Revealing the timeline and my editing techniques from a recent video.
Added 2025-03-23 10:45:27 +0000 UTC
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Hahaha yes :,D
T
2025-09-02 06:51:04 +0000 UTCNo one uses vignette and its true for me too 😂, expect special cases like this.
Daksh Wadekar
2025-08-31 13:12:29 +0000 UTCHi Willem! Hmm this is likely a user-error of some sort - a VND will not have any relevant effect on the colours of your footage. How do you convert the footage from Apple Log to Rec.709? When I was first working with the iPhone I tried the in-house conversion-LUT from Apple and it honestly looked pretty bad haha. Instead I now use this free conversion-LUT by Gamut that I always link in any of my Patreon-tutorials when I use it. It does the job better, but the footage in my opinion still looks rather bland, but that is 1. subjective and 2. sort of the point. Rec.709 is supposed to look very neutral and boring, but not super flat like log. Hence after applying the conversion LUT I do my colour grading to add the colours and character to the footage. Something else to consider is an error with the settings while shooting. I personally just shoot in the default camera app which is convenient but brings along some issues. The main issue for me is the Auto-WB. Sometimes the iPhone just reads the scene incorrectly and messes up my White Balance so that the footage looks really off or bland. Usually this happens to scenes that are supposed to look warm that the iPhone mistakenly over-corrects to the point that it looks kind of cold (or maybe bland in the way that you mean it.) To fix this you can either decide to shoot in the Blackmagic app where you can set your settings or just fix it in post, which is what I do (doesn't always work, but most of the time it's fine). Do you think one of these issues might be causing your footage to look the way it does?
T
2025-04-12 10:38:31 +0000 UTCHello again Teo, just had another question, this time about Apple Log. Not sure if you have been asked this already but when I get home from shooting and convert to Rec709 it looks painfully bland, and it's only with very harsh and obvious colour grading that it finally looks somewhat presentable. I was just wondering if there are things I should be doing with the exposure (would you recommend a VDN filter?) to keep a lower shutter speed while not having the highlights consume the entire shot. I'm just not getting the range of colours I would be capturing with the standard video footage. Good news is that from my last question and your nice response, I was able to go out and capture a beautiful sunset yesterday! Thanks again :)
Willem Tys
2025-04-12 09:39:23 +0000 UTCHi Willem! Aww thank you, I'm happy my work connects with you in some way! <3 Hmm it's a bit tricky. When it comes to photography it all comes down to your honest intentions. My honest intention is to document something happening in this little corner of the real world where I happen to be. Making that very clear, and understanding that there's nothing wrong with that, is the first step I'd say. However I also do not want to influence the scene by drawing attention to myself nor do I want anyone to feel uncomfortable because of me, thus I do my best to be quite inconspicuous when shooting. Obviously running around with a GoPro on my head does not help hahaha. But still there is a way of behaving to blend in. Don't get in people's way, stay to the side, only raise the camera when necessary and stuff like that. By just being a fly on the wall basically you can observe many things and capture a few of them :) However bad experiences are almost a guarantee, though I feel like they are rare, but depends on many things. There are situations in which it is simply inappropriate to photograph or in other way rather apparent that you might not be welcome - avoid those situations. However the one time I got into some trouble was actually completely unexpected. I was shooting a roll of film in a quiet neighbourhood - shooting some gardens, houses, the side of the forest and things of that kind. Long story short, a woman from the area thought I looked suspicious and accused me of taking photos of the houses in order to plan a burglary. I kindly explained that her assumption is incorrect and offered her my ID in case she'd want to document my identification, which is of course something a burglar would never do. After a short exchange she accepted her mistake and left and all was good.
T
2025-04-07 13:30:07 +0000 UTCHello Teo, I am a very recent subscriber and have been very keen through your videos to get into film making and photography. I was going to ask for your experience shooting in public like the majority of your YT vids are, for me it is quite daunting. Have you had negative experiences with people you have shot or in that vein? I may be overthinking this but just wanted o ask for your opinion. Thank you!!!
Willem Tys
2025-04-06 08:58:12 +0000 UTCOhh I see - more advanced than I anticipated, thanks for the hint! Ohh what a scene! I've seen various clips from that film before - need to check out the whole thing some time :D
T
2025-03-28 05:31:40 +0000 UTCHi Nikolas! No worries, that’s not a dumb question!🙏✨ Yes! DaVinci is the best in the industry for color grading and might be harder to learn than Premiere. Especially if you’re familiar with photo editing in Adobe Lightroom, I think it is fair to say that Premiere will be easier to learn. DaVinci is on the top for a reason though, it really is better, but I personally am fine with Premiere and maybe one day I’ll switch, but for now I enjoy pushing Premiere Pro to its limits👍 So I think it sounds good for your case too :)
T
2025-03-27 15:10:55 +0000 UTCSorry for another dumb question, Teo. I'm looking to test out premier pro for video. Based on your videos, it seems like color grading in premier is fairly easy to pickup if you are used to Lightroom tone curves. Would you agree? Davinci color grading makes my head spin. :/
Nik
2025-03-27 14:31:38 +0000 UTCSo interesting to see how much effort and intentionality you put into every aspect of your videos. BTW, slide projectors were considerably more sophisticated than actually sliding from one slide to another. They'd do a quick fade-out of one slide, put the next one in place and do a quick fade-in. Check out Don Draper's fictional ad pitch about the Kodak Carousel from "Mad Men." https://youtu.be/suRDUFpsHus?si=I2PVhj6jQnlCRrzf
RobC
2025-03-27 08:48:22 +0000 UTCAww sweet, glad you like it! Thanks <3
T
2025-03-25 19:55:37 +0000 UTCthis was epic ive always been sooo curious ! totally bada*sss job
Julia Juncadella
2025-03-25 19:40:04 +0000 UTCAww great, glad you like it!🙏
T
2025-03-24 14:51:45 +0000 UTCThis is awesome!
Ab Hassett
2025-03-24 13:43:30 +0000 UTCNo problem! So I'm not a tech expert myself, but as far as I know and have experienced, I can tell you the following. One thing that massively contributes to your editing software needing time to load is actually not the PC but the hard drive. If you edit off of an external HDD or and internal HDD it's just going to be slow, because HDD hard drives are slow. Therefore you want to either use an external SSD or edit off of the internal SSD of the computer. That is why I bought a Mac with 2TB of internal SSD memory because that allows me to work directly from the computer without any hard drives. When it comes to the specs, I think your CPU and GPU are important, the RAM not as much. For RAM 8GB has been fine, more is obviously not bad though. As for the CPU: My current Mac is very strong, stronger than really necessary with an M3 Pro chip inside. Before I worked on this Mac, I used a Windows Desktop with an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor (3.60GHz), which was also fine for most things. The GPU of the Mac is again something really good I think, but tbh. I don't know. On the PC I had a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (4GB), which also did alright for most things. When I say "did alright" I mean I could smoothly edit without issues. The only issues I had was the lag from my HDD hard drives. The limit for the PC was quickly reached however once I added lots of effects. Colour Grading was usually still doable to an extent but as soon as I added Dehancer (a colour grading plugin) on top I could barely playback the video. But apart from that it did pretty well - render times were quite fast. The Mac on the other hand can handle the full heavy combo. Sometimes it drops frames and lags but it's much stronger than the PC. I hope this helps! Are you thinking of buying a Mac? In which case I think any Macbook with a M1 chip or stronger will do pretty well, you don't necessarily need an M3 Pro chip and such, especially if your editing is not very heavy stuff.
T
2025-03-23 21:24:52 +0000 UTCHi Teo, i hope you don't mind, i'm curios what specs does your macbook has? i have the adobe premier pro but it slows down my PC and worse it crashes at times while editing. i am not a tech savvy guy. and so with regards to macOs, i am curious as to how much unified memory or core cpu or core gpu should my computer has to have a smooth editing work flow.
Jon C.
2025-03-23 19:16:18 +0000 UTCHahahah oops :,D
T
2025-03-23 14:21:35 +0000 UTCI hate how inspired I am to start using premier pro just from your workflow.
Nik
2025-03-23 14:15:02 +0000 UTCFor suuure! <3
T
2025-03-23 12:25:54 +0000 UTCThanks for the awesome content Teo! Can't wait to watch it :)
AnnaSol
2025-03-23 10:46:25 +0000 UTC
