Presets
Presets are one of the most powerful features BeastCam offers. They're designed to heavily optimize your entire workflow by automatically adding as many settings as you want all at once at the tap of a single icon. BeastCam provides options for both local and global presets, and allows both types to be used simultaneously for even more powerful customization.
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Local presets
Local presets allow you to store up to three settings on your iPhone for each of the white balance, focus, and zoom settings. They will be saved permanently, even if your phone dies, the app is closed, etc. and can be changed at any time.
Examples
Local presets can be used for an unlimited amount of different scenarios, but here's a list of some of the most popular use cases:
- Save your zoom and focus settings for the DOF Adapter
- Save your zoom settings for lenses that have vignetting
- Save your white balance settings for a room that you record videos in often
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Creating a local preset
Tap either the white balance, focus or zoom icon, adjust your settings to and tap one of the numbered preset icons on the right side of the screen to save it.
Using a local preset
Tap the numbered preset icon at any time to activate your saved setting.
Deleting a local preset
Tap and hold the numbered local preset icon to delete the saved setting. You can then create a new local preset with that same numbered icon to replace the deleted one.
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Global Presets
Global presets are an even more powerful optimization to your workflow. They allow you to store as many settings as you want on your iPhone and in the cloud to access them at any time and on any device. They can be shared for consistency with multi-phone setups and allow you to save any settings that are available in BeastCam.
Global presets require you to be signed in to a free BeastCam account.
Examples
Global presets are incredibly useful for things like default settings, frame rate, shutter speed, etc., but they're even more robust when combined together with other settings for hardware, and multi-phone setups. Here are a few popular use cases:
- Save different frame rate and shutter speed combinations, i.e. "Slo-mo 120FPS 1/240," "Cinematic 24FPS 1/48," etc.
- Save different video quality combinations, i.e. "4K with Beast quality"
- Save your zoom and focus settings for the DOF Adapter
- Save your current settings for the location you're in and share them with another phone for multi-phone setups
- Save different zoom settings for your lenses
- Save different audio format combinations, i.e. "PCM 48kHz," etc.
Global presets are even stronger when used together with local presets. For example, you can set a global preset for everything and then override something quickly with a local preset as needed.
Creating global presets
Tap on the "P" icon on the right side of the screen to access the global presets menu. You'll see all of your current settings displayed and can save them by tapping "Save preset" and entering a name in the pop up menu.
Global presets are first saved to your iPhone, and will also be saved in the cloud as soon as your phone is connected to the internet.
Loading global presets
Tap on "P" to open the global presets menu, then on "Presets" to display all of your saved presets, then on the your desired preset and finally on "Apply preset" to load the preset into your current settings.
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Last settings and Default presets
The Last settings and Default presets are included by default for your convenience and will always be available.
Last settings
The Last settings preset saves your most recent settings so they can quickly be recovered if BeastCam was closed unexpectedly, your phone battery died, etc. Tap the Last settings label and then "Apply preset" to apply them to your video.
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Default presets
The Default presets preset will load all of the default auto settings that BeastCam uses when the app is first launched. This is extremely useful if you ever change something that you unsure of and just want to reset everything back to auto without having to close the app and start over.
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Sharing global presets
Another handy feature is the ability to share your global presets, which is perfect for using multiple phones on the same set and making sure that they are all set up consistently.
Tap "P" to open the global presets menu, then on "Presets" and then swipe the preset you want to share to the left to open the share menu. Then tap "Share," enter in the email address for the BeastCam account that you want to share it with and tap "Share" again to send it to them.
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Global preset storage
BeastCam provides a built-in archive that stores your deleted presets inc case you would like to restore them at a later time. This is very helpful for temporarily hiding your presets if your account has a lot of them saved and only needs access to a few at that time.
Archiving presets
To delete a preset into the archive, swipe the preset name to the left, and then tap the trash icon.
Restoring presets
Tap the archive icon, then swipe the preset name that you want to restore to the left, and then tap the restore icon. This preset will now be available for usage again in the presets menu.
Deleting presets permanently
To completely remove the preset from the archive to where it can no longer be retrieved, tap the archive icon, swipe the preset name to the left and then tap the trash icon.
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