How to Create Cinematic Professional Looking Footage Using Your Smartphone

 I'm gonna be talking about how to create cinematic professional-looking footage using just your smartphone 

 Achieve Cinematic Professional looking footage kinds of results with just your Smartphone it's not quite as simple as just whipping it out of your pocket and using the native camera app there are a few keys to improving your footage and making it look much more professional so I'm gonna go over 8 steps of how to create Cinematic professional-looking footage using just your Smartphone that I took to achieve the footage in a simple way 

How to Create Cinematic Professional Looking Footage using just your Smartphone 

8 tips shoot cinematic through your Mobile

Manual Camera App

step number one is to use a manual camera app this is huge because your phone has a bunch of auto settings turned on like auto exposure auto white balance autofocus auto stabilization and though these tools are great for a lot of applications they will often make your footage look more like home video footage rather than professional film footage the app that 

I use is called Filmic Pro which you can get for about $14.99 (Rupees 1085.99) off of the Playstore if you're buying for android and Apple phone but the price of the apple store is different don't how much are you check it our from your app store if you don't see in-app store then go on the official link of Filmic Pro

Filmic Pro

 as for Filmic Pro, it's not a perfect app and it's not gonna replace a DSLR but I think it's one of the best ones out there for the android app once you've downloaded your app you're gonna want to change a few settings to ensure the highest quality video footage which brings me to bitrate

Bitrate

Step number two, which is to change your bitrate the bitrate refers to how to compress your video footages and will affect the overall quality of your image-standard 4k video that shoots out of the native camera app is at 50 megabytes per second you have the option to double that to a hundred megabytes per second which will give you a cleaner higher-quality 4k video to put that into perspective all of DJI drones shoot at a maximum of 60 megabytes per second 

Filmic Pro Bitrate

essentially the higher the bit rate the higher quality of video you're gonna get 

Frame rate

Step number three is to change your frame rate android default frame rate is 30 frames per second and if you want that cinematic Hollywood film look you want to make sure you switch that to 24 frames per second 

For example footage, I actually shot at all the 30 frames per second but then made sure to convert it down to 24 frames per second in the post I did that on purpose because I wanted my footage to be slightly slowed down and have kind of that dreamy look and stunning cinematic Professional look with slow motion then you must to shot footage in the frame rate of 60 frames per second 

Audio Formate

step number four is to change the audio format by default Filmic Pro has your audio formats set to AIFF this format isn't supported by Premiere Pro CC so before you start shooting make sure to change the format to AAC and it will then be recognizable by Adobe software 

Filmic Pro Setting

step number five is undo all of your auto settings in the bottom left of the app

Filmic Pro setting Moderate Setting

 you have three icons your exposure your focus and your color temperature tools simply drag the exposure icon on your screen to whatever you want to expose for then click the matching icon in the bottom left to lock it in this will ensure that your camera isn't constantly changing exposures 

Filmic Pro Low Bios option 

while you're trying to shoot the same thing goes for the focus tool select what you want in focus and then lock it in with the color temperature tool aim your camera until you like the auto white balance that is chosen 

Filmic Pro temperature Option selection

and then lock it in if you want even more control over these three elements hold down each of these icons and it will give you further options to manually set your shutter speed and ISO for your exposure pull focus to a precise distance and dial in exact temperatures and tints now, of course,

Filmic Pro Shutter Locked Option

 you have to learn how to use manual settings but we're not going to talk in-depth in this article about but I have a library of another article at 

Stabilizer

Osmo Mobile Stablizer

moving on to step number six is to use a stabilizer I personally would recommend using the DJI Osmo Mobile which you can get for about three hundred dollars and will work as a 3-axis gimbal for super-smooth shots and moving the time-lapse rig and as a tripod getting steady moving shots is a huge part 2 creating cinematic footage.

osmo Mobile Stabilzer tilting 

 There are many options out there in different price ranges for buying stabilizers for your phone again I recommend the DJI Osmo mobile be aware though if you do use a stabilizer you need to make sure to turn off the auto stabilization within your Filmic Pro app or else it's going to give you some warping artifacts as those two stabilizing systems try to fight with each other 

Osmo Mobile horizotal stabilzation 

Multiple Focal Lenght

moving on to step number seven is to use multiple focal lengths most smartphones only have one (the iPhone 7 Plus actually has two lenses one at about 28 millimeters and the other at about 56 millimeters this gives you two different lens options for different scenarios to help tell your story you can easily switch between these two lenses in your Filmic Pro app by selecting the camera icon and choosing between wide and telephoto lenses)

for those who don't have multiple lenses on their phones and you want more options you can buy third-party lenses to stick on the front of your phone there's a lot of cheap options out there I've personally purchased some of those cheap options and I wouldn't recommend it it's a waste of money if you're going to get one I recommend getting a moment lens they have several options depending on the focal length you want but again if you want the versatility to help tell your story it's super important to have multiple focal Lenght

 Post-Production 

Post Production is Editing

 the final step is post-production now I won't go super into depth on this but color correction sound design aspect ratios editing all play big roles and helping you bring your footage to life 

 This my 8 steps of shooting cinematic footage using nothing but my smartphone using these steps is exactly how I achieve cinematic footage thanks for coming here you