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Tips for recording better video on your iPhone, from a professional filmmaker
If your iPhone albums resemble throwback home videos from the 80s, then you might need to change the American default settings to fall in line with a UK filmmaker’s.
While most people have a smartphone in their pockets, few people understand their device’s true capabilities. You can schedule your text messages, translate over 19 languages, and that’s to say nothing of iOS 18’s exciting features.
Filmmaker says your iPhone is set up wrong
Thanks to a social media influencer we now understand how to take better pictures, but what iPhone settings should you be changing to record better video?
Answering that for his 6k followers on TikTok, filmmaker Russell Kent Nicholls (@russellkentnicholls) shared his knowledge after years of working as one of the UK’s “top” wedding videographers.
To start, head on over to the camera tab on your iPhone’s settings where you’ll find that it is preset to American frame rate regardless of your actual location. This seems to be another instance where the UK is beating the US.
“If you’ve been using this you may find that some of your lights will be flickering,” he said. “We need to switch that over.”
To change this, switch on the “Show PAL formats” slider and then manually select 4K at 25 frames per second. In the same tab, you can turn on HDR video which should “increase the dynamic range” of your camera and make pictures and video brighter.
Russell said that the subtle settings change is often the magic behind those shiny pictures you see on Instagram.
Your changes will revert if you don’t change another setting
Now your iPhone is set up to provide your Instagram with video after video of stunning perfection, you going to need to preserve the settings changes that facilitated the evolution.
To do that, head back to the main iPhone settings screen for the “preserve settings” section. Switch all of the available tabs to maintain your camera’s power.
When it comes to taking the video, Russell urged his followers to stick to the 0.5, 1, and 3, preset camera lenses. He further suggested keeping the exposure to 0.7 to ensure the shot is well-light and the highlights are maintained.
