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1. Why you need this masterclass!: If you've ever
recorded a video on your smartphone and
you've been frustrated by the constantly
changing brightness or the focus or changing colors, the Blackmagic Camera App is the solution you've
been looking for. And the best part is this
app is completely free. This is a total game changer
giving you pro grade manual camera controls right on your iPhone or
Android device, allowing you to finally
lock everything down for a consistent
professional looking video. So in this training,
I'm going to take you through the process
of efficiently creating amazing looking videos with the Blackmagic Camera App. We're going to cover
everything from a complete interface overview to the key settings that
you need to create your unique right through to
my favorite feature, the remote monitoring and
controlling capabilities. So if you're shooting videos
by yourself, this is huge. Now, if we haven't met before, my name is Justin Brown. And along with my brother Mike, we've built the primal
video YouTube channel to over 1.8 million subscribers. So after years in
professional video production and from running our
YouTube channel, distilled all the
important stuff that you need to
know to be shooting amazing videos
fast and easy with the Blackmagic Camera App
into this master class. So we've designed this
training so you get a clear step by step walk
through of the key areas of this app as a
follow along process for you to start creating your own incredible
videos immediately. So if you're ready
to stop creating videos that look like
they were shot on a smartphone and start creating professional looking
content that gets results, I'll see you in the next video.
2. Kicking Off: Massive welcome
to this training. My goal for this training
is to get you up to speed fast using the
Blackmagic Camera App. This is going to
allow you to create amazing looking videos
on your smartphones. So this will work we your
own iPhone or Android. There's also an iPad
version of this, as well. But really, what this
Blackmagic Camera App lets you do is to
lock everything down and really give you
pro grade camera settings here on your smart device. Because we've all seen
those videos you can tell that a video was
shot on a smartphone. Things are changing, so the
brightness is changing, the focus is changing,
the white balance, the color all looks off and
is constantly changing. Whereas a professional
looking video, that stuff is all locked
down and looks really good, and it looks good consistently throughout the whole video. So I'm going to be taking you
through step by step with an overview of the interface so you know where everything is. The key settings that you need
to dive into to customize this also an overview of the setting so that
you can make it yours. The more you use this
and the more that you understand how
capable this is, then we can really tailor up this experience with all
the different options and stuff in there to make it yours and to make it the
best experience for you. And then I'm going
to show you probably my favorite feature in here, the remote monitoring
and remote control and capabilities in the
and they will dive into the media management side of things and show you
how you can access your files and some of the customizations and things that you've got
around that, too. But by the end of this training, you will have all the tools and knowledge that you
need to go and create amazing videos on
your phone and feel free to share the project
that you are working on. So when you're creating
your first videos here using the
Blackmagic Camera App, we love to see them, so
you can upload them and submit them with a project
here on Skillshare. So enough talk, let's dive into.
3. Interface Overview: So this is what you see
when you first open up the Black Magic camera app. Now, I'm on an iPhone here, but the process
and everything is exactly the same on
Android, as well. Now, if you are seeing something
that is different to me, maybe it's a newer version than the version I'm currently
running, don't worry. All the core functionality
and everything will still be exactly the same. Maybe things have
moved slightly, but you'll still be able
to follow along with this and work out how to get the best settings
and everything out. Quick overview of what we're seeing here on this interface. I absolutely love this
top menu bar here. This is fast access
for you to see all of the key information and also to adjust some of these key
settings and things as well. So straight out, we can see which camera lens we're using. We can see our settings
for the frames per second. And this will make
sense as we're going through, if I'm
losing you already. We've got our shutter speed. We can see our ISO,
our white balance, all of this key stuff
here at the top. And, for example, if I click
on the white balance here, then it's going to take
me straight to that setting where I can
customize this up. I'm just going to
click off that now. We can check the key
stuff like, Oh, good, we are recording in
four K, 16 by nine. Now, this flows
through to things like the audio monitoring
down the bottom here. Right now, it says
iPhone microphone, and we can see there that I actually am talking.
This is huge. So if you're recording a video and you want to make sure even just as a visual representation
is audio being recorded, then we can quickly and easily see that down the bottom here. Likewise, we've got our
phone storage here. So are we going to run out of space while we're recording? Do we have en free
space available, then again, huge to be able to access and see
this really quickly. And then we can start
to get into some of the more advanced scopes and displays and things
in here as well. Again, this is
fully customizable. Now, I want to point out here on this main interface that we do have these extra little
menu items here. So we can press these
three little circles, and you can see that
that's going to open up some extra menu items, and it's the same on both sides. So if we press this
one here as well, then we've got actually
function buttons here. So these are preset
buttons, again, we configure so to
save you going into the menus to find specific settings or to
toggle things on and off, we can create shortcuts
for those here as well. So I just want to call
this out at this point. Again, if I'm losing
you, stick with me. This will make more
sense as we go through. So the next area here is this next menu bar
option down here. So this again, is
more customization, more configuration
of our overall shot and what it is we're recording. We've got things in here like different guides and displays
that we can bring up, so we can see what's in focus. We can see our different
exposure and brightness levels. Again, I'll run through this in more detail as we go through. But we also have the ability
to bring up things like guides and grid lines to
help us frame our shop. All of that stuff we can
access through here, and I'm just going to turn
these back off. Let's go off. And let's go back to these and make sure
these are off, as well. Off So that's our guides
that we can access up here. And then we start
to get into some of the key configuration where we can dial in things
like our focus. So we have sliders for manual
control for this stuff, but we also have tap to
focus and tap for exposure. Again, we'll get
to that very soon. This big red button
here, very obvious one. This is your record,
start and stop button. We can change our camera
lenses from down here as well. This is another great example of we can just tap here to pick out camera lens or we could also just tap up to the
lens option here, and that's going to take
us to the same place. Now, this next menu bar
down the side here, this is where we can access the different modes of this app. So right now, we're
in the camera mode, which is where you're
probably going to spend the most
amount of time. We've then got the media
mode or media area, and this is where we can see
all of our recorded clips. There is a chat area here built into Black
Magic app as well. So if you are signed in to the Black Magic Cloud and
you don't need to be. I'm not signed in here now. So this will be more
for working with large teams or multiple cameras, multiple people on them. We can actually sync
them up and we can access Team chat
through here as well. Now, this will also work
back to DaVinci Resolve. So Black Magic's
main editing tool that if you're working
with editors remote, then they could be in
the chat here as well, reviewing your
shots as you again, more for the pro end of things. And then we come down here
and this is where we can access settings, is
the last one here. So if you have already jumped in and how to play
around with this, then we can always come
down here and choose reset black magic settings or maybe you change something
that you don't like. You can reset your
settings here at any time, which is what I've
done here right now, so that I'm just running
the stock camera here exactly as it is
when you first install.
4. App Settings: So we're going to go
through now and I'm going to dive into some
of these settings. I'm going to highlight the key ones that you need
to know about. But also, I would
suggest that you are spending some time
here when you have it to go through each one of these menu items here
and just tap through. There's nothing you can break. But the more that
you understand with the different types of things
that you can do in here, the different
settings and options and customization you have, the more you can build this out to be the best
app for you with fast access to the
things that you use when you're creating
your unique content. So the first place that
we want to start here, though, is getting
everything set up. We want to come to
recording settings here. And then you'll see
right at the top here, the first option we've
got is our Codex. So this is our
recording, I guess, file format is the way
that we can explain this. So if we tap in on this, you'll see the different
options that we have. Now, I'm on an iPhone, so we're going to
start to see a lot of these Apple ProRes formats. But on Android, you might see some different
options here as well. Main two that most people
will use for any sort of YouTube content or
anything right now would be h264 and h265. And the default here is h265. So if you're not aware of what these other
formats and things are, then I would suggest
you just leaving this here as default. But for those of
you that do want the highest quality
recording out of this, then you can see
that this goes up to things like Apple ProRes Raw. So these are massive
files and PRs raw HQ. And it does say that it
requires external storage. So we actually need
to plug in an SSD, a fast drive onto our phone because these files
are going to be massive. Again, for most people, we can just leave
this here as HEVC. Is what I'm going to
leave mine as here now. Then we go to choose
our video resolution. Four K is the default, and most devices these
days are going to happily shoot four K, no issues. But if you do want
something specific, you only want to shoot 1080
or 720, then we can do that. One of the more recent features that's been rolled
out is open gate. Again, this is device dependent. So this is on the newest
iPhone that we can do there will be some Android devices that will
have this feature as well. And that is instead
of us shooting a widescreen video at
four K ten ADP or 720, we can actually shoot
more of a square size, which will then be easy for
us to choose afterwards. Do we want to create
a widescreen video, or do we want to create
a portrait video? Because from the square
video that we're creating, it's going to be much easier
to crop out those sections. Again, for most people here, I'd recommend you just
leaving this on four K. We can lock down
our color space. Again, if you're not sure what this is or you're tapping
in here and you're like, I have no idea what
any of this means. The default Rec seven
oh nine is standard. But if you ask someone
who wants to dive into more professional
color grading and apply different lots or
lookup tables or different visual effects
really onto your clips, then this is where we could
look at a log format. So we're really
recording this at a flat picture profile if
you're picking one of these, so it's not going to look
great on the screen. But then we apply
the color grading afterwards to really get it
looking the way that we want. I love that it's
got this feature, but personally, it's not
something that I use. I'm all about simplicity
and getting something that looks good in the
smallest amount of time. So I'm just leaving this
here on Rec seven oh nine. Now, scrolling down here,
you can see that we've got options for time laps
recording as well. So if you want to
create a sped up video, an amazing looking time
laps or hyperlaps, I love that there is
this feature in here. We can toggle with
that on and off here. Next, let's jump across
to the camera area here. Now, this top setting
here is really important to enable if you want to
create vertical videos. Right now, the
default in the app is only to create
widescreen videos, which is where most
people are creating this. But it's still an amazing tool if you want to create
vertical videos as well. So we can just toggle this on, and then our phone
will rotate to allow us to create
vertical videos. Personally, I like to leave this next one here on as well, use volume or camera
control button to trigger recording so that we don't just have to
tap on the screen. We can just press one of
the volume buttons and it's going to start and
stop the recording for us. You can then see some
of the extra items we've got here in terms
of customization. Do we want to automatically
lock the white balance? So the colors, really,
when we hit record, this is one that I do leave on. I'll also show you how to lock that stuff down
very soon as well. And also things like
while recording, swipe right to dim the screen. So if you are doing
a long recording of a video and you don't want to burn through your
phone's battery, then we can dim the screen. So it's still recording, but
we're not going to see it. It's not going to chew
through your battery as fast because it's not powering
your screen at that point. So again, I love that there's this much customization in here, which is why I
recommend that you go through these settings, too. Again, the default settings here straight out of the box are probably going to be fine for most people for most
of these things. I do like to leave
lens correction on. It does a really good job of removing some of
the distortions, especially if you're using the ultra wide camera
lens on your phone. So I leave that one and if
we keep coming down here, we do have the option as well to mirror the front facing camera. So if you're using the selfie camera on the front
of your phone, and maybe you're
going to hold up text or this text in the background. If you don't want it mirrored, then we can enable
this, and this is going to flip it back the
right way for us. So our recording, the text in the background is going to be the right way around
for people to. Once we've gone through
those settings, let's jump over to audio, and this is where we can
customize things up. So right now again,
I'm on an iPhone. The default here is to use
the iPhone microphone. If we press on this, you'll
see the iPhone actually has multiple microphones
that we can use. So I could manually pick, Oh, I want to use the
one on the front. Or if I had an external
microphone plugged in, then that would show up in here, and I could pick that
microphone as well. We can also make adjustments to things like your audio format. You'll see there's a few
different options in here. Again, AAC is pretty
standard for this, so I'd recommend you
leaving this unless you need specifically one
of those other format. Default here as well as to
record our audio as stereo, so a left channel
and a right channel. But again, if you're using
a different microphone that requires you to set this as mono or you're more advanced on the recording sign running multiple microphones and things, then we can customize this
up and maybe pick dual mono. Generally, I leave
this here as stereo. And then if we come
over here to monitor, this is where we can
customize more of the overall user experience
and the interface of the app. So we can customize up some of those guides
that I showed you, like how opaque or how faded
are they on the screen? Again, 25% standard default. I just leave it there unless
you need something specific. You can connect your
phone to an HDMI display, as well to mirror out what it is you're
actually seeing on the so maybe you're
recording and you've got a confidence monitor or a spare screen
or something there, and you want to see what's
happening on the phone screen, or you want to just see
the pure recording. Without any of the menu
bars or any of that stuff, we can choose in here what it is that we're
actually seeing. So we can choose the video feed. We could chooe clean feed, and that's going
to remove all of the display interface so that we're getting a
nice clean picture. Through to our display. Again, probably a more
advanced setting, but I just want to
point out these things because something like this, HDMI Out, could make it much easier for
you to create videos, especially if you're
creating them by yourself. But if you do have
a spare screen or something around and you can
connect your phone to it, then this could be
a great way for you to just check
everything is all good. But then down here,
this is where we're customizing up that
main interface. So at the start, I
showed you we had the audio meters down the
bottom right hand corner. I can turn that on
or off just the same as we had our storage. Showing me how much iPhone
storage I had left. We can turn that on
or off here as well. If we keep coming down, the one that I do like to turn on, which I'm pretty
surprised isn't on by default is our
battery indicator. I mean, this is our phones. The batteries aren't
amazing anyway. So we may as well be monitoring that while we're
recording as well. So I do turn this one on. Now, coming over to
the media area here, again, a lot of options for those of you who
want to geek out, especially with the
Black Magic cloud and automatically backing up files and stuff and sharing projects, we can turn on and customize up that
side of the app here. But the main setting
here that you want to check for everyone, or at least be aware of is where your files are saving to, where your videos are saving to. So the default is to
save them in app only. So they'll actually be saved essentially in a
folder inside of the and accessible here
on this media page here. But we also have the option,
especially if you're creating content where you
want to shoot it in the phone, you want to edit it
quickly and get it out, it might make more
sense to put it in your photo gallery or your
photo library as well. In which case, you
can check this box, and then it's just
going to show up as a regular video in your device. We also have the ability to
choose a specific folder on our phone where we want our
files to be saved as well. So for me personally, I'll
leave it as in app only. Unless I'm going to be
creating a bunch of quick social media posts that I just want
to get out quick, then I would be having this
one here option selected, IApp and photo but I'd also be mindful that
I want to come back and empty out our in app
files so that we don't have two copies of everything chewing
throughout phone storage. Okay, we're getting
through this. I know this piece is pretty tedious. The next area here,
function buttons, again, not for everyone, but if you do want
to preprogram stuff, again, the more you use this, the more you'll
see the different features and stuff in here, those programmable
buttons that we had access to the fast
action buttons, this is where we can
customize them up. So function button one, for example, we can
then tap on this. We can choose, do we want this to go to one of our presets? So a preset would
be a saved bunch of settings where we can toggle between different
groups of settings, or we can have this
toggle a function. So if I press
toggle, then we can see we can turn on
or off auto focus, auto exposure, different
guides, different things. There's a lot of stuff that we could have quick
access to on here. And then if we scroll
down here to presets, this is where we can create some of those presets over time. Again, I wouldn't
stress about this this is your first
time using the app, and I'm getting you up to speed then we can ignore this for now. But over time,
especially for using different lots of settings
for different things, you could create
a preset here or a group of settings
to quickly access slow motion modes where
maybe you've set it to ten ADP and high frame
rate, so it's slow motion. And then you want to switch
between the next preset, which would be your regular
piece to camera video. So back to four K and maybe
30 frames per second. So to save us going in and
making all those tweaks and adjustments for all the
different settings all the time, we can just create presets. And this is where
we do that. We can save a new preset here. We can import presets, and we can back them up.
We can export them too. If you are using extra camera
controls and things like a Bluetooth remote to start
and stop the recording, this is where we
can enable that. Remote camera control, I think, is an amazing feature that
I will cover later in this. This is my absolute favorite
feature in this app. So we will be going
through that in more detail a little later on. But those are the key settings. Again, when you
have some time, go through and just have a play around and customize
this up for you.
5. Setting Up Your Shot: Now we want to come back
to the camera area here and we're going to get our shot looking the way that we want. We're going to get this all
set up and ready to shoot. And we can see now
that we do have our battery indicator up
here from us enabling that. Again, we can customize
all this stuff up. So right now, we can come up to the top left hand corner
here where it says lens. We can tap on that or we can come to a little camera
lens button here, and we can choose our lens. So you can see I can easily switch to the ultra wide angle, we've got all the different
options I have in this specific phone to
choose our camera lens. Likewise, we've also got front camera down
here somewhere heat. We just want to pick first off the lens that we want to use. I'm going to leave this as 24. Now, there is also Zoom
functionality in here. You see this slider here. We can just tap and pull down to maybe zoom in a
little bit if we'd like to. And there's also a
function in here. If we want to have a slow
zoom in or a slow zoom out, we can just tap down
the bottom here. We can choose the duration
that we want this to happen. So right now, it's
set to 1 second. And let's just choose
four times here. And you'll see that
it does that Zoom to four times over that 1 second. Likewise, if we come
back to one times, it's going to slow Zoom out for us back to that
one times Zoom. So this is something
you can actually do while you're
recording as well. So if you do need to
have zoom in or out, we can do that without just jumping straight to the
different camera lenses. Alright, so lock down
our camera lens. We've already picked
our four K 16 by nine. We did that in the
settings earlier. But next, you want to lock
down our frames per second. Now, this one here really
is personal preference. There are some
standard frame rates that we can you see
the default here, 24 frames per second. We've got options 25. Depending on your phone, you
might have options right up to 60 for your
regular camera. But you can see for
this latest iPhone, I can actually go up to four K 120 with my current settings. So that would be a slow motion
clip that we would create. But as for regular talking head videos like
I'm creating here, presenting to you guys and the standards are
24, 25, and 30. 24 is normally like a cinematic frame rate
that you would have. So a lot of your
movies and stuff are shot at 24 frames per second. 25 is a common
frame rate used in broadcast productions in places like Australia and Europe, and it's normally
what I leave mindset to for all of our
YouTube content. I normally shoot them at 25. But 30 is a default frame rate for lots of other places
like Canada, like USA. And it's also the
default setting in the built in iPhone and
Android camera apps, too. So for right now, I'm
going to leave this at 30 frames per second. From there, we want to
pick out shutter speed, which is this next
one across here. Now, right now, this
is set on auto. So you'll see that as I
bring in something here, it's changing the light. So the camera is making
an adjustment here to adjust that shutter speed and
some of the other settings, you'll see them all across the
top, just changing, right? So we're on full
auto here at this. The downside with full auto is that when something
like this happens, maybe someone walks
through your shot, maybe a cloud comes over, it's going to change the color. It's going to change
the brightness. And the shutesp will be
one of the first ones I'll be locking down to make sure
that that's not changing. So it's not changing
the motion of our shot. It's going to look really
smooth 1 minute and really stilted or
jittery the next. And the general rule of thumb is that you want
to make sure that you're doubling your
frames per second. So we chose 30 here, 30 frames per second. We want to lock this to 1/60, so we're doubling
it to get the 60. So it's just a matter of
grabbing this slider here. And you'll see that as
we dial this around, it is changing all of
the other settings to compensate for this
change that we're making. But let's lock this in at 1/60. So we can see that we've
made that adjustment, but if we want to lock it there, we need to hit the little
padlock button here, so that setting is
not going to change. So we can now see that
this is locked at a quick glance because it
has the padlock on it. So now if I bring this in, we'll get changes to some of the other settings and
things at the top, but our shutter speed is
not changing from that. So that would be the absolute
minimum that I would be locking down for really any type of video I'm going to be making. And this is going to make
sure obviously we've got the right camera lens
selected and that our motion, our frames per second, and our shutter speed and
how this is going to look is all set correctly and isn't going to change
throughout our shop. And it leaves things like
the focusing and a lot of the brightness and everything
on auto here at this point. So it's almost like
a hybrid mode. Some things are lockdown,
some things are on auto. And I love that we have
that functionality, that flexibility
here to do that. But at least at this
point, I'll be making sure that what
we've done so far, the frames per second and the shutter speed are done
no matter what I'm shooting. Depending on what you're
creating from here, whether you're going
to be moving around or whether it's going
to be a static shot, whether light's going to change, you might choose to lock down some extra things like the
brightness and the focus, or you might choose to leave
it full auto at this point. But in terms of starting
to lock things down, we could just come across
to the ISO setting here, to the white balance
and obviously to focus as well and lock those
things down manually. Or there is also quick access
to some of this stuff, too. So if we just tap on the screen on the areas
that we want to focus for, you can see he's
going to do like an auto focus adjustment. So now it's focused
on this leaf. If I press on the books up here, it's going to
automatically adjust for. We can also tap and hold to focus and to lock down
our exposure as well. So if I tap and hold here, you'll see it says A E, so auto exposure, AF
auto focus, lock. So when I let go here, now our auto exposure, so the brightness and the
focus is locked at this point. So if I bring anything
into the shot, nothing else is going
to change here. And then to undo that or to
disable just tap off it, and it's going to remove
that setting for us. So again, it's just a matter of tapping and pressing
and holding on the area that you
want that exposure and the focus locked from, and it's going to
lock that for you. How you can lock
down each one of the individual settings,
but know that again, you can have a hybrid where some things are lockdown
and others things aren't. So the next then brightness
setting here that we would lock down manually
would be your ISO. And this is one of
those things where the lower the number
the darker the shot, but also the less
digital noise or green. The higher the number,
the brighter the shot, but potential more
digital noise and green. So let's try 800, maybe 400 here at this point. So we've got presets here
that we can just jump to or we've got this individual slider here where we can just drag it, and we've got more control
over some of these as well. Now, it is pretty dark in here. Maybe we'll leave
this here at 800. But to help with
this, this is where we can bring up some
of those guides. So if we come over here
to our guides at the top, then we could choose
our zebra light. We can see right now this
is set to 90% brightness. If we increase this to 95%, then we're seeing that we've
now got this area here, the light in the background
that it's saying this might be too bright
or it's at 95%. So we can use this
when we're adjusting our settings if we have
these guides on to see where should we be actually
setting these so things aren't too bright so that they're overexposed
and looking bad. Let's come back
over here and let's turn that off and back out of. To lock down the focus,
that's the next one here. So if we press on this, then again, we've
got auto focus. So it's going to make
automatic adjustments for us. We can turn off auto, and then we're onto
a manual focus here, which we can again do with this slider or we can
turn it onto auto, so it's going to
automatically make that adjustment for us. Okay, looks like it's
in focus about there. We can then turn it off and it's going to hold
it at that point. It's going to lock
it there for us. And this is where, again, there
is a focus peaking guide. If we come back to guides, the second one down here is to help you with
your focusing. Now, it might be hard to
see this on the recording, but we can see if
we come down here. The areas with the red
outline are in focus. And you'll see that as
I'm adjusting this focus, that red area is
going to change. So anything outlined
in red is in focus. Cool. Let's go and
turn this back off, and let's go back to
our focus area here. Let's make sure
that was all good. So let's go back to
auto so it doesn't auto adjustment for us, and
let's turn it off. Now we've locked
it at that point. Or now that we're off auto, we could just tap on an area
that we want to focus on, and it's going to make
that adjustment for us. Now the last
adjustment here that I would suggest that
you're locking down, especially if you want
everything on full manual and not going to change would
be the white balance. So we've got white
balance here if we press on there are presets here. So right now, we're on auto. If I disable that, then I
kick it into manual mode, but we also have
these presets here for different types of
lighting scenarios. So there's incandescent light, fluoro light, full
sun, cloudy day. But ideally, here you
want to be matching this setting to the lights that are in the room
if you're inside. Picking one of the presets here for outside if that's
where you are. Again, we could get
an automatic reading, which if we kick this
back to Auto, right now, it's suggesting 4,700 Kelvin. We could then, if we
wanted to lock it, press the button
to disable auto. And that's now set
to that point. But if we want to
lock it, we can press the little
padlock up here. And now we know
that is not going to change throughout our shot. Now, very similar to
the white balance, I guess, in a lot of regards, because it's talking about
the different color or the overall look
would be the tint. This is another area that you've probably seen this
changing a little bit. So it's on nine now. If I put my hand
in, maybe that will change a little bit from
an automatic adjustment. No, making a layer out may be the only other thing that
might change a little bit. Personally, it's not
something that's going to be jarring and changing significantly
while you're shooting. So I'm normally okay with
just leaving this tint one here on auto because it's really just making
minor adjustments. But if we do want
to lock this down, then again, we can tap on it. We can get an automatic
reading here. It's going to be very close because it was on auto before. If I make adjustments here, it's just kind of adding more pink or more green
into our shot. But again, it's pretty subtle
but if we want to lock it, we can get this
set where we want, and then we can press
the padlock button here, and we know again
that this now isn't going to change while
we're shooting. Now, I know that might
seem like a lot, but that is a great
example of now that we have everything
set up ready to go, we can save this as a preset. So we can come down
here to settings. We can then go over
to presets and we could save a new preset
for all of those settings. So we could call it JB.
And we now have a preset. Then whenever we come in
here and select this, it's going to bring up all of those settings
exactly as we had it, they're ready for us to go. You are going to be moving
around in your shot. There are some settings here in terms of the stabilization. So the default is that it's on, and it's just on standard level. We can go to cinematic and
extreme stabilization as well, depending, again, on the
phone that you're using, or we can turn off
stabilization. So if you're
shooting on a tripod and it's not going
to be moving around, you could turn this off here. But really, those are the key settings
here that we want to make sure are all good
before we hit record. Again, we want to just
take a look at this and make sure is audio
actually coming through? Do we need to adjust anything, volume levels or anything? Again, at a quick
glance to make sure everything is all good in
terms of our settings, battery level and everything. Now, to start and stop our recording is obviously
this red button here. I'll press this now. I
hope it doesn't screw up the recording that
I'm doing for you guys. But you'll see straightaway
that we do have the red indicator
here that we are recording that we read
down the bottom here, meaning it's recording as well. And I'm getting an
error here because I'm screen recording while recording as well for you guys,
for this video. So you normally wouldn't see the exclamation mark in here, but it's quick and easy to see that we are actually
recording. That's huge. You don't want to be
recording and then later find out that you
weren't all been there. I know I've been
there multiple times. So I love that everything just lights up red for that reason.
6. Remote Control & Monitoring: Probably my favorite feature in this Blackmagic Camera App
is the remote control, the remote monitoring
functionality. So this is great if you're
going to be recording videos by yourself or you want
to do multi camera shoot. This is huge. So
we're going to come over to settings, and
let's get this setup. We're going to scroll down
to remote camera control, and then we want to
enable this feature. So this is going to allow us to share main phone screen
that we're using to record. It's going to allow us to
share that and control it and monitor it
from another iPhone, from an Android device, from an iPad or a tablet. But also what I love
most about this is in the recent iPad update, we can now on a MAC. If you've got a Mac computer, install the iPad
version of this, too. Now, at the time of recording, I don't know if
there's a workaround to get this working on Windows. Maybe you could use
something like Blue stacks, an Android emulator and install the Blackmagic
Camera App on there. I haven't tested it.
I'm not sure yet. But I absolutely love
for me that I can now do this on the computer as well without needing to
have another device. So to do this, though, again, we enable remote camera control, and it says, use this iPhone as they're going to
choose a remote camera. So this is, again, setting
up our primary camera. That's going to be
a remote camera. Is going to ask us
to give the camera a name I've just got
the letter A in here. I would suggest you giving
it a better name than this, especially if you're
running multiple cameras. If it's only one
that you're using, then A is probably fine. You need to set a
password here as well. I've got a little
A super secure. Not really. Again, I recommend you put something
better than that in. And it says here that
this camera is available for control and monitor is the setting that
I have it for. So not only can I control
it, I can also monitor. You could also have one setup. Again, if you've got
multiple phones recording, you could set them
up so they just monitor if you wanted to. Let's go back out of
this. You can see there's some more advanced settings
here like sync recording, copy the clips to
the primary device. So sync clips to the
controller after recording, hiding the remote camera video, fee dimming the recording. Again, these are
more advanced things if you want those
things on enable them. But for most people, and I
guess my use case as well, I don't need or
use these things. Now that we have
this enabled, again, that's the main function here at the top, is to turn that on. Come back to camera. Now we can validate that
this is on by coming over to the three little dots here, the little hidden menu. And we can see that
this option here now for remote
control, it's enabled. It's not graded out anymore. So this shows us
that this is on. So now what we're going to
do is go ahead and open up the Blackmagic Camera App
on our second device, our iPad, Android
device, another iPhone. Or, in my case,
here, I'm going to open this up on my MAC. Because I've installed
the iPad version from the App store
directly onto my Mac. So we'll see that now that
this is opened up here, it's very much the same app
that it is everywhere else. So right now this is using
my Mac camera app here. I've got the same
setting, same layout. And really, I could
just use this to record my Mac camera
here if I wanted to. But the power really is in
this remote control function. I can come over to settings, and I can come down to
remote Camera control. And again, I want to have
this enabled here for this, and we're going to
choose use this iPad, even though it's a
Mac, it thinks it's an iPad as a controller. So I don't want to
use this as a camera. I want to use this
as a controller. We do need to set that. Then we come back
to camera back to this little hidden menu
here, the three little dots. And let's tap on the
remote button here. So now it's going to show
us all the devices that are on our same local network, so same Wi Fi that have this camera app installed and have that remote
functionality enabled. So you can actually have
quite a few cameras enabled. Here we have this Mac, but we also have our iPhone. So I'm going to enable our
iPhone with our letter A here. The first time you do
this, it'll prompt you to put in the password
for that as well. And very quickly, that has now brought up the
feed from our iPhone. So we've got the exact same
settings and everything here. We can see it's all
set up good to go. But not only are we monitoring
this and can see it all, then you can see it's
close to real time. There's a slight delay, but
we can also change stuff. We can customize this up. So if we wanted to make
adjustments to our camera lens, we can tap on camera lens, and let's say we wanted to switch to the
hundred millimeter. Or the 48 millimeter lens. We have full control over
this from a remote device. Again, I just love
that we're able to do this from the desktop
now on a Mac. And obviously, then, given that we've got
full access to it, we can start and stop
our recording, as well. But where I think
this is an absolute game changer is if
you're creating videos by yourself using the main camera on the
back of your device, and you want to make sure
that you're framed right, that you are in shot,
that you're in focus, and all of that
stuff, we can now do that and monitor it and control
it from another device. My Wi Fi isn't great here, so you'll see that it
is a little laggy. But if I was
positioned closer to the router or I had a repeater
or something in this room, I'm a fair way from it,
then it works perfectly. But this also is
a game changer if you're going to be
using a teleprompter, as well, because the phone
will be put behind the unit, especially if you're
sitting in front of it, to be able to
remotely control and customize everything
up and see that you actually are recording and see that there's no issues
that your audio is working, all of that stuff, that is huge for content creation,
solo content creation. So well played like magic, I think that is an
amazing feature.
7. File Management: Now, in terms of media
or file management, once you're done
with your recording, we can access all of that
here on the media page, depending on the settings
that you picked earlier. So actually, I'll jump
back to settings, and if we go to media here, then we can choose here where we want our
clips to be saved. So the default is saving
directly into the app. We can also have it saved to your photo library as well or a specific file or
folder on your device. So with the default
settings here in App only once we're done rec all our files are going
to be in this media area, so we can see our
recordings here. Now, we can play these back
so we can select a clip. We can play it back or we can tap through to see what
actually happens in it. We can then view all
the info for that clip. So what were the settings
that we used, the date, time, all of that stuff, all the metadata for that clip. We can access all of
can share that clip, so we could directly
share it to another app, to a specific person using your phones default
sharing capabilities. Or we also have the
option here to save it to your photos or to save
it to files as well. And we can also do this
for multiple files. If we come back here, there's an option here to multi select, and we can just pick
the clips that we want, and then we can
bulk share or save to a certain area on our
device from there is also the option if you do create a Blackmagic Cloud account and purchase storage
with Blackmagic, that you can actually back
up directly to the Cloud. And this is handy not only
as an offsite backup. This would be handy
if you are someone on the more pro end of
things who is using DaVinci Resolve to edit
your videos down because you could use this as a
transfer video files, the moment you shoot
them, they can start uploading to the
Blackmagic Cloud, and then they can be
streamed and automatically downloaded to your desktop or your editing
computer, as well. So the whole integration
across the Blackmagic devices and software and stuff is awesome if that's something
that you're looking at, again, if you're further along, the more advanced end of things. But again, now that
you're up to speed with the Blackmagic
Camera App from us running through everything
here in this tutorial, I would suggest that
you now coming back and going through these settings again and starting to
have a play around. Again, you can't break
anything in here, have a play around and see. Now that you're across it all, what else might you
like to customize? So it could be things like
on the monitor screen. What do we actually want to see? Do I want to have
my audio meters? Do I want to display a histogram how do I actually want to
have it set up for me, for my videos, for
my recording style, so that it is fast and easy. It's now that you're
up to speed with the Blackmagic Camera App. First off, I want to
wish you the best in all the videos you
create from here, feel free to post an update, a screenshot or a link to
one of your videos you've created in the projects
area here on Skillshare. And my ask or my request for you is if you
liked this training, if there was value
in it for you, if it helped you, please leave a comment,
please leave a review. It really makes a
huge difference for the exposure and the
reach on the platform here so that we can reach
more people and help more people create
better videos easier. Thank you very
much, and I'll see you in the next one. Yes.
Justin Brown, Primal Video
