Tutorials and demos

Film a tutorial with the hands and the whole setup

A good tutorial shows two things at once: what the hands are doing and where they are doing it. Cooking, repairs, crafts, unboxings, a product on a desk. Wide + Ultra-wide records the tight view and the wide view in one take, and an over / under split puts both on screen for the viewer, live, with nothing to edit.

ModeWide + Ultra-wide (Front + Back when you present to camera)
LayoutOver / under; side by side for a landscape video
What to saveBoth
ExtrasTeleprompter for the steps, photo mid-take for the result

How to film it

  1. Put the phone on a stand above or in front of the work. Steady the picture can be switched off in Settings so a phone on a tripod keeps its full field of view.
  2. Swipe to Wide + Ultra-wide. The wide lens is the main picture; pinch it to 2× for the detail while the ultra-wide holds the whole bench at 0.5×.
  3. Pick over / under and drag the seam so the detail gets the larger half.
  4. Paste the steps into the teleprompter if you narrate, and set the speed by reading them once aloud.
  5. Record. Tap the shutter for a still of the finished result without stopping the take.

What you get

A combined video where the viewer sees the close work and the context at the same time, plus a clean tight file and a clean wide file, aligned, for a version that cuts between them. If you present to camera instead, Front + Back gives you the same structure with your face in the second picture.

Wide + Ultra-wide in an over/under split: the tight view above, the whole scene below
Over / under in Wide + Ultra-wide: the detail above, the whole scene below.

Tips

  • Light the bench, not the phone. The ultra-wide gathers less light than the wide lens; a lamp on the work keeps the wide half clean.
  • Lock focus and exposure with a half-second hold once the framing is set, so the picture does not hunt when your hands move.
  • Captions after. On iOS 26 the transcript is written on the phone; correct the product names once and export the SRT with the video.

Questions

Tutorials, answered

Can the viewer see me and my hands at the same time?

Yes, with Front + Back: the back camera on the work, the front camera on you, in a window or a split. For the hands and the whole setup without you in the picture, use Wide + Ultra-wide.

Do I need an ultra-wide lens?

For Wide + Ultra-wide, yes: the iPhone 11 family and later, except the SE models and the iPhone 16e. Those phones still film tutorials in Front + Back and Single.

The detail and the context. One take.

Dual Recorder: Dual Camera is coming to the App Store for iPhone.