**The Art of Smartphone Video Production: Tips and Techniques**

When it comes to producing high-quality video with your smartphone, there are several key factors to consider. Firstly, let's talk about lighting. Daylight bulbs provide not only plenty of light but also clean natural light, which can make a significant difference in the clarity of your footage. When shooting a subject, it's essential to position the light source in front of the subject, rather than behind them. This will help avoid high dynamic ranges that can be challenging for smartphones to handle.

In addition to lighting, stabilization is another crucial aspect of smartphone video production. There are several options available, including attachment-based solutions and three-axis gimbals. The first option, a tripod attachment, allows you to stabilize your footage but requires a tripod, an adapter, and some planning beforehand. While it may not be the most convenient solution, it can produce smooth and steady footage. For those looking for a more compact and convenient option, three-axis gimbals like the Zeon Smooth Q or DJI Osmo are highly recommended. Both offer fantastic results and can transform the cinematic quality of your smartphone footage.

For many smartphones, especially lower-end models without optical image stabilization, electronic image stabilization (EIS) is built-in as a default feature. While it can be effective in certain situations, such as when holding your phone steady or tracking an object, it's not suitable for all types of footage. In fact, using EIS in situations where there's significant movement, like walking down the street, can actually make the footage look less stable and more edited than intended. This is why many GoPro cameras, designed to capture action footage, have minimal EIS capabilities.

Sound quality is often overlooked when it comes to smartphone video production, but it's a critical aspect of creating cinematic-quality content. With a simple audio adapter, you can split your 3.5mm connection into input and output ports, allowing you to plug in high-quality headphones or a microphone. The latter is essential for capturing clear and crisp audio that complements your visual footage.

Finally, there's one tip that stands out as my favorite: shooting at 30 frames per second (fps) and then slowing it down to 80% of its original speed in post-production. This technique creates a cinematic effect by introducing slow motion, aligns with the standard 24fps frame rate, and stabilizes the footage due to the slower frame rate. Additionally, changing the aspect ratio from 16:9 to 21:9 can create a more cinematic look by adding black bars on top and bottom, which is a deliberate design choice that some people love or hate.

By incorporating these tips and techniques into your smartphone video production workflow, you'll be well on your way to creating high-quality content that rivals traditional filmmaking. Remember to experiment with lighting, stabilization, sound quality, and post-production techniques to find the perfect balance for your next project.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'll tell you what the problem is smartphone cameras are getting very very good or at least they are on Flagship devices now in order to make people buy their more profitable Flagship phones companies have to somewhat downgrade their more budget oriented phones and unfortunately one of those places where those cuts come is in camera quality so if you are still stuck on a budget phone like the G5 plus over here in this video I'm going to show you how you can still make some killer video footage with that being said let's get started so when you ask a tech YouTuber how to improve the quality of videos on your smartphone a lot of them will tell you straight away you should use a smartphone lens but there are a few reasons why I think that's a bit of a fallacy and to be honest is not the best advice you could get first of all they're bulky these things are a pain to carry around and people want to know how to take great video all the time because moments just occur moments that you want to capture they just sort of appear and you can't often be prepared for it so you can't be carrying around a lens everywhere you go it's a bit of a problem now also lenses technically don't improve the quality of your video footage itself what they do is allow you to shoot a new scenarios for example a teler lens allows you to shoot from further away or a wide angle lens allows you to capture more in your shot but these don't make your video essentially better quality there are just more different ways to shoot now the other thing worth bearing in mind is that buying a poor quality lens can actually reduce the quality of your video getting glass which has little bits inside of it or imperfections means that your video is is distorted upon output and if you want to buy a high-end lens you can spend something like $50 for one piece of Kit so if you are going to spend that much on lenses just buy a better phone in the first place the second thing is going to seem super obvious but just judging by the number of people that don't do this clearly it isn't you should always shoot your videos in horizontal mode shooting video and portrait just means that just about on every video sharing platform you just going to have these huge black bars on the sides of your content and that never looks professional so then we've got lighting and I mean everyone knows that more light is better when it comes to photography but a lot of people don't know why what happens when you reach a low light condition is your phone turns up its ISO setting and what this does is it tries to group smaller pixels into larger pixels to be able to capture more light but the trade-off is this results in more noise so by providing more light to your smartphone sensor you can essentially overcome this you can reduce the need to group pixels together and therefore result in a clearer image and so what this means is wherever possible try and shoot outd doors natural light is the cheapest and easiest source of really good all round lighting so if you can use that go ahead and do it now for videos like this if you do need to shoot inside then use a daylight bulb daylight bulbs provide firstly a lot of light but also a lot of clean natural light so that makes your video footage come out quite a bit clearer so in terms of using lighting to create better smartphone video there's one key thing to remember smartphones and budget smartphones especially are not endowed with the best HDR capabilities which means that if you are shooting a subject make sure that instead of the light being behind the subject which creates a very high dynamic range which these smartphones can't tend to cope with try and make sure the light is in front of the subject and an example of when this could be pretty useful is when for example you're taking a shot of a group of people and the number of times I've seen people do this such that there is light behind the subjects but not in front is crazy so don't do that so then there stabilization and for this I'm going to say there are three main topics and the first one is this this is an attachment that allows you to clip your smartphone onto a tripod and what this does allow you to do is to take super smooth super steady footage but the trade-off is that first of all you need a tripod which is big bulky and can be expensive and you also need an adapter so it's a bit of a f to take around with you and it's something that has to be quite pre-planned so the second option is to use a three axis gimbal so this is the Zeon smooth Q thoroughly recommend it um over there I have the DJI osmo as well both are fantastic they're at different price points but both create a transformative difference in the Cinematic quality of yourart phone footage just look at the before and after here so then we have something called electronic image stabilization and with a lot of smartphones especially lower-end smartphones that don't have Optical image stabilization this effect is built in by default and it can be effective if for example you holding your smartphone you're consistently moving in a certain direction or you're tracking a certain object then sometimes electron ionc image stabilization can reduce the shakiness in that if however you're walking down a street and your phone is going like this and just jumping up and down then actually all that's going to end up doing is making it seem very unreal it's going to create a pretty poor attempt at trying to stabilize it and in the end it's just going to look like it's heavily edited and this is why with GoPros for example which a camera is meant to capture a lot of action to capture running skiing jumping all this kind of stuff they tend to by default have a very minimal amount of electronic image stabilization because in those kind of shots where there's so much action you're probably better off without it and then probably the most overlooked aspect of taking good quality video is sound quality so with this simple attachment here it splits the 3.5 mm connection on your smartphone into input and output so you can plug in a highquality pair of headphones into the output section and you can plug in a high quality microphone into the input and if you are trying to take cinematic quality video which includes audio then this is an absolute necessity get one of these and then get a decent quality microphone the one I've got here is the mod mic 5 and there are plenty of other so the next tip I'm about to tell you is probably my favorite tip of all time what you can do is shoot your smartphone video at 30 frames per second as normal but then when you put that video into your video editor slow it down to 80% of its original speed I.E 24 frames per second so what that does is actually creates a slight amount of slow motion in the video which number one is Cinematic in itself number two hits the target frame rate of 24 frames per second and number three just because everything's moving a little bit slower your video is actually more stabilized and so depending on what your end objective for this video is you may want to continue making it more cinematic now one way of doing this is to change the aspect ratio from a 16 to9 which is a standard out of a phone like this to a 21 to9 that is considered a cinematic ratio and that creates these known black bars on the top and the bottom of the video which some people like some people hate and it's up to your discretion whether or not you want to use them and so the other thing is color correction depending on the kind of look you're trying to create you might want to add warmth to a certain shot for example or you might want to take it away anyway guys I really hope you enjoyed that video I've got tons more videos like this tutorials other things that you can do with your smartphone which are genuinely really useful so with that being said I really hope you check those out I'm Mr the boss and I'm signing outI'll tell you what the problem is smartphone cameras are getting very very good or at least they are on Flagship devices now in order to make people buy their more profitable Flagship phones companies have to somewhat downgrade their more budget oriented phones and unfortunately one of those places where those cuts come is in camera quality so if you are still stuck on a budget phone like the G5 plus over here in this video I'm going to show you how you can still make some killer video footage with that being said let's get started so when you ask a tech YouTuber how to improve the quality of videos on your smartphone a lot of them will tell you straight away you should use a smartphone lens but there are a few reasons why I think that's a bit of a fallacy and to be honest is not the best advice you could get first of all they're bulky these things are a pain to carry around and people want to know how to take great video all the time because moments just occur moments that you want to capture they just sort of appear and you can't often be prepared for it so you can't be carrying around a lens everywhere you go it's a bit of a problem now also lenses technically don't improve the quality of your video footage itself what they do is allow you to shoot a new scenarios for example a teler lens allows you to shoot from further away or a wide angle lens allows you to capture more in your shot but these don't make your video essentially better quality there are just more different ways to shoot now the other thing worth bearing in mind is that buying a poor quality lens can actually reduce the quality of your video getting glass which has little bits inside of it or imperfections means that your video is is distorted upon output and if you want to buy a high-end lens you can spend something like $50 for one piece of Kit so if you are going to spend that much on lenses just buy a better phone in the first place the second thing is going to seem super obvious but just judging by the number of people that don't do this clearly it isn't you should always shoot your videos in horizontal mode shooting video and portrait just means that just about on every video sharing platform you just going to have these huge black bars on the sides of your content and that never looks professional so then we've got lighting and I mean everyone knows that more light is better when it comes to photography but a lot of people don't know why what happens when you reach a low light condition is your phone turns up its ISO setting and what this does is it tries to group smaller pixels into larger pixels to be able to capture more light but the trade-off is this results in more noise so by providing more light to your smartphone sensor you can essentially overcome this you can reduce the need to group pixels together and therefore result in a clearer image and so what this means is wherever possible try and shoot outd doors natural light is the cheapest and easiest source of really good all round lighting so if you can use that go ahead and do it now for videos like this if you do need to shoot inside then use a daylight bulb daylight bulbs provide firstly a lot of light but also a lot of clean natural light so that makes your video footage come out quite a bit clearer so in terms of using lighting to create better smartphone video there's one key thing to remember smartphones and budget smartphones especially are not endowed with the best HDR capabilities which means that if you are shooting a subject make sure that instead of the light being behind the subject which creates a very high dynamic range which these smartphones can't tend to cope with try and make sure the light is in front of the subject and an example of when this could be pretty useful is when for example you're taking a shot of a group of people and the number of times I've seen people do this such that there is light behind the subjects but not in front is crazy so don't do that so then there stabilization and for this I'm going to say there are three main topics and the first one is this this is an attachment that allows you to clip your smartphone onto a tripod and what this does allow you to do is to take super smooth super steady footage but the trade-off is that first of all you need a tripod which is big bulky and can be expensive and you also need an adapter so it's a bit of a f to take around with you and it's something that has to be quite pre-planned so the second option is to use a three axis gimbal so this is the Zeon smooth Q thoroughly recommend it um over there I have the DJI osmo as well both are fantastic they're at different price points but both create a transformative difference in the Cinematic quality of yourart phone footage just look at the before and after here so then we have something called electronic image stabilization and with a lot of smartphones especially lower-end smartphones that don't have Optical image stabilization this effect is built in by default and it can be effective if for example you holding your smartphone you're consistently moving in a certain direction or you're tracking a certain object then sometimes electron ionc image stabilization can reduce the shakiness in that if however you're walking down a street and your phone is going like this and just jumping up and down then actually all that's going to end up doing is making it seem very unreal it's going to create a pretty poor attempt at trying to stabilize it and in the end it's just going to look like it's heavily edited and this is why with GoPros for example which a camera is meant to capture a lot of action to capture running skiing jumping all this kind of stuff they tend to by default have a very minimal amount of electronic image stabilization because in those kind of shots where there's so much action you're probably better off without it and then probably the most overlooked aspect of taking good quality video is sound quality so with this simple attachment here it splits the 3.5 mm connection on your smartphone into input and output so you can plug in a highquality pair of headphones into the output section and you can plug in a high quality microphone into the input and if you are trying to take cinematic quality video which includes audio then this is an absolute necessity get one of these and then get a decent quality microphone the one I've got here is the mod mic 5 and there are plenty of other so the next tip I'm about to tell you is probably my favorite tip of all time what you can do is shoot your smartphone video at 30 frames per second as normal but then when you put that video into your video editor slow it down to 80% of its original speed I.E 24 frames per second so what that does is actually creates a slight amount of slow motion in the video which number one is Cinematic in itself number two hits the target frame rate of 24 frames per second and number three just because everything's moving a little bit slower your video is actually more stabilized and so depending on what your end objective for this video is you may want to continue making it more cinematic now one way of doing this is to change the aspect ratio from a 16 to9 which is a standard out of a phone like this to a 21 to9 that is considered a cinematic ratio and that creates these known black bars on the top and the bottom of the video which some people like some people hate and it's up to your discretion whether or not you want to use them and so the other thing is color correction depending on the kind of look you're trying to create you might want to add warmth to a certain shot for example or you might want to take it away anyway guys I really hope you enjoyed that video I've got tons more videos like this tutorials other things that you can do with your smartphone which are genuinely really useful so with that being said I really hope you check those out I'm Mr the boss and I'm signing out\n"