Canon EOS 4000D rebel T100 set up for videos
Hello in this video I'm going to give
you the best settings to shoot movies
with the Canon 4000D or Rebel T100.
The Canon EOS 4000D or
Rebel T100 is an excellent camera for shooting both
stills and movies
and in this video I'm going to give you
the best settings to shoot movies.
In order to make any changes in the 4000D for video you
need to be in the Video Mode,
and in order to do that you turn the Dial Mode
on the top of the camera, round to the very bottom
option which shows a video camera.
When I do that you may hear that the mirror
inside the camera pops up like that.
That enables you to see through the viewing
screen at the back and this is
the only way you can shoot video.
You can't look through
the viewfinder to shoot video, you have
to shoot it through the back screen here.
It also gives you access to the menu tabs which
are dedicated to
video and
the first thing that you really need to
do here is choose your video system .
There are two systems, one is
PAL and the other is NTSC.
NTSC tends to be the system which is
operated in the United States
and PAL tends to be the
system which is operated
in Europe and other parts of the world.
There's not an enormous amount of
difference.
However it does change the way that the
camera operates very slightly.
When you start to look at the frame rates,
which I will do later on,
you will see that under NTSC you get a
frame rate option of 60 frames per
second or 30
frames per second.
When you're in PAL you get the
option of 50 frames a second
and 25 frames per second.
In order to change these options you need to
go into the video menus and you go to menu 2
and down at the bottom you have the
option to change Video System.
It's a very binary option you either have NTSC
or you have PAL - you don't have any other
choices.
The second thing you need to think about
is file size and frame rate and these
things are quite important because
they will decide the
quality of the videos that you shoot.
This camera is pretty good - it will shoot
1080p which is full HD and
it will also shoot 720p
which is standard HD both of
which are perfectly acceptable
for social media platforms.
In order to make
those changes we go again into
Video menu 2 and right at the very top there
is Movie Recording Size and if we press
on that option then we get
four options.
Now this as I say depends on
whether you've chosen
NTSC or PAL.
In this instance I'm on PAL
so I get 1920 x 1080
at 25 frames per second,
1920 x 1080 at 24
frames per second,
which is tries to give a sort
of movie impression,
and 1280 x 720
which will give me
50 frames per second.
That can be quite useful if I want
to shoot slow-motion action because I
can shoot things at 50 frames per second
and then slow it
right down so it goes
down to half speed or quarter speed and
it still looks quite effective.
The very bottom one is 640 x
480 and frankly I wouldn't bother with
that at all because the quality of it
simply isn't good enough.
I would choose 1920 x 1080 25
in most cases or if I was on
NTSC at 30
and then if I didn't choose that I would
choose the 1280 x
720 at 50
option or NTSC
60 frames per second.
That's the second choice you need to
make to decide how you're going to shoot
your movies with the 4000D.
The third thing you need to think about is
exposure.
When you're shooting stills with the Canon 4000D
you have lots of choices.
They're all here on
the mode dial and they go
from entirely manual to semi-automatic
and then to entirely
preset automatic options,
and in most of these cases the camera is
trying to get the best exposure
for the stills that you're
shooting - within the
given parameters of the preset modes.
With movies it's different.
For movies You
have two options you can either
shoot Automatic
or you can shoot Manual.
Now, again with Automatic
in movies the camera will try
to get the best possible
exposure for you.
In many cases it works very well ,
so I would suggest that initially at least,
you shoot in Automatic just to get a feel
for how the camera
works and you don't
have to worry then about the exposure
because the camera will govern that for you.
However, if you want to go into Manual
there are different ways of changing the
various parameters for Manual that are
different to the way
that you would do that for stills.
If we go into the video Menus,
Movie Exposure is in Video menu 1,
right at the top
and if you click on that then
you get the two options, Auto or Manual.
If you choose to go into Manual then
you have much more control over the
settings that you can have.
You have the options for setting the
Shutter Speed the Aperture
and for setting the ISO.
For the Shutter Speed,
use the Main Dial here and by rotating it,
the Shutter Speed moves up and down.
By depressing the AV button here and
rotating that Dial you
can change the Aperture
and so that goes up or down.
You can change both of those settings actually
while you are shooting the video.
Or, of course, beforehand.
However, you can’t change the ISO when
you are shooting video live.
You can change the ISO by going to the
quick control button and changing it
in the options, like you would if
you were shooting stills.
The fourth thing you need to think
about is sound.
Now the Canon 4000D does not have an
external microphone socket.
It just has an internal microphone,
so sound can be a
bit limited with this camera.
But if you go into Menus
and in Video menu 2, the
second one down
is Sound Recording and you can set that
to one of three options.
You can have either Auto,
Manual or Disable.
I would argue against disabling
it entirely because sometimes it's
useful to have sound,
even if you don't
intend to use it in the final cut.
so you can choose
between Auto or Manual.
Auto is not bad
but it will try to pick up as much
sound as possible
and you may not want that - you may not
want the ambient sound.
Manual is not too bad provided you are
reasonably close to the source of sound.
It has the decibel bar going across the
bottom and, as with most cameras,
the objective is to try and peak on
about 12.
In terms of its recording in itself it's actually
pretty good, so I wouldn't be adverse
to using the internal microphone.
use the recording level gauge and the
cross keys to get the right level.
So when you are shooting videos you
are actually, as I said earlier,
recording and shooting
through the back screen.
That means that the Autofocus
system is a bit slower
than when you are
shooting normally for
stills through the viewfinder.
That's because it's a different system.
You have a couple
of good options for
Autofocus when you're shooting video
and the way to see those is to go into video menu 1
and down to AF method and then
you will see that you
have Flexizone,
which is the single focus shot.
In other words you press the
shutter button as you would for
stills and the camera focuses.
It doesn't change
focus until you press here again.
The advantage of that is that you can
actually focus while you record at the same
time which is very useful.
The second option
is called Live Mode and that's quite
useful because it has facial
recognition which can make it easier to focus.
The third option is quick
mode and that tries to be faster
by bouncing the mirror up and using
the viewfinder system to focus.
But you can’t operate
this one while you are shooting video.
The other two systems
can operate whilst you're videoing
and I would prefer to use those.
The next couple of options that we are
going to look at are in Video Tab 3 and
they may seem less important
than the other options
that we've looked at so far,
but they do quite clearly affect the way that
your video looks and
so they are worth checking out.
If we go to Video Tab 3 then at the
bottom is the Picture Style option.
These are the same options that you get
with stills and
with stills you can
choose to have Vivid or Sepia or many
other options and some of them
are set so that they bring
out the best qualities
for portrait and landscape.
With video it tends to be better
to try and shoot video as flat as
possible and so the
best option to start with at least is
neutral and so you should always set
that to neutral for video until
you decide that you want to
shoot something differently.
The one just above that in Video menu 3
is Custom White Balance.
Now if you go and buy the manual
for this camera that I have done,
you will see that there is an
entire video on Custom White Balance
and there are some very
good reasons why you should always take
care to either set the Custom White Balance
or check that it's ok.
It's very important for shooting
videos because if you want your video
to have continuity between scenes,
you will probably want to ensure the
white balance is right.
So those are the basic settings for
shooting video with the Canon 4000D
or Rebel T100.
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