- Hi, it's Justin Brown here from Primal Video.
Recently, we did a video talking about the best
camera apps on IOS.
We narrowed it down to three
that were Kinomatic, Kinomatic and FiLMiC Pro.
In this video, we're gonna take a look at Kinomatic
and show you step by step how you can set it up
to get the best results with your videos.
It's important to note here that this isn't a full review
and it's also not gonna cover off every feature in the app.
There's way too many,
but we're gonna take you through step by step
how you can set up Kinomatic
for the best results for video.
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Now before we jump into it,
the biggest reason that you wanna be using a
third party or aftermarket camera app
for creating your videos
is so that you get full control over the camera
and get the most out of the camera that's in your device.
Having an ability to lock down things like
the exposures or the brightness or the focus
really gives you full control
instead of relying on the camera's judgment
as to whether to brighten the shot
when it may or may not need it,
or to change the focus
when you're in the middle of recording.
By giving the power back to you,
by you taking the power back by using one of these apps,
you will get full control
and be able to lock everything down
so that it looks the way you want,
not how the phone thinks it should look.
We'll be taking you through step by step
so that you don't get overwhelmed
with all the features and the settings that are in the app
and show you the ones that you need
to lock everything down for the best results.
All right, so we're here in Kinomatic.
The first thing you wanna do
is to lock down all of your settings.
If we come down at the bottom here to Settings.
you wanna pick your video resolution.
The highest resolution on this iPhone 6 is 1080P,
so select the highest resolution that you can
for your phone.
Next up, you wanna pick your frame rate.
If you're in Australia or the UK,
then you wanna be on 25 frames per second.
If you're in the U.S.,
then you wanna be 30 frames per second.
It is important that you match the frame rate
with the region of the world that you're filming in
so that you have it reduce things like
any flickering in your video
from the light that you might be using.
So, 25 frames per second in Australia and the UK,
30 frames per second in the U.S.
You do also have the option here to adjust that
and to shoot at higher frame rates like
50 frames per second or 60 frames per second
for a smoother image look if that's what you're after,
or you can also kick in to slow motion,
which is 120 frames per second or 240.
So if you're after slow motion,
then pick one of those higher frame rates.
But for most videos,
you should be picking 25 or 30.
Audio Gain here is the volume boost
that you can have for your microphone.
You wanna make sure that the setting below it,
Monitor Audio, is on
so that when you're recording,
you can see your audio
and see the level that is coming in that.
If it's too quiet,
then you can boost it up using the Audio Gain slider.
For now, we'll just leave that as default.
So we keep coming up, we get to choose
our Audio Encoding or our audio quality settings.
The two primary settings here
are 44.1 kilohertz or 48 kilohertz
and that's in regards to the quality
of the audio that you're recording.
Once you've picked 44 or 48,
then you get to choose the compression that's applied to it.
So this app, gives you a choice
of a bit depth of 16 or 32.
The higher the number, the higher the quality,
the larger the file size.
I suggest that you leave this at its default
which is the maximum 48 kilohertz
uncompressed with a bit depth of 32.
As we keep coming down through the settings here,
I'd suggest that turn your Matte to 9.
You can see that when select to 9
that we're losing those bars
that were on the top and the bottom
that you can see there now,
so set that to none.
As you can see,
the more that we scroll down here,
there's a lot more settings that you can tweak
and play around with for your own personal preference,
but the critical ones,
we've already done:
turning off your Matte,
your Audio Encoding, your Frame Rate
and your Resolution are the key settings
that you need to get right here.
We'll come back out of that now.
We'll make sure that we're at the top here.
The first thing that we wanna lock down here is the exposure
so we'll come up to AE.
Here, we get the choice
of ISO which is camera set to 40
and we've got a shutter speed here of 1/25.
We can press on that and we can
swipe up and down or slide up and down.
You can see that our numbers are adjusting here.
For your shutter speeds here,
if you're in Australia or the UK,
once again, I recommend that you're using 50,
so our frame rate was set to 25
and our shutter speed should be set
to twice that, which is 50.
That way, we're not getting any motion blur
in our filming.
If you're in the U.S.,
then you wanna set this to 1/60
because the frame rate that we recommended was 30,
so twice that is 60.
So 50 and 60 are the lowest numbers
that you'll wanna set your shutter speed to.
Now that we've locked down our shutter speed,
we can change the brightness
of our overall shot by using the ISO.
So if we touch on that now,
we can use this slider to brighten and darken our shot.
The higher the number, the brighter the shot.
The lower the number, the darker the shot.
It's the matter of going through here now
to get the brightness that we're after.
Be somewhere around 100.
If you were outdoors filming in a really bright conditions
and you had your shutter set to 1/50 or 1/60,
and you're just adjusting your ISO down
to the lowest number to darken off your shot...
If it wasn't dark enough,
if your shot was still really bright,
then you can increase your shutter speed
to make the overall shot darker.
So if we brighten the ISO up now
somewhere around 100,
then our shot is looking pretty good.
The next setting we wanna lock down here
is the white balance.
That's the actual color tone of our shot.
If we press on White Balance here,
I'll scroll up,
you can see we got the choice of Auto
and we've got some presets here.
If we change these, we'll see them changing our shot.
It's making slight different color adjustments
to match different lights that are in your scene.
You can see that it's updating the Kelvin
color temperature there as well
based off these presets.
Here, you're just gonna match the white balance
with the lights that are used in your scene,
or the preset that matches the color or the look
of the video that you'd like to capture.
The next setting we need to lock down is the focus point.
You see, if I bring my hand in here,
then the phone will focus on my hand.
If I move it away, I'll focus back on the background.
That's one thing you definitely don't want to have changing
while you're recording your videos.
The easiest way to lock this down
is to let the app focus
on that area that you want to be in focus
and then to hit the AF button
to lock it there and to hold it there.
If we let that focus on my hand,
now say we wanna hold that there,
we'll just press the AF button
and now focus is locked.
If we wanna make any further adjustments to that focus,
we can adjust the focus using this slider up and down
to change our focus point.
When we let go,
our focus is locked in at that point.
The last setting that you wanna check
is whether you've got image stabilization on or off.
Whteher you use this or not
will really depend if you're
going to be filming on a tripod,
or if you're handheld,
or if there's movement in your filming.
If there's any movement in your filming
or you're gonna be walking around with your phone,
then I would suggest to leave the stabilizer on.
It will make your videos smoother.
If you're gonna filming on a tripod like we are here,
then I suggest that you turn that off.
Once you've got everything set up,
if you'd like to save this as a preset,
then you can come down to the bottom here to Preset.
Choose Save Current Configuration As Preset.
You can give it a name.
Let's just call it JB.
Done.
Hit the tick,
and now we've got a preset in there
that we can load next time
so that we don't have to manually set everything up again.
It's also a really good idea to check your aduio levels.
You can see the audio bars at the top
that are moving as I'm talking here now,
you wanna make sure that you're audio bars
aren't going into the red.
Looking at this audio meter here,
the audio for me is a bit quiet.
So we can come back down here in to Settings,
and we've got Audio Gain.
We can boost that up.
As we boost that up, let's go to 53.
We can see our audio bars at the top there.
They're much louder now,
so I'm much louder in this recording.
You wanna set it to the point
where you are going up towards the red,
but not going into the red.
Anything in the red will be distorted audio
and you don't want that.
One last tip before you start recording your videos,
I suggest that you record
a really short, 15 to 20 second clip
testing your audio, testing your video,
making sure everything is how you want it
before you go and record your full videos.
So there you have it,
that's how you can set up and use Kinematic
on your IOS device for video.
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