Ahoj! This is Zdenka. Last few days I've spent crazy amount of time in front of
the computer editing wedding photos and videos and all that and I've said enough.
I grabbed my phone and a gimbal and I headed here where I'm shooting a cinematic
video sequence which you saw at the beginning of the video. And I'm taking
you with me. I'm gonna be showing you step by step how I'm creating the video,
why I am making the choices I'm making, also, I'll show you how I am editing the
final result so you will get the whole thing.
It is a beginner friendly video so you can apply those tips to any kind of
smartphone, any kind of camera. You can use the gimbal, you don't have to use a
gimbal. But today, I'm gonna be using this. I'm gonna be using Samsung Galaxy S 10
plus because it has beautiful multiple lenses here and I'm gonna be using DJI
Osmo mobile 3 gimbal. The two apps I'm gonna be using it's just a regular
camera app in the phone and also DJI Mimo which came with the gimbal. I also
have filmic Pro app installed on the phone but I'm not gonna use it today
because it is a beginner friendly video and I would like everybody be able to
apply those tips.
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Well, the location I chose, it's quite known location from all my past videos
but it's always looking different depending on what season and it always
actually looks very nice in a video so that's why I'm here. I want to capture it
sort of as a story, as a woman walking by through nature, so I'm gonna be featuring
myself here and there in the video but not too much. It's gonna be mainly about
the nature, mainly about the fall. So the first shot I'm gonna be doing is just me
walking towards the lake. I'm gonna be only shooting the feet, only those shoes.
That's gonna be the story. So it's gonna start with a woman walking to the lake.
Now, I'm gonna be shooting with just regular camera app at 24 frames per
second and I'm gonna be using just a standard lens because I don't want it to be
wide. I want it kind of close on the shoes. The second shot will be revealing
this place, so I'm gonna be shooting with the same, just camera app but I will
change it to a very wide angle lens because I want to shoot the whole thing.
Right now we have overcast, the Sun is behind the clouds, so it should be fairly
stable. The light is pretty nice and the speed is again 24 frames per second.
The second shot I kept in the same movement as the first one to kind of
make it smooth, kind of transition easily. So the first one was walking towards the
lake and then the second one was also walking towards the lake but revealing
the place and it just floats much nicer. Now I changed the app to the DJI Mimo
because I want to take advantage of two features here. The next shot I'm gonna be
doing is just panning from left to the right, so clockwise and at the end I'm
gonna do whip ending it up with green background of the leafs. Now, I'm gonna be
using the gimbal in a sports mode because that allows me to do a steady
move like this and then quick whip at the end. Also, I will take advantage of
being able to lock the exposure here, so when I tap on the screen right here and
hold it for a little bit, the little lock will show, that means that the video is
not gonna go suddenly bright and dark, bright and dark, it's gonna stay at the
same level.
The next few clips will be just detailed shots of the plants. Detail shots of
the fall colors. So here I found these colorful leaves and I'm gonna continue
the whip transition. I did whip the previous shot. so I'm just gonna whip on
that and stay a little bit on the fall leaves. Now the settings are the same, the
same app as the previous shot. As I'm shooting the next few clips just
close-ups of different plans to show the fall season, I switched the app to a
regular camera app. Now I have a lot of close-up shots of different plans, next
shot I want to do is kind of a big shot so of me standing there at the end of
the runway. I have the gimbal here on a tripod, sitting on the ground and I'm
using just a regular camera app because first shot will be with a telephoto lens
just of me sitting there close-up. The second shot will be wide-angle lens.
Now my plan is transition out from this location, so what I'm gonna do, still have
the camera app. Now I have standard lens though and regular speed 24 frames per
second, I'm gonna still show the lake one more time but then I'm gonna transition
so I'm gonna go down and kind of black out kind of go dark into the ground. Let
me show you
As I'm in woods, I'm gonna continue with the transition so I
will have my phone facing down and just bring it up to reveal the place. I'm
gonna use a little stem. It's kind of my background the wooden background so I'm
gonna start like that and I'm gonna bring it up. I'm using the DJI Mimo app
right now because I'm worried about light changing so I am gonna lock the exposure
and it's just regular speed 24 frames per second.
Now I switched to the regular camera app because I will be shooting with a
wide-angle as I'm just walking through the woods. I'm gonna switch it again to
standard lens and telephoto as well to give it a different look.
I might mix it in a post and as I am here in the woods I'll do again the
close-ups of different plants.
And the last shot here
just one last look of me at the lake and walk away. So for that I am gonna be
using regular lens, so just a camera at 24 frames per second. There is no slow
motion and to sort of walk away.
Now that we have all the shots, let's go to the studio edit the whole piece.
Back in the office. I'm ready to edit. The program I'm using is Adobe Premiere Pro.
Normally I would have music chosen at the beginning but this time I chose it
right after. I'm using music from epidemic sound, it's a massive library.
If you want test it out, the link is in a video description below.
You can try it free for the first month. I chose a music which is quite scenic,
has a nicer rhythm. It's fast but it's not too fast and it's not too slow. I
wanted to make sure it grabs the attention as I'm gonna be placing the
video sequence at the beginning of the video. So let's get started editing. The
first thing I like to do is import all the files to Adobe Premiere Pro. Look at
all the footage I have and then put them in the order on a timeline. Next step, I'm
just going to add the music. I imported the music here and now I'm just gonna
drag it on the timeline below. So as I have the music there, I'm gonna start
listening to it and cutting the clips so it's gonna fit in a beats. The clips has
been cut into the music and the way I like to cut, it sometimes I like to cut,
cut some clips to the rhythm but sometimes I like to do that also off
rhythm because if it would be always on a certain beat, it would be just too
repetitive and the viewers could just expect when the next cut will happen. So
let's just play the raw cut.
So that would be the RAW cut. There are a few things which I want to point out.
So as I was doing the first transition there, so pretty much you can see that
the cut is happening... the last frame is here on the green leaves and suddenly it
goes into the other leaves, other color. So here we go play just a little
sequence. So that was our whip transition. The second transition
which I still might to play around with is the transition going down on the
ground and up. So it's right here. So the last clip as it is going down and then
from the stem up and you can tell that you can actually see my feet here so I
have two choices. I might make the clip bigger. So I'm just gonna probably do
200% view or something like that and lift it up. So I can cut out the feet but for
some reason I like it and it's just for fun so I might just leave it there just
for the sake of it. So when you are filming this clip which I made a mistake
I didn't look properly because I was using such a wide lens as I was lifting
up obviously it was catching my feet so I would have to stand much further away
from the stamp and just lift the camera up, but let's just leave it even with
that mistake inside I'm not gonna resize it, let's just leave it for fun. So this
is the second transition in camera transition so going down and up. Now as
you can see here, the color of the clip is a little bit different as it is gonna
be here in a few seconds. Now the camera changed the color on its own, that's the
phone camera.
So I might have to color grade it a little bit later to even it out. The next
step I usually do when I'm kind of happy the way it is cut, is just fix the color
a little bit, the brightness and all that. So I like to use.. so I like to use a
three way color corrector and it looks something like this. It's quite simple to
use, there's nothing complicated about that. So the first clip which looks like
here right now, I think it's a little bit bright so I can bring it a little bit
down and I can bring it even here a little bit down, there we go,
Yeap, pretty happy with that. And if I want to change a little bit the color you
just drag, so this is for shadows, this is for mid tones and this is for
highlights. But it looks pretty good to me so I'm just gonna go ahead and fix
some of the colors on the clips. All the clips are color graded now on some of them I
just brought a little bit the highlights down and make it a little bit darker.
Here and there I had to adjust the color where it was a little bit too orangey or
too blue and as I was talking about that clip where I'm going from down up and
the colors are changing drastically here, I tried to cut it into more places and
color graded a little bit but obviously it is still very difficult because it
was just simply so changing. So you can see there is a color switch quite a bit.
If I would be filming in a filmic Pro app which I also have my phone that
would probably be corrected no problem because I can manage I can lock
everything I can control the brightness, I can control the color and all that, but
because I was filming in the camera app or DJI Mimo, that's the limitations
I have to deal with. Two more things I edit to the timeline and that would be
transition effect transition sound and I found it again on the epidemic sound so
it's like this. Now, normally it would be a lot louder but I'm finding that in a
lot of those cinematics videos just the sounds are a little bit too strong so I
decided to tone it down a little bit and I did it at -10 level, so it's not so
pronounced, so when you play it with the music
it's just very decent. It's just very small and that's that's the way I
personally like it. And last thing I'm going to do is just add the cinematic bar.
So you don't really have to it already looks great on its own but because I
would like to have that wide look, I'm going to edit there and it's just PNG
file. It's a black bar at the top and at the bottom. I'll bring it on the top of
it and then just drag it so it covers all the clips all the way to the to the
end. Once I am done all I have to do render and save the whole video sequence.
And done! Well, I hope you liked today's tutorial. Hit the thumbs up if you did,
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