you lock down as well.
So we've done the focus,
we've done the exposure or the brightness
so that those aren't gonna change.
The last one is your color temperature.
You'll want to kick that into manual mode as well
'cause that's another one that could automatically change
as things change in your scene.
So if a cloud came over,
you could definitely change the whole look and feel
of your video.
So if we tap on these three circles down the bottom here,
then you can see here it's doing an automatic adjustment.
We're currently on AWB, automatic white balance.
If we press on that,
you can see that we've locked in the white balance.
If we're happy with that automatic reading,
we've now locked it at that point.
Now, obviously, you've got a heap of controls in here
to change that look up.
We've got other presets down the bottom here
that we can cycle through.
And you can see the scene totally changes based on
which one of these presets we are picking.
You can also save your own in here as presets as A and B
and customize those up for how you'd like to look.
But what I recommend you start is with auto white balance,
'cause it normally does a pretty damn good job
of analyzing your scene or your shot
and getting that white balance correct.
But you can see here that it's giving you
the color temperature.
It's currently reading around 6,280
and it's fluctuating a little bit,
that's that automatic adjustment
because we haven't locked this down.
But you can actually grab these sliders
and you can make manual adjustments yourself.
So if we want it to be a cooler shot,
we'd put it down and add more blue in.
If we want to add more warmth into the shot,
then we would lift this up.
And once you've got it about where you'd want it,
then you can just let that slider go.
Tap off the screen.
And your shot then is locked down.
Now, obviously, for this shot,
we were setting it with my hand in focus here.
So we can tap back on the screen here
and obviously readjust our focus
back to the couch there.
So that's how simple it is.
Then, obviously, all you need to do when you want to record
is to press the record button
down in the bottom right hand corner,
and you can see that the recording timer is counting up.
What I really like about this app too
besides the fact that you can monitor
your audio while you're recording
is that it's clearly showing you
how much battery you've got left
and how much storage you've got left.
And, obviously, because these are our phones,
these are things that can run out pretty quick.
So it's awesome to have that there to make it so easy
while you're actually recording your videos.
So that's a quick walkthrough on FiLMiC Pro
and all the settings you need to know
to get the best results out of it.
Now, this was filmed on an Android device.
The settings and everything are exactly the same
on iOS as well.
So that's a complete walkthrough
with everything you need to know
to start getting great results using FiLMiC Pro
on either your iPhone or your Android device.
Now, if you are gonna be creating videos like this
where you are presenting to camera
and you're gonna be shooting them by yourself,
so you don't have anyone there to help you,
and if you want to use the primary camera,
the main, high-quality camera on your smartphone,
then that can be rather difficult
because the screen is going to be facing away from you.
So it's going to be hard to monitor
that you actually are recording,
that everything looks the way you want it
and that there's nothing changing
or distracting in your shot while you're actually recording.
So there's a couple of ways that you can do this.
If you have an iPhone or you're using iOS devices,
then there is an app called FiLMiC Remote,
which obviously is going to tie directly into FiLMiC Pro.
So what you do is you install the FiLMiC Remote
on an additional iOS device, maybe an iPad
or a second phone if you've got one.
I don't know how many people have two iPhones,
but maybe some of you do.
A second iOS device, put the app on there
and you're able to see what's going on
or mirror your phone screen to that device.
And you can also control it as well.
So you can remotely trigger the recording
and check that everything is how you'd like.
Now, if you don't have an iOS device
or multiple iOS devices,
then you can also use a piece of software called Reflector,
and that will let you wirelessly monitor your phone screen,
iOS or Android, to a computer, either a Mac or a PC.
Now, we do have a video talking through that process
of setting up Reflector and how it works
in a lot more detail.
I'll put it up in the cards now.
But in that video,
we've also covered some other options for you as well.
So if Reflector or FiLMiC Pro Remote don't work for you,
then make sure you check out that video
because there's a lot more options in there as well.
So now that you've got your filming sorted,
it's time to turn your iPhone or your Android device
into the ultimate video creation powerhouse.
So check out the video linked on screen
to see our review of the best video-editing apps
on both platforms
that are gonna give you desktop-like editing functions
right on your smart device.
And I'll see you soon.