Ahoj! This is Zdenka. So i'm here today for the
second time. I was here once for a lunch break because I was picking
up something in this area and since I've never been here, I decided to
check it out for lunch break. And here I am back again. It's just an
awesome place. I'm gonna take you there. What I want to talk about today is ....
so you might have a very good smartphone and you might
have even an awesome gimbal and you know all those
modes and you know how to operate it and you know even how to cut the video
together and looks kind of cool but you're not taking full
advantage of those lenses on your smartphone
because you're filming in automatic mode . So ladies and
gentlemen, if you are ready to take that next
step, let me show you the best filming settings on a smartphone.
Also, let's talk about some of the latest manual filming apps. I am going to show
you the one I'm using the most and why. And also, let me show you some of
the latest tools you can use. And yes, for the new
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The light is so strong, it's not the best position but I wanted to show you my
company. I think they are having a little evening hygiene time.
Well, let me start off by showing you footage filmed with my smartphone in
automatic mode.
And as you can see, it's nothing new, it is typical smartphone footage.
Now, let me show you 24 frames per second footage filmed with my smartphone
but this time in manual mode.
And obviously let's put that side by
side.
24 frames per second footage filmed manually on smartphone looks a little
bit more cinematic because there's that little
motion blur. So how do we set that up on your smartphone? I'm gonna explain you
here because I thought I'm gonna melt there on that direct sun. When
you're filming in a manual mode on a smartphone, you can control two things
and that's your shutter speed and ISO. Aperture is locked, that's given.
But before you set that, you need to know in what frame rate you want to film
at. Aou can film in 24 frames per second
like I'm filming right now because that will give you the most cinematic look.
Or you can film in 30 frames per second which will give you that
normal look. If you are gonna be filming some action or movement, you might
option for filming in 60 frames per second which you can later
slow down or you can also film in super slow motion 120 frames per second which
is quite popular, or the smartphone will give you one more option, even slower
super slow motion 240 frames per second. Let me show you some examples. Here is 60
frames per second footage converted to 24 frames per second
timeline.
Here is 120 frames per second footage converted to 24 frames per second
and lastly here is 240 frames per second footage converted to 24 frames per
second.
It's time to set it up on the smartphone. I'm going to be using app called
Protake. This is my number one right now application I'm using when it comes to
filming in manual mode. It is available on both Apple and
Android. It is not free. I actually prefer it a lot more than
Filmic pro because the interface is so much easier.
It's got a lot of options, you can see everything very clearly and I think this
is going to be the most, the easiest way for me to show you how
to set that up. I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
This is simply honestly the most favorite app I'm using
right now. Let's select frame rate. I'm going to go
with 24. Next I'm going to select the shutter
speed. General rule is to double shutter speed, so
24 times 2 is 48. So I will select 1/48th. Now I can see at the top 24 frames per
second and 1/48th shutter speed. If I was going
to film in 60 frames per second, again the shutter speed has to double so I
would select 1/120th of a second.
So the setting would be 60 frames per second and shutter speed
1/120th of a second. If I would be filming in super slow
motion 120 frames per second, then the shutter speed again 120 times 2 is 240.
It would be 1/240th of a second. So let me show you on the screen. Here is
120 frames per second slow motion and shutter speed is 1/240th
of a second and lastly I can shoot in 240 frames per second, so let me set that
up on the screen. And you would be selecting shutter speed
1/480th of a second but that will take a lot of
data. So now, I have it set for 24 frames per
second and my shutter speed is 1/48 of a second. Next I have to select the
ISO. If I'm gonna be filming indoors, then I'm gonna go with the lowest ISO
possible because the higher number, I'm gonna get the more
noise I am gonna introduce in a footage which doesn't look that pretty.
If I am gonna be filming outdoors, then obviously I'm gonna go with the lowest
ISO possible on a smartphone. It is 21, but the footage will look like this
if I'm not gonna add sunglasses to it and that is
ND filter. And you can get all kinds of ND filters. I'm using this
variable nd filter which I also use on my camera like this mirrorless.
I used to use those clip-on filters but now I use this combo which I totally
love. It is ultra light, I just hook it and
done. For those interested, I linked it below the video. I have Moment case on
the phone which I like to use with the anamorphic lens and other
lenses. Then I have this new lens filter mount
made by moondog labs. I simply just hook it
on the Moment lens like this. Then I use 52 millimeter variable ND filter
and I actually went even further, I have a very high quality
filters 77 millimeters which are made by
Freewell. I actually reviewed them in the past.
You can get this step-up ring for this system.
All of it is linked below. Once I have the filter on, I just
make it stronger or lighter until I get the right exposure.
This app shows all scopes here at the bottom so that makes it easy to use.
Once you have your shutter speed and ISO in place, you also want to lock your
white balance because if you don't, then the footage will look like this.
Really colorful. So let's select sunny because that's
what it is right now and you are all set. And absolutely the
same thing you can do in other filming apps like Filmic pro.
You can do that in DJI Mimo if you have a DJI osmo mobile
3 gimbal but the DJI Mimo doesn't offer 120 frames per second.
You can do that also in Moza Genie app if you do have Moza gimbals. 120
frames per second is included there. You can do that also in Protake filming
app like this one I'm using. The reason I like this app like i said
is because the interface is very simple. There is also an option to film in C-LOG.
There is also option to choose many other filters, you just select that and
you're ready to film. You can save your presets. There is very wide
selection of the beauty mode which actually I'm
not using but I know some ladies prefer to use the beauty mode
which is there. You can also do double take. You can film with the rear camera
and front camera at the same time. This app is quite nicely made, very
simple to use. And lastly, if I don't have a gimbal with
me, I just have this smartphone in my purse, the app offers very good
stabilization. There are 3 choices I believe.
Standard, cinematic and extreme. So let me show you
the examples what you get if you don't use gimbal but you are using this
stabilization system.
So i'm totally eaten by mosquitoes, I am totally eaten by
red ants and I'm testing now the double take
which is fairly cool. It's actually recording what I'm seeing in the front
and I'm recording myself at the same time....