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1. The Best Settings for Video Intro: Hey guys, welcome back. In this class we're going to learn how to get
started filming. Well, you can just
switch your camera on and start
shooting if you want your footage to look
more natural to the eye and get that
cinematic look. There are some things
that you need to know. We're going to cover
what settings to use for the smoothest
looking footage, how to adjust for
the brightness of a scene as well
as white balance, color profiles and why
you should shoot in a log format for
the best results. We're going to learn how to
set your camera up to get the best looking footage and
get you out making films. So grab your camera
and let's get started.
2. Switching to Manual Mode: To get the best control
over the settings in our movies for the
best looking footage will need to switch the camera from auto movie recording to
manual movie recording. Here on this MOSFET, that setting is right here. It shows in auto mode that the shutter speed and aperture
are automatically set. So we want more control
over these settings to get the most unnatural looking
footage to the eye. So we're going to
switch this to manual. Here we can set
the shutter speed, the aperture, and
adjust our ISO. On the US are here on auto mode. You'll see that you can set the movie recording size and
adjust audio levels and set the stabilization in
the auto mode to get more control over the
settings, switch to manual. Here I've set mine to the
first custom shooting mode. I'll give you a little
tip on that at the end. But here we can set our shutter
speed, aperture, and ISO. So we want to get control of more settings
over our cameras.
3. What is Frame Rate?: First off, we want to set our recording size and
pick the frame rate. So you'll pick whether
you want to shoot in for K 1080 or 720, depending on the options
you have on your camera, then you'll see you in
each of those settings. There's other number. So let's take a second and
explain the frames per second. What is frame rate? Frame rate is the series
of images that flow together to create a video
like the old real movies. They had a real with a
bunch of images on it. And when they played them
past the projector light, you'd see a moving picture. Frame rate of 24 shows
24 frames per second. So each of those little frames, and it's going by the camera, you have 24 and 24 is the most natural frame
rate for motion. What that means for us on our
DSLR or mirrorless camera, is our cameras taking 24 frames per second or 50
frames per second, depending on the setting we chose to get the best
looking footage, your shutter speed has to be double of what your
frame rate is. This is called the 180
degree shutter rule. So if you're shooting in
24 frames per second, then you need to have
your shutter speed at 48 or the closest equivalent for shooting
at 30 frames per second, then your shutter
speed needs to be 60. The reason being, if you were to put your shutter speed lower, it would look all jittery or
stuttering in your footage. And if you went too high, it would look more dreamy
or blurred looking. Keeping the shutter speed at double the frame rate will
get the Christmas footage. So in filming, when your frame rate and your
shutter speed are set and you need to brighten
or darken the image. You can't change the
brightness of the footage, like you can't in
manual photography was your shutter speed because you need to keep that
Chris footage and filming. Our shutter speed
has to stay double. Our frame rate is.
So you'll need to adjust your aperture ISO or get an ND filter to adjust for the
brightness in the scene. And we'll get into more tips on shutter speed in
the next section.
4. Shutter Speed: In this section
we're gonna go over normal speed versus low motion. So if you went to shoot
real-time footage for the best and natural
looking motion blur, then we're going to
set our frame rate to 24 or 25 frames per second. This is the most pleasing to
the eye look you can get. Main part of your footage
will be shot in real time. Also, action shots can be shot
and 25 frames per second. Most movies will be shot
in 24 frames per second, or the closest equivalent. For slow motion footage, you're going to set that to 50 or 60 frames per
second, or even 120. So we're going to select
that and then we're going to double our
shutter speed here. Keeping that 180 degree rule. Slow motion shots like bureau clips that
introduce a scene, action scenes or scenes that
you want to show emotion or feeling could be shot in
a slow-motion frame rate. Now that we have our
shutter speed set, we can adjust for the
lighting in our scene with our other settings,
aperture and ISO. When shooting slow motion, you'll have to use a lower
aperture to let more light in or bump that ISO up to get
more light in your scene.
5. Aperture ISO, & ND Filters: To adjust the lighting
in your scene. Once you have your frame rate
and your shutter speed set, you'll use the aperture or ISO, much like in manual photography, at 25 FPS, our camera is
letting more light in. So we'll need to adjust
our scene darker. And there are a few
ways to do that. Aperture effects to
things and filming. It can adjust the
light and it can also adjust the depth of field. The depth of field is how much
of the scene is in focus. You need to know what depth
of field to shoot you're filming for landscapes
and city scenes. You may want to have more
of that scene in focus. So you will set to
a higher f-stop. Most times you will
probably want to have a shallower depth
of field to isolate that subject or object
you're filming and draw less attention to what's
happening in the background. I like to shoot in 2.8, which is the lowest
this lens will go. And that allows me to get a
nice blurry background with less distractions so the viewer can focus on the character. So you'll see with
higher aperture here, more of the background
is in focus. You'll notice the
sunrise right there. They're going to be
a lot more crisp. So that's great for
landscape videography. If you want to get the
whole scene in focus. Now if I crank this
aperture back down, just to get me in focus here, you'll see the sun is more blurred out there
in the background, the same as with
manual photography. You can adjust your F stop here for the depth of
field and your videos. So with a lower F-stop, you'll isolate and
get more bokeh with blurring the background
and a higher f-stop. You will keep more of the
whole scene in focus, which again, like with our photography, will have to adjust
the ISO to help lighten or darken the scene to even out the brightness
on our video here. So first you will set
the shutter speed that needs to stay at double of what the frame rate is that
you're shooting in. The next set, the aperture for the depth of field you
want in your footage. Then to help adjust for extra light when you're
shooting in the day time, you'll need to adjust your ISO lower or use something like an ND filter which acts sort of like sunglasses
for your lens. So if you're shooting
out in the daylight and ND filter will allow you to keep shooting in the bright sun without the highlights
being blown out. And when shooting 25
frames per second. And you have a low
aperture lens like this, 2.8, which I'm using here, does lets more light
in and you want to use an ND filter to compensate
for that extra light. In lower light
indoors or nighttime, you won't need to
use an ND filter and you can just bump the ISO
up to light in the scene. Just remember you want to keep your ISO as low as you can. Because the more
ISO you're adding, the more noise or grain
you'll get in your footage.
6. White Balance, Picture Profiles & LOG: In this section,
we're going to cover the look of your footage. You want it to be able to edit your footage to your style. So that has been these
settings commit, white balance, picture
profiles, and log format. Let's go over the white
balance real quick here. When filming, you
can just switch that to the auto white
balance setting. And the cameras just kinda
do the adjusting for you or where you can switch to daylight if you're outdoors cloudy, if it's cloudy in noisy, can switch the tungsten or fluorescent light depending
on the lights in the room. Or you can switch to
the Kelvin scale that we went over and
camera Basics Part 3, just be sure to adjust that according to the
location you're in. For the most quality
in your videos and for editing later on, you'll want to switch
to the log profile. And if your camera has
it, now this captures more details and highlights
and the shadows. You'll notice that
it looks very flat or dull, boring looking. Now, you're probably wondering why you'd want to switch to that flat and boring
setting or the auto one which looks
okay, all ready. Now let's talk about
color profiles. This fits in with
the log format. Filming in the auto
color profile is shooting with predetermined
color profile settings. Which is great if you don't want to do a little
extra editing, but you can't customize
it to your preference. Shooting in auto doesn't
give you the liberty to edit your video to
your style and auto. You may notice the
highlights are blown out and the shadows are darker when you're trying to
edit your footage. But if you switch
to filming in log, you can edit the footage in your own style with your
own coloring and contrast. And you have more details in
the footage to start with. And you'll just
add that contrast and clearing back
into the footage, but with your own
touch or style. If your camera doesn't have a log profile like this in 50, you can fake that
look by changing the picture style to a neutral
or user-defined setting. And drop the contrast and
sharpness all the way down. And this will capture more
of the highlights and shadows and give you more details to work
with later in post.
7. Setting Custom Shooting Modes: Remember in the beginning
when I switched my camera to the first
customer shooting mode. Well, let me show you
how to set this up. This will save you
time when you went to switch between shooting
real-time shots, too slow motion shots. Here in the mode selection, we have three that we can set here in our custom
shooting modes, I like to have the
first one is set to 25 frames per second. For my normal filming. I can just grab my camera
and start shooting. Then on the second one I
have set for slow motion. It is set to 50
frames per second. I can just switch
between the two depending on the footage that
I'm shooting at the moment. To set these will set
all the settings. We wanted to save this
custom shooting mode at frame rate and shutter
speed, aperture and ISO. Then we're gonna go into the
menu settings here under custom shooting
mode, C1, C2, C3. Then we're going to
select register settings and saves everything that
we just set on the camera. So far, slow motion, we're going to change
our frame rate that's going into 50 and
our shutter speed. Now, keeping that
180 shutter rule, we're gonna put this up to 100. I'll leave the aperture
and the ISO the same. Then go into the settings and register these settings
as number two. Now when I want to shoot some
B-roll to put in my movie, I can just switch
this real quick here and get to shooting.
8. Get Out and Shoot a Film: All right, you're ready
to go start filming. You've got your framework, set your white bonds in your color profiles picked
out, you're ready to go. I hope you found this class helpful in leveling
up your footage, getting your camera
settings dialed in. Now get out there, practice and shoot a short film
with your camera. If you haven't already,
be sure to check out my other classes
on camera basics, helping you to get better
in your photography learning all about your camera. Part one, we've figured out all these buttons and functions, what they do to
help you get more experienced and more
efficient with your camera. In part two, we go over the
basics of manual photography, and this will help you hear
in your filming as well, knowing what each of
those settings do. In part three, we go over the white balance
picture profiles and more to help you get the best image out
of your camera. Thanks for watching and I'll see you guys in the next class.
John Anderson, Filmmaker - Creator
