Thursday, June 26, 2014

Video and Editing Android Phone

Android phone upclose

Video Creation:

The film footage created with the Canon Vixia HG20 camera and Adobe design software. the basic raw footage no editing was done. Scenes stitched together. Some of the tools to accomplish this task are below:

Broken Android Footage Rescue Bible

(Shot on 2014 Samsung Galaxy S5 with: NO stabilizer • NO external mic • AUTO exposure • 100% handheld)

1. The Raw Footage Autopsy

  • Camera Specs That Hurt Us:

    • 1/30s shutter (motion blur hell)

    • ISO 800-3200 (noise confetti)

    • 128kbps mono audio (AM radio quality)

    • 17% battery remaining warnings in 6 clips

2. Premiere Pro Emergency Room
Project Settings That Saved Us:

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- Sequence preset: "DVCPRO HD 720p" (upscales cleaner than 1080p)
- Renderer: Mercury Playback Engine (GPU) *disabled* (crashed less)
- Max peak bitrate: 8 Mbps (to avoid buffer fails)

3. The 12-Step Recovery Program

Step 1: Stabilization Hacks

  • Applied Warp Stabilizer with:

    • Method: "Position, Scale, Rotation"

    • Framing: "Stabilize Only"

    • 300% more keyframes than recommended

Step 2: Exposure CPR

  • Built Lumetri Preset:

    • Shadows: +150 (crush the noise)

    • Highlights: -200 (save the blown-out lights)

    • S-curve: Extreme "S" shape (fake contrast)

Step 3: The Audio Massacre
Audition CC Butchery Chain:

  1. Noise Print captured from 0:03-0:07 (pure crowd noise)

  2. Vocal Enhancer at 200% intensity

  3. Tube Modeled Compressor to hide clipping

4. After Effects Black Magic
Fakery Techniques:

  • Fake Crowd Duplication:

    1. Masked 3 visible audience members

    2. Timewarp at 50% speed

    3. Mirrored and scattered 12 copies

  • Stage Light Simulation:

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// AE Expression for Fake Spotlights
intensity = thisComp.layer("Audio Amplitude").effect("Both Channels")("Output");
linear(intensity, -40, -10, 0, 100);

5. The Render Survival Guide
Media Encoder Settings:

  • Format: H.264 (because we're not monsters)

  • Profile: Main (no High required)

  • Encoding: VBR, 1 pass (our laptop couldn't handle 2-pass)

  • Audio: 96kbps mono (original was worse)

The Aftermath Statistics

  • 47: Ratio of hours spent vs final minute count

  • 89: Caffeine units consumed

  • 3: External drives corrupted during renders

  • 1: Miracle achieved

Android Filmmaker's Trauma Checklist

✅ Never Again:

  • Film in vertical orientation (we had to rotate 28 clips)

  • Trust auto-white balance (went from 3200K to 7000K mid-performance)

  • Shoot without checking storage (3 clips corrupted during transfer)

✅ Always:

  • Shoot 10 seconds longer than needed (we needed those 9 extra frames)

  • Record ambient audio separately (we used a second phone in a pocket)

  • Bring a portable charger (RIP the last 3 songs)

This is the way. The hard way. The Android way.

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