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Exploring the possibilities of video production with smartphones

Month: May 2021

Welcome to smartfilming.blog! — 21. May 2021

Welcome to smartfilming.blog!

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If you want to learn about how smartphones and other compact mobile cameras can be powerful and fascinating tools for videography, you have come to the right place! I’m covering a variety of aspects on this topic including mobile devices/cameras, operating systems, apps, accessories and the art of mobile videography, particularly what I like to call “phoneography”. This knowledge can be very useful for a whole range of professional and/or hobby videography enthusiasts and visual storytellers: mobile journalists, smart(phone) filmmakers, vloggers, YouTubers, social media content creators, business or NGO marketing experts, teachers, educators or hey, even if you’re “just” doing home movies for your family! Your phone is a mighty media production power house, learn how to unleash and wield it, right here on smartfilming.blog!

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#45 The Smartphone Camera Exposure Paradox — 11. May 2021

#45 The Smartphone Camera Exposure Paradox

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Ask anyone about the weaknesses of smartphone cameras and you will surely find that people often point towards a phone’s low-light capabilities as the or at least one of its Achilles heel(s). When you are outside during the day it’s relatively easy to shoot some good-looking footage with your mobile device, even with budget phones. Once it’s darker or you’re indoors, things get more difficult. The reason for this is essentially that the image sensors in smartphones are still pretty small compared to those in DSLMs/DLSRs or professional video/cinema cameras. Bigger sensors can collect more photons (light) and produce better low light images. A so-called “Full Frame” sensor in a DSLM like Sony’s Alpha 7-series has a surface area of 864 mm2, a common 1/2.5” smartphone image sensor has only 25 mm2. So why not just put a huge sensor in a smartphone?

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#44 Split channels (dual mono) audio from the Rode Wireless Go II in LumaFusion — 4. May 2021

#44 Split channels (dual mono) audio from the Rode Wireless Go II in LumaFusion

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Rode just recently released the Wireless GO II, a very compact wireless audio system I wrote about in my last article. One of its cool features is that you can feed two transmitters into one receiver so you don’t need two audio inputs on your camera or smartphone to work with two external mic sources simultaneously. What’s even cooler is that you can record the two mics into separate channels of a video file with split track dual mono audio so you are able to access and mix them individually later on which can be very helpful if you need to make some volume adjustments or eliminate unwanted noise from one mic that would otherwise just be “baked in” with a merged track. There’s also the option to record a -12dB safety track into the second channel when you are using the GO II’s “merged mode” instead of the “split mode” – this can be a lifesaver when the audio of the original track clips because of loud input.

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