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kofman13

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So im doing video recordings of myself playing the piano with the iPhone Xs. Love the overall image quality. I tap to focus, then drag down to exposure it a little darker to my test, then I hit record which is supposed to keep it at that exposure (am I wrong because it seems so, after I press record it doesn’t go back to bright). Anyway, I sit at the piano, record, come back to watch footage and over the course of a few minutes of record you see that on the right, the white balanced changed and image is hella bright compared to what I wanted in the beginning. Is there anyway to avoid this? Any tips?

Now I know there is “AF/AE Lock” when u press and hold on the screen and then adjust, but it looks different, I can make a comparison of that too. When using the actual Lock feature it looks worse and exposes simply darker across the board while my usual tapping, adjusting, then hitting record looks a lot better even when dark with a lot more contrast. While “AF/AE Lock” looks bad and looks simply like I turned the brightness down on my phone, not actual exposure. Any help?
 
The iPhone camera will be an endless source of frustration if you want to finely tune and lock in the exposure
 
For more manual controls, you have to opt for 3rd party apps.
Filmic Pro is a popular one, albeit not free. But it can do what you want.
 
Like the others said you will need to use an app to lock the exposure.
the issue is that Apple never released the API for stereo audio recording for third party apps, so i would lose stereo microphone for video if i use filmic pro or other apps :(. Filmic support told me this themselves
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For more manual controls, you have to opt for 3rd party apps.
Filmic Pro is a popular one, albeit not free. But it can do what you want.
i have filmic but apple doesnt allow stereo microphone recording in third party video apps which is important for me as well :( hmm
 
the issue is that Apple never released the API for stereo audio recording for third party apps, so i would lose stereo microphone for video if i use filmic pro or other apps :(. Filmic support told me this themselves
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i have filmic but apple doesnt allow stereo microphone recording in third party video apps which is important for me as well :( hmm

Sounds to me that you need to upgrade your equipment to a video camera if you are really serious about this.
 
There is no in-built option in the camera app of the iOS devices which lets you to lock the exposure. So, if you really want to lock the exposure then you will have to download third party camera apps from the app store.
 
To lock focus and exposure tap and hold in the default camera app
 
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