For the past few years I've used a Samsung Galaxy s24 Ultra and then an s22 Ultra before that. Both phone have been great, but sometimes there is some glare with the lasers/lighting from festivals that I attend.
Does anybody have any recommendations for best phone for these environments? Usually night time, with lots of varying brightness, colours, lights etc from the stages.
Been building a YouTube channel around ambient nature content and short cinematic films. Mostly local stuff — lakes, highways, parks. Nothing fancy.
Took a beach trip recently and something clicked. Just pointed my phone at the waves and let it run. No script. No plan. Just the ocean doing what it does.
Ended up with some of the best footage I've captured since starting the channel. There's something about nature that just does the work for you if you get out of the way.
I've been having a blast with it honestly. Started as a creative outlet and turned into something I genuinely look forward to.
Anyone else find that natural environments just make everything easier to film? Curious what locations other people are shooting in.
Channel link if anyone wants to see what I've been building: https://youtube.com/shorts/LANfWBqhaQk?feature=share
In an effort to keep streamlining my video 'workflow'(all for fun I might add, but an increasing hobby 😂) I have learnt that the new Advanced Professional Video (APV) files, despite their HUGE size, are easier / less taxing for editing programmes, like Lumafusion, to process...
Preamble...
Intra- Frame Vs Inter-frame
It seems counterintuitive that a file at least twice as large would be easier for your phone to handle, but it comes down to how much "maths" the processor has to do in real-time.
HEVC/mp4 (Inter-frame) - These codecs are designed for efficiency. To save space, the phone only saves "complete" frames every second or so (called I-frames). For the frames in between, it only records what changed (motion). When you scrub the timeline in LumaFusion, the processor has to look back at the last full frame and "calculate" the motion for every frame in between. This causes some stuttering or lag, despite the SD 8 EfG being a BEAST.
APV (Intra-frame) - Just like Apple’s ProRes, Samsung’s APV treats every single frame as a standalone, high-quality image. Because every frame is complete, LumaFusion doesn't have to calculate anything; it just shows the frame/image.
In simple terms, HEVC/MP4 can be like a complex instruction manual that the processor has to flick through to compute, whereas APV is an orderly flipbook that takes far, far less to compute...
The problem and solution
- However, the problem is, APV files are HUGE, even at the 422 LQ setting...like..insane huge.
- Solution? External storage...and the one I've gone for after lots of research is the Lexar Professional GO 2tb, largely due to its size and convenience. (Not affiliated or sponsored)
It doesn't fit snuggly with a case on without the u-bend adapter, but once that's added, it sits nicely on both my daily Mous case, and also my 'filming' ESR case with Insta360 magnet mount.
It crucially, also fits nicely on the Insta360 Flow2 Pro gimbal with no disruption.
Safe to say, for any projects, music videos, travel diarys, product reviews etc will now ALL be filmed in APV using this handy little gadget.
*Written by a real person*
Hi all I’m new to this community and need advice on codec formats for the iPhone (recently upgraded to the 17 pro and got the moment VND and CPL filters). I’m working on shooting a 10 year anniversary video for my wife it will be a short film (3 ish min) most likely one location (maybe 2) shot outdoors with available light in one day. I’m going back and forth between whether or not I need to shoot in pro res raw or am fine with using HEVC and shooting in apple log. I’m not very experienced in color grading but I do want to use this project to get a bit deeper into it. I’m hoping to achieve a more vintage cinematic look. On the other hand since I only have 1 day to shoot im worried about heat and battery management that comes with shooting pro res raw. What I’d love to hear from the community is, if I plan on doing color grading but not extensively so, am I safe to stick with HEVC log to make the filming process easier or will that make the post processing too limited.