I've been studying the cinematic "experts" on RUclips, and I've uncovered the true secrets of cinematic content. ;-) 1. Always move the camera, and SLOWLY. 2. Move (slowly) past and around foreground objects, like trees. That creates a reveal, even when there's nothing to actually reveal. That doesn't matter, because people will be too wowed by your technique to notice. 3. Pro tip this one! Try to include some slow upward moves looking up at buildings, trees, street lamps, anything tall really. It's like looking up to heaven, man. 4. Add some heavy color grading and desaturate. Everyone knows that black and white is art, therefore less saturation means more artistic, but not so much that you break rule #5. 5. Make sure most of your footage is graded cyan and yellow. 6. Go wide. You can't add too much black bar. Basically the wider the aspect ratio the more cinematic. 7. Always slow down the footage. Even if that means shooting at 30fps and slowing to 24fps. 8. Add some slow melodic music. Acoustic is best, because it's art. 9. Always use a 180° shutter. Don't even bother if you're not doing that. 10. Use horizon leveling. Cranes don't roll, and you want make it look like you can afford to rent a crane and get it on location.
You could re-post this three years later and nobody would even know. Still very relevant today. I recently stressed over taking a better camera to my recent Disney trip and on the first indoor ride forgot to take off the ND on my Pocket 3, quickly realized it, pulled out my Pixel 8 Pro, engaged Night Site video and stuck to it for the rest of the trip! I think it turned out extremely well!
I really relate to this video. I started our family travel RUclips channel with tons of gear and felt the need to match what a lot of other “professional“ travel RUclipsrs were producing. After a while, it became too much work to manage our 3 kids, film, enjoy trips, edit, and post. I made a conscious decision to pull back from all the editing production and purchased a GoPro. I’ve shot all of our Indonesia content on the Go Pro, and I am focusing more on the story over the production. Thanks again for all of your tips! I’ve learned a lot from your channel.
This 💯!! It's so much more important to craft a good narrative and spend more time on that and editing than it is fumbling with a giant, complicated camera rig. We have a baby now too, and even more so it is valuable to have a small camera like the GoPro. Thank you for watching 🙏
Thanks for this! I'm a relative beginner, and I fell for all the youtube videos hyping "cinematic." For hiking videos it just doesn't work, and after being unhappy with my footage on a few hikes I finally went back to mostly auto settings on my GoPro. Your advice here makes me feel like I'm a realist, not a cinematic failure. 😃
Been running into some of your videos and this one touches on some good points on cinematic, of which I find too many RUclipsrs seem to fetishize to some extent over, especially if shooting at 24FPS. Even Wes Perry dislikes 24FPS and shoots in 30FPS. I shoot in 1080/30 myself but will entertain using a faster shutter speed, or higher res for slo-mo when needed as due more to the fact that my PC isn't robust for anything beyond 1080P, but the occasional 2.7+ for short clips to slow back down to 1080P as a slow mo clip. Since Hollywood is not my goal, I could care less, I'm more a documentarian so I am not set to hid the fact that I'm shooting in video, not film. Like you all, I use a GoPro, but I also augment with a consumer Canon Vixia camcorder that also does 1080/30, but that's it, outside of being able to do 60FPS when needed. I will agree, grading, even if minor your color etc is well worth it, using lights when needed to help when shooting in lower light and using good microphones for good sound all will help with your RUclips videos and that's what I'm trying to do, and just spend a few minutes pricing out getting a cage or the GoPro media mod so I can then utilize my wired lav with it when it's doing primary camera duty but will be going wireless when I can. Right now, I can only do so much being on unemployment and paying bills etc.
We also shoot in 30fps and take more of a documentary approach to our vlogs. The photographers in us compel us to use mirrorless cameras for pretty b-roll.
First great video, second, I am a bit confused. So fixing frame rate at 24 is not practical? Can you make a guide on frame rate setting on various conditions?
I have a video on that topic coming up soon! But I’m short, it’s fine to film a fixed 24fps frame rate. Shooting at a higher frame rate just gives you more options when you edit the footage.
Good question. The mic system we're using, the Rode Wireless Go 2, automatically syncs the audio in camera. Otherwise, a video editing software like Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve is also able to do it.
Nice video! About the frame rate and 180-degree shutter point though, I don't think it aims to faithfully replicate reality--after all, reality presents our eyes with an infinite frame rate and 360-degree shutter! But 24 fps with a 180 shutter is indeed quite pleasing. I've read several theories as to why this is the case but I'm not sure any one is considered definitive.
Why does the image get grainy all the time while you're walking? Is that an youtube problem to process the image or does it happen with the original file as well?
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I've been studying the cinematic "experts" on RUclips, and I've uncovered the true secrets of cinematic content. ;-)
1. Always move the camera, and SLOWLY.
2. Move (slowly) past and around foreground objects, like trees. That creates a reveal, even when there's nothing to actually reveal. That doesn't matter, because people will be too wowed by your technique to notice.
3. Pro tip this one! Try to include some slow upward moves looking up at buildings, trees, street lamps, anything tall really. It's like looking up to heaven, man.
4. Add some heavy color grading and desaturate. Everyone knows that black and white is art, therefore less saturation means more artistic, but not so much that you break rule #5.
5. Make sure most of your footage is graded cyan and yellow.
6. Go wide. You can't add too much black bar. Basically the wider the aspect ratio the more cinematic.
7. Always slow down the footage. Even if that means shooting at 30fps and slowing to 24fps.
8. Add some slow melodic music. Acoustic is best, because it's art.
9. Always use a 180° shutter. Don't even bother if you're not doing that.
10. Use horizon leveling. Cranes don't roll, and you want make it look like you can afford to rent a crane and get it on location.
Sounds about right, especially the slowmo! I love how they all very clearly use slowmo, but conveniently never say so 😂
LOL
You could re-post this three years later and nobody would even know. Still very relevant today. I recently stressed over taking a better camera to my recent Disney trip and on the first indoor ride forgot to take off the ND on my Pocket 3, quickly realized it, pulled out my Pixel 8 Pro, engaged Night Site video and stuck to it for the rest of the trip! I think it turned out extremely well!
I really relate to this video. I started our family travel RUclips channel with tons of gear and felt the need to match what a lot of other “professional“ travel RUclipsrs were producing.
After a while, it became too much work to manage our 3 kids, film, enjoy trips, edit, and post. I made a conscious decision to pull back from all the editing production and purchased a GoPro.
I’ve shot all of our Indonesia content on the Go Pro, and I am focusing more on the story over the production.
Thanks again for all of your tips! I’ve learned a lot from your channel.
This 💯!! It's so much more important to craft a good narrative and spend more time on that and editing than it is fumbling with a giant, complicated camera rig. We have a baby now too, and even more so it is valuable to have a small camera like the GoPro. Thank you for watching 🙏
Thanks for this! I'm a relative beginner, and I fell for all the youtube videos hyping "cinematic." For hiking videos it just doesn't work, and after being unhappy with my footage on a few hikes I finally went back to mostly auto settings on my GoPro. Your advice here makes me feel like I'm a realist, not a cinematic failure. 😃
100%!! Shooting cinematic is just not practical or needed in most situations. Love that you do hiking videos too ❤😍
Been running into some of your videos and this one touches on some good points on cinematic, of which I find too many RUclipsrs seem to fetishize to some extent over, especially if shooting at 24FPS. Even Wes Perry dislikes 24FPS and shoots in 30FPS. I shoot in 1080/30 myself but will entertain using a faster shutter speed, or higher res for slo-mo when needed as due more to the fact that my PC isn't robust for anything beyond 1080P, but the occasional 2.7+ for short clips to slow back down to 1080P as a slow mo clip.
Since Hollywood is not my goal, I could care less, I'm more a documentarian so I am not set to hid the fact that I'm shooting in video, not film. Like you all, I use a GoPro, but I also augment with a consumer Canon Vixia camcorder that also does 1080/30, but that's it, outside of being able to do 60FPS when needed.
I will agree, grading, even if minor your color etc is well worth it, using lights when needed to help when shooting in lower light and using good microphones for good sound all will help with your RUclips videos and that's what I'm trying to do, and just spend a few minutes pricing out getting a cage or the GoPro media mod so I can then utilize my wired lav with it when it's doing primary camera duty but will be going wireless when I can.
Right now, I can only do so much being on unemployment and paying bills etc.
We also shoot in 30fps and take more of a documentary approach to our vlogs. The photographers in us compel us to use mirrorless cameras for pretty b-roll.
mic and the sound quality is always so impressive
Arri and Red main advantage is the dynamic range over mirrorless cameras.
First great video, second, I am a bit confused. So fixing frame rate at 24 is not practical? Can you make a guide on frame rate setting on various conditions?
I have a video on that topic coming up soon! But I’m short, it’s fine to film a fixed 24fps frame rate. Shooting at a higher frame rate just gives you more options when you edit the footage.
Great discussion. What trail is that you were walking on?
Thanks Steve! This was the Puyallup River Trail.
Nice video guys..How do you sync the audio using 2 channels. I’m new to this lol. Thank you 🙏
Good question. The mic system we're using, the Rode Wireless Go 2, automatically syncs the audio in camera. Otherwise, a video editing software like Final Cut Pro or DaVinci Resolve is also able to do it.
@@Gemini_Connect thank you.
Very sound advice. Thanks.
I'm loving your channel! I loved this casual walk with you two!
Thanks Jessyca! We like doing informal debates and chats. Hoping to do more in the future 🙂
Excellent video, I'll show it to my production crew. 🤔😁👍A lot of good tips in there too, thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it Bob 😊
Another really interesting blog guys! Rodes are working well! 😆👌👍
Indeed! Rode for the win 😁
Always helping me level up! Thank you!!
Nice video! About the frame rate and 180-degree shutter point though, I don't think it aims to faithfully replicate reality--after all, reality presents our eyes with an infinite frame rate and 360-degree shutter! But 24 fps with a 180 shutter is indeed quite pleasing. I've read several theories as to why this is the case but I'm not sure any one is considered definitive.
Agreed, everything is in theory and most RUclipsrs seem to have congregated around a single "cinematic" setting.
You guys always awesome and the information is always helpful for small youtuber like me...
Thank you for watching 🙏
Once again, great information. Thanks.
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it Tim 😊
Why does the image get grainy all the time while you're walking? Is that an youtube problem to process the image or does it happen with the original file as well?
I do believe it's because of compression
@@Gemini_Connect if I shoot in a lower quality resolution, do you think it would solve the problem? Did you record in 5.3k?
Possible bloggers they do just the 30seconds to 1minut cinematic to catch the views eye then the rest is history haha
Yes, that's true! We do it on occasion for that reason too.
It's great video....!!!!
really nice!!✨✨
from JAPAN!
Thank you my friend! We hope to visit Japan soon 😁
Haha I had my rode wireless foe 6 months just discovered my adaptor was crap and did not work lol lucky I was indoors..lol now I can use the rodes
Lol! Glad you discovered the problem.
very good video
Thank you for watching 🙏
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Why is this video - titled "Why You SHOULD NOT Shoot Cinematic Vlogs" - shot at 24 fps? Do you really mean "us" and not yourselves?
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