when the Nikon D5300 first came out the camera didn't have very great firmware so a lot of
the settings if you wanted to do video and you wanted to adjust the shutter speed aperture
or ISO you had to do it in view finder mode and then switch over to live view now with
the current version of firmware which is one point zero one for the D5300 you can actually
adjust the settings without switching between live view and the view finder you can do most
of the settings just by using the live view the only setting you have to change in view
finder mode is the aperture so I'll quickly show you how to do it turn the camera on and
then for the aperture if you want to do that you just switch to manual as you can see it's
on manual and then you just hold the aperture button down in the front and you can adjust
the aperture smaller or larger I usually leave it wide open because the camera when it's
on auto for video it leaves it wide open at three point five now we'll switch over to
live view so you press the i button and then you go to focus mode and as you can see all
three focus modes are available I usually leave it on full time servo auto focus because
I can't be behind the camera to adjust the focus while I'm making a video and here you
can adjust the auto focus area mode now if you're not taking a video where you will have
a face in it it's probably best to switch it to wide area auto focus because then it
doesn't try to track someone's face and there's also normal but I wouldn't use that for high
definition and then there's subject tracking so like in the example there if you're recording
something like wild life that is moving you can use subject tracking so most of my videos
on the DSLR include my face so I leave face priority on and the metering I leave on matrix
now here you can adjust the ISO and when the camera is on auto it uses thirty two hundred
usually and that kind of evens it out so there isn't a lot of video noise and to adjust the
exposure you just hold the exposure button here the one that says AE-L and then use the
wheel and you can adjust now auto mode usually uses one thirty so you can put it there and
as you can see the aperture is wide open and the ISO is on thirty two hundred so all of
the changes we've made are working and here is the metering mode and it's on matrix and
the auto focus is right there and then the face is right there so the face priority auto
focus and that's it now years ago like I said earlier when this camera first came out the
firmware must've been not as good as it is now now you can do most of the manual adjustments
for video right from manual mode and you don't actually have to switch between view finder
and live view and we'll quickly go into the menu here movie settings and see here it says
manual movie settings well I actually have them off so you don't actually have to go
into the menu and turn this on like some of the older videos on YouTube that I've watched
they went in here and turned this on and then switched the camera to manual and then started
to adjust the settings now you don't even have to do that so that's one less step basically
you just turn your camera on and then you set it to manual mode and away you go you
don't have to worry about the manual movie settings in the menu you can adjust the settings
here just by pressing the "i" button and doing the settings from there you don't actually
have to turn on the manual movie settings so that's just a quick video for me I have
low light problems where there's video noise because there isn't quite enough light and
I only have to sixty watt LED bulbs and they do fairly decently but if you look close enough
or if you put the video into full screen you'll notice that there is video noise in the background
so with the exposure compensation and the aperture wide open that should probably do
enough for my low light problems
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