Shooting a video with a professional camera can be an enthralling experience, but everyone doesn’t have one.

No worries! What if we tell you that you can make stunning travel films with your smartphone and then edit them with any sophisticated editing tool?

Going out and recording clips in your mobile camera is often easier and more convenient.

“But what about the quality?” you might be wondering. There are a few tips of the trade that can help you improve the quality of your film.

Here’s how to use your phone to make spectacular travel films!

Edit your video using transitions, filters, music, and other effects

A rough cut must be made utilizing tools such as splitting, cropping, rotating, and so on. You may use any good video trimmer to remove unwanted clips and keep the ones you need. After that, apply effects to your video using the techniques below to improve its performance.

Add filters and special effects 

To do so, go to the Effects section, where you’ll find various and fascinating filters, effects, and overlays. You may now add filters to your video, such as blur, distorted, and pixelated.

Include transitions 

With no gaps, your video clips will play in the sequence in order. You’ll need transitions to make seamless transitions from one clip to the next. Go to the Transition tab and drag any transition between any two clips to add an effect. There are over 100s of interesting and free transition effects to pick from in your video editing tool.

Include music in the background

In a travel video, music and sound effects create emotion and enhance sceneries. To add a sound effect, go to the Audio tab and select any of the appropriate audio effects from the sound library. To apply your sound effect, drag and drop it onto your audio track.

Depending on your preferences, you may also use this feature to import local music or songs as background music.

Trim the video

This is an essential task to reduce the video length to fit a social media recommendation or just that you want to remove a section from your raw clip. Trim editing manually can be risky; having it done with a tool is a smart choice.

Save and export 

When you’re happy that your project is complete, save your completed travel video in whatever format you like. To save your video to your computer, go to “Export” and select a format for your edited travel video.

Get started with your gear

To take full advantage of your gear, you must first understand its capabilities. Whether you have an iPhone or an Android, it is recommended to watch a lesson or two to learn all the functionalities of your phone and how to use them.

Knowing how your phone works, you can create amazing slo-mo images and change the attributes to do time-lapse recordings and more.

Next, try using a tripod that will provide you greater stability than holding your phone in your hand, regardless of what phone you’re shooting with. This makes video shooting easy and convenient.

Do keep in mind the following things before you plan to create your video.

• Keep your exposure (AE/AF) locked.
• If at all possible, shoot in 4k.
• The benchmark for cinematic quality is 24 frames per second (FPS).
• Slo-Mo requires 60 frames per second.
• For even slower Slo-Mo, choose 120 or 240 frames per second.

Tips for planning your shots 

Going into filmmaking with certain shots in mind is helpful when you don’t know what you’ll click.

You’ll be able to embrace your purpose if you think about your final objective before you arrive, rather than researching and planning while you’re there.

Consider the type of travel video you want to create: vlogs, documentary, cultural immersion, or first-person perspective.

Determine the types of shots you’ll need to tell your storyline and make sure they’re diverse ( landscapes, subjects, slow-mo, and so on)

Begin storyboarding and deciding which photos you’d want in which places.

Recognize the type of light you will be shooting in.

What shots to click?

You can click various shots throughout the journey to capture every aspect of your journey.

Here are some examples of different sorts of photos you might include in your storyboard:

• Setting Up Shots
• Wide-angle shots of the landscape
• Stupendous views
• Shots of action, such as sampling a new dish, pouring a drink, or splashing in the water
• Walking to places, getting there
• Details in close-up
• Slow Motion Video
• Commentary/Reaction

After clicking images and shooting clips, it’s time to bring them together and beautify them to create your videos. Let’s see what to do next.

Start with pre-editing preparation

Ensure the vacation video editing program is downloaded and installed on your computer. Then, launch the video editing window, click the “New Project” button.

Get your footage organized

It’s usually a good idea to organize all of your film files in chronological order before you start your vacation video production so you can develop your travel narrative correctly. You may get rid of any unnecessary or undesirable clips here.

Drag and drop video clips onto the timeline

Drag & drop video files from your storage device or select “Import Media Files Here” to import your footage. Drag and drop these clips into the timeline to edit them.

Wrap up 

To sum up, now you have a good idea of making a Vlog or editing a video of your vacation moments.

For the most part, we believe that this post has eased the video editing or creation process for you, and this would be helpful for you in creating even more spectacular videos in the future. Choose music that isn’t licensed and add a balance of information and scenery.

So, what exactly are you waiting for? Get your previous travel clips and run them under an experiment to transform raw footage into incredible videos that you can upload and garner audiences across the globe.