iPhone to record video for Facebook

wrinkleygit

A couple of friends have asked me to post some videos on Facebook, the only device I have is my iP XR. Having just tried a couple of recordings the results are dire to say the least. I certainly wasn’t expecting studio quality from such a basic setup but I had hoped it might be useable.
  Vocals didn’t sound too bad but the guitar accompaniment had all the tone sucked out of it. What is anyone else using, do I need an interface to use a decent mic, bearing in mind my phone only has a lightning connector. For the amount of time I’m likely to do this I don’t want to spend a fortune.

munckee

As mentioned in another thread today I video'd this on an ipad with a Zoom IQ6 which is a flash connector microphone, I paid about £60 from amazon, there is a 7 now not sure how much it is - an improvement on the phone mic, in a band situation a lot depends on where you stand!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BtdFpw9-Y

wrinkleygit

Thanks, that sounds pretty good , vast improvement on what I achieved.

oaf

@fretfinder what's your phone/mic setup again? A Shure one?

hollywoodrox

Lighting is the key.  Lots of light or well placed light .

There are lots of great LED lights to be had reasonably now ,plus use of natural light too.
  Filmic pro is a good movie shooting app

 This Bentley ad was shot on a 5s.

https://youtu.be/lyYhM0XIIwU

hollywoodrox

https://youtu.be/ruDJgtcZB-E

hollywoodrox

This guy is good 
https://youtu.be/g8a4F6mVX64

octatonic

The way to do it is to record the audio separately and use a clap to time align them in FCP or Premiere.

I've done gear reviews this way, it is fine.

Danny1969

If you buy a camera adapter for the iphone you connect any USB audio interface and get decent quality audio straight into the phone which syncs to the iphones video as it replaces the iphones mic audio. We did a couple of live gigs broadcast to facebook with this set up. 

Connect the USB camera adapter to the iphone. now connect the USB type A port of the adapter to the USB B port on the  hub. Then connect the USB audio interface to the hub using your normal type A to B cable. Use another port on the hub to connect a lighting cable back to the adapter so your phones got charging power. 

Go to your camera ap, choose video ... start playing into your USB interface and boom, decent sound straight on the video. 

We broadcasts a couple of social distancing gigs in a factory direct to Facebook with this setup and the sound was so much better

wrinkleygit

Thanks for the replies, got my head around this now, if I use the Apple USB3 adapter I can plugin my Zoom 8 track in the Usb socket & power up the phone with the additional lightning socket, perfect.