Ahoj! This is Zdenka. Do you own an Android phone Samsung perhaps? I'm sure that for
everyday filming you are using just automatic mode to take photos and videos but if you want to film
in 24 frames per second, you might have to use 3rd party app like Filmic pro or Protake or
you can take advantage of built-in feature in Android pro video mode. It's tutorial today. Let
me go through all the settings, all the features step by step and also show some practical
examples. But first I need to tell you that this video has been brought to you by Skillshare
which is an online community with thousands of great classes for creators. Why filming in
manual mode while filming in automatic emote is so easy? I just press the record button and I'm
done. Well, here is a video filmed in automatic mode and here is a video filmed in manual.
What I'm able to do is filming 24 frames per second, control shutter speed, get that sweet
motion blur, the natural motion blur and control white balance as well and focus. Where do we
find Pro Video mode? Let's go to more and here we have pro video. As you can see, there are
many settings and icons on both sides. Let's start with the left side. The first icon on
the top left corner would be Histogram. Here you can see if your video is overexposed or
underexposed. Too many lines to the left means it's way too dark, underexposed. Too many lines
on the right means overexposed. Ideal would be seeing this type of wave in the center which
means no blacks or whites are clipped. Below we have autofocus selection. You can choose
from center or multi. Center means that the camera is focusing in the center of the frame.
Wherever you point with your camera, the center will be sharp. This is good for when you are
filming a place, landscape, city, large scenes. When you switch to multi, you will see that
there are many different squares flickering on the screen. The camera is looking for a
focus on the most contrasty object closest to the center. This would be great for filming a moving
object, a person walking in the center of the frame for example. If you want to lock autofocus
and exposure on the screen, you can tap on the object in a frame to lock it. Press and hold
until yellow icon shows up. What that means, that the video is not going to go lighter and darker
wherever you point and also the object will be sharp. It is not going to change focus on
you. This is how you would be filming in automatic mode. Below is our frame rates and resolution.
You have a choice to film in 24, 30 and 60 frames per second. UHD means 4k, FHD means
1080p and HD means 720p. To get the best quality select UHD and choose your desired frame rate.
24 will be cinematic, 30 more of a tv look and 60 will give you a slow motion look. Ratio
icon is next. You have a choice to film in full screen, one by one ratio, the Instagram look,
21x9 which is the wide cinematic look or standard 16x9 video size. Next we have light. As
default it will be off. If you happen to film in a dark environment, you can choose to have it always
on but that will drain your battery faster or select auto. The light will turn on when
the camera feels that you need it. The best to keep it off and only turn it on when necessary.
Let's go to settings and let's scroll to video section here. We have advanced recording
options where you can choose if you want to record high efficiency videos which will save
your space on your smartphone as it will save in .hevc format. However you might not be able to
play the videos on other devices or share them online. You can also select hdr 10+ videos
which will optimize contrast and color of each scene if you record with a rear camera and if you
plan to post it for example on Youtube which supports this feature and will play the video
correctly. To be honest I don't use any of these. Let's return to camera settings. Video
stabilization is checked which will help stabilize your video a bit. Below you can turn on tracking
autofocus feature. What it means is that you can select an object and lock the focus on
them as they move. The focus will keep moving with the object. However, when you turn that on,
the video stabilization will turn off. Gridlines will help you with composition of the shots
so it is a good idea to turn that on. You will see those lines showing up on the screen.
Instead of always having the object in the center of the frame you can place them in the spots
where the lines cross. This will also help you to make sure horizon level is perfect. Another
great feature which can help you is going to shooting methods where you can turn on voice
comands. Instead of pressing the record button on the screen and introducing possible shake
to the beginning of the video you can just say record a video and it will start automatically
recording. Let's leave the settings and check out the right side of the app. When you select this
you can zoom in or zoom out. Unfortunately this is only digital zoom meaning that the
more you zoom in the more you will degrade the quality of the video. One thing which
this app is missing is able to film with multiple lenses. This phone has a great ultra wide angle
lens and telephoto however it is set to standard lens. If you want to fill manually with multiple
lenses, Filmic pro or Protake app would be the way to go. If you have only one lens on
your phone this app is perfect for you. Below is gray icon called standard. It is not available
because my file is UHD. You cannot use this feature in 4k. It is available if you film in
1080p which is full HD. You can change the color profile in this setting meaning that you can lower
the contrast, highlights, bring shadows up, turn down or up saturation, change tint and
temperature. If you want to go back to standard color profile, just scroll to the bottom where
you see reset. Hit that and now you are in standard color profile. White balance is next.
When you leave it in auto and move around, wherever you are going to point with the camera,
the number will change and also the white balance. The video will change colors on its own. It
will be quite colorful. The best would be to change it to manual. This way the white balance
is locked and when you point, it will always stay the same. If you scroll up, the yellower it
is going to get. If you go down the more blue it will get. When you scroll to 5500k you will
see a Sun icon that means this is mid-day Sun color. 6500k is cloudy overcast. Autofocus icon
is next. This is your focus. Right now it is in auto focus mode. You can tap to select manual
focus. Whenever you scroll up and down you will see green color on the screen which is focus
peaking, This helps you to see what is in the focus, what is sharp. When you let go the
color disappears. Next is exposure compensation. Let's say I selected my focus by tapping on the
screen and I locked it but the video is still too bright. I want to darken it a bit. Well,
I can do it right there. I will press the exposure compensation and drag it down until I'm happy
with the shot. I'm finding that all phones are keeping the video quite bright. I like to bring
it down a bit always. Shutter speed is next. Here's where you can reach the natural motion
blur in your video for more pleasing look. Because it is automatic right now the number changes all
the time. The brighter it is, the higher the shutter speed is. There is no motion blur.
If you are filming at 24 frames per second you want to double the shutter speed. That is select
1/50th of a second shutter speed. If you film in 30 frames per second, you will select
1/60th and if you film in 60 frames per second, you will select 1/125th. Now, if you film
in 24 frames per second and you have selected 1/50th, you will be fine indoors as it is quite
dark. However, if you film outdoors you will need to put sunglasses on the camera which would be
this VND filter. I'm using Moment phone case and filter adapter to attach that. I'm going
to link it below the video for those interested. You will just turn the VND filter to darken it
until it is perfect. Below we have ISO which is light sensitivity of camera's sensor. If
you film during bright day, you leave it in the lowest one which is 50. If you film indoors or
at night, you will have to increase the ISO to get more light in. You don't want to get too
high though as it will introduce noise in the video. Lastly, below we have sound settings
which is set to omni. This captures sound in all directions so you can see the sound on the panel
on the left. By default it is set to zero. If you want to increase the sound, you go up.
If it is way too loud, you will bring it down. However careful when you bring the sound up.
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your creativity. All right, practical example. I'm in a studio. I have controlled lighting and I want
to set up everything manually. So how do I do that? First of all, I'm filming in 24 frames
per second which is the UHD, 4k and next step would be setting up the proper shutter speed.
So I'm going to go from auto to manual and here it has to double so it has to be 1/50th of a
second. Next I'm going to go to ISO and adjust that accordingly. I'm going to be looking at
the histogram so it's not too much in the black, it's not clipping the blacks.
Right about here. And let's go play with the focus a little bit so I'm
gonna go from auto and select the part I want to see in focus.
There and now we are all set. I do have already VND filter ready on the camera so
if I'm filming in 24 frames per second first I'm going to bring the ISO
lower to 50. Next I will adjust the shutter speed which will be 1/50th of a second
and I can see that I can make it a little bit brighter so I'm going to ease a little
bit with the ND filter.
Next we'll be selecting the correct white balance so I'm going to go for the day
which is sunny 5500k and that would be it. If I wanted to film in manual focus I will be adjusting
the focus but right now I'm quite happy as it is. I'm gonna leave it and now because I'm filming at
60 frames per second I have to change the shutter speed which will be 1/125th and
because the ND filter is quite dark I have to ease up on that.
That's it to get it quite in the middle. And now all I have to do is just record.
I hope this video helped you to understand how to film in pro video mode on Android. Hit
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