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1. Intro: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the iPhone videography
master class. If you've ever
felt like you need expensive gear to shoot
beautiful videos, this course is going to change that perspective completely. Whether you're a
content creator, a small business owner, or someone who just
loves shooting videos, this course will show
you how you can shoot amazing looking videos
using just your iPhone. I've been using both
my iPhone and my DSL. For my video projects. And honestly, many times I've chosen the iPhone
because of how quick, convenient and surprisingly
cinematic it can be. Here's what you learn
in this course. The best iPhone camera
settings for video, how to use natural light
to your advantage, cinematic composition
and camera movement. DIY stabilization tips without expensive gear, and finally, how to shoot smooth, engaging videos that feel
intentional and beautiful. Most people shoot
videos that are shaky, overexposed, and feel pretty
flat. That's not your fault. Your iPhone does a lot
of things automatically, and without the
right techniques, your videos will not stand out. Whether you're filming
for Instagram reels, YouTube, shorts or your
small handmade business, this course will give you
the basic fundamentals of recording beautiful and
professional looking videos. So grab your iPhone, clean your camera lens, and get ready to level up your iPhone video.
Let's get started.
2. Understanding iPhone's Camera for Video: Come to Module
one, understanding your iPhone camera for video. Before we talk about
cinematic shots and creative camera movement, we need to understand how
your iPhone camera works and how to get the
best out of it. Even the best techniques
won't help if you're using the wrong settings.
So let's dive in. First, open your
iPhone settings, scroll down to camera, click on record
video at the top, and here you'll see the
resolution options. ATP at 30 frames
per second is going to be the default
for many iPhones, and there are four K options as well. Let's break that down. Resolution is how sharp
your video looks. Four K is higher quality
and bigger file size. It is highly recommended to
shoot all your content in four K because then you can even crop your
videos later on. Ten ATP is still okay
for social media, but you won't be able to
crop your videos at all, and generally ten ATP videos look a lot worse
than four K videos. I never recommend
ten ATP to anyone, and the frame rate, the frames per second FPS is
how smooth the motion feels. How many frames are there
in 1 second of the video? 24 frames per second exist here. First, let's enable
P formats as well. So you enable 25
frames per second, and I'll tell you
how useful it is. 24 frames per second is
used for cinematic feel. It is used in movies and shows. 25 frames per second
is ideal if you're shooting under fluorescent
lights to avoid flickering, especially in countries
that use 50 hertz power. For example, Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. 30 frames per second is your
natural and standard videos. Most of what you see on social media is 30
frames per second. 60 FPS is for smoother motion. It is great for slow
motion or action shots. So let me demo you how
to use the P format. First, you should always and
always shoot four K. Now, let me show you how useful 25
frames per second truly is. Go to homescreen
fire up the camera, and let's open up the video. Now you see the flickering, the insane amount
of flickering there is. And here, it's not. But here, the
flickering is wild. So what I want you
to do is switch over to 25 frames per second, and the flickering is
completely gone from the shot. If you switch over to 30, it is still flickering and 60, it's flickering even faster. At 25 frames per second,
there is zero flicker. So this is the use of P format. Again, most lights flicker like this, most external lights, anyway, I'm personally using a ring light and basic
fluorescent light. So I personally shoot at four k, 25 frames per second. All the indoor videos and outdoor videos
are shot at four k, 30 frames per second. But an extra tiny
bit of smoothness, I rarely shoot 60 frames per
second. Let's head down. HDR videos. You should never shoot HDR videos because
color grading them is a pain. Using them anywhere is pain. They generally look terrible
on most social medias. Auto FPS is it reduces the frame rate to improve low light video and
optimize file size. What it does is, for example, you're shooting four K 60 FPS in low light and the phone is
unable to shoot properly, and it just bumps
your FPS down to 30. Log camera is it does not automatically switches cameras
while recording a video. You should enable
that. I haven't because I rarely switch
cameras or something. Lock white balance is the
most important setting. If you're using the default camera app, let me demonstrate. Let's disable Lock white
balance and see what happens. Fire up the camera app, go to video, and here are some of our objects.
This is the mouse. This is a beautiful
artificial flowers, and this is a wooden
cardboard box and our laptop. Let's demonstrate. If I go close here and look
at how blue the shot gets. The thing is the box
is a very warm color. So the iPhone is
trying to balance the warm color by
adding a lot of blues. So let's move the camera
to the flowers and look at how it switches and
let's do this again. Ultimately, what happens is, if you're recording
cinematic videos, white balance changing between your shot is going
to look terrible. So what I want you to do
is lock your white balance and start your video at the
proper white balance point. For example, if I want
to record this movement, I'm not going to start the
video here because then it's going to record a blue, blue looking video, and it
looks terrible, ultimately. What I'm going to do is start recording here because it looks the best in
terms of color. Then I'm going to
go to the box and record a shot like this. And this is going to
create a huge effect. I wish there was a
slider where we could adjust the white balance, but there isn't in the
default camera app. You can also control your exposure and focus.
Let me show you how. You just tap on your subject, and you can lower your exposure
like this by dragging it down and you can increase
your exposure by swiping up. Don't go crazy with
it is all I'm saying. And you can tap and
hold on your subject, and it says, AEA F lock, auto exposure, auto focus lock. Now you can drag your
camera around anywhere, but it won't budge because
the focus has been fixed. Now, since we have
discussed pal formats, HDR videos, lock white balance is going to be the most
important setting. Let's get to the back.
Record slow motion. Slow motion, you can
select anything. It doesn't really matter. I personally never use actual slow mo videos because the quality
is questionable. On my phone, it's okay at best. On modern iPhones,
it is a lot better. Record sound. It should
always be stereo. Steeosund fires from both
speakers differently. For example, if you're
using headphones, the sound from the left is going to be from
the left channel, the sound from the
right is going to be from the right channel. It will be perfectly
optimized sound. Monosund does not work in
today's time properly. Formats. This is another
important thing. You can shoot high
efficiency formats and most compatible formats, there are two options. If you have a MAC, first, let's talk
about the difference. Most compatible format
is the format that works with Windows and
non Apple devices. High efficiency format
generally doesn't work well with
Windows and Linux. So if you have a MacBook, you can shoot high
efficiency format. The files are generally smaller. So there is a huge
advantage here. Otherwise, I don't
see much advantage using high efficiency formats, and there are some frame rates that are logged with
high efficiency, for example, 460
frames per second. You can only shoot data in
high efficiency format. And if you're using a Windows laptop or a Windows machine, please keep data in mind. Grid. You should always enable
the rule of thirds grid so you know how
you're composing the shot. Level shows you how tilted your phone is
to the real life. It is a fantastic options. Mirror front camera. If you use your front camera a lot for the video,
always enable it. View outside the frame
is a useless option, by the way, it does
not look good. You should always view what's
inside the frame first. Now, let's head over to the camera again to see
some remaining options. Just click on it
and select video. Now, you can record from wide
angle, from normal camera. You can also swipe up to
see the flash setting. In the video, if you're
recording video, it should always be off. It should never be on auto. And this is your
exposure setting. Again, don't go crazy with there aren't many
settings, to be honest here. Modern iPhones come with censor shift stabilization
and action mode, which is going to be your
iPhone 13 and above. Censorship stabilization
is iPhone 13 and above, and action mode is
iPhone 14 and above. They both help in recording
ultra stable videos. They help a lot, but
they're not magic. You still need to be as
stable as you possibly can. Now let's talk about
some limitations. Low light performance
is sub par at best. Zooming in digitally
reduces the video quality. Get closer instead
of zooming in. This is even worse
for video than photo because the quality
difference is dramatic. Auto exposure in bright
sunlight can be wonky at times. Micro shakes, especially if you're using an older iPhones, your slight hand movement can still be felt
within your videos. Understanding these will help you avoid frustrations later.
3. Framing, Composition & Movement: Welcome to Module two, framing, composition,
and movement. This is where your
videos start to feel intentional and cinematic. First, let's talk about
some composition rules. First rule is going to
be the rule of thirds. This creates balance and
draws your viewer's eye. Ideally, for physical subjects
and things like that, you keep them on one of the
four intersections of lines, or you keep the horizon line on either the top line
or the bottom line. Leading lines. Look for road, bridges or any of
the diverging lines that draw your viewer's eye towards the subject
or into the scene. Symmetry and centered shots. Sometimes breaking the rule of thirds works wonders
for your shot. Think reflection,
doorways or anything to either frame your subject or create reflection or
something like that. Something that can
create balance, framing. You can frame your subject
using multiple elements. It almost always look
cinematic and very beautiful. Record both horizontal
and vertical videos. That way, you can repurpose your content for
multiple platforms. Now, let's talk about
camera movement. Sometimes a static
shot is enough, especially when
there is movement within your shot
through the subject, or the background
is pretty dynamic. But if you want to add motion, do it smoothly, panning, slowly turning left or right. Sliding, moving sideways
while staying parallel. Push in, pull out, walking slowly
forward or backward. Tilt angling the
phone up and down. You also don't have to shoot all your videos from eye level. You can use some
creativity here. Low angle makes your subject look bigger and
larger than life. Top down shots are great
for food and flat lays. Over the shoulder shot is also pretty good for
storytelling purposes. Angles affect emotions. So try to shoot from
multiple angles to see what works
and what doesn't. Want to make your
shots more cinematic, add layers to your frame. Shoot through
something. It can be a grass or a mesh or leaves
or something like that. It creates more depth. Use reflections in mirrors,
puddles, and glasses. Create more depth by dividing your shot in foreground,
midground, and background. This will make your video
feel three dimensional.
4. Using Natural Light: Welcome to module number
three using natural light. Lighting is everything. You can shoot with
the latest and the greatest iPhone or the
most expensive camera. But if your lighting
is terrible, your videos will look
terrible as well. Let's start with the
golden R. That beautiful soft light right after
sunrise or before the sunset. This is the best time
to shoot videos. Skin tones look warmer, shadows look soft, and
everything looks cinematic. If you can plan your shoots
around the golden hour. It will make a huge
difference in your videos. You don't even have to shoot exactly at the time
of sunset or sunrise. What you can do is, for example, sunset happens at 6:00
P.M. You can start shooting around 4:30 P.M.
Or something like that. The light will still be soft. Now, the midday sun, it's not so friendly. It creates harsh shadows
under the eyes and nose, especially if you're
shooting people. If you have to shoot at noon, find shade under a
tree, under a building. Turn your subject
away from the sun. Use your phone's
exposure slider to bring some details back
into the highlights. Now, let's talk about
the direction of light from where the light
is hitting your subject. First is the front light. In this particular shot, the light is right behind you as the videographer and is
hitting your subject directly. It can look very,
very flat, sidelight. Light is coming
in from the side. It can add a lot of depth and dimension to the
shot. Back light. Light is behind your subject. This can look beautiful
if exposed correctly. It happens usually around
sunset or sunrise. It can also cause silhouettes. Cloudy days are great, too. The clouds act like
giant soft box, diffusing the light evenly. If you're filming a person, a product or a landscape, clouds will help you avoid
harsh direct sunlight. One of the easiest tricks to
use light is move your feet. Natural light is all
about positioning. You can also use your hand to
figure out what will work. For example, what I do is
just see your hand like this, rotate your hand and observe closely how
the light hits it. You don't want direct
sunlight on top of your palm. What you want is three
dimensional lighting and you will slowly observe, for example, this
here looks the best. It's fantastic.
Again, to me, to you, it looks average, but from
here, it looks fantastic. You can use this test to figure out how to shoot better
videos of people and objects. Light can make or
break your videos, but once you start
noticing and observing it, you will get better at.
5. How to Shoot Stable Videos & Basics of Audio: Come to model number
four, stabilization. Shaky footage can
ruin a great shot. But here's the good news. You don't need latest and the greatest to shoot
super stable videos. Your iPhone does a lot
of the heavy lifting. And with the right technique,
you can do even more. Let's start with the most
important stabilizer that you have your body. A tip I have is going to be about keeping your elbows
close to your body. This is related to
video stabilization. So what a lot of people do
is they shoot like this, keep their hands out, elbows, the entire arm is in the air. There is no contact. The
thing is that it's very difficult to keep your hand stable when you're holding
your phone like this. So what I want you to do is keep your elbows
close to your body and hold your phone like this so you can pan very smoothly. The movement is going to be
very smooth and uniform. Also another thing I
have I want to add here is when you're holding the phone like this
in your recording video, hold your breath for a
couple seconds if you can. This adds to the stability. Now, another thing
about the walking, don't if you're recording a walking shot or a Zoom in Zoom out or
something like that, and you need to walk
to take that shot. Don't walk straight like this. Again, I will show you
a better demonstration, but don't walk
straight like this. What you need to do is you
need to bend your knees and walk on your feet
slowly and steadily. If you keep your knees straight, this is going to add a lot
of jerk within the video. You can also use slow
motion to add smoothness. Should you get a gimble? A gimble gives you
buttery smooth footage, but they are not
always necessary, as you can add stabilization using different
softwares as well. Your iPhone already has
incredible video stabilization, and if you're looking for more, you can get the gimble, but I suggest you to learn
to shoot handheld first. You'll develop better
control and technique. Add a gimble later only
if your content needs it. Now, let's discuss some options. On how you can stabilize
your iPhone videos for free. Option number one is I movie, but only on Mac, because the IOS version does not offer video
stabilization. All you have to do is
import your video into Mac and then I movie and
stabilize the video. Option number two is DaVinci Resolve it works on
both Mac OS and Windows. This is a pro level software, but it's absolutely free. Even Hollywood uses this
particular software, so you can stabilize your videos for free using this software. Option number three
is Google Photos, but only on Android. Import your video in the Google Photos on
an Android phone, and all you have to
do is click on Edit, and there is the stabilization
button right there. If you're using
iPhone 14 or above, your phone already has
incredible stabilization mode by the name of action Mode. Welcome to module number five, Audio Basics for video. Good visuals grab attention, but good audio, that's what
keeps people watching. Whether you're
filming a voiceover, an interview or
an ambient sound, audio is just as
important as the video. Let's explore how to get
the best possible sound, even if you're using
just your iPhone. The iPhone mic has limitations. It works, but it's not great in windy or
noisy environment. It picks up background
noise easily, and if the mic is
far from your mouth, it results in echo or distant
sound, but don't worry. You can still get clear
audio from a few tweaks. Get close to the mic ideally
within arm's length reach. Choose a quiet environment
for recording a video. Rooms with carpets and curtains, and if the room is
filled up properly, it will result in less echo. Turn off any fans, air conditioner,
or fridge nearby. You're outdoor, try to record in a sheltered space with no wind. Speak towards your camera
mic and not sideways. It will result in
much better audio. Finally, let's talk
about ambient sound. Finally, don't forget
to add ambient sound, whether it's birds
in the background, the hustle of a marketplace, waterfall sounds or footsteps. These sounds add
realism to your videos. They immerse your
viewers into the moment. Even if you're recording
a silent clip, stop and record ten to 15
seconds of ambient sound using just your iPhone to layer it under your video
using any software. Many people download and use
these sound effects from other places like YouTube or Epidemic Sound or
some place like that. If you want professional
sounding audio, consider getting a
small external mic. One great option is
Bluetooth microphones. You can also get Lapel
microphone for very cheap. However, I think they
add a lot of bulk, and you have to deal with a lot of wires
and stuff like that. I'm using a Bluetooth
microphone. There is a transmitter
connected on my iPhone, and this is the microphone
that I personally prefer. It's not exactly super cheap. I think I bought this
personally for $25. I bought this for $25, and I think it's doing a wonderful job of
recording audio. These microphones are especially useful if you're
shooting outdoors. You're far from the camera, or you want to reduce the background noise
and isolate your voice.
6. Final Tips: Now let's talk about
some final tips I have to record better videos. Practice over perfection. Don't stress about getting
everything perfect right away. The more you shoot, the
more your intuition, eye for light and camera
control gets better. Even profil makers have to take dozens of shots to get
the version they love. So don't be afraid
to experiment. Film in different conditions. Shoot in all types of light
conditions, the golden light, the harsh light, noon evening, night, understand
how the light works. The more you shoot,
the faster you recognize what works.
Clean your lens. It may sound basic, but smudges can ruin a
perfect looking video. Always wipe the lens with a microfiber cloth
before you hit record. Smudges can make your video look extremely faded and flat. Use airplane mode. Avoid interruptions
in your video. By putting your phone
in flight mode. This is especially true
if you're shooting an interview or a proper voiceover or
something like that, because you don't want to
ruin your perfect take. Check storage and battery. Video heats up insane amount of storage and drains
battery rapidly. Please ensure you have enough of both before leaving
out to shoot. Include variety of shots. You can take many
different types of shots, for example, wide shots, medium shots and
close ups to make your video and B roll
feel more dynamic.
7. Best Video Recording App for iPhone?: A while back, Apple
released Final Cut camera. It brings pro level tools
directly to your iPhone, giving you manual
control over exposure, focus, frame rate,
ISO, and more. In this module, I'll
show you how to use it. If you've ever felt limited by the default
iPhone camera app, Final Cut camera
is your solution. Let's open up the app. Here it is, and you're
greeted by this. Let's open the windows as well, so more light comes in. Let's remove the mouse here, and let's place it here. And this is the background to
show you how blurry it is. Now, starting from the top left, if you click on this icon, it is the live multicam to record with four
devices at once. It is a final cut Pro feature. Since I'm not using any MAC, I am unable to show you this
feature. Click on Not now. And if you click on
the top middle, HEVC. It is the codec. This is
the only codec I have. And if you're using
an iPhone pro model, you will get log here. So you can shoot log
videos which are used by professional
videographers, so they can edit
the video later. And the second is SDR and HDR. Always shoot SDR. Four K, again, we have already discussed you
will always, always, always, you should shoot
four K. Frames per second, there are all these options. If you're shooting under
fluorescent lights, you should use 25 or 50. This top left timer
is 23 minutes, which means I can
record 23 minutes of four K footage on this phone based on the
storage I have left. This right is the sound
that is being captured, and the green bar
shows the sound. If you click on the
magnifying button, it is zooming in. And zooming out. I like how smooth that is. And if you click on
the 26 millimeter, you can shift to the
wide angle lens, and you can zoom in from
the wide angle lens, you can zoom out, and
this is the layout. Ideally shoot with
the primary lens, and generally, the stabilization will be a lot better on the wide
angle lens, generally. Now this lower right button is for the front camera and
the red button is for record. Let's get out. If you click on this up
arrow or you swipe up, you get all the manual options. Starting from the left
is the white balance. If you click on it. It
says auto on the right. You click on it, and there are all these options if you're shooting in daylight, shadow, cloudy, tungsten,
fluorescent, flash. Ideally, you should not
set it up automatic. You should set it up manually. So if you go fixed, you click on fixed and change the white
balance to your liking. For example, this, I
think, looks horrible. But again, if you're
trying to show a evening look,
it fits the bill. If you're trying to
show a sunset look, reduce it a little, and it looks just make it
look more natural. Now, this is the natural
color, the proper white. If you go even left,
this is more blue. Again, you can make
artistic choice here or you can choose to stick
with the real colors. Now, click on the arrow
again and again and the plus minus button is going to be your shutter
speed and your ISO. Now let's talk about using that. If you click on the button on the right, it says automatic, so you just increase exposure
or decrease exposure, exactly like the IOS app. Now, let's set this up normally. Okay, and we will
set up manually. So let's go manual. Shutter speed is
100th of a second. Again, about shutter speed. What you need to keep in mind
is shutter speed should be double of your frames per second for the smoothest,
best looking video. So I'm shooting at 30
frames per second, so my shutter speed should be around 50 or 60
frames per second. Oh, we have 60, so let's shoot at 60. Now, ISO. You can set up your ISO anywhere for the
proper brightness. I think 40 works here. I think it looks nice at 100 and if this is the
script that we are having, and you can try a variety of ISO up and down to see what works. As for ISO, the higher ISO is the noisier
your footage gets. ISO think of ISO is how much light should
enter the camera. In low light, you will
keep a higher ISO. In broad daylight, you
will keep a lower ISO. Now, AF, let's click
on the AF button. This is your focus. As of right now, we're using
autofocus jumping around. You can also click
on the auto button here to switch to manual focus. To do something
creative with it, you can do something creative
as well here like this. This is your basic option. Again, you won't
use this generally, but it is for special
circumstances where you have to use manual focus. And another option is this mode where if
you're recording, again, this is not really
useful, to be honest. If you want to
record a landscape video or a portrait video, you just can lock it, for
example, portrait video. So even if you turn
your phone sideways, the video will still
be in portrait mode. The video will save
itself in portrait mode. I like keeping it unlocked so I don't have to check
that setting. Now, if you click on the
settings menu on the top right, and you can as
always, tap to focus. Now, if you click
on the top right, there are your preferences. Codec is you only have
one codec format. We talked about it. These are all generally the settings you
have available on the top, stabilization and
mirror friend camera. Ideally, you should always
mirror your friend camera, so it looks like real life
in the friend camera, especially if you do record
friend camera videos. And stabilization, I personally
enable it all the time. And you click on tools, there is grid overlay here exactly like the one we have
on the basic camera app. There is a level
indicator as well, and there is aspect ratio guide. This is unique bit. If you're trying to record
four is to three video, you only get the guide
on four is to three. Now let's go to the tools again aspect ratio, square
aspect ratio. So the rule of thirds
will end at in a square. Let's turn that off. There is overexposure indicator
and focus peaking. Again, these features are ideally only used by
actual professionals. So if you click on
overexposure indicator, now, if you increase the ISO. Now if you increase
the ISO slowly, all these red lines are the areas that have
lost any detail. These areas will
not have detail. Again, this setting is
useful if you're shooting in a super bright environment and you're trying
to set up manual, shutter speed and ISO, so you know what works. I'm trying to shoot
the brightest video without blowing out
the highlights. So 125 is too much. 80 is, I think, perfect, where I'm not
blowing out the highlights, but the video is bright enough. So that is the use of
over exposure indicator. I personally never use it. Next up is focus peaking. Focus peaking tells you the area of the video
dad is in focus. It is not entirely perfect
because if you see the red bottle at the back
has a couple of dots as well, but it is not in focus entirely. Now, if we click on the back, the front still
has a lot of dots. So it's not entirely perfect, but some people use that. I personally never use it. Now, audio. Now, you will
get multiple options here. I'm not using anything,
so there's no source. That is the camera app
that we talked about. The final cut camera is free, powerful, and built
for creators. And the best part,
it's made by Apple. I recommend using it for
a planned shoot where you want full control over the
look and feel of your footage. It's like unlocking manual mode on your DSLR right
on your phone. There is one thing that
I want you to know. If you're recording
a video with it, for example, let's record
a quick sample here. And it's save. And
if you go to home, that video will not show up
on your gallery by default. So what you have to do, it
will only show up in the app. So you click on the Gallery
button and you click on the Save button and
click Save Video. And you allow full access, and only now your video will
show up in the gallery, and you have to do that
every single time. For example, let's record another video of our
laptop this time and a simple camera
movement, and that's it. Now, if you go to your gallery, you will still not
see the video. Every video you record, you will have to save to your
gallery again and again.
8. Color Grading Videos on iPhone: Let's move into the
Apple Photos app, and we'll see how you can color grade your footage for free. Just click on the video, and this is a basic video that I recorded a
few years back. Again, I think this was
shot on the iPhone 12. Click on the Edit button. Pick any point that you'd like. I generally pick the midpoint
and click on adjust. Now, this is the auto button. If you click on it,
the video adjusts automatically based on what
the iPhone thinks looks good. I never do it. Generally,
the iPhone does not do a decent job of color
grading the video, I color corrects the video, and there is a huge difference. Disable that. Now the
next setting is exposure. How bright or dark
your video is. Let's I want to brighten
this particular video, and you can tap on the video
to see the before and after. There is highlights highlights control the bright
parts of your footage. So the sky here gets
bright or dark. So I'd like to regain
some details in the sky. So let's reduce the highlights, make the highlights darker. It brings back details. Next up is shadows. Shadows control the dark
areas of the image. If you increase the shadows and all the dark area of
the image gets bright, again, don't go
crazy with it ever. For this particular footage, I want to reduce it because I want it to feel more cinematic, more eerie, more dark,
and ultimately beautiful. Erie is not the word
we can use here. Just keep seeing the
original and edited. Contrast can make your
footage look crazy. And contrast is generally
where people go overboard, contrast
and saturation. Contrast edits the
brightest part of your footage and the
darkest parts of your footage, so increasing it a little
bit under control, and the before and after looks
quite different already. B brightness is basically
exposure but softer. So it makes the footage
tiny bit brighter. Black point. Black point
affects your shadows. How deep do you want
your shadows to be? Now, you can reduce it and you can increase
the black point. It increases contrast, and
I think it looks nice. Saturation affects the
entire color range. If you increase it like this, it looks like cartoon, don't
do that to your footage. I will not tinker
with saturation. Next up is vibrance. Vibrance affects the vibrance affects lower end of colors. Colors that are
not that popping. For example, if you
increase vibrance, again, because in this
particular video, all the colors are pretty dull, so it affected the entire image. Generally, vibrance does not affect highly saturated colors. For example, if you
take a photo of a red flower and you
increase vibrance on it, the surrounding colors increase
leaving the reds alone. I even use it to edit portrait photos because
when you increase vibrance, the skin tone generally
does not get affected. Now, increase the
vibrance a tiny bit. Warmth warmth is an
important setting. It means how warm or cold. What do you want your
footage to feel like? For example, in this
particular video, I want it to feel warm to make it look like a
beautiful sunrise. And if you see the
before and after, it is a dramatic,
dramatic change. What you can also do is you can create a filter sort of thing. You can increase
the warmth a lot and decrease the saturation. It's a very filter
Instagram look you can get but let's not do that here and saturation
back to where it was. And the warmth, I
want this to feel pretty warm and reduce the
saturation a tiny bit here. So it looks more like a sunrise. It evokes more emotion. Now, tint is whether you want your footage to be more towards pink or
more towards green. If you add to it, it adds pink or magenta
to the footage. And if you drag it to
the left, it adds green. Generally, we add green to
vintage, sort of a footage. I don't want this
to look old time. Again, here on this
particular footage, pink look absolutely mortifying. Green, I can add a little
bit for the vintage vibe. Sharpness, I never tinker around sharpness definition,
and noise reduction. Again, noise reduction makes
your footage insanely soft. Vignette, I never play
around with vignette. If you increase it like this, the borders of your
video gets darker. And if you reduce it, the
borders get brighter. So it can be used for
corrective purposes as well, because a lot of times when we are recording videos
with the iPhone, the borders are darker
than the center area. So you can minus
on the vignette. So you can reduce vignette here to bring some details back. I will not tinker
around the vignette, and let's just click on Done. And I think the footage
looks very, very pretty. Now there are multiple
applications on the app store that can
help you edit your videos. I personally don't use
any external application. You can watch YouTube videos, you can watch courses
on other applications. I personally use Apple
photos, and that's it. I forgot to show one bit. You can also click
filters this video. You can drag this around
to crop your video. For example, you only
want to crop till here, so you place it
here and the video and if you click on Done,
the video will be cropped. Now you can also crop
the video like this. If you click on the top left, you can mirror the video. It looks very weird, but
you can mirror the video. You can rotate the
video like this, and you can select the
aspect ratio here. Original freeform.
With freeform, you can select any aspect
ratio that you like. There's square,
there's wallpaper, there's ninus 16, four to five. And there are all sorts
of aspect ratios. But in Instagram reels, you always select nines to 16. On this particular,
I will select the original and just cancel
it into the app again. And in crop, you can also
adjust the perspective. And you can also play
the video again. I think perspective bits look very amateur and very
terrible generally. But it is an option
and it does exist. You can tinker around it, and if the perspective
feels wrong, you can edit the perspective
I think in this video, the perspective feels
right by default, so we will not make
any adjustments. Now, if you go to the filters, there are filters as well. Filters make your videos
look pretty beautiful. I love using filters
all the time. Silver tone is a
filter that I use a lot because I love the
black and white look. But since this is
a colorful video, I want I would like
to use vivid warm, vivid and vivid warm. Warm gives a more
warmer tone here. I will just reduce
the intensity a bit. And you click on Done, and I think the video
looks fantastic. It's a little dark,
but then again, it's a forest video, and I think it looks beautiful.
9. Outro: That brings us to the
end of this course. Thank you so much
for joining me. I hope this class
has shown you that your iPhone has an insane
amount of potential, even if you're recording
Instagram reels, YouTube shots, or creating basic videos for your
handmade business. Keep practicing. Don't wait for the perfect shot or set up. The more you film, the sharper
your creative eye gets. If you have enjoyed
this particular course, I have two other courses that
I'd like you to check out. Mobile travel photography for Instagram creators and
iPhone photo editing. All of these courses
are listed on my teacher profile on Skillshare or dim.
Thanks for watching.
Shubham Jain
