Shoot amazing videos with mobile phone
Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 12:16 PM

These days, powerful cameras are coming with smartphones. It has become a habit to shoot pictures of events, children’s activities or rare images outside. But many of us are ignorant about shooting good quality videos that are attractive. There are some things to be learnt to shoot such videos:

Even though smart phones are not totally camera gadgets, there are many options in premium phones. They come with a variety of resolutions and frame rates. The standard resolution, frame rate combination is 1080 @ 30 frames. The number of Frames Per Second (FPS) is high. [email protected] frames, [email protected] frames are the number of pictures the camera can shoot per second. Videos taken with 60FPS or higher (120FPS or 240FPS) are in slow motion. 120FPS is five times less than normal rate. Similarly, 240FPS is 10 times less than normal rate. The speed can be increased or decreased in camera settings.
4K video

Meaning of 4K

Image stabilization

There is another option called Digital Image Stabilisation (DIS). This functions in the same way as Optical Image Stabilisation, by recognising the shaky movements of the phone and stabilising the image. But in Digital Image Stabilisation, if the video has to be kept steady, some of the image quality is lost. You can check this practically by shooting an image with the DIS on and again with DIS switched off. While shooting a video, hold the phone with both hands, close to your body so as to avoid shaking as much as possible. You can also use tripod, clamp or stabiliser rings to keep the phone steady while shooting a video.
Lens
Normally users do not check whether the lens is clean. It has to be cleaned before taking the video. It is important for video clarity.
Zoom

Flash

Right lighting shows a lot of effect on the camera. The image sensors and lens in smart phones are very small. Adequate lighting is like oxygen to smart phone videos or photos. Ensure that there is adequate lighting while shooting videos. This can eliminate shades in video footage. Also, don’t direct the camera at sources of light.
Close, horizontal

Slow motion mode

Audio
Ensure that the audio recording is clear, as part of the video. If the in-built microphone is unable to grasp the voice clearly, take the phone closer to the subject. Or you can use a Video External Microphone.
No video compression
If you want to share the video as a text, a majority of smart phones, compress them. This reduces the quality. In camera settings, increase the quality settings of the video. This will disallow file compression. But the video file will occupy more space. You can edit the video if you like, later.