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| Can you film cinema-quality scenes while hiking between remote Alpine huts with your iPhone? |
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| And also edit the widescreen anamorphic footage with the same iPhone? |
| This Helium iPhone rig did not let my phone overheat, delivered pro sound and made it easy to attach an Anamorphic lens and ND filters. |
| Here is a short scene that was shot, edited and shared from the film location at 2,100 meters elevation. |
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| Locking the focus and shutter speed in Filmic Pro to achieve proper motion blur effects. |
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| The gear travelled in waterproof bags as I hiked for six hours each day. |
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| In the rain. |
| The week before the Alps trek, I built and tested this iPhone film rig that captures 4K, anamorphic footage with proper sound and motion artifacts. |
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| I built it by wrapping an iPhone 6S+ with a Helium Core cage and attaching it to a modified GoPro chest mount. |
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| The Røde VideoMic Pro on top captures pro audio (As you can see in the YouTube clip at the end of this tutorial) |
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| The complete cinema quality film rig packs flat. It will join me and my backpack on a six-day trek across the Alps next week where I will be making a film project. |
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| The chest mount combined with the extension bar make it very comfortable to record interviews, too. |
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| I attach the Moondog Labs Anamorphic lens adapter and ND filters to be able to record 4K widescreen footage in bright light with a slow shutter speed. |
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| Without an ND filter, the camera has no choice but to record with a high shutter speed - in this case at 1/12,288 of a second. |
| Which produces strobe motion footage. |
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| With two ND filters attached (An ND 4 and an ND 2), the camera sees less light and I am able to record at 1/48 of a second to achieve a proper 180° shutter. |
| This allows the motion blur to be recorded in a way that more accurately mimics the way the human eye sees motion. This is one of the keys to pro filmmaking. |
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| In the FilmicPro app, I make a preset to capture 4K video and set it to display the proper 'de-squeezed' preview for Anamorphic filming. |
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| An overview of my Filmic settings. |
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| And how it looks in the viewfinder while filming. |
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| I also am experimenting with different video capture profiles to achieve a film look and am having great results with the Flat gamma curve in FilmicPro. |
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| Recording 4K Anamorphic clips at 'Filmic Quality' means I have to clear off my camera roll and watch for apps that also copy clips inside their sandbox. |
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| That's more like it! I conservatively estimate that the Filmic Pro settings I am using will require about 600MB of memory per minute of recorded footage. |
In this ungraded example, I recorded 44 clips to make this film and when I transferred my clips to my Mac (using iTunes) the folder measured 9.54GB and the runtime of the raw footage is around 16 minutes when dropped onto a Final Cut Pro X timeline.
I applied cinema grading to this natural sound short film to show how a final treatment can look for cinema projection.
This means with 100GB of free memory on my iPhone.
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