Moment Pro Camera II Tutorial — Best Settings for Cinematic Pro Video on iPhone
Moment Pro Camera II Tutorial — Best Settings for Cinematic Pro Video on iPhone
Moment Pro Camera 2 is here — and it delivers one of the cleanest, most intuitive, and most powerful pro-video experiences ever released for iPhone. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you step-by-step through the best settings for cinematic pro video, including the ideal codec, resolution, frame rate, Apple Log / Log2 workflow, LUT setup, focus tools, zebras, and how to nail filmic motion blur using the 180-degree shutter rule. Whether you’re shooting on iPhone 15 / 16 Pro or the iPhone 17 Pro with Apple Log 2, this guide shows you exactly how to get the best possible image quality inside Moment Pro Camera II by @moment
What You’ll Learn • The best Moment Pro Camera II settings for pro video on iPhone • HEVC vs ProRes 422 (which one to use and when) • 4K vs Open Gate — and Apple’s hidden Log limitation • How to shoot in Apple Log / Log 2 for maximum dynamic range • How to apply Display LUTs vs Baked-In LUTs • How to import and use custom LUTs (including EPIC LUTs & GLOAT) • Setting up waveform, histograms, peaking, and highlight zebras • How to expose Log correctly without clipping • How to get cinematic 180° shutter motion blur • Why you NEED a variable ND filter for daytime Log video • How to use the new Shutter Priority Mode (MPC II’s secret weapon)
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Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
