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Here's How You Can Use FiLMiC's Firstlight App On Your Next Location Scout

The photo app has some brand new film emulations. Most of us are FaMiLiaR with FiLMiC Pro, the mobile app that expands the functionality of your smartphone's camera. It's an intuitive filmmaking tool that lets you dial in resolution, frame rate, color temperature, and adjust aperture and focus on the fly. The company also makes a photography app dubbed Firstlight for iOS and Android. It's probably something most of us would ignore, but they've added a crop of film emulations in a recent update that could be useful on your next location scout. How? We've all taken photos of locations that we like and want to remember as we prep our projects. But if you want to see how that location looks using a certain LUT or grade, we generally process that in post using Resolve or Photoshop after the fact. With Firstlight, you could take a photo of the location and apply one of the film emulations to see what the location is giving you. Granted, the final look of the project would have to aspire to look like that emulation, but at least it's something that can provide you with immediate feedback at the location. Read More...

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Published By: NoFilmSchool - Wednesday, 23 September, 2020

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