Smartphones can shoot cinematic images, but when it comes to audio, they come up short. Here are tips to improve your sound. For a majority of content creators, the smartphone is their only device to capture video and still images. Thankfully, the cameras inside our iPhones and Android devices don't slouch when it comes to quality. And when you add in apps like FiLMiC Pro and some helpful tips from No Film School, they can be darn right cinematic. But when it comes to the audio quality that our phones can record, there's a lot of room for improvement. One of the biggest weaknesses of smartphones is that their microphone is omnidirectional, which refers to the sensitivity or polar pattern of the mic. An omnidirectional pattern picks up sound from all sides, so there's little control over what audio the phone records. Compare that to a shotgun microphone that has a cardioid pattern, which has a more directional pattern and rejects any sound that's coming from behind. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 15 December, 2020