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Wednesday 5 January 2022

10 tips for recording better video with your smartphone

Recording video has never been so easy or effortless. Everyone has a powerful video camera in their pocket: a smartphone. In fact, smartphones have become more important as mobile creativity tools, to the point where some see it as the primary purpose, and just as important as communication. 

With a little practice and access to a few key tips, even you - yes, you - can start recording great footage, vlogging, or even record an indie film or documentary using just your smartphone.

Thus, in an effort to help you capture whatever it is you want in the best way possible, Pocket-lint has rounded up ten tips. Although some of the tips might seem obvious, following all of them should result in amazing video every time.

Tips for recording better video with your smartphone

Landscape

Nothing ruins great footage like having two black vertical bars along both sides of your video. To avoid this amateur mistake, make sure to use landscape orientation and not portrait orientation while recording.

Not only does landscape make your video seem more aesthetically pleasing in general, it'll also make it more enjoyable to watch when viewed on a widescreen or television. Plus, you'll capture more in the actual video.

So just remember: never hold your phone vertically while recording, unless you really like or want those vertical black bars included (or if you're recording purely for something like TikTok or Instagram Stories). 

Framing

Now that you're recording in the proper orientation (see above), completely fill the frame with your subject. You can also put him or her or it slightly off-center to create a more visually interesting scene. Just play around and see what looks best. 

Most phone camera apps have the option to enable gridlines if you go into the camera settings, where you have vertical and horizontal grids on the screen while shooting. The most popular framing tool is 'rule of thirds', so if you enable a 3x3 grid on you camera app, you can line up the subject with one of the vertical 'third' lines or use the horizontal lines to get the horizon line in the desired position. 

Zoom

Nothing is worse than digital zoom - just ask any professional photographer. Thankfully, we're now in an era where a lot of the top smartphones come with a lossless or 'optical' zoom, which lets you zoom in without losing a lot (if any) of the detail. 

In order to zoom in while recording without losing the crisp, vivid quality you desire in videos, you'll need a device that offers a decent optical zoom - such as the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. If you have a smartphone with more than one camera on the back, often one of the extra lenses is a designated "telephoto" lens.

If you don't have a smartphone with optical zoom, you'll need to get closer to your subject or use an accessory like the clip-on lenses from Moment, as an example. In general, you should always get as close as you can, especially for tight shots on faces. Let us see those freckles and fine lines and cheek fuzz.

Flash

We've all seen those videos where the subject has yellow skin and red devilish eyes combined with super dark backgrounds. The culprit? Well, yes, it's the photographer...but it's also the flash.

Smartphones, you see, come equipped with LED lights that are too bright and can easily skew the color temperature of photos. Also, video will often still come out poorly lit in the end. If you want to record a photo at night, you'll have to find another light source. Or, if your phone has a night mode for shooting, you can also use that. For video though, there aren't many phones out there that shoot great footage in low light. 

If you do want or need extra lighting, thankfully you can pick it up relatively cheap. Search Amazon for affordable ring lights if you want an evenly lit face for filming vlogs to camera, or pick up some small battery powered LED panels. They'll give you a much more consistent and even look than the LED flash on your phone ever could. 

Backlighting

There's something else you should keep in mind when thinking about flash and lighting in general: avoiding heavily backlit-settings.

You may be able to see people and their faces when they're backlit, but your smartphone camera usually can't and will output footage with a bright light haloing a dark figure. That figure will also have no visible features, meaning you just missed whatever it was you were trying to capture. Unless your phone has some really advanced HDR capabilities, that's something you definitely need to keep an eye on. 

To avoid this situation, try configuring a basic light setup. Those of you who are recording on the fly can also improve a backlit situation by moving to one side or another, or moving your subject so that they're facing the light. Although some stock camera apps try to reduce the effects of backlighting, you should try reducing the effects on your end as well.

Time lapse

Time lapse or time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby frequency at which film frames are captured (the frame rate) is much lower than that used to view the sequence. When you replay this sequence at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster and thus lapsing.

Simply put: time-lapse photography is time manipulation. Objects and events that would normally take hours, days, months, or years can be captured and then viewed later at a much faster speed, thanks to time-lapse photography techniques.

Before the Instagram team debuted Hyperlapse, creating a time-lapse video with your smartphone was both tedious and, to be honest, hard. Since then, most manufacturers have just built the feature right into the preinstalled camera app. Apple iPhones, for instance, have a time-lapse feature in the camera. 

Still, some phones don't have it, and Hyperlapse has since been discontinued, but there are alternatives. Microsoft has its own Hyperlapse app on the Play Store which is simple to use and stabilises your footage, and there's another called Framelapse Pro that is rated quite highly. 

Stabilising and smooth footage

One advancement to come out of the smartphone industry in recent years is electronic and optical image stabilisation. In essense, it reduces any handshake to a minimum if you're shooting handheld. It works relatively well, but if you're moving to follow a subject or using it to pan or orbit around a person or object, you're best bet is getting a physical gimbal that works with your phone to make it really smooth. 

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One such gimbal is the DJI OM 4. With your phone attached and app loaded, you'll be able to utilise the power of your phones video capabilities, but the stabilisation offered by the gimbal will give you a clean, cinematic look you'd struggle to get shooting handheld. No matter how stable your grip is. 

Effects

Snapchat was one of the first apps to totally change the way we shoot video. With it, you can quickly send a video (or snap) of yourself at work to a friend and then they can open it, screenshot it if they want, and reply back with their own video response.

You can make snaps even more fun by adding augmented reality-based special effects and sounds, with a feature called Lenses. Like Lenses, which are primarily applied to your face in real-time, there are also 3D World Lenses that uniquely affect the environment around you.

This animation is overlaid on the world around us and can be captured and then shared with our friends in a chat or followers via our story. Both Lenses and World Lenses are frequently changed by Snapchat, though popular ones are recurring. Lastly, there are filters, which you can use to jazz up your snap.

You can add coloured filters, the current time, local weather, speed overlays, or geofilters to your video. Now, once you're done playing with any of these Snapchat features, you can always save your snap locally to your device and then share it with others via other social networks or SMS. But, if Snapchat isn't your thing, try Instagram. Instagram offers several filters and lenses for videos, too.

Accessories

Let's be honest: smartphone cameras are just not as good as the powerhouses made by Canon or Nikon or Sony, mostly because smartphone cameras and their stock camera apps lack finer controls and other things, even though they are getting much better.

If you therefore want to take your smartphone video-recording skills to the next level, without having to buy a pricey DSLR, you might want to consider buying accessories that reveal your camera's true potential. You can get everything from tripod mounting systems to creative lens add-ons.

Editing

And finally, sometimes a little editing is required in order to make your footage go from "meh" to "wow". And nowadays you can do some intense editing on your smartphone as well, meaning you won't need to invest in fancy desktop software.

Everything from basic trimming to adding transitions, titles, and effects is simple on both iOS and Android mobile devices. Whether your next video is a montage or a school project, mobile apps can streamline the video-editing process.

Apple's own iMovie for iPhone and iPad, for instance, includes titles and transitions and even supports making theatrical trailers on the go. Other features include picture-in-picture, split screen, and slow motion effects. It's very similar to iMovie on the Mac, in fact. For iPad Pro, you might want to give LumaFusion a go, although that's quite pricey. 

Pinnacle Studio is another good example, as well as Videon and Magisto. But that's not all: Adobe's Premiere Rush app is a powerful video editing tool with many of the features of Premiere Pro, though it's stripped down and can be used by anybody.

It offers fast video editing, much like other mobile apps, where you can just drag and drop footage and photos in the order you like and trim them down, but it is also compatible with Premiere Pro so you can export the end result to the desktop software and refine with greater control.



Source : https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/131351-10-tips-for-recording-better-video-with-your-smartphone

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    In essence, it reduces any handshake to a minimum if you're shooting handheld.

    It works relatively well, but if you're moving to follow a subject or using it to pan or orbit around a person or object, you're best bet is getting a physical gimbal that works with your phone to make it really smooth.

    One such gimbal is the DJI OM 4. With your phone attached and app loaded, you'll be able to utilize the power of your phones video capabilities, but the stabilization offered by the gimbal will give you a clean, cinematic look you'd struggle to get shooting handheld.

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