My Android phone didn’t record good videos. Until I discovered this app and it changed everything

One of my main gripes with Android is video recording. It doesn’t matter if I use the best high-end equipment on the market: I’m never convinced by the results. This is not a hardware problem, but a processing problem. Something very similar happens to me when I take photos and compare them to what can actually be obtained from a lightly edited RAW.

Most mobile phones do not have manual video controls, so we are limited to the automatic mode capabilities. And what you want to do, generally, is save the light from anywhere, at any cost. Luckily, there’s an app that changes all that. Blackmagic Camera.

What is a Blackmagic camera? Blackmagic Camera is, as the name suggests, a camera app created by Blackmagic. They are one of the leading companies in the video industry, behind some of the best cameras on the market and the creators of the best color editing software: Davinci Resolve.

Having this app on our phones is an absolute privilege and is definitely the best deal you can install if you want to take your recordings to the next level.

What does this application do? First of all, Blackmagic Camera allows you to customize every manual control on your camera. Namely, lens millimeters change between cameras, but knowing the focal length, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, hue…

We can adjust exposure compensation, focus guides, autofocus or manual focus, zebras… Essentially, it’s like a professional camera interface, but on a phone.

In addition, this is an application that allows you to change the recording speed of our phone. This allows you to regulate how long it will ultimately take. It also allows you to change the color space, codec used, resolution…

One of the factors that I also like is that it allows us to reduce noise in real time (which is important in video) and even correct the distortion of the camera we are using.

Finally, it allows us to apply our LUTs to the video itself so we don’t have to edit anything. We select the LUT, apply it, and it will be recorded in real time with the applied settings. Crazy.

Why is this important? Considering that there are virtually no mobile phones with professional video management (and that even if there are, they are not that advanced), this app represents the “before” and “after” when it comes to video recording on Android. It requires some learning if we want to get the most out of it, but once we get used to it, it will be difficult to use the standard application again.

Is it free? This app is completely free which makes it perfect. It doesn’t have ads or any restrictions.

Image | BlackMagic

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