Practical tips for creating cool video on iPhone

1. Download a good program for shooting

Replace the preinstalled application "Camera" on a more advanced program. For all its convenience, it does not allow to use the potential of the iPhone video camera because of the limited number of settings.

mobile shooting experts advise Filmic Pro application. This is one of the most advanced software to create videos on the iPhone. It allows you to manually adjust the exposure, focus, white balance, program different modes chamber choose aspect ratio, used for counting the correct composition and set the frequency frames.

If Filmic Pro is for you too expensive, try a simplified, but a cheaper alternative ProMovie Recorder +.

2. Buy a tripod or stabilizer

Shaking hands can easily spoil video. If you have important cinematic fluidity pictures, use the special accessories.

can be purchased for a static tripod shooting. Choose any of them, as long as its height to fit your needs. But more often than not have a tripod mount for the iPhone. So you may need a special kind of holder

Square Jellyfish. To buy a good tripod and mount, $ 50 will suffice.

If you want to shoot on the move without shaking, use a stabilizer. Such an expensive accessory tripod, but it is ideal for dynamic rollers. One of the most popular stabilizers Zhiyun Smooth Q costs about $ 100.

3. Do not use the digital zoom

Software approach degrades the quality of the video. The image becomes grainy and lose sharpness. Therefore, it is better not to use, except when it is really needed.

If you want to bring a separate entity, with the possibility of a better approach to it and remove from a shorter distance. There is another option - to buy a lens with optical zoom. This accessory allows zoom in the image without loss of quality.

On the Apple site includes sets of lenses for different models iPhone from the partners of the company. For example, a set of olloclip 4-IN-1 It includes four lenses with different types of lenses. It includes a lens with 10x and 15x zoom. You can also buy lenses from a variety of other manufacturers in any hardware store.

4. Select an external microphone

Video is not only the image but also the sound. Alas, the built-in iPhone microphone can not record high-quality audio.

If you want to reduce the amount of noise, as well as to increase the volume and clarity of sound, it is necessary to buy an external recording device. Some microphones like Shure MV88 mounted directly on the iPhone. Others, such as Rode smartLav +Through cable can cling directly to clothing. Choose a format that is convenient to you.

5. Do not forget about the general rules of shooting

• use rule of thirds and remove the grid.
• Remember the lighting. iPhone gives an excellent picture in daylight and normal lighting of buildings, but in the dark, even a flashlight and the flash will not be saved. The video will be grainy and dark. Try to shoot in good light.
• Highlight important object for the frame and focuses on it.
• Instead of one long video create a series of short, using different angles and then glue together the fragments in the bottom of the unit. This will give your videos dynamic.

6. Use the installation program

Through storyboard It can turn even a mediocre captured video into a work of art. Only need to be creative: the right to mount the pieces, add effects, and apply the correction tools.

For beginners ideal iMovie Apple's free app. It provides the basic settings and functions for editing and video editing on the iPhone. You can even combine the videos with music, creating a spectacular clips.

When you feel that iMovie capacity is not enough, you can try a more advanced editor - Filmmaker Pro. The trial version of the application is available for free. But the price of subscription to all of its functions is 429 rubles per month, or 2450 rubles per year.