Six Common Devices for Shooting Short Video

Nowadays, with the popularity of smart phones and the improvement of short video communication platforms, short video creators can shoot short videos directly with their mobile phones and upload them to short video platforms. Moreover, many short video platforms have built-in short video shooting and editing functions, which greatly reduces the threshold for short video production.

Shooting short videos with smart phones has three advantages: portability and portability; The operation is simple, and novices can learn it quickly; Direct sharing is beneficial to interaction.

Of course, there are also some shortcomings in shooting short videos with mobile phones, such as the camera's lack of clarity, the simple portrait is ok, and the complex scene is not competent. For example, the anti-shake function in mobile phones is slightly poor, and even many mobile phones do not have this function, which makes them shake a lot when shooting.

2. SLR camera

In recent years, SLR cameras have become a common equipment for short video shooting. This is because SLR cameras have three advantages: lighter body, more professional image quality and cheaper than cameras.

So how do you shoot video with a SLR camera? There is a button on the camera body to start the camera mode. Of course, the video shooting buttons or shooting functions of different SLR cameras are different, so I won't talk about them here because of space reasons.

When shooting with a SLR camera, you need to know two words: resolution and frame rate.

(1) resolution

Before shooting video, you should choose the resolution. Common resolutions are: HD 720P( 1280 720), 2K( 1920 1080) and 4K(4096 2 160). The higher the resolution, the clearer the picture quality and the larger the storage space occupied.

(2) Frame rate

Frame rate refers to the number of frames per second to refresh pictures, that is, the display speed of a series of pictures on the screen. Before shooting a short video, you should choose the video format, which includes the selection of frame rate. At present, there are two main video formats: one is ——PAL, the video standard of Europe and other countries (regions), that is, 50 frames/second is the standard frame rate of 720P high-definition video, and 25 frames/second is the standard frame rate of radio and television; The other is the video standard of ——NTSC, the United States and other countries (regions), that is, 60 frames per second is the standard rate of 720P HD video, and 30 frames per second is the standard frame rate of radio and television. And the higher the frame rate, the clearer the video and the more memory it takes up. Generally speaking, short videos shot at 12 frames per second are already very smooth, so if the requirements are not high, there is no need for such a high frame rate.

Step 3: Camera

When shooting TV programs, we often use cameras because they have excellent video effects. If you need a well-made short video, be sure to use a camera. The camera here refers to a business camera, not a home DV camera. Because it is a professional video shooting, there are many supporting accessories, such as camera power supply, camera cable (used to connect camera and video recorder), photographic lamp, color display (used to ensure the color of the shooting picture), tripod (used to stabilize the shooting equipment) and so on.

4. Microphone

Some auxiliary tools are often used in short video shooting, and microphone is one of them. With the help of microphone, we can improve the audio quality of short video. The more popular brand models are Shengli PC-K820, Charming T8-2, Lenovo UM 10C.

Of course, there are many microphone products on the market, so you can buy them according to your own shooting needs.

5. Motorized rail car

Rail cars are often used when shooting location and dynamic scenes. There are many kinds of rail cars, such as manned electric slide rail, portable manned rail car, uniform electric rail car, pedal electric rail car and so on.

6. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

For the need of shooting, some scenes need to be shot by aerial drones. For example, aerial drones are needed to shoot some broad scenes from high altitude.