In this video we're looking at the best video accessories for
your iPhone so you can start getting better video!
Hey there welcome to the video i'm Mark Brown from EditorsKeys.com, now if you've been to our channel
before you'll know i'm a big fan of shooting video on my iPhone 12. Now the iPhone can shoot
some seriously impressive video even if you've got an iPhone X and an iPhone 11 or the new iPhone 12.
So in this video i want to go over some of the best accessories so you can just really up the
game of your video if you're using your iPhone 12 or iPhone 11 as your main video camera.
So i'm going to go over all of the accessories now so as you can see there's a lot of stuff
here i'm going gonna break this video down into hardware and apps that you can use too now of
course you may not need to use all of the things you see here but i just wanted to give you a quick
overview of what each thing can do so first of all let's start with the mini tripod so this is
the first thing and this is the thing i probably take with me the most just because it's so small
and this is made by a company called Ulanzi and it's essentially a mini tripod and selfie stick
for your iphone and it works with any iphone all you will need to get is an iphone holder
which you can screw into the tripod like so so you just simply put this on this is also from your
lansi and the reason i picked this one is because it has a little adapter here on the back so you
can actually attach things like the rode wireless go to the back of it so if you do have a little
light or a battery clip or something like that you can attach it to this little handheld tripod i'll
go over the road a little bit more in the next section but i just love this because you can put
your iphone on here i'm just going to quickly screw this in it's a nice sturdy mount this too
and there you go you've got a nice mount if you want to do some selfie moves you know you
can pull this out and sort of angle it up so you can get a more of a kind of wider angle as you're
talking to camera and then you can also separate it out it's got a built-in tripod so maybe you
want to you know talk to camera and you want to be a little bit further back or you just want to
get some nice time lapses you can do it all with this mini tripod so if this is a bit basic for you
there is the next level up this is the Moza Nano se and this is a selfie stick with a difference so
let me just put the iphone into here it comes with a little clasp and holder let's just put
that on there balance it a little bit now not only does it come with an extended range a much
longer range than most selfie sticks it actually has a little gimbal motor built in to the tripod
arm now it's only a two axis gimbal so it's not going to make your shots super super steady but
it does mean if you are walking left and right you'll see this will move left and right to
sort of take out some of the shakes of your shot what's also pretty great is you get a removable
remote control so you can control uh the remote you can control your recording directly from
the moser app and you can adjust the uh gimbal to go into like portrait mode and selfie mode too
so i'm going to do a full review of this in another video but this is just a great option if
you are looking for a much more kind of a better version let's say of something basic like the
Ulanzi tripod it's fully adjustable and as i say if you are on uneven sort of ground this will help
stabilize your shots somewhat it's not as good as a gimbal but it is pretty good next up is
this this is the variable nd filter from SandMarc and this just simply clips over your phone like so
and i was a bit skeptical about this but when you pair it with an app like filmic pro it gives you
all of your camera controls it really does help if you want to let in more light to your camera maybe
you want to film waterfalls and and flowing water and kind of get those nice sort of blurry shots
this is going to really help you with that and a variable nd filter is essentially like sunglasses
for your camera so you can adjust the amount of light coming into the camera and we put a variable
nd filter on all of our cameras including the sony a7 s3 that we're using now and the sony a6400
so being able to add one to your iphone and you can just clip it and unclip it it's not sort of
permanently stuck on which i really like it just makes a great accessory
for shooting outside with your iphone okay so of course you can shoot with your iphone handheld and
you can get some pretty great shots out of it but if you want to take your filming to the next level
i would definitely recommend checking out this rig this rig is also by SandMarc same company
that does the variable nd filter and this means you can just pop your iphone into here like so
and then you can start adding other accessories around your iphone so i first found out about
these iphone rigs from our friend premiere gal when she was doing an interview with us at las
vegas and what it means is you can essentially let's do it now you can unscrew sections like this
and i'm going to show this light off in a second but let's say you want to get better
lighting on your iphone or you want to add uh some external microphone sources to your
iphone you know if it's just your iphone you don't want to be holding all of those bits
separately you know it's almost impossible to to film and record with an iphone at the same time so
i'm just going to screw this in here and there we go we've suddenly got a great light on top of the
iphone and then you can add microphone kits and all other kind of things to make your iphone
shooting better so not only does it allow you to add things around your iphone which you know
adds to the professional look of your iphone filming but also it makes your shots much better
it's amazing how much more steady you can be when you've got two hands on the side of
your iphone you know when you're holding it with one hand you get your kind of micro jitters when
you're filming this will help take that out and you can get some really cinematic shots you can
run things close to the ground you can pull it up to the sky you know you can do whatever you like
now of course it's not a gimbal so it's not going to stabilize your shots really much more but you
know what the iphone is so stable when people say to me should i buy a gimbal for the iphone
i always say no because they're a bit finicky they're a little bit hard to set up and really
the iphone 12 is so stable you really don't need one i would go for something like this instead it
just makes it much more easier to get those shots you can really be precise with your movements and
you can add lights and microphones to yourself so while we've got the light on the rig let's
talk about this little light i really love this this is the viltrox rb08 led light and it's so
thin and small it comes with a built-in battery it comes with these magnetic filters that you can
put on so if you want to change the color you can buy more of those and they just snap on like so
and they're really really handy i mean and to be honest we use this for all of our filming
we'll use it with our professional cameras and we'll use it with the iphone you just pop it on
like so you can adjust the intensity of the light and it really as you can see there it really just
adds so much light and this is at 50 percent you know you can imagine what it would be like a 100
it almost blinds you so the battery lasts a long time we charge this probably you know once a week
if that so it's just a great cheap accessory to have in your bag and it doesn't necessarily need
to be on the iphone maybe you're somewhere with a little bit of low light you know the iphone
doesn't do the best video job in low light so it means that you can just you know film your iphone
hold the light just slightly far away or get someone to hold it for you and you can light
up objects in your shot and you can see even there just the difference that will make to your iphone
video game okay so the video coming out of the iphone is really good but now let's talk about
the audio because the audio i think is one thing that will really let you down especially if you're
trying to use this for youtube as your main camera in my opinion the microphone is just
not good enough quality so there is a way around it we use the rode wireless go system with our
sony a7s iii and it's a really great system but did you know you can actually use this with your
iphone but you will need a couple of accessories the first thing you'll need is the lightning to
headphone adapter jack from apple because of course they took away the headphone socket
and then secondly you'll need the sc7 adapter from rode and what this enables you to do is plug
in your rode wireless go system directly into your iphone and to do that all you need to do is remove
the cable that comes with your rode wireless go use the black and gray sc7c cable plug that in
get the gray section and plug that into the lightning adapter like so and now you can
plug in your rode wireless go system directly to your iphone and you'll get much better video just
listen to the difference in this so this is the audio coming directly from the built-in microphone
in the iphone as you can hear it's okay but it's not the best so now let's switch to the rode
wireless go now this is with the rode wireless go i'm gonna just put this on my shirt quickly
there we go and as you can hear the audio quality should be much much better than that built into
the iphone so if you are considering using your iphone as your main youtube camera consider using
this the other beauty of this as well is that you can be up to about 50 meters away so you
know imagine if you were standing in a street and your friend was the other side of the road with
the built-in microphone you wouldn't be able to hear your friend with this they could be around 50
meters away and you can get crispy audio like this all day long okay so you're now starting to get
your videos and you're putting them into imovie or lumafusion and you're starting to edit together
your timeline but what about if you want to get some really good voiceover recorded directly into
your iphone it is actually possible all you'll need is a few things you'll need a usb microphone
and this is the studio series sl600 microphone you'll need this little adapter which allows you
to plug in a usb device and also power the iphone and microphone at the same time and this is really
important because if you just get a lightning to usb and it doesn't have the power adapter
you probably won't be giving the microphone enough power to work on your iphone so make
sure you get this cable i'll link it in the description below so all you need to do now
is plug this into your iphone let me show you how so we're going to plug some power into
the adapter this is a lightning cable we're going to plug the usb in to the microphone
and then we're going to plug the microphone cable into the usb adapter
then you can see the microphone has lit and up and then we're in the iphone and we're ready to go
and this will work in any video editing application so if you're using lumafusion
or adobe rush or imovie on your iphone this will work or you can record directly into garageband if
you want to do a bit more post-production on your audio again as a little test this audio
is coming from the built-in microphone from the iphone and you can actually use a usb microphone
with your video too so let's plug in this and i'll show you how this sounds okay we are now
using the sl600 microphone to record audio directly into our video and as mentioned you
can use this when you're recording video or you can edit your audio voiceover directly into a
timeline in imovie lumafusion or adobe premiere rush okay so now you're recording better audio
and video what about the best apps what do i use well the first one is called filmic pro
now filmic pro basically turns any iphone into a full camera yes you'll get the same settings that
you can get on a dslr or a camera like the sony a7 s3 in terms of being able to change your shutter
speed your aperture and all those kind of things so i'm going to overlay this here on the side
so you can see here already you've got an audio level on the right hand side which is
really cool especially if you are using an external microphone you get to monitor that
you've got your frame rate settings you've got histograms which you can use which are a little
bit more you know advanced level but let's just go into some of the settings here so you get full
options for your video quality you've got filmic quality which is higher than that of the built-in
iphone you've you can record in different uh screen ratio settings there you've got your
frame rate now this is really good if you're in a pal region like we are so with the built-in
camera app on the iphone you can only record in 24 and 30 and 60 frames per second and none of those
really match up with us here in the uk so what you'll find and you may have seen this already
if you go and film lights outside or indoors you may get that kind of flickering effect especially
if you're doing slow motion so with filmic pro you can actually capture your video in 25 or 50
frames a second so that means this will match the settings of your camera so it's much easier to mix
footage from an iphone with the camera like this to get better video footage next up you get full
control over your focus and the zoom so you can see here if i go close to this i get full
full control over the zoom so you won't get a sudden shift of your focus moving you can control
that you can also control your shutter speed and this is really important if you're doing video
when you're using your built-in camera iphone app it will just adjust the shutter speed as it
sees fit and it does an okay job but ideally if you're filming say at 25 frames a second
you'll want your shutter speed to be one over 50 and you can do that within
filmic pro you can add zebras to your footage as well so you can see what parts of your video
are over exposed or underexposed you've got all of these settings here which are really really
cool and you can see what is in focus so the green lines here represent elements which are in focus
and you can zoom in nice and smoothly and zoom out which is really really cool and
lastly you can fix things like your focus and your exposure so for example here if i go between this
uh yolanzi tripod and the sr600 you can see that the focus will adjust what about if you actually
want it to stay locked to this all you do is drag the box over tap it to go red to lock and you'll
see as i move to the sl600 this stays in focus so this is great if you're moving around objects
or if you want to focus on a face maybe you can make sure that that will always be in focus and
the focus won't be hunting around which is really really cool so check out filmic pro if you want to
get better videos from your iphone okay so you've now filmed all your audio and video you've got
some great settings coming in from filmic pro and you've got all the footage ready how do you
now edit this on your iphone well there are a couple of apps i recommend the first is imovie
because that's absolutely free but it is very limited you can't really change the titles very
much you can't do square or portrait videos so if you are getting very seriously about your videos
i'd recommend checking out lumafusion lumafusion is great because it's a full desktop like video
editor for your iphone you can edit all your 4k footage directly on your iphone it doesn't stutter
it doesn't lag it simply is really good and if you've seen any of the videos on our channel
you'll know we love the lumafusion we use it on our ipad pro and i use it on my iphone and you
can see one of our previous videos where we edited together a whole scene using lumifusion on i uh on
the iphone at 12. so what's really cool is you can actually go in you can adjust speed settings
you've got full color correction settings here so you can really adjust things to your heart's
content it is really really good you can export in full 4k you can export in higher qualities
than you can and things like imovie so it's definitely one of the best video editing
applications you can get for the iphone so there we go they're just a few of the tools we use here
at editor's keys to get much better video coming from our iphones let me know in the comments
section below if you've got any questions or comments let me know if there's any hacks you've
got for getting better video from your iphone thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next
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