Filmic Pro Legacy Tutorial: Every Setting Explained in One Video

in this video i'm going to go through absolutely  every single feature contained within the filmic   pro camera app and explain what each one is  for filmic pro has a lot of great features   most of these features are the basic  controls you'd find in any camera   some are specific to smartphone filmmaking and  some others are unique to filmic pro now i'm   gonna try to go through every single button every  slider every function contained within the app   so well wish me luck oh by the way  filmic pro might operate differently   or just look a bit different depending on  your device this is especially the case with   differences between iphone and android as you'd  expect when i open up filmic pro this is what   i get in the middle there's a white circle  and a white rectangle filmic pro calls these   reticles i'm not sure if i used the word reticle  before i started using filmic pro but anyway a   reticle is basically a series of lines or marks  which form a measuring or locating aid for some   kind of optical device like the crosshairs in  a sniper's site if you don't see one or both of   these or they're red then either you have one of  the manual control wheels open or the reticle is   locked if you just tap this button here a couple  of times you should have both reticles but they   will be red after doing that so the circle is  your exposure reticle and the rectangle is your   focus reticle when they're white they are  unlocked and when they are red they are locked   you can lock and unlock them just by tapping them  in your native camera app you probably also have   a reticle which goes yellow when you lock it  but that reticle is for both exposure and focus   in filmic pro that reticle has been split into  two reticles so you can control them separately   the reticles can be moved around the screen just  like the native camera app reticle and they work   the same way wherever you place the reticle filmic  pro will take the reading from that area of the   screen only if they are white and unlocked if  they are red locked no change will take place   just like with your native app when you move  the unlocked exposure reticle around the frame   it takes a reading from that area so the idea  is you choose the area of the frame you want the   camera to expose correctly if the lighting is very  even across the frame it might not make that much   difference but if there's a wide contrast like  say with a window in the daytime then one area   might be overexposed or underexposed so if  i want to show what's outside the window   i place the reticle over the window if i want to  expose the room i place it over somewhere in the   room then i lock it before i start filming  if you don't lock the exposure reticle the   exposure will be on auto so if i move the camera  around we can see the exposure adjusting live   if i start recording it will continue to adjust  live just like with your native camera app on auto   if you double tap the exposure reticle it  changes mode oh look what's this message   dynamic tone mapping disabled what's that about  dynamic tone mapping is basically an hdr function   software in the camera looks at different areas  of the image and adjusts the exposure level not   for the whole frame but for different parts of  the frame the most obvious example is when you're   filming a landscape and the sky is way brighter  than the land the hdr software will try to even   out the exposure so you can see both the land and  the sky but this is not compatible with manual   control because the tone mapping function wants  to adjust iso differently for different parts and   when you use filmic pro for android it disables  dynamic tone mapping but when using it with iphone   it cannot be disabled so then you might lock  exposure and parts of the image will continue   to adjust the focus reticle works similarly to  the exposure reticle move it around to set focus   but in the android version the focus reticle is  not in auto if i move the camera around the focus   won't change i need to move the reticle so i'll  put something close to the camera so you can see   how this works more clearly move the focus reticle  over the close object now over the distant object   you can see the focus change again normally we  would tap to lock the focus reticle before hitting   record there is actually a way to set this to auto  focus just double tap the reticle and it expands   this might be useful if you want the focus to  adjust during the shot for example if you're   vlogging or you just want to film live and you  want the focus to keep adjusting when in this   autofocus mode you cannot move the reticle it  simply takes the focus from whatever is in the   center of the frame the autofocus reticle can also  be locked the same way to get back to manual just   double tap again this white line here is the zoom  control slide it up to zoom in and down to zoom   out i never really use this but i just noticed  that when i zoom in the vertical slider line   changes color and goes from green to orange and  to red so my guess is that this is some kind of   quality indicator when you're using digital zoom  when i use filmic pro on my samsung note 20 ultra   i know it can't access the tele lens so this is  digital zoom only and with digital zoom you can   end up with a really pixelated image if you zoom  too far so i think filmic is just telling you that   green is fine orange maybe careful and not so  good and red is bad the main reason for using   filmic pro is for the manual controls they can be  accessed in a number of ways the easiest way is to   tap the manual control button which is this circle  with a kind of broken circle around it an exposure   control wheel slides out from the left and a focus  or zoom control wheel slides out from the right so   tap again if you want to send them away again you  can also tap and hold each reticle to bring out   the corresponding control wheel in ios devices you  can swipe from the left or right to bring out the   wheel on that side swipe back to return it i don't  know if this is only samsung devices but i find i   can only swipe the wheels away and not bring them  out using this method and note that in certain   android devices opening manual control disables  dynamic tone mapping so all you do is swipe up   and down on the wheel to adjust the setting moving  the exposure wheel adjusts the exposure down for   darker up for brighter both iso and shutter speed  adjust at the same time shutter speed is at the   bottom here and iso at the top most likely  you will want to fix your shutter speed and   leave the iso flexible so move the wheel up and  down until you find your desired shutter setting   now tap to lock it and it turns red now when you  move the exposure wheel only iso changes so to   avoid digital noise in the image keep iso as low  as you possibly can the three dots to the left of   the exposure wheel are used to set your iso bias  you can set it to low moderate or high if you set   it to low for example filmic pro will do its best  to aim for a low iso number now personally i never   really use this feature and actually sometimes  when you're trying to lock shutter speed you   accidentally tap all i do tap one of these dots  and then you can sort of mess up your exposure   setting so it's actually a bit annoying and i'd  be quite happy if they removed this feature to set   focus swipe the focus wheel up and down this wheel  also doubles as a zoom controller tap zoom to   switch and now swipe the wheel up and down to zoom  in and out both wheels can be programmed to change   during a shot from set positions each wheel has  these two tiny position markers move the wheel   to the first position tap on this middle line and  the marker will slide round to that point move the   wheel to the second position tap the middle line  again hopefully the second marker will move itself   there to set the pull in motion tap the marker  point you wish to move to if the markers are far   enough apart you get a little arrow so you can  tap that to start it instead there's two slider   controls at the left and right edges of the frame  the left one controls the exposure pull speed   the right one controls the focus or zoom pull  speed i've personally never used an exposure pull   on the other hand focus pulls can be very  effective if done right while you're in manual   mode if you tap the live analytics button the  a button you will find that when you move the   focus wheel you get a focus peaking overlay  the green lines indicate which areas are in   focus if you move the exposure wheel the zebra  stripes overlay indicates which parts of the image   are under exposed or overexposed blue zebras are  underexposed red zebras overexposed to keep an   overlay on permanently you can select the required  overlay from the four icons at the top top right   is focus peaking while top left gives you exposure  zebras the two middle icons are clipping and false   color overlays the clipping overlay shows  you which parts of the image are being lost   due to over or under exposure red areas represent  blown out highlights which will appear pure white   in your video meanwhile blue areas represent  underexposed shadows which will end up appearing   black the false color overlay again shows blown  out highlights as red and under exposed shadows   as blue but adds a green overlay for correctly  exposed areas as well in devices with smaller   or differently shaped screens the audio  meter does not appear on the right here   for example on my ipad pro the audio level is  at the bottom under the time code counter we   have left and right channels displayed here at the  top is a peak meter and this is a live indication   of your audio peaks you can see when i click my  fingers it creates an audio peak marked by these   two little lines at the top of the meters that  remain there for a second or so if either of these   lines or the indicator at the top goes into the  red then your audio might have overload problems   the maximum you can go to without distortion of  the audio is zero so that's why audio is measured   in negative numbers minus 15 db minus 25 db you  know and so on db stands for decibels depending   where you're outputting your video you might want  spoken voice to be at around -6 db when audio is   mixed for a movie for example i believe spoken  voice is set at around minus 10 or minus 12. of   course you can push up the level when editing but  if you record too low when you push up the audio   you will get more background hiss which might ruin  your audio at the bottom we have these letters int   and this stands for internal so this is telling  you that filmic is using the inbuilt mic of your   device like i say some devices will have the  audio meter at the bottom here and all you get   is a single level meter no extra info but you  might also notice this tiny tiny little white   line here at the right and this white line is the  audio level controller you can swipe it left to   right to set audio level if ever you find filmic  pro is for some mysterious reason not recording   audio it might be that you've accidentally swiped  this across which is quite easy to do so keep an   eye out for that this big white circle here is  the record button tap to record then it goes   red tab again to stop recording and it goes back  to white and that's all you need to know about   that simple to the left of the record button is a  white triangle in a dark circle like a play button   tap this to open up the playback gallery all clips  which are recorded with filmic pro should be here   until you delete or move them when you record  video filmic pro stores the files in a special   folder which it creates when you install the app  to play a clip just tap on it now it opens up in   a bigger window and plays automatically if you  want to watch the clip without the information   overlays just tap on the video away from the  overlay and tap again to bring it back on   android devices there's five buttons here on ios  there's six buttons in ios you have the additional   airplay button which allows you to stream the  video to compatible devices like a monitor or tv   the scissors button allows you to trim your clip  for example if there's only a part of the clip   you want to keep save space by trimming it move  the handles at the end of the clip to resize it   and tap trim again the next button looks like a  roll of film so that gives you a clue what it's   for with an android device when you tap this you  are asked if you want to copy or move selected   clips if you have a folder on your device you  want to move or copy the clip to use this button   in ios this button allows you to save the  clip to your camera roll in other words the   clip will appear in your main ios photos app  however filmics say this can result in a loss   of quality of the video especially if the clip  is a d-squeezed anamorphic shot the next button   allows you to down sample your video perhaps you  shot it in 4k but you want to save memory space   so you can down sample it to hd for example  in ios it gives you a choice of resolutions   but in my android device it doesn't the resultant  copy that i created using this was the same   resolution so my guess is that it merely  lowers the bit rate to reduce the file size   next button is a share button the ios and  android versions look a bit different but   they have a pretty similar function which is to  share the clip to various places like apps social   media nearby devices and so on in ios you can use  airdrop to send a clip to a nearby apple device   like a macbook pro for example i only recently  tried this between my ipad and my macbook air   m1 version and wow that was really fast i  was very impressed the final button the red   trash can deletes the clip to get back to the  gallery tap the x in ios or the down arrow in   android for each clip you get a lot of information  displayed at the top here is the title of the clip   if you've switched on content management you will  get a customized title otherwise you get a series   of numbers so you get the duration of the clip  date when it was recorded resolution frames per   second audio codec and bit depth and file size  see this star in the thumbnail tap that to mark   a clip as a favorite so this is useful if you  have taken a load of clips and you want to select   the best clips then for example if you want to  transfer the clips to another device to be edited   you need only send the good clips notice also that  the gallery uses the predominant color of the clip   this just makes it a little bit easier to identify  certain clips if you have lots of clips to scroll   through at the bottom we have five buttons first  is a filter button which allows you to filter your   gallery by different specifications and if you've  used that star to select your favorites toggling   on favorites here will remove all the other clips  the next button is the select button tap to enable   now you can select more than one clip at a time  mostly this will be so you can send the good clips   to another device or delete the bad clips and once  i select one or more clips the next three buttons   become available otherwise they're greyed out  that's because these three buttons concern sharing   moving and deleting clips these three buttons  have exactly the same function as they do in   the playback window camera roll share and delete  there's actually two other ways to delete clips in   android tap and hold the clip or swipe to the left  in ios you only have the swipe option to close the   gallery tap on the screen away from it next to  the gallery button is a cog icon tap this to open   up the settings menu or should we say settings  menus plural because we are presented with 15   labeled buttons here and one tap on the relevant  button will open up more options at the top of the   resolution menu is a series of different sized  rectangles these rectangles are used to set   the shape of the frame and this is what we call  aspect ratio a frame's aspect ratio is the ratio   between the height and width of the image so the  first the default setting is 16 wide by nine high   16 and 9 what though well those numbers simply  represent a ratio in effect it means for every   16 pixels of width there is nine pixels of height  for hd video that comes out as 1920 pixels wide   by 1080 pixels high and so now we have 17 by  nine three by two one by one and so on so you   can choose the shape of the video you want filmic  pro to output one to one for instagram for example   to 176 to one is the aspect ratio of the old  ultra wide pano-vision movies and some people   think it looks cool to have such a widescreen look  and i will not be disagreeing with them now did   you notice when i selected a ratio different  to 16x9 the crop source to overlay toggles on   what this means is filmic pro will output a video  at the selected ratio if you toggle this back off   again now the overlay acts only as a guide which  one should you choose well i would say the crop   option is faster but removes part of the image but  the non-crop option means you will get a 16 by 9   version of the video and you can crop it in your  editor so then the choice of ratio is just a guide   why would you do that because you  might want to adjust the framing later   and keeping the whole 16x9 image gives you that  option if you crop it in filmic pro you will not   get that option later below the ratio settings  are three controllers with arrows each end the   top one is resolution on both my ipad and my  samsung note 20 ultra i can choose from sd 540p   all the way up to 4k if your device can't shoot 4k  then this option will not be available obviously   my note 20 can actually shoot up to 8k but  filmic pro is not able to access that resolution   below resolution is the bit rate setting you  can choose from the lowest setting economy up   to the highest filmic extreme bitrate has  a big effect on the quality of the video   as well as the size of the video file and the  demand on any graphics processor when you choose   bitrate you are balancing between having the  best quality against your available storage space   and processing power quite often people  push their settings on filmic pro to the max   and they wonder why their phone overheats and  filmic pro crashes well the answer is often that   your device can't handle what you've asked it  to do bitrates can vary quite a bit depending   on the device and this is for 4k video filmmaker  extreme is 120 megabits per second filmic quality   75 megabits per second standard 50 megabits per  second and economy is 35 megabits per second   a video codec is software for compressing and  decompressing video files in fact the word   code deck was created by combining the words  encoder and decoder many smartphones now allow   you to choose between two codecs avc otherwise  known as h.264 and hevc otherwise known as h.265   hevc is the newer compression codec as it's  better at compression it creates smaller files   however the codec is still not compatible with  all platforms and software it also uses up more   graphics processing power when playing or editing  note that the hevc codec is required to shoot   10-bit video incompatible android devices below  the codec setting is a toggle button for 10-bit   hdr in compatible ios devices i.e iphone 12 and  later this appears above the codec toggle button   by default our smartphone shoot 8-bit color but  if you want to shoot with a color depth of 10 bit   instead switch this on why would we want to  shoot 10-bit color i mean video is currently only   broadcast or streamed in 8-bit color but for color  grading 10-bit gives you more digital information   to work with which means you're less likely to get  banding for example the tonal gradations will be   smoother in android you just have 8 or 10 bit to  choose from but in iphone 12 8 bit is the default   then tap left for 10 bit or right for dolby vision  while android devices like samsung's have hdr   10 plus apple has worked with dolby to include  dolby vision with their latest iphone 12 range   hdr 10 plus and dolby vision are two competing  hdr systems whereas filmic pro has a setting   for dolby vision there's no equivalent  setting on android filmic pro for hdr 10 plus   so if you have an iphone which should you  choose 10 bit 10 bit log or dolby vision well   10 bit color gives you more to work with when  grading and 10 bit log version 3 promises you   a flat profile which is said to be even better in  respect to that meanwhile dobby vision also works   to give you a higher dynamic range but using a  different method if you want to export and edit   dolby vision footage you will need editing  software which is compatible with dolby vision   but from what i've seen this could be an extremely  powerful feature next to a resolution is frame   rate at the top we have a list of frame rates from  24 frames per second up to 240 frames per second   to the right of that you can choose between  standard and time lapse mode you might notice that   the 120 and 24 frames per seconds are unavailable  that's because filmic pro will only allow those   fast frame rates at reduced resolutions in the  manual it says 720p but i found that i actually   can access those high frame rates at 1080p in  my samsung note 20 ultra no this line with dots   along it is not a new london underground line map  it's actually what filmic calls the motion slider   now the theory is that you can tap and drag the  gray circle to create different motion effects   at first i tried setting the record rate to  60 frames per second thinking i would use the   motion slider to set the playback frame rate but  it didn't work and i tried on all my devices so i   tried starting with a 30 frames per second record  frame rate and then i found that it did work   why is there a capture and a playback frame  rate well for example if you shoot at 60 frames   a second and play back at 30 frames per second  you will get a slow motion effect to get this to   work best you should choose frame rates which  work together 30 frames per second is exactly   50 of 60 frames per second so that should work  24 frames per second is exactly 40 of 60 frames   per second so that should also work pretty well  the last setting in the frame rate menu is to   do with shutter speed and how artificial light  can cause strobing basically ordinary artificial   light has a frequency and that frequency changes  depending on where in the world you happen to be   in europe electricity is at 50 hertz in america  it's at 60 hertz so if you're having a problem   with strobing lights switch this setting to  50 or 60 hertz depending on where you are   time lapse videos are basically created by  shooting with a very slow frame rate and   then playing back faster normally we would choose  something like 24 frames per second or 30 frames   per second but as you can see at the top we have  one frame per second up to one frame per minute   using one of the middle settings here will give  you a nice time lapse with clouds scutting across   the sky one frame a minute is really for long  periods like if you want to capture a whole day   or many hours and compress it one frame per  minute filmed for 24 hours then played back at   24 frames per second will give you 60 seconds of  video i think correct me if i'm wrong so set your   frame rate then set your playback speed but don't  forget make sure to lock your exposure before you   start recording otherwise you'll get the exposure  constantly changing and it doesn't look as smooth   if you have an external mic plugged in filmic pro  should automatically choose that mic but in this   menu you have the option to switch them if you  have an iphone or ipad there's a lot more options   you can switch between available mics below that  you can choose the audio codec below that you can   set the audio quality there's 44.1 kilohertz  and 48 kilohertz there's basically very little   quality difference between those two settings  now filmic says that with a supported external   lightning microphone you can get a 96 kilohertz  option toggle on video only if you want no   audio to be recorded if you toggle on voice  processing filmic pro will add a filter to   enhance the spoken voice in android headphone  monitoring allows you to monitor the audio via   a connected bluetooth headset in ios you get  the option to toggle on a bluetooth microphone   and when you toggle on automatic gain correction  your audio level will be adjusted automatically   if you toggle it off then you cannot use the audio  gain slider to adjust level filmic says that with   ios devices simply connecting a bluetooth headset  via your iphone will automatically allow it to be   used for monitoring so no need for a switch in ios  now this menu looks pretty different depending on   your device in ios we have save to camera roll  as i said previously this saves your clips to   the photos app section of your iphone or ipad  however filmic recommends that we save to the   filmic pro folder rather than the photos location  both android and ios have a remote control option   if you toggle this on you can connect using the  filmic remote app which has a separate purchase   filmic remote allows you to monitor and control  filmic pro from a second device like another   smartphone for example if you toggle this on  in ios the remote preview only option becomes   available toggle this on if you only want to  allow filmic remote to monitor your device but   not control it this way you will keep control of  filmic pro on the first device and allow someone   to watch via a second for example if you had a  dop operating the first device and the director   watching via the second both ios and android  allow you to toggle on orientation lock and all   this does is lock filmic pro in either landscape  or portrait so now you can happily move the camera   around without it switching both ios and android  allow you to toggle on stitch recorded footage so   this enables you to pause and resume recording  basically it still records separate clips   but then edits them all together into one clip  with this switched on you will need to long press   the record button to stop recording otherwise it  will just pause and resume again in ios devices   you have a snap focus option and this makes the  focus reticle more responsive so if you want the   focus to adapt more quickly to changes perhaps  filming sports or live events toggle this on   android devices have a gps tagging option toggle  on to tag your clips with location information   both android and ios have the option to switch  off preview this removes the preview from the   screen why would we want to do that well perhaps  the light from the screen is spilling into a shot   and disturbing the lighting of the location if  you enable tap to hide interface you can hide the   interface to get a cleaner monitor if hidden you  now get the option to hide the reticles as well   using the switch below that both ios and android  have the option to hide the zoom rocker if like   me you rarely ever use it then why not remove it  and give yourself a slightly cleaner screen and   also you might want to avoid accidentally knocking  the zoom so if you remove it from the screen that   isn't going to happen in android you can opt  to mute notifications now when you're filming   you won't be disturbed every time someone likes  your behind the scenes facebook post by default   both ios and android allow you to use the volume  keys to start and stop recording disable this if   you find yourself accidentally hitting it also  sometimes the volume keys get pressed by a clamp   like when you're using a gimbal so switching this  off would solve that issue android now has two   very useful settings not available to ios noise  reduction and sharpness so if you want that   soft film look disable sharpness some people also  film with noise reduction completely off and then   apply noise reduction in post however i usually  set this too fast now if you switch too fast   filmic pro will prioritize frame rate over noise  reduction if you set it to high quality filmic pro   prioritizes noise reduction which means your frame  rate might suffer so if you are having frame rate   problems switch it to fast or off in this setting  filmic pro allows you to save certain settings   let's say you were shooting at 4k at 24 frames  per second and you were using an anamorphic d   squeeze and you can save it and recall it here  so that will save you time if you have various   settings that you use a lot on ios devices this  menu is quite simple first there's the time code   track toggle switch when enabled the app embeds a  time code track into your video based on the time   the clip is shot this allows multiple videos shot  simultaneously to be edited together quickly based   on a common time code track on android devices  you get three different settings at the top   if you have extra memory installed in your  smartphone like an sd card you might want to have   clips saved to this card once installed you should  be able to tap where it says internal storage and   switch to external storage which will be the sd  card toggle this switch on to limit clips to a   maximum of 4 gigabytes if you are recording and  you go over four gigabytes from icpro will simply   start a new clip you can then stitch them together  later i'm not sure but i believe that some android   devices particularly samsung's had a four gigabyte  file size limit imposed but presumably i wouldn't   have the option to turn this off if i could only  record four gigabytes maximum on my note 20. smb   network backup allows your device to connect to  a samba network so i believe this allows you to   backup files if your android is connected to a  samba network then it should appear here once   connected toggle on auto backup to immediately  share files to the network so the main purpose of   this menu is content management toggle on and now  you can set a name for the production a scene name   and a start number for takes then every shot you  record will have these included in the name of the   file takes will automatically increase by one  each clip whereas by default filmic pro uses date   and time to create a series of numbers for the  file hardware menu gives you a bunch of settings   related to any extra kit you have attached to  your device lenses drives gimbals and so on   toggle clean hdmi out to output a clean video feed  to an external display you will need a compatible   hdmi adapter to make this work for ios you can  also include audio into this feed this can be   used for live streaming and broadcast for example  you could have a number of devices connected via   hdmi to some kind of multicam studio now this  isn't good for recording video to an external   drive though for that it's best to stick with  your internal drive or sd card you'll find options   here to connect to supported 3-axis gimbals and  currently filmic pro have dji osmo which would   work for numbers 1 all the way to 4 xeon smooth  4 and movie cinema robot so make sure your gimbal   is connected to your device via bluetooth and then  toggle on the appropriate switch filmic pro should   locate and connect to the gimbal you'll now be  able to use the gimbal controls to operate filmic   pro below that we have two options to de-squeeze  video when using an anamorphic conversion lens   these lenses give you a distinctive widescreen  look and work by squeezing a wider horizon   into the regular 16x9 frame toggle on and filmic  pro will de-squeeze for you and save you having   to do this in post if you would actually prefer to  de-squeeze in post you can additionally toggle on   the preview only now you can monitor what it will  actually look like finally but it will save the   squeezed video version the 35 millimeter adapter  setting flips the image vertically you need this   when using a depth of field adapter like the ones  from ulanzi or beastgrip because they create an   upside down image there's also a horizontal image  flip option you might want to use this if you're   shooting with a selfie camera which usually  reverses the image you can use filmic sync to   store and recover preset data so if you have some  settings saved they can be stored here and used   later you know perhaps you might want to transfer  them to one or more devices any device you use if   you log in with the same details you'll be able to  access those stored settings the community button   simply gives you access to filmics website links  social media and contact details and first light   is an app by filming for shooting stills rather  than video now this simply switches stabilization   on or off filmics say that the app will use the  highest level of stabilization that's available   to the app the camera menu gives you access to  your device's lenses so front and back and in   this device i also get access to the ultra wide  lens however filmic pro does not give access to   the telephoto in my note 20 ultra so performance  may vary there depending on your device the torch   button simply turns your device's flashlight on  and off with ios you get a choice of brightness   levels as well this might be useful for on-the-fly  filming such as interviewing people in the street   the guide button toggles on and off some framing  guides which divide your frame into three sections   so you can use this if you want to apply the rule  of thirds composition theory and the last button   accesses links to a quick start guide tutorials  user manual support page and it also lets you   know which version of the app you have installed  so that's the settings menu done let's move on   in the center at the bottom we have this oblong  shape with a few different meters and controls   as i mentioned before you can use the tiny white  line to set audio level the six zeroes are the   time code counter when you start recording this  will start counting letting you know the duration   elapsed to the right we have the battery level  indicator below that is the storage level   indicator if the memory on your device starts to  get used up slices of the pie get eaten as well as   turning the pie from green to orange and finally  to red if it gets too red then you will probably   need to move or delete files to make space on  the left we have the current frames per second   and resolution settings now if you tap the time  code counter it switches to a luminosity histogram   giving you an indication of luminosity levels in  the frame white and highlights are on the right   while black and shadows are on the left tap again  to get the same histogram but split into component   rgb levels one more tap and you get the waveform  monitor so this is like the rgb histogram we just   saw except it indicates levels along the width  of the frame so if you move the camera left to   right the waveform moves with it this also gives  you an indication of the brightness black is at   the bottom and white is at the top if the light  is too bright for the sensor it will blow out   and you can see the levels pushed up to the top  anything beyond that top line is lost forever   same with the bottom if it's so dark that it's  black you will never recover image information   from there tap once more and you'll find yourself  back at the time code counter the button made up   of three coloured circles opens the imaging panel  and then you have three further panels to choose   from there's white balance tone for log settings  and color behavior the top panel is for setting   and locking white balance the big square is a  combination of white balance and tint and what is   white balance white balance is what we deal with  when we want our colors in the image to represent   as close as possible the colors in real life  it's called white balance because the camera uses   white as a reference in other words if you say to  your camera this is white then the camera should   be able to set the balance of hues correctly so  that everything looks natural skin looks natural   the sky looks natural grass looks green and not  blue and so on if you use your native camera app   in auto mode the camera software takes a reading  and usually does a pretty good job problem is when   you move the camera the color balance can change  during the shot on the other hand a professional   camera operator would set white balance and lock  it before recording now this big square has a   dot located somewhere inside its borders that can  be used to set white balance if you tap and drag   it around you can see colors changing and this  is actually a combination of color temperature   measured in kelvins combined with a color tint  to the right you see these two values represented   in separate columns so you can use these  columns to set temperature and tint separately   rather than set the white balance using the  camera sensor you can use a preset there's   a row of four preset icons at the bottom light  bulb tungsten sun daylight cloud which is for   cloudy skies and what looks like a modern energy  saving bulb which is for fluorescent lighting   so if you're filming under those light conditions  you can try using these presets to get a good   natural color balance if you're using two or more  cameras for example you'll probably want them set   to the same white balance and therefore if you use  the same preset on both cameras that's a quick way   to make sure they're both the same to the right  of the preset icons are two letters a and b   these letters can be used to store custom presets  hold your finger on the letter and an option to   save the current settings pops up the final wb  button is probably the most important because when   it's blue it is in auto mode one tab makes it red  which is completely locked tap again to switch to   lock on record this means white balance will be on  auto until you start recording and then it locks   for the duration of the shot which is a good  option for more professional footage but with   a bit less fuss you don't have to keep setting  white balance manually every shot the next tab   down is the cinematographer's kit this is an  in-app purchase and if you haven't paid for it   then you'll be prompted to do so and if you want  to shoot with a log profile using filmic pro this   is where it happens with the introduction of 10  bit recording it now tells you if you have 8 or 10   bits selected if your device is capable then you  can switch to 10-bit color in the resolution menu   and i explained how to do that earlier in this  video using ios devices this tab has four curves   to choose from natural linear hybrid log gamma  and filmic's log version 2 or log version 3   depending on whether you have 8 or 10 bit color  selected log version 2 is 8 bit and log version   3 is 10 bit using android devices these options  may differ on my samsung note 20 ultra i have five   curves when eight bit is selected i have native  natural dynamic flat and log version two when   10 bit is selected however i have the same except  dynamic is now switched to linear and log version   2 is instead log version 3. in android the native  curve uses dynamic tone mapping and that's why it   says here that cinematographer kit tools are not  compatible with that setting as soon as i select   one of these curves that message pops up again  dynamic tone mapping disabled natural is filmic   pro's standard color profile it seems to just  switch off dynamic tone mapping and nothing else   in the filmic pro manual it says for professionals  performing color grading in post-production the   log will offer the most aggressive capabilities  but at the greater possibility of increased   noise or other flaws i often get questions about  shooting log about the extra noise experienced   compared to shooting with the native app  sometimes even without the log profile   what i would say is that when shooting in log you  have much less margin of error when setting your   iso some users tell me they only shoot log in the  daylight where they can reduce iso to the minimum   so my advice is if you want to be able to  shoot with a higher iso therefore giving   you greater flexibility don't shoot in log below  the curves is a tool for customizing each curve   by adjusting the black mid and white point if i  slide up the black point then blacks become gray   if i slide down the white point then whites become  gray below that we have two sliders which allow   further customization by adjusting the  highlights and shadows for example bringing   down the highlights or pushing up the shadows  would decrease contrast even further and finally   if you just want to reset everything it's all gone  to hell and you want to start from the beginning   tap the two arrows in a circle button in the top  left in this panel you can customize the look   of your video even further this is like grading  but before you shoot the video rather than after   first there's three color sliders red green  and blue you can adjust each of these just   slide along the color left and right by default  they are set to max so it's a case of removing an   amount of whichever color you work on if you pull  back the red things generally go a bit more blue   if you pull back the blue the image becomes a bit  warmer then below these settings you have vibrance   and saturation sliders you might be more used to  seeing these kinds of settings in an editing app   what's the difference between saturation and  vibrance well while saturation boosts color in   general vibrance only adjusts the least saturated  colors in the image in other words vibrance is a   bit more subtle and it can be used to bring out  otherwise dull colors so that's just about it   there's just a couple of little things  to mention to do with the interface   if your screen allows you might have this extra  strip on the left at the top we have some letters   and these indicate the bitrate setting like filmic  extreme or filmic quality or standard below that   is a number and this is the amount of minutes of  video you can record before your memory is full   obviously this number will vary depending  on your memory and video quality settings   higher resolution and bitrate means less minutes  and last of all in the bottom left corner is the   current color temperature in kelvins and my  voice is now almost finished but i hope you   enjoyed or found parts or all of this video  useful and i hope to see you in the next video

Channel: Simon Horrocks

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Length: 46min 36sec (2796 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 30 2021