A guide to recording video with your phone

Here’s my guide of amateur advice after recently recording videos of some sports matches:

1. Take your phone and record a video until your arm gets tired
   • For less shaky video buy a tripod with a phone holder
2. Record at lower quality to save storage space
   • Quality is easier to select when recording with the Open Camera or Camera MX apps on Android
   • Or, rather get and use an SD card
     • SDXC or SDUC use ExFAT which is required for large files (> 4Gb)
     • Speed class also matters for HD+ video
3. Remember to fully charge your phone before recording
   • A powerbank/battery pack helps a lot
4. Copy the video to your PC via USB or Wifi
   • Use the Asus File Manager app on Android to copy files over Wifi
5. Edit videos with OpenShot Video Editor
   • You can cut, paste & easily edit videos into sections
   • Add various transitions & effects and customise properties (e.g. scaling/zoom, rotation, shear, playback speed, volume)
   • Create intro & outro “titles” and use “tracks” to overlay titles or new audio (or other video) over original video
   • When exporting video, set “Quality” setting manually (under Advanced -> Video Settings -> Bit Rate/Quality) to match that of your original video (viewable in VLC -> Media/Codec information -> Statistics)
6. Upload to Youtube