Right out of the box the Canon eos r10 has some default settings like all cameras do that we
need to tweak and change to make our workflow for creating youtube videos a little bit easier
a little faster we can get more done create more videos and be consistent on our youtube
channel there's a lot of settings these cameras are really powerful you may not know where to find
the settings or what to even change or maybe you're afraid of hitting the wrong button and
totally screwing everything up but if you don't tweak some of the default settings on the r10 then
you're not gonna have access to some of the really great features that will
improve the quality of your youtube videos and help you create videos faster and i promise you
can't mess this up just follow along with me here in this video and then grab my cheat sheet at the
end you can print it out save it to your device so i've got the r10 connected to my computer so
i can record the screen we can go through all of the menu settings so with your battery in
turn the camera on make sure you just keep it in auto mode that's the green a and if you press the
menu button in the top left you're going to see a bunch of different menu stuff is a touch screen so
you can just use your finger to touch the menu options that you want to get into so let's dive
into some basic camera settings and preferences we don't need to touch on every single setting here
in the menu but there are a few things we want to get out of default mode so we're going to start
at the tools menu which is the little wrench icon right here so i'm gonna go down to format
card formatting your card before you shoot anything record anything in your camera is
really important so you're going to need to format your card when you put it in this brand new camera
just bear in mind if you have anything on that card it's going to be wiped out when you hit
format so just select okay and i'll put a list of cards that are best for the r10 in the description
below this video go down to the next one where it says add movie camera icon rotate info
select that because that's going to be disabled by default i'm going to bring it up to enable so that
way if you are using your camera to shoot tick tocks reels shorts stories any vertical videos
it's going to record as a vertical video you won't have to rotate it in your editing software
now if you haven't been prompted to set your date and time you're going to want to do this
because all of the photos and videos that you record on here are going to be like stamped with
that date and time and moving down of course you're going to set your language as well if
it's not already set for you moving on to the next page of the tools menu we have video system for me
in the us i'm choosing ntsc in other countries like uk australia you might want to choose pal
format if you're not sure which one to choose for the country you're in probably find the answer
through a quick google search moving down to mode guide you can see this is set to enable
we're going to disable this it's like a weird notification that pops up anytime you change
to a different mode on your camera the next thing is the beep now my camera is not beeping
even though it says beeping is enabled i don't want it to beep every time i go through a menu
option or change anything so i'm gonna go and disable that so moving down to power saving
this is where you can set your camera to stay on for a little longer for example this is set by
default to turn the screen off after 10 seconds which let me tell you it's pretty annoying so
i'm going to switch it up to 30 seconds now one thing you might be noticing about your canon r10
is that when you move your fingers in front of the screen to touch something or change a settings the
screen might actually be turning off what's happening is the viewfinder here is detecting
that you're putting it up to your face or your in front of it somehow and it will shut the screen
off it'll disable the screen if you are using your viewfinder to take a picture you're not
accidentally like changing settings with the tip of your nose i guess but it is kind of annoying
if all you're using your camera for is video and you're always using the screen and you're not
really using that viewfinder you can just change this up so here's how this works under screen
slash viewfinder display you can see it sets a auto one let's tap into there we'll just go right
down to screen and set it to screen now the screen will stay active as you're using your camera
whether you wave your hand or put it up to your eye that viewfinder is not going to engage it'll
just stay on your screen moving on to the last page of this tool menu let's go down to firmware
firmware is your camera's internal software and every few months or every year or so canon will
update a firmware for all of its different camera models sometimes it happens more often than that
now the camera's not going to tell you that there's a firmware update for that you're going
to have to go to google the easiest thing to do is just google canon r10 firmware you're gonna click
on support for eos r10 scroll down to drivers and downloads and then select firmware and the
site will let you know what the current version of firmware is that is available so you can see here
on my r10 that my firmware is version 1.0.1 but the latest firmware that's available is 1.1.0 so
we need to update this now i'm not gonna do that here in this video so let's keep going
with our video settings so now i want you to take it out of the auto mode with that green
a we're going to move our mode dial over to the little video camera so pressing the menu button
up at the top again we're going to go all the way over to the camera menu
that's right here at the very beginning it's going to be the red menu with the camera icon
now we're already in shooting mode for video but we have to turn this into video manual mode
so that we actually have access to all of the different features and functions and settings
that we want to to create great youtube videos right so we're just going to go down to the video
camera that has the m on it m stands for manual we're going to select that and you can tell in
the upper left-hand side of the screen that it is in video mode and it is in the manual
video mode so we want to make sure we see that up there going back to our menu we're going to
come down to movie recording size we have lots of different options here on the r10 you could shoot
4k 30 frames per second you could shoot 24 you could shoot at 60 if you wanted to but
it's gonna be crapped in a little bit i always shoot at 1080 30 frames per second usually for
the most part for these kinds of videos so i'm going to keep mine where it says fhd that's 1080.
it's gonna be 30 frames per second sound recording now i always put mine into manual mode
if you're using a microphone like i'm using here the dji mic then you definitely want to have it in
manual mode because you're going to want to set your sound level so that you're not peaking so
always have to move this pretty far down and then hit okay so if you're just using the
camera's microphone probably auto is going to be fine for you let's look at white balance now i
keep my white balance on auto i don't mess around with this too much i'm always shooting here in my
office there's a window right here you may have noticed my exposure changed a little bit a few
minutes ago because the sun came out i also have a light right here behind my camera so i'm just not
that worried about the white balance because i'm always in the same spot and i think it's it's okay
it's fine the way that it is so i keep mine on auto if you have a different shooting
situation or different settings different lights if you're outside you might want to adjust these
to your liking now there are a lot of other settings here under this menu but we don't
need to change any of them we can just keep them default as they are right now now one last thing
i want to show you is to set up a custom menu it's so easy and it's going to save you a ton of time
so that you can access some of the menu items that you access regularly so much easier when it's just
a press of your finger rather than having to like tab through all of these different menu options
so the way that you do this is just select add my menu tab it's going to say add my menu tab one yes
we're going to hit ok now we go to configure and select items to register and this is just going
to give you a big long list of all the different features that you can access all the different
settings that you can access through your menu that you can put into your custom menu i'm going
to choose sound recording i like to have that option there i'm going to choose hdmi display
wi-fi bluetooth connection is a good one to put in there format card there we go
i want that there for sure i think that's it for now so now i have a whole menu that all i have to
do is go to that menu and i can access my sound recording hdmi display wi-fi format my card i
can add more items to this and i can have several different custom menus maybe i would have one for
shooting videos and have another one for shooting photos anything that you can access quickly is
going to save you so much time you'll know right where to go to access now you might be wondering
about shooting settings like iso aperture frame rate f-stop i've got you covered in the very
next video in this canon eos r10 series we're going to dive into these simple video settings
the simple video settings so that you can create great looking youtube videos with your canon r10
every single time quick and easy so i'll cue that video up for you next and don't forget to grab the
cheat sheet with all of the settings that i just went over plus all of the iso frame rate aperture
and all those kinds of fun things that we'll cover in the next video and i'll see you there