Hey guys in this video I'm going to be showing you how I set up my DJI Pocket 2
in order to get better footage and a little bit more cinematic footage.
Now I think the Pocket 2
shoots really good footage straight out the box as soon as you open it get it out and start recording
and I think the footage looks great, but I think there're also things that you can do in order
to make the footage look a little bit better and also cinematic if that's what you're going for. So
the first thing that you're going to need in order to do this are ND filters and whether you
use variable ND filters or individual ND filters is completely up to you. So for my sequences that
I did in this video I used variable ND filters because I didn't want to have to keep changing
my filters out if I was using individual ND filters because it was quite a cloudy day
and the sun was going in and out of the clouds so I just wanted to have variable ND filters so that
I could dial in my exposure up or down as I needed to and the filters that I got are from Skyreat
and I went for these because I couldn't find any Freewell filters that were available
so I got Skyreat because I also use those for my DJI Mini 2 and I think that the footage actually looks
really good there's not much loss in quality that I can see anyway so I went for those ones this
time. The only thing I would say is that in the footage that I shot there's like a bit of a shadow
in the top left corner of the footage and I think that's my error because I didn't actually attach
the filters properly to the Pocket 2 so I think that there might have been a bit of a gap
between the Pocket 2 and the filter so potentially that's what happened
it's something that I need to try out and test anyway. So once you've got your filters the
next thing you're going to want to do is set your Pocket 2 into Pro mode because that's what's going to
give you all access to manual settings. Now for the clip that I'm going to show you soon, the sequence
I'm going to show you in a second, I shot that with all auto settings because I just wanted to
show you the difference between what the footage looks like when you just take the
Pocket 2 straight out of the box and start recording, to when you start tinkering around
with the different manual settings. So this next shot, the the sequence that I'm going to show you
now, was all shot in 3 fps, all auto settings and so this is what the footage looks like.
I'll put a link in the description to that sequence because I had to bring it into a 24fps
timeline so you're not really seeing what the true 30fps footage looks like, so head down into the
description and you'll see the link to the video there. So as I said I was using a 24fps timeline
so the next sequence that you're going to see was shot in 24fps and I know that depending on where
you are in the world you either use 24fps or 25fps but honestly I haven't seen
a difference between 24fps and 25fps on my pc or my tv and I know that there's some technical
details behind it shooting in NTSC or PAL but I just used 24fps for this example. So in doing so
whether you're shooting 24 or 25 you'll want to use the 180-degree shutter rule and if you don't know what
that is it basically means that if you shoot - whatever frame rate you shoot in you want to
double your shutter speed, so if you're shooting in 24 frames per second or 25 frames per second
then you want to set your Pocket 2 to 1/50 of a second, it doesn't go to 1/48 of a second so
1/50 is the closest that you're going to get if you're shooting in 24 fps. Then the next setting
that you're going to want to look at is manual exposure so from the previous sequence that I shot
the Pocket 2 was set in auto exposure so I'm going to move it over into manual exposure and also I've
got to say that the sequence that I shot in 30fps was also shot in the Pocket 2's D-Cine...
did I already mention that?
I also forgot to mention that the sequence that I shot in 30 fps was set to
a normal color profile, so the Pocket 2 has two color profiles D-Cinelike and normal
the D-Cinelike gives you more dynamic range so you have more flexibility to
color correct and color grade the footage in post however, I feel like it's really difficult to grade
that footage and color correct that footage. I shoot in s-log 2 on my other cameras and I don't
have that much trouble color correcting and color grading s-log2 footage as I do using the Pocket 2
so for me I think moving forward for most of the things that I do I'm just going to use
normal color profile. So the 30fps sequence was shot in normal color profile but the next two
that I'm going to show you which we shot in 24fps and 60fps were both shot in D-Cinelike, so it's up
to you which you choose in this scenario but for the next sequence, I chose D-Cinelike
and then with the manual exposure I set my shutter speed to 1/50, I set my iso to 100 so
that I could reduce the amount of noise and grain that might be introduced into the footage and
yeah that's basically it so this is what the sequence looks like.
So you can definitely tell the difference between the 30fps sequence and this 24fps sequence,
the motion blur looks natural, it just, the footage just looks more natural
when you're watching it back, so if you want to get that natural motion blur then
just use the 180-degree rule and make sure you have your filters with you so that you can do that
so that your footage doesn't get blown out. So the next sequence that I shot was in 60 fps
and even though the pocket 2 does have a slow motion feature it drops the video down to 1080p
and I wanted to shoot this in 4k so I didn't use the slow-motion option in there so I set my
Pocket 2 to 60fps and then I brought it into a 24fps timeline and slowed it down in there
so I used the exact same settings in terms of the iso I set that to 100 so it was as low as possible
and then I just used 1/120 for my shutter speed
again just doubling that, so this is what the footage looks like in 60fps.
So that's essentially what I do with my Pocket 2, again I think it's such a great little camera I
literally take it everywhere with me because it's just so easy to use this the footage is really
stable, I was literally running backwards and running down the stairs and the footage just came
out really smooth so it's definitely an awesome camera. One thing that I did forget to mention
was that in 4k using 60fps it does drop the quality of the footage down to Battery Saver, so
there're two settings there's High Quality mode and there's Battery Saver mode, so I haven't actually
played around with the two so I don't know what the difference is but I guess that's something
to explore, and if you don't have a Pocket 2 and you want to see what the difference is
then let me know in the comments below and I can put a video together for you for that. But yeah
that's essentially what I do, so if you found the video useful then give it a thumbs up and let me
know in the comments below, otherwise, I'll see you guys on the next video, thanks so much for watching.