6 Things To Check Before Hitting the Movie Record Button On Your DSLR

http://www.learningdslrvideo.com/check-before-record/

Run and Gun Style 1. Resolution and frame rate
2. AWB, if I have a few more seconds to spare I will see what the other WB settings look like on the screen
3. ISO - inside outside?
4. Picture Styles - normally shoot standard especially if I am running fast
5. Shutter Speed - easy to jog it 50th for 1080 and 125th for 720
6. then I check focus and hit record

Planned Shoot (Additional Items to Check) 1. Custom white balance
2. I will check the 'blinky's' to see if I am over exposed anywhere (I am not too good at reading histograms yet)
3. Use an 18% gray card to double check the exposure
4. Double check the audio - disable the AGC on my t2i

Somethings I never check because I never change them 1. AF mode - quick focus
2. AF during movie - enable
3. Movie exposure - manual
4. Grid Display - grid 1
5. Highlight Tone Priority - disable
6. Always on Quick Focus using the center or top focus point,
7. Auto Lighting Optimizer on standard.

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[sesukaku1]

how do you change shutter speed on video mode? im using 600D

[drumat5280]

@sesukaku1 just rotate the dial on top of the camera in move mode.

[exitnc]

would really like to know how you get your black background smooth. I know when doing white you over expose just a little? I have a black muslin but cant figure out how to smooth it out like yours. Thanks for the vids...your the man!

[drumat5280]

@exitnc I just crush the blacks to make the black sheet behind me go totally black

[Gamer2Gamers]

For an indoor shoot with kind of orange tinted lights in my room should i set the white balance to Tungsten?

[drumat5280]

@Gamer2Gamers what type of lights are they?

[LokeProductions]

You shoot your kids?! Haha, just kidding. Great Video! :D

[prasadhardikar]

Dave this and all your other videos are awesome. I have canon 7d and the problem I am having is I never get a crisp, well focused video. Its always little blurry. After seeing this video what things I am doing wrong. I am going to give it a shot again with the settings and tips that you have recommended.

I want to mostly record dance shows where there is lot of motion and low light or sometimes stage light. And getting well focused video is really difficult for me (as a beginner) 

[LinesGrey]

are you really sure that the color temperature can't be changed in post?

as far as I do post production I reduce the saturation or correct the red color channel to get rid of the "warm" effect. I maybe understood something wrong..

[SwagaeProductions]

why do you double the frame rate to get your shutter speed?

[spackenverein]

Thanks. Your video helped me alot :)

[ess1616]

ess1616

Would you mind explain one more time how you made this black background .

I am foreigner and did not really understood your previous explanation.Is tis green screen method or what?

Thank you for good video tutorials

[ArmyOfAngelz]

Hey Dave I have a question. With my DSLR, I usually bring it out for recording concerts and live performances and I always keep in mind the framerate rule. However in most cases it's not really ideal for me record my subjects, often dancing at 1/125 since it's often indoors with minimal lighting or outside in the dark. Most of the time, I sacrifice in quality by cranking the ISO up but sometimes that isn't enough and a shallow DOF isn't something I want. Would you still recommend going 1/125?

[CleverNameStudios]

Why would you ever use the standerd picture style?

I use a custom PS that gives me 2 stops lat and 4 stops dynamic range.

prolost(.)com/flat/

[sesukaku1]

@drumat5280 thanks! that's very fast! oh one more question, do you know how to change the aperture on video mode?

[Dombowerphoto]

@sesukaku1 all clearly explained in the instruction manual.