Moment Pro Camera app video tutorial
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For the most part you can record great looking video on your phone, in selfie mode or live view mode, using the auto settings of your native camera app on your phone. But your phone will have limited settings for gaining absolute control over your shot for things like exposure, focus, and frame rates. However, before you go boasting your newfound knack for shooting video on your phone in manual, I'm going to lay out my top tips for in this Moment Pro Camera App Video Tutorial.
Moment is a developer of camera phone lenses and mobile phone attachments created to further your shooting capabilities in smartphone photography and videogaphy. The app gives you full manual controls that include manual adjustment over ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and manual focus. It's also a powerful Portrait camera for vertical videos which have skyrocketed since the induction of IGTV as well as standard 16:9 widescreen video as seen on YouTube. So no matter what orientation you are recording your videos in, whether its vertical or widescreen, this app has got your back!
You might know Moment from their incredible wide angle lens which help produces amazing picture quality straight for the comforts of your mobile phone. The Moment Pro Camera app is available in the App Store and Google Play Store, however, only the iOS app currently has the video camera mode available. Sorry Android users, I guess you'll have to wait... the app is free to download but to unlock all controls, there is a low cost entry point of $2.99 to access full manual controls.
Now I will mention in the free version, whatever footage you record does NOT place a watermark on the footage which is pretty cool. Most camera apps place a watermark image on the screen somewhere until your upgrade to the full version. Moment Pro camera app does not.
So today I'm going to walk you through the video mode and how to record video using the manual features on the Moment Pro Camera app for iOS.
Now there are certainly other video camera phone apps that give you full manual control of your videos, So let me know in the comment section below what video camera app you prefer.
Let's take a look at the app's interface to give you a rundown of what you're working with. Once you've installed the app on your phone you'll need to grant access permissions for your camera roll, camera, and microphone. And as you can imagine, the app defaults to the photo mode, so for the sake of this video we'll switch it over to video mode by click on this camera icon, then it will display a video camera icon indicating you are now in video mode.
We'll start with these interface items here along the bottom, these are your manual controls. The "S" here is for shutter speed, then you have ISO, next to that is the Exposure wheel, then Focus and finally white balance controls.
The exposure of your image for video is controlled by several settings, all which help to set your shot appropriately. These are the exposure, shutter, ISO, white balance, and your natural or available light.
The Exposure relates to the amount of light you're letting into to hit the sensor in your camera. This translates to the brightness or darkness of your scene. You'll want to set you're exposure to whatever looks good to you. Of course, avoid over exposure like this or under exposure like this.
The Shutter speed can also impact how the camera treats the light coming in as it relates the amount of time the shutter opens during a given frame of video. Adjusting the shutter will adjust the light in your image, high shutter speeds work well when shooting outside with lots of light, while slow shutter speeds work well in low-light situations, but often requires a tripod since any camera shake can add motion blur to your image or video. Which may be good or bad depending on the style you're attempting.
The ISO is that of the sensitivity to light, with 100 ISO being not so sensitive (and the standard ISO used by most people) to 1600 or 3200 ISO which is extremely sensitive to light. I like to think of ISO as fake light, or digital light if you will. Low ISO is recommended for outdoor shooting, while high ISO is great to compensate when shooting indoors or in low light situations.
If you're shooting in a room with a window on a sunny day, you'll notice the light will change whenever a cloud passes in front of the sun. It'll be bright, then dark. If you look through your viewfinder during this time, you'll also see the bright/dark contrast take place. So now let's place myself in front of the camera with auto settings or using your default camera app on your phone. It can be very distracting if the exposure of your image is constantly adjusting to maintain proper exposure. This is referred to as the Auto Iris effect and it can certainly ruin your shot.
So, by setting the Shutter Speed in this app, it disables the "auto iris" effect from taking place. Which is what you want and that tip right there will separate you from the noobs.
Next up is your White Balance, and this involves manual setting of the color temperature for your footage. You can use the wheel here to make your image warm or cold looking. The lower setting makes your picture cold, or blue looking, which can be used to match indoor office lighting. The higher setting makes your picture warm, or orange looking, used to match outdoor lighting conditions.
Keep in mind though, no matter what color your video is recorded, the color temperature can always be tweaked later in a video editing program to achieve the desired result you're looking for. So for those of you new to manual video shooting, you'll first want to aim for properly exposed video then hone in on adjusting your settings appropriately to take your video footage to the next level.
You'll want to find your focus before you start recording. I recommend locking in your focus, as it will prevent your camera from changing focus during your recording. Using the focus wheel, you can simply touch the screen for your focal point and hold down on the reticle until it turns blue, indicating that focus has been locked. A lot can be achieved with your focal length, first practice getting yourself in focus. At the end of the day, stay away from using auto focus, switch it to manual and lock it in. Coming back with blurry footage is no good, and likely unusable.
As we wrap up the camera functionality within the manual settings on this Moment Pro Camera app, let's quickly touch on frame rates. You can change frame rates and video resolution by clicking up top here and cycle through your desired format. Whether shooting in live view mode or selfie mode, you'll have access to change video formats and frame rates to further enhance your footage. When shooting in live view mode you can ramp up your video's resolution from 720, to 1080, all the way up to 4k. When in selfie mode you can record in 720 or 1080.
Now, as you can imagine, different frame rates produce different results within your video footage. I'll shoot in 24 frames per second when I'm recording on-camera commentary or talking heads, I'll use 30 frames per second when shooting broll, and when I want to achieve slow motion I'll record video in high frames rates, supported in this app, like 60, 120, and even 240 frames per second. When recorded on the front end will look like normal video, however the slow motion effect can be achieved by interpreting your footage inside a video editing program like Adobe Premiere Pro.
A few final features worth mentioning inside this app in the tool bar panel at the top here. This right here places a grid overlay in your viewfinder which can help with framing shots, there are a couple different modes to it and it's important to note these grids do not show up in your recorded video.
Right here is the flash icon, for video purposes this becomes your camera light. I recommend using natural light when available, a selfie ring light or a lighting kit will produce better lighting results rather than relying on the video light on your phone.
This right here is camera stabilization, when it's on you'll see a little A appear in the corner, when it's off the A will disappear. I recommend using the stabilization feature when shooting handheld only. When you're shooting on a tripod or gimbal you'll want to disable stabilization as it may add a warp type effect to your video, as it's trying to stabilize an already stable tripod shot.
These we already discussed, tapping them will change the formats to match what you want. This circle icon up here can be used if you purchase any of the Moment camera phone lenses, selecting your lens will adjust your camera's focal length. If you're rocking this without a Moment lens, just click on the No Lens button.
Down here in the corner is access to your camera roll. Here is access to the menu where you can enable certain options and media capture formats.
Definitely head over to the App Store or Google Play Store to download the Moment Pro Camera app. It's extremely powerful for both photo capture and video recording.
If you haven’t already downloaded my “Before You Shoot” guide, please follow the link in the show notes below. The guide will prove as a useful resource for each and every one of your video creations.
For the most part you can record great looking video on your phone, in selfie mode or live view mode, using the auto settings of your native camera app on your phone. But your phone will have limited settings for gaining absolute control over your shot for things like exposure, focus, and frame rates. However, before you go boasting your newfound knack for shooting video on your phone in manual, I'm going to lay out my top tips for in this Moment Pro Camera App Video Tutorial.
Moment is a developer of camera phone lenses and mobile phone attachments created to further your shooting capabilities in smartphone photography and videogaphy. The app gives you full manual controls that include manual adjustment over ISO, shutter speed, white balance, and manual focus. It's also a powerful Portrait camera for vertical videos which have skyrocketed since the induction of IGTV as well as standard 16:9 widescreen video as seen on YouTube. So no matter what orientation you are recording your videos in, whether its vertical or widescreen, this app has got your back!
You might know Moment from their incredible wide angle lens which help produces amazing picture quality straight for the comforts of your mobile phone. The Moment Pro Camera app is available in the App Store and Google Play Store, however, only the iOS app currently has the video camera mode available. Sorry Android users, I guess you'll have to wait... the app is free to download but to unlock all controls, there is a low cost entry point of $2.99 to access full manual controls.
Now I will mention in the free version, whatever footage you record does NOT place a watermark on the footage which is pretty cool. Most camera apps place a watermark image on the screen somewhere until your upgrade to the full version. Moment Pro camera app does not.
So today I'm going to walk you through the video mode and how to record video using the manual features on the Moment Pro Camera app for iOS.
Now there are certainly other video camera phone apps that give you full manual control of your videos, So let me know in the comment section below what video camera app you prefer.
Let's take a look at the app's interface to give you a rundown of what you're working with. Once you've installed the app on your phone you'll need to grant access permissions for your camera roll, camera, and microphone. And as you can imagine, the app defaults to the photo mode, so for the sake of this video we'll switch it over to video mode by click on this camera icon, then it will display a video camera icon indicating you are now in video mode.
We'll start with these interface items here along the bottom, these are your manual controls. The "S" here is for shutter speed, then you have ISO, next to that is the Exposure wheel, then Focus and finally white balance controls.
The exposure of your image for video is controlled by several settings, all which help to set your shot appropriately. These are the exposure, shutter, ISO, white balance, and your natural or available light.
The Exposure relates to the amount of light you're letting into to hit the sensor in your camera. This translates to the brightness or darkness of your scene. You'll want to set you're exposure to whatever looks good to you. Of course, avoid over exposure like this or under exposure like this.
The Shutter speed can also impact how the camera treats the light coming in as it relates the amount of time the shutter opens during a given frame of video. Adjusting the shutter will adjust the light in your image, high shutter speeds work well when shooting outside with lots of light, while slow shutter speeds work well in low-light situations, but often requires a tripod since any camera shake can add motion blur to your image or video. Which may be good or bad depending on the style you're attempting.
The ISO is that of the sensitivity to light, with 100 ISO being not so sensitive (and the standard ISO used by most people) to 1600 or 3200 ISO which is extremely sensitive to light. I like to think of ISO as fake light, or digital light if you will. Low ISO is recommended for outdoor shooting, while high ISO is great to compensate when shooting indoors or in low light situations.
If you're shooting in a room with a window on a sunny day, you'll notice the light will change whenever a cloud passes in front of the sun. It'll be bright, then dark. If you look through your viewfinder during this time, you'll also see the bright/dark contrast take place. So now let's place myself in front of the camera with auto settings or using your default camera app on your phone. It can be very distracting if the exposure of your image is constantly adjusting to maintain proper exposure. This is referred to as the Auto Iris effect and it can certainly ruin your shot.
So, by setting the Shutter Speed in this app, it disables the "auto iris" effect from taking place. Which is what you want and that tip right there will separate you from the noobs.
Next up is your White Balance, and this involves manual setting of the color temperature for your footage. You can use the wheel here to make your image warm or cold looking. The lower setting makes your picture cold, or blue looking, which can be used to match indoor office lighting. The higher setting makes your picture warm, or orange looking, used to match outdoor lighting conditions.
Keep in mind though, no matter what color your video is recorded, the color temperature can always be tweaked later in a video editing program to achieve the desired result you're looking for. So for those of you new to manual video shooting, you'll first want to aim for properly exposed video then hone in on adjusting your settings appropriately to take your video footage to the next level.
You'll want to find your focus before you start recording. I recommend locking in your focus, as it will prevent your camera from changing focus during your recording. Using the focus wheel, you can simply touch the screen for your focal point and hold down on the reticle until it turns blue, indicating that focus has been locked. A lot can be achieved with your focal length, first practice getting yourself in focus. At the end of the day, stay away from using auto focus, switch it to manual and lock it in. Coming back with blurry footage is no good, and likely unusable.
As we wrap up the camera functionality within the manual settings on this Moment Pro Camera app, let's quickly touch on frame rates. You can change frame rates and video resolution by clicking up top here and cycle through your desired format. Whether shooting in live view mode or selfie mode, you'll have access to change video formats and frame rates to further enhance your footage. When shooting in live view mode you can ramp up your video's resolution from 720, to 1080, all the way up to 4k. When in selfie mode you can record in 720 or 1080.
Now, as you can imagine, different frame rates produce different results within your video footage. I'll shoot in 24 frames per second when I'm recording on-camera commentary or talking heads, I'll use 30 frames per second when shooting broll, and when I want to achieve slow motion I'll record video in high frames rates, supported in this app, like 60, 120, and even 240 frames per second. When recorded on the front end will look like normal video, however the slow motion effect can be achieved by interpreting your footage inside a video editing program like Adobe Premiere Pro.
A few final features worth mentioning inside this app in the tool bar panel at the top here. This right here places a grid overlay in your viewfinder which can help with framing shots, there are a couple different modes to it and it's important to note these grids do not show up in your recorded video.
Right here is the flash icon, for video purposes this becomes your camera light. I recommend using natural light when available, a selfie ring light or a lighting kit will produce better lighting results rather than relying on the video light on your phone.
This right here is camera stabilization, when it's on you'll see a little A appear in the corner, when it's off the A will disappear. I recommend using the stabilization feature when shooting handheld only. When you're shooting on a tripod or gimbal you'll want to disable stabilization as it may add a warp type effect to your video, as it's trying to stabilize an already stable tripod shot.
These we already discussed, tapping them will change the formats to match what you want. This circle icon up here can be used if you purchase any of the Moment camera phone lenses, selecting your lens will adjust your camera's focal length. If you're rocking this without a Moment lens, just click on the No Lens button.
Down here in the corner is access to your camera roll. Here is access to the menu where you can enable certain options and media capture formats.
Definitely head over to the App Store or Google Play Store to download the Moment Pro Camera app. It's extremely powerful for both photo capture and video recording.
If you haven’t already downloaded my “Before You Shoot” guide, please follow the link in the show notes below. The guide will prove as a useful resource for each and every one of your video creations.
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