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1. About Apple Log Video and This Course: I got the 15 pro max. I've been playing around
with Apple Prores log. Hold on a second.
That looks better. As I was saying, I
got the 15 pro max. I've been playing
around with pro rez log and I have to say it
really is a game changer. We've of course had the
ability to shoot pres log for a while now using
third party apps like Filmic Pro and
Cinema P three. And with those you can
get great results. But now with Apple's
version of log to me, it's the closest log I've
seen to a traditional camera. As a matter of fact,
in my initial testing, I would say that
profile is very close or similar to airy log C. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not comparing this to
an airy camera, I'm just saying that
the log profile is very similar to that. And actually if you use
an airy correction, let you'll get a
decent result just dragging and dropping
it onto the files. All the footage here was shot handheld and in the
middle of the day, so not an ideal
time for lighting. I have to say though,
all things considered, the stuff looks
pretty darn good. One really interesting
aspect of shooting Apple Log is that
you can now record externally to an
SSD and more via the USBC port on the
iphone 15 Pro or Pro Max. This works in both
the native camera app or in third party apps alike from black magic and that's what we're going to focus
on in this course.
2. USB-C Recording to SSDs: This is a 1 Terabyte 15 pro max. And really I don't
need to go out to an external drive because I have quite a bit of
storage in my phone. But the reason you would
need to is if you want to shoot four K 60 pros. Because you can't do that internally in the native camera, now you can in some
third party apps. But we'll talk about the
native camera first. I'm using just a little
B script tripod here in the moment tripod
mount that safe in it. And this is a 15 pro max. All right, I'm in the
native camera now. I'm shooting Apple Pros log. And you can see that I've got 124 minutes, just over 2 hours. And this isn't 1 terabyte
phone that I think I have, maybe 75% free. That's pretty good. I really don't need to go to an external. However, if I try
to go to four K 30, I get 115 minutes.
It works fine. Four K 60 Pros not supported, you can only do that on
external storage device. I just happen to have a
five Samsung drive here. I don't think they
make these anymore. If they're old, they
now have the seven, which I have one of
those two, but I want to show that the older
ones work just fine. Now one thing you'll
notice, I just plug the drive in
and usually you get a little icon that says
USBC, it's not showing up. And that's because
you cannot record out externally except using
the Prores codec. Because I tried four K 60 a
second ago, it turned it off. Now I'll re engage it and
now you see USBC down here and I can get 76
minutes this drive. Now this is a 512 drive
and it's mostly empty. You can see that you
don't get a lot of media going out to an external. You got to have a lot of space. Again, my phone is 1 Terabyte
and I got 124 minutes. And if this was a 1 terabyte, I'd probably get about the same, or a little bit more because
it's a little emptier. If I go to four K 30, though, it drops
down to 61 minutes. If I go to four K 60,
which you can record, I only get 30
minutes of footage, you can see going out. You got to have a lot of
storage to make it work. But the nice thing
is it does work with these relatively
inexpensive SSD's. I think a T 7,500.12
gigabyte is about 80 bucks. Ssds are a nice solution. They're a little
bit bulky though. You would be hard
just to hang this off your phone and
walk around and shoot. But if you wanted
to velcro it to your tripod or to a
case or something, which I would recommend
using a case, probably I'm using an SSD, it becomes a good option, but it doesn't have
to just be an SSD.
3. USB-C Recording to CFast: You can also go out to
cards such as a fast card. Now this is a angel bird, it's a 512 gigabyte, it's 560 megabytes/second
so it's really fast. By the way, these
drives get up to 1,000 megabytes/second These are
really fast. Are these. I use this actually
with my red Moto, but now this card
is like 300 bucks. You can get 1
terabyte versions of these cards and
they're like 500. They get really pricey. However, they're really fast and they have a lot
of space on them. We'll try this. This is actually a red card reader,
Red digital cinema. Now this is a little bit bulky, but again, it's a
pretty cool solution. If you want to shoot pros
to an external drive. Now USBC lit up and this
drive is pretty much empty. And I can get 73
minutes at four K 30, most of the time I shoot 424. But 460, I can get 36
minutes, 424, 92 minutes. That's quite a bit.
That's a good amount. As a side note, the only
time I would really, ever shoot 460 is so
I'm doing slow mo, 60 frames per
second in my world, in the film world is
designed for slow motion. You get a 40% slow Mo look. Yeah, this is a good solution. But again, see how big
the card reader is. You could potentially
mount this with some bell crow to a
cage or whatever, but it's a little bit unwieldy. I have a smaller USBC drive and this actually is
one that has USB three, that has a USB C adapter, and this one was
like $20 or under, maybe 15 bucks on Amazon, this is like $100 from red. Now just for fun, I have
a 64 gigabyte card here. It's a really fast card though. 515 megabytes a
second. It's fast two. However, pop that in and
see how much time I get. I've got 124 minutes right
now on my 1 terabyte phone, you get 11 minutes. You get 11 minutes on
a 64 gigabyte card. Now, that's not bad if you just want to grab
a couple shots. But you couldn't go out and shoot an entire
afternoon with that. As a matter of fact, you
really couldn't shoot an entire afternoon with
any of these solutions. Externally, even internally,
it gets sketchy. The best thing to do is record internally if you have
a bigger pham and then just transfer using USBC
for portability reasons. If you have time and
can rig one of these, then getting a
bigger card or get a two terabyte SSD And you'll have plenty of
storage plenty of time. But the main thing I want
to show here is you can use a cheap USBC reader and any CF two card or any kind of card for that matter,
and it works fine. Speaking of that, the
cheapest solution and the easiest solution might
just be to use an SD card.
4. USB-C Recording to SD Cards: Now I use these on my
Sony mirrorless camera, and most of the ones I
have are 128 gigabyte. I don't like buying the
256 cards because on a Sony mirrorless
camera you'll get hours of footage on this and I don't like to have to transfer that. And on top of that, if you lose a card or a
card gets corrupted, I don't want to
lose as much media. So 128 gigabyte is fine. But if I started doing
this with the iphone, I would probably buy
256 gigabyte cards, and this is the official
Apple Reader, USBC to SD. This is a really great
solution though You pop it in, it's super lightweight and boom, there it is now again,
128 gigabyte four k 24, I get 23 minutes footage. So if it was double
that, you'd get about 45 minutes or
so, which isn't bad. And the nice thing of course,
about SD cards is you just have several with you when you're dumping your
files to your computer. Then you can pop SD card
in and keep rolling. This card though, just to show, is a 250 megabyte/second card. I've heard rumors that Apple recommends 200 megabyte or more, but then I've seen guys on line use cards that are much
slower like 90 megabytes, and they seem to work fine. But I would probably stick
to the faster cards. It's all I own anyway, just to be safe, again, 23 minutes on that card. But it's an awesome thing
to be able to record out within the
native camera app, But what about other apps?
5. USB-C Recording with Blackmagic Cam app: Okay, now I'm in the
black magic camera app and at the time of this video, to my knowledge, this is the only third party app that
lets you record externally. There are other apps now like Film Pro that support Apple Log, but they don't go out
the USBC at this point. The one thing with
the black magic app, and it took me a little
while to figure this out. When you plug in something
to the USB port, it doesn't automatically
show right down here in the
black magic camera. You click this and you
can look at the drive. Doesn't work the exact
same in the phone app. Right now I'm recording
directly to the phone. But what you need to do
then is go to settings. You can see right
here I'm recording Prores 422 Apple log. But you go down here to media
and then it save clips to. Right now it's in app only. And here you have
to go to files, and then you need
to find the drive. And if you go to browse, you look over here,
It's untitled. Untitled is empty, but
I'll hit open now. It's saving it to the files, which is going out
to the SD card, go to camera, and
now it's switched. And you can see now I've got 35 minutes and 32 seconds
of room to record. I'm recording an
Apple log Prores 422. And as a side note, that's
one thing really great about recording in third party apps is because then the
native camera app, you can only record
Pros HQ in here. You can record a
variety of Codex, even HEVC and H264
with Apple log Pro. Resh Q is huge. The files are huge.
I mean all of them are big for every
day kind of stuff. Pros 422 or LT is fine, Even proxy can be good. I've done that quite a bit. But if I'm shooting log, I want to shoot 422 or more. And if you're doing visual effects or
heavy color grading, HQ and 4444 is great quad four, but it just depends on what you're doing and how
much media you have. In this situation, again, I've got 35 minutes going out to 128 gigabyte
card and you had no other indication
on the screen like you do on the native app. But once you do get
it to the SD card, you can see down here
that it changes. And if you want to go back
to recording to your camera, you have to manually do it. Let me pull that out, go back to camera and
it's flickering. It's kind of buggy,
and it's like, oh, it doesn't know where to go. Actually put that back to
save clips to app only. And I do app only by the way, because I don't want
my big pros files to clog up my cloud backup
going into the photos app. But now you can see
I've got 3 hours and 39 minutes recording to
the internal drive again. Great. You can record out the USBC using the
black magic camera app, but you have to
manually set it up. It doesn't automatically sense it or automatically
know what's there. Now one last thing I want
to show is rigging up the SSD using a DIY phone page.
6. An iPhone 15 Pro Max SSD Rig: All right, so here is a
rig that I have built. I called it DIY. It's because I've Frankenstein a couple of things together. Got a small rig
tripod, quick release, and this is the old
school script pro, which you know what's funny is I have all these
different cages and such. And often I just default
back to this one. I've had this like
six or seven years. Whenever it came out, 2017, 2018, I don't remember,
maybe it's five years. But nonetheless, I really
like this cage and I like this half version for
the phone sticking out here. Although you can of
course put lenses on this side if you want to
use their mounts and such. But for this purpose really I'm just using it
to hold the SSD. And so it's the cage, the phone, and then over here I
put a cheese plate because I stole this
little small rig mount. It's an SSD mount from
my black magic camera. It's designed for the
black magic camera cage. And so that's why I
say it's Frankenstein, because I did get it to fit
on this cheese plate here. I mounted the cheese plate to the B script pro A quarter 20, and then I mounted this
small SSD holder to that. And it has two screws, but I can only get it
to work with one screw. I'm hoping B script or someone comes up with
a case or a cage that will hold SSD's or even just
SDs or Fast or whatever. And again, you
could veil crow it to it if you wanted
a more temporary, easy to use solution. But if you're shooting
something more serious, like a short film or even a
feature film or whatever, having something
more stable and more permanent like this is the
way to go. In my opinion. We'll mount that there and
the SSD drive goes into this. You tighten it down, the cable
comes out the back here. I like these little
flexible cables, but this one might not be
the best because it probably needs a little more length on it to be able
to twist around. But it works for these purposes. Plug it into your phone. Usbc indicator is on. I got 76 minutes to
go pop this off. Shooting handheld with an SSD or you can put it on a tripod, you you fill up the drive, you just pop that off, plug in your computer or you
could even edit off this. If you use Luma Fusion, you could plug this right into Lumi Fusion on your ipad
and you're editing. Or if you use a
traditional computer, again, these are super fast, you can edit off these or you can transfer it
to your computer. So we're living in a pretty
cool time as it comes to filmmaking technology now with Apple log recording
out to an SSD. I've said this for years, but I mean it even more now. There's no excuse
if you want to make a short film or any kind of music video or
even a feature film, just get out there and do it.
7. USB-C Accessory - 3.5mm Adapter: Now we'll look at some
other accessories starting with recording audio. The first one is the
most basic there is. And that is a USBC to
3.5 millimeter jack. Pretty self explanatory. You pop that in and
when that goes in, you have to put a mic in there. You need a mic that is a RRS connection that
has three lines, basically, in layman's terms, to connect to a phone. If you have two lines
there, it won't work. Those are for traditional
cameras, so you plug that in. Now we've got audio
coming into the phone. You can see it on
the screen here. It says USBC 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack adapter, and sometimes with
the black magic app. I've discovered
that when you first plug a mic in, it may not work. You have to go into settings and just basically activate it, choose what you want
to stereomano go back it camera and
then it'll show up. Just be warned about that. That could be a
little bit buggy. But anyway, recording
audio is very easy with a USBC to 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack, more or less. But in this case we're
using it with a microphone.
8. USB-C Accessory - Rode AI Micro: Now go a little more
advanced recording audio and that is using
an accessory that I highly recommend that
I've recommended this for several years and this
is the road AI micro. The cool thing about
this is it has cables for USBC lightning or USBA. The cables just pop right in. I used to use this on
my previous phones, now I'm using it with
the 15 because it's USBC jumping back into
the black magic app. Now when you plug that in,
all the sound goes away. But it says Road I Micro. The beauty about this set up is it allows you to plug
in two microphones. It's two channel and
any type of mic, it doesn't matter
if it's TRS or RRS, or even CelR with an adapter, as long as the mic has power. Now I've got audio coming in channel one
and about a second mic, I come in channel two and
it would be split track. Which is great if
you're recording an interview and
you want two people on two different channels. This is the way to go.
Again, the great thing is you don't have to worry about having the right adapter from your mic to get into your phone, because the AI micro is doing
the conversion for you. This is an accessory that will instantly turn
your phone into a much more professional device when it comes to
sound recording.
9. USB-C Accessory - Basic Hub: Can you record audio using a mic at the same time
as you're going to an SSD or any type of
external source SD card, a C Fast card, whatever the
answer is, yes, of course. You just have to have
the right adapter. I'm going to show
several different ones. This is one of the
cheapest ones I found. And partly because it
has analog audio or USB, and then it has a
charging port as well. The main thing you need to
know about using these hubs is you have to have a port
that will do data transfer. It can't just be
a charging port, you can't get data out
that port right there. It's a charging port,
you can only get data out of a data
transfer port. On this one, again, this
is a less expensive one. You have an analog audio
out, you have a USB, A type output, but it
is USB three speed, which is what the iphone is. You connect that, you
connect your mic. Then I'll use a USBC
to USB adapter now. Check, check, check.
Okay. Now I'm getting audio through
the USBC audio device. I do have to have the game
cranked all the way up, but I'm talking
behind the mic and I should be able to now
go out to the SSD. You've seen my previous
video, you know, you have to go in here and
change where it's saving the clips to and it has
to go to the files. There it is, MacminiT seven, that's what
that drive is called. And then here there's a
folder that it creates called DCIM 100 Apple. And that's where
the files will go. Now I am recording to my SSD, going to an analog mic through
the small simple adapter. I think this thing
is like 20 bucks. So this is a very cost
effective solution and especially if you're
using an analog mic. Now if you're using
a digital mic that needs a USB or a
USBC connection, this wouldn't work
because this point right here is charging only, which is nice because
I could run that to a charger if I'm shooting
and keep the phone charged. But now we'll look at a
more advanced solution.
10. USB-C Accessory - Advanced Hub: All right, here's
one more set up that is really more of
the advanced set up. I would call it the
USB hub is bigger. And by the way, I don't
really have a solution yet for putting all
this stuff together. This is still a
work in progress. That part of it, what I've
done here is I've connected my road AI micro
to this into USBA, and then my SSD drive
is connected via USBC. This has a lot of ports. This one transfers data, this one is a charging cable, this is another USBC. Then over here you've got
a headphone jack that you could technically
run a analog mice to. And then, very
cool, this one also has an SD card slot
and a MicroSDcrd slot. And I have tested
them, they all work. And then even more, that has an HDMI output, which you could also send
an HDMI signal out to a monitor as a client monitor or whatever, to see
what you're doing. And this one is kind
of my current testing, the granddaddy, And it works great and you have everything
connected at the same time. Right now, again, I'm
going out to my road AI micro and the black
magic app sees it. You can tell right
there on the screen. And then down here I'm going to the drive and I've got
2 hours and 57 minutes. With this current set up,
I think I'm shooting. I don't even what am I shooting, I'm using 422 proxy. That's why you get so much. With higher quality you
wouldn't quite have as much. Although this is a 1
terabyte drive I believe. But now hopefully you can
see with the right USBC, you can send out external
video via SSD, use a Mic, but also monitor with an
HDMI and or use SD cards, all because of Apple adding
the USBC to the phone. I got to say all this
and including Apple log. Pretty great stuff
Now just get out there and make something
cool. Don't wait to create.
Blake Calhoun, Filmmaker
