you may be wondering and a lot of people seem to ask what my settings are so
today let's talk about the settings I use to shoot videos like this and other
videos too let's do it so to make it easier so you can see instead of me
trying to have to do backwards this way let me flip to a setting shot and take
it away Chris so basically what I'm gonna do is go through my camera and
show you how I kind of have it set up for video because I do video most of the
time I used the video dial and set my settings for the custom one and to
around the video what I mean by that is if you turn to video all my settings now
for custom one and two are based off of this video so I use two custom settings
I use one and I used two if you look at the settings on here everything is
exactly the same apart from one thing that is the video quality and the frame
rate so for one I use 120 frames a second 1080p video for two I use 24 P so
24 frames a second 4k video that way if I want to shoot b roll
i go to one if I want to shoot a talking head video or something where maybe you
want to crop in later on or I just want higher quality video that's going to be
what I use to fold so all my settings for custom one and custom two are
exactly the same other than the frame rates and the video
quality so let's jump straight into the menus okay so in menu one a lot of this
is gonna be related to photography I might skip over some of this stuff
because it's not relevant to video I might touch on some of it very quickly
but for the most part it's video the settings here aren't gonna be what I use
to shoot photos anyway I do it in manual so I'm gonna skip over this aspect ratio
and leave us 3.2 and photos if you did want to shoot in 16 by 9 you could you
know actually using the full frame so shooting through by 2 because you can
always crop to 16 by 9 afterwards if you want to
you can leave that like that for now long exposure and on high ISO and our
normal color space is always srgb this is where you would control your custom
functions and your custom settings I'll show you how to do that later on leave
that set so like that here's a big one for you continuous autofocus so if
you're shooting a video like I shoot YouTube videos and you want to be able
to have a camera automatically focus you always want to own continuous autofocus
there's other modes you can pick but for the most part continuous autofocus part
of the reason that people love these cameras is the continuous autofocus that
one there leave that like that the eople these are the ones like this
focus area personal preference some people prefer different settings for the
most part for most of the videos I shoot use wide you have other things you can
use as well like a zone center flexible spots that you can control obviously you
have the touch focus as well for the most part I just use wide focus settings
don't need to change that leave that like that these are settings related to
photography you're gonna skip over it again gonna skip over it skipping this
okay just wanted to quickly touch on that I'm skipping a lot of steps a lot
of menus there those are things that I don't often use and a lot of it's
related to photography as I said before if I'm gonna shoot photography or I'm
gonna shoot some photos I always say I'm gonna shoot photography that sounds so
weird when I take photos I'm gonna put it in manual mode I'm not gonna use this
menu system who's currently wearing video so yeah I'm skipping over menus
and things that you don't necessarily need to change I could have made this
video like an hour long and talked about every possible setting how it affects
your image that kind of thing didn't want to do that so yeah that's why I'm
skipping so much so doing on purpose all right
back to the video expose your compensation is zero
hi so obviously you can control that depending on what you need to use
depending on your environment meteringmode this is personal preference
it depends on the lighting situations that you're in for the most part I used
multi and I adapt around that spot metering mode this is basically the
camera is getting its information on the light the exposure from whatever you
have your setting to right here I use center leave the rest of those the same
like that flash obviously not what I did to video so skip that white balance is
gonna be automatic for most of my videos I do for YouTube automatic if I'm doing
something with Pro work and I want to make sure everything stays the same
between two cameras always set your white balance to something specific you
can change the color temperature you can leave it on daylight or shade but for
the most part for YouTube videos automatic sometimes there's problems
with that but it's easy just to leave automatic the rest of these I leave like
this here's my creative style autumn leaves picture effect off picture
profile off so people that set things like s log it's all going to be in here
gives your all your information about s log and everything from in here so for
example I think the cinah - that's a popular one s log - there you go that's
a really popular and that's picture profile seven I don't use those I use
off and then I just changed my creative style which is the the autumn leaves one
right there focus magnifier I did a video about that before click up here if
you want to see about that what a focus in focus magnifier on and your focus
assist so if you are shooting a photo or video as well you can focus by clicking
the button here and then if you control the focus ring if you have a manual
focus ring you'll actually zoom to show you your kind of what's in focus what's
not in focus first but second and then it will jump back to your regular shot
I need that exactly like that and then we're into a movie mode all right so for
the purpose of this one I'll show you in the 4k mode as I said I use a custom one
on to doll right now I'm in dial 2 if I change this to that that will basically
be what I have on my doll 1 that's it all other settings are exactly the same
okay so snq settings I don't use s and Q s and Q is slow and quick what this
means is if you record in this setting you will allowing your view back on the
screen in slow motion or in quick-quick could be like a time lapse or something
like that if you're under like 1 frames a second I don't use this cuz it doesn't
record sound I prefer to pick my own frame rate and basically slow it down a
post proxy recording I leave off if you say wanted to be able to record a video
and quickly send it to your phone to edit doing in 4k isn't going to be ideal
so proxy recording will record a smaller version that you can then edit on your
phone quickly and easily AF Drive speed I leave to normal may have track
sensitivity I like to stand it basically this means I'm just using standard
autofocus speed if you're filming sports or something like that you might want to
change these up too fast or responsive in my case this works for me for 95% of
the videos I shoot everything else there is standard audio recording obviously on
I want to be able to record my sound audio recording level this is a big
important thing when you get the cameras kind of maxed out about 31 sometimes
they can be too loud I'm quite far from this camera here I'm not recording audio
directly into this camera I'm recording it too this one here which is my ACC 300
so the levels aren't directly what I would normally have but I turn it down
here to about 15 I can always throw up louder
if I wanted to what are your level display I leave that
on basically that means if you're filming you can see your audio levels as
you're filming very important to make sure that you aren't maxing out your
levels I'll leave that standard leave that off Michael display have on Marcus
settings Center is off aspect ratio 2:35 one safety zone off guide frame off if
you're not too sure where these are basically when you're filming it
displays the lines or the grids gives you safe zones if you need to film in a
certain aspect ratio that's where you'd set the setting so you could make sure
you're filming everything in that aspect ratio video light mode I don't even know
what that does power link is what I have it set to it works fine don't change it
movi with shutter I need to off silent shooting off you front curtain on I know
there's a big deal about this with focusing for photography don't use
photos that much so I just have it less set to on apparently on is the best
thing to leave it to anyway released without lens in a board release out card
on a board these are really settings that are going to help you get better
videos but I'm just kind of showing you what I have my camera set up to steady
shot obviously on zoom this is an important one so I use Clear Image Zoom
clearing soon gives you the ability to zoom in without losing quality if you're
using like a prime lens when I click one of my videos here I'll tell you all
about using Clear Image Zoom if you didn't want that set you could just
leave it to optical zoom if you're using a lens it has a zoom Display button you
don't need to touch find a monitor this is a big one if you're in a sunny
environment and you can't see the screen sometimes not the greatest this means if
you put your eye up to the cop here it's going to show you through the EVF or
post on the screen you then move your eye away and it allows you to see the
screen again I have this set to auto if you just wanted to use the viewfinder
you'd have a set of view finder if you just want to use the screen and not have
it automatically go to the viewfinder you use monitor I like to use both so I
leave it to auto zero settings separate display is on if you're not too sure
what this is it means if your video is overexposed it
shows you by flashing with zebras and I leave it to 70 that's a good sign for me
gridline off exposed your that Guy'd off life you display can't do
anything leave that to not displayed order review if you're taking a photo it
shows you it back for two seconds afterwards before it disappears custom
keys now I have these setup the video is what I'll show you so control world I
used four shutter speed focus mode is custom bottom one custom bottom two is
for crop mode so if you're using a prime lens and you want to be able to zoom in
or even a zoom lens and it's a full frame lens you can swap the crop mode 4k
video still if you're shooting of photos you would go to 10 megapixels opposed to
20 yeah really useful my would use that ton custom button 3 is zoom so clear
image zoom and custom bottom 4 just follows the photography mode and then
these ones here I don't really use these much as I kind of leave them as standard
I have my doll setup set up that way if you wanted to reverse that you could
reverse it I leave it to normal movie man always what that means is if you hit
the movie button here it's gonna record a video whatever mode you're in I have
mine sense always I always want to record movies or films whatever you want
to call them lock operational parts off audio signals off that is a horrible
when it comes on as standard in the camera turn that off those beeps are
annoying that autofocus beep so annoying and yeah that's all my video settings a
lot of those aren't gonna help you get better video but it's important for you
to know how I use my camera how I achieve the videos I use that's the
settings I use on the camera as I said at the beginning of the video I use
custom one and custom two for all my settings if you want to be able to set
custom one on custom to here's my best advice the hard worker most of the
settings are already assigned for you if you go to the video mode and then save
to custom 1 & 2 whereas if you were in manual mode it's going to be designed
around photography so put it to video mode then change your settings on custom
1 & 2 what I'm gonna quickly show you how to do now is how to change your
custom settings so I'm in one right now which is where I have 120 100 megabit
video so for slow-motion b-roll if you wanted to change let's say this to 4k
video instead so one is now 4k video and 2 is something else you could do that by
doing this - okay then you want to go to tab one go
across to memory and then you see one or two here so if I click on one it's gonna
save that setting to one if I click on - it's gonna save it to two so before I
had one set to 120 frames a second so now what we're about to do is change it
to 4k 24 frames a second so if I click OK you see how it says registered now if
you see me change - you see it's on 4k there change back to one it's on 4k
that's because I just changed it if we want to change that back so - I realize
that I'm just talking about my custom 1 and 2 settings and only discussing the
fact that I changed the video quality and the frame rate between 4k 1080 120
frames a second you can change those custom on too - absolutely anything you
want so if you look one like ayah so to be 500 on custom one and then thousand
on custom two or one white balance on one one white balance on another
continuous autofocus on one and not on the other you can do that absolutely
anything you want custom one custom to change those settings asylums 1 and 2
and it will remember them they don't have to be just a little change like I
use for video quality okay that's it back to the video
go to menu I've got a tab to change this to X AVCHD already in 120 which is good
go back to tab 1 and go to memory head on 1 registered so now I've put 120
frames a second back to custom 1 so if we go to custom 2 again
there you go 4k video 24 frames a second back to custom 1 you can see there it's
changed back to 120 frames a second I just had to put a lens cap on the front
there because you could just see this white wall and none of these settings so
I want to talk to you quickly about these as well
so auto white balance for the most part if I'm shooting these kinds of videos
outside if the lights changing or if you're going from inside to outside I
would suggest setting that to the right color temperature for your room dynamic
range I leave off that will affect your shadows and your highlights you can do
that yourself in post I would suggest leave that off creative
style here I use autumn leaves click on the video up here if you aren't aware of
my creative style I love and I use all the time picture profile is off pre
autofocus is off this is my focus in mode I leave it set to wide and I'm
currently on manual focus and you can remove some of these features here by
clicking the Display button and then it'll add them back on so if you just
click it it will cycle through all the different options you have a really
clean kind of simple layout there add the audio markers and a horizon level
there so if you start you crooked it will tell you and then back to
everything that's pretty much it that's how I have
my camera set up this may not be the best setup for you this is what works
for me you kind of just have to go through figure out yourself and once you
have it set up how you like it keep it that way you may disagree with
how I have some of the settings each to their own everyone has it set up
differently this is what works for me I like it like this and this is what I'll
continue to use until I have a problem or find something better so there we go
that is my settings for the a 73 I think the big thing to take away from this is
if you're not using the custom 1 & 2 modes on the dial there you should be it
is literally a game-changer it will literally change the way that you shoot
your videos to quickly swap from 4k to b-roll 120 frames a second is a big deal
it speeds things up when you're out about filming things I know there are
people out there that don't use that mode when I first got Sonia I was like 2
or 3 months before I even figured out about that so that is a big thing you
should be using now if you're not using it to start using it today so there we
go my settings on the camera you may have found this video useful you may
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