Ahoj! This is Zdenka. How do you actually vlog with a smartphone and DJI OM4? Well,
If you are brand new to smartphone gimbal and DJI OM4 or if you are
experienced and had a gimbal for a while, you might actually find this video useful
because today I am gonna be sharing my set up, all the tips and tricks,
everything I am doing when it comes to vlogging. And many of those tips apply to other gimbals
as well so you don't necessary only have to have DJI OM4.
By the way, for the new faces, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn
how to take better photos and videos with the latest gear and
possibly participating in creative camera challenge like the one which was published
last time, there is one, current one, the happiness, I'll link it
below, then consider subscribing. Let’s start with the set up. Everything I am gonna
be showing in today's video is actually listed below the video in a
video description. So here is my gimbal, and I have my smartphone right here. The one I
am using right now is iphone 12pro. I am gonna be also showing
Android Samsung Galaxy S10 plus in today's video. On the phone I have Moment case because
I can attach to it variable ND filter with this adapter. To help
to balance the set up I am using these counter weights. And below I have attached ring adapter
where I can attach the microphone. I used to use Rode
microphone for number of years but I actually switched for good to lavalier microphone for
a few reasons. First of all it is much smaller, I can hide it
easily under my tshirt, it is not visible and I have all the freedom in the world I
want. I can move away from the camera, and I can still be heard.
I gotta say that I've been using this microphone for over a year, so far hasn't failed me,
so I am pretty happy with this one. See and right now I am
actually recording with the lavalier microphone. I can walk away and I can do whatever I want
to and the camera is gonna follow me and I can still be
heard. I can be pretty far. Obviously I am wearing white right now so you can see the
microphone. But if I really wanted to, I can really hide it pretty
good. There are 2 things I do before I get into settings and that would be calibrating
the gimbal so the horizon stays leveled. Next thing is quite
important and that is turning off the Selfie Flip. Here is why. If I am filming a whole
bunch of B roll with the rear cameras and I am at the same
location filming myself and I want to combine those shots taken with the rear camera and
the selfie camera, if the Selfie Flip is on which it is straight
from the factory as it seems, you will be in trouble when you edit the footage. Very
simply everything in the video will be on the other side. I learned
the hard way when I was filming the transitions. 2 clips were actually filmed with the Selfie
Flip on and then I had to flip them horizontally in the post
in Adobe Premiere pro which didn't like it too much. When I was rendering the video,
I ended up with a black video, only sound was working. So I do highly
recommend leaving the Selfie Flip unchecked. There is actually one more thing I am going
to do here and that would be selecting the right white balance.
I am not going to leave it in Auto because wherever I will move the camera the colors
will change, it would be a very colorful video. One thing which
I really need to mention is that if you are filming yourself with selfie camera, yes you
can change the white balance to a custom one so you can select
the correct one according to the situation. But if you are filming with a rear cameras,
and you are filming in auto mode, you cannot change your white
balance. It has to stay in auto. So the only way to change it, you got to film in manual
mode to be able to change your white balance. Let’s set up frame
rates. Because I have newer phone which has lot of storage, I am going to in 3840x2160
which would be the 4K. Even if my video will be finished in 1080p
it is good to film in 4K because you will have much more flexibility in post. You have
the extra room to zoom in and zoom out for effects. If you have an
Android you are not going to get 24fps, you will be filming in 30fps. For those who really
want to film in 24fps you can use Filmic pro which is
compatible with the gimbal or you can also use Pro Video mode in native camera which
has 24fps available. You will still need to go back to DJI Mimo
though to change gimbal modes there. Selfie camera. You want to set it up the same way
like the rear camera because when you edit the footage you want
everything the same size and the same frame rate. So you can keep it in 4K again, 3480x2160
and the frame rate again would be 24fps. Now, I am a female,
and I noticed there is this glamour effect feature. You don't have to use it but by all
means… It’s there, so why not. But I cannot film in 4K. I have to
put it to 1920x1080p and then I can actully have the glamour effect on. You can put it
on auto but I am finding that it is little bit too strong, it is
little bit too much so I just customize it and put it on the custom section the way I
like it. One thing I need to mention which is very important, is to
keep checking your frame rates and resolution frequently. Quite often happens to me that
if I turn off the gimbal for some time, go to different location,
turn it back on, or if I switch to slowmotion for example and film in slow motion for a
while, go to video, or the same thing with timelapse and hyperlapse,
sometimes it resets to 30fps in 720p. That happened to me last time. I was filming everything
in 4K, turned off the gimbal, went to different location,
turned it back on, filmed some more. My mistake that I didn't check the settings. Got home,
looked at the computer and of course the last few clips were
all in 720p in 30fps so keep checking settings and frame rates frequently to make sure everything
is still the same. If you have an Android phone, you
would film in auto as unfortunately there is no manual option, again Filmic Pro would
be the answer or your native camera, particularly the pro mode.
If you film on Apple and want to film in auto, you can start filming or you can film in manual
mode. I do prefer filming in manual mode because I want the
natural motion blur. If you film in automatic mode, the shutter speed will be very high
so you are not going to get much of the motion blur. Let’s start
with the rear camera and set that up. I am going to start with the Shutter speed. Because
I am filming in 24fps I am going to do double that, so 1/50th
of a second it is. If I would be filming in 60fps I would do 1/120th of a second and next
is ISO. If I am filming outdoors I will select the lowest one
which is 100 and I will add Variable ND Filter to darken it a bit. I’ll just turn the filter
until I am quite happy with the result. If I am filming
indoors then I don't need an ND filter. I will actually increase the ISO higher… 400
or so until I see that it is lit up quite well. And that is all.
Let’s set up the Selfie camera. When I am filming outdoors I cannot attach on this side
the ND filter so I am just gonna leave it in auto. If I am filming
indoors, I can film in manual mode because it is way darker there and I don't need the
variable ND filter so I am gonna switch to manual mode. Again,
frame rate is 24fps so the shutter speed would be 1/50th. To find the right ISO, what you
gonna look at is the bottom line where it says EV. You want to
get it on 0 so if I have it on 200, it is -1, if I put it on 800 it is +1. But if I
put it on 400, it is perfectly exposed, it is on 0. The camera doesn't
have to do further work so I am gonna keep it in this instance on 400. It's time to move
on to actual filming. I am gonna stay little bit with the selfie
camera first. So I have my gimbal just sitting on the table right now and I am just talking,
it is recording myself. But when you look at the framing,
it's kind of looking up. It's not exactly the best frame because there is lot of chin
here and neck, just that position when the camera is looking up
is not the best. You can also select tracking feature so I am just gonna press the trigger
1x and now the camera is finding me and I can move around and
is tracking me as I am moving but problem with this is that my face is now in a center
of the frame. There is so much room above and the view is really
much lower. It's even worse I'd say. It's looking up, I am seeing way too much neck,
it's just not looking pretty. Solution to that would be placing the
gimbal a bit higher ideally in your eye level or even tiny bit higher so the camera is looking
actually down at you little bit. To do that you can buy
this very cheap selfie stick. I am gonna link few of those below and all you have to do
is just screw them between the tripod and the gimbal. Something
like that. So now when I stand it on the table and hit the record button, then obviously
the frame is much better. And then I can just lower tiny bit
framing so I only have little space above my head and it's just looking way nicer. Also
for tracking, the picture seems way better, it's just better angle.
Again, it will give you little bit the space above the head but you are getting defenitely
better view then when the camera is looking from down up. And
the same thing goes for vlogging. When you are walking around, holding the camera, what
you want to do, you want to hold the camera higher so the camera
is looking sort of down at you. You are getting more natural look. You don't want to hold
the camera down because you are not getting the flattering look
so obviously get used to holding the camera much higher. And when you are talking to your
audiance you don't want to look at your screen, you want to look
at the actual camera so the audiance feels like you are talking to them. It got little
loud by the water so I decided to change a position. I am going to
different spot. I still want to see if it's muddy there, if it got better, let's go take
a look. Filming with rear cameras is straight forward so let's
tripple press the trigger to switch from selfie to rear cameras. With the zoom button if you
press shortly you’ll get to ultra wide lens, standard or
telephoto. Everything is already set up, all you have to is film. When it comes to slow
motion we have option to film in 60fps which is little bit slowed
down video. To set up that, you can just select 60fps and change shutter speed to 1/120th.
We don’t have an option to film in 120fps which is the most
popular one. For that you would use Filmic Pro. You can shoot 240fps slow motion which
is already set there. I generally just shoot this in automatic mode.
For Android to shoot in slow motion you would have to use Filmic Pro because unfortunately
slow motion is not available in DJI Mimo. Timelapses, motion
lapses and hyperlapses can enhance your videos as well. You can use it when you are moving
from one location to to the other one, or you can have it as
a part of your cinematic sequence. What you need to remember is that timelapse is static.
You’ll just leave it on one spot. Motion lapses are when you
select where the camera will start, then you select another position and another position
if you like to. Hyperlapse is when you physically move from one
place to another. Since this section is quite large, I am going to commit into making another
video in the future, all about timelapses, motion lapses
and hyperlapses, so don't forget to subscribe if you are not already so you don't miss this.
Technical aspects of vlogging like setting up frame rates,
manual mode and all that is done but some of you might still ask me. OK, but how do
I actually vlog? What I like about a good vlog is a story. Story which
is well paced, not boring, has surprising moments in them, or humor and can give me
some value. When I am planning a vlog because I have an educational
channel my number one thought is, they need to learn something. And it's looking much
better. It is not so muddy anymore but you know, it is still the
change of seasons, it's still not so green as it should be. Because it is about photography
and video, it has to look good. It cannot be boring, so I
need to show lots of b roll to keep them interested, if I can sometimes bring something funny,
bonus, if I can entertain them awesome, if I can bring
something very unexpected amazing. I certainly don’t want to talk into the camera for a
long time about one thing. Because it's a guarantee that people
will get bored and leave. Besides recording regular video, if you want your video edited
quick you can use a little help with this app. I am not talking
about stories. Story feature is great for fast stuff for social media. Many people miss
the fact that when you go to home page in DJI Mimo, yes you can
edit videos in build in app but you can also use their other My Stories templates which
will allow you to select your clips you already filmed. What I
would do, I would use this feature for a quick B roll. Perhaps quick something to spice up
my videos. I would even just use the video, I would use the
music I already use in regular rest of video but this would save me some time editing as
I wouldn't have to do all transitions and that manually.
Even if you use the same template in few videos, when you use different clips, ones make it
shorter, other times longer with different music, it is always
going to look unique. This way you can really speed up the processing of creating vlog on
the go. Hit the thumbs up if you found this video useful and
subscribe for more. Questions, comments? Leave them below. Happy vlogging and I’ll see
you in the next video. Cau... Ahoj...