Best DSLR Video Settings For Canon Cameras

Guest post for Darren Rowse:
http://www.digital-photography-school.com/best-video-setting-for-the-canon-dslrs

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I get this question about once a week, "What are the Best Video Setting For The Canon DSLR cameras".

So let me start off by eliminating two things you can take off the list. Those are aperture and ISO. Aperture, I really can't tell you what to set it on because it depends on the type of look you are going after.With a shallow depth of field or not.

And the other one is ISO. ISO is kind of there for exposure how how you are going to set the exposure. I will say you do not want go too far north of let's say 1600 especially on like the Canon T2i then it gets really noisy. Obviously you are going to need to use aperture along with the ISO to get the right exposure but at least it gets you in the ball park. Those two ingredients are taken off the list.

So the first I can tell you about what is on the list is shutter speed. Basically if you are going for a "filmic" look you are pretty much going to double your frame rate, so if you are shooting 24 frames per second you are going to want a 1/50th of a second shutter speed and if you are shooting at 60 frames per second you are going to go with 125th frames per second shutter speed. Now I will tell you it's just kind of a guideline and a rule but I have shot at much higher shutter speeds and it has worked wonderful, especially if you are shooting something like myself which is just basically a moving head.

If you just getting your feet wet with your camera I think the best setting for Picture styles is Standard. I use it 90% of the time. If you are outside filming some landscapes for instance then you might want to try Landscape, and if you are using a close in portrait shot you might want to try Portrait picture style. After you have had the camera for a while and you want to take it to the next level, you might want to create a very flat picture style so you can have more control over color, sharpness and saturation in post.

As for White Balance, the best setting by far is always going to be custom. This is where you get the perfect color temperature for your shot. This is best way to do it, but it is also unfortunately the most time consuming.

The best setting for focus is to set it on quick focus and focus to one of the many points within the view finder. This is just my personal favor way to do this, I am sure others might disagree me but I got really accurate and fast results using this method.

Disable your AGC to get this cleanest audio, AGC is automatic gain control. I use a hack method for this, but there are many other ways to do this as well like a buying a Juicelink box or a software hack if you are brave enough to install it on your camera.

Set Movie Exposure to Manual, this is the best way to go by not letting the camera to decide for you.

Grid display to Grid 1, this helps me with my composition just right.

Disable Highlight Tone Priority, I have done many tests with this and found it best just to leave it off.

Auto Lighting Optimizer is set to standard. Again I have done a lot of tests with this and I find that this setting not only helps my portrait photos but it even helps when I do video interviews if the lighting is not quite even on the person's face.

That is about it for the best settings you can use on your Canon DSLR for video. Thanks for watching and thanks to Darren for letting me do a guest post again.

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[gfoster31]

Dave, PLEASE HELP!!!!! I'm at my wits end trying to shoot slo mo footage. Can you do a tutorial on how to shoot smooth slo mo footage, and review in camera? Thanks

frustrated film maker

[drumat5280]

@gfoster31 I have started a video on this, but I want to do a great job on it so it might be awhile before I publish it.

[gfoster31]

@drumat5280 Hey Dave I was wondering if you could send me some tips. I have been trying for 7 hours to shoot slo mo at 60 fps, and have it play back in camera. Can you send me a link to the video where you talk about filming your kids?

Greg

[drumat5280]

@gfoster31 do a search on my site for slow motion and you will find some stuff, but I am working on a really comprehensive one on slow motion that should help you - no idea when I will finish it.

[suzanneszarai]

I thought higher shutter speed would be OK for more movement in order to freeze the action for each frame. Can someone please explain?

[drumat5280]

@suzanneszarai higher is better if you are going really slow your footage down or do green screen with a higher frame rate.

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@drumat5280 still working on that?

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[keemastan]

@gfoster31 If you have Final cut pro here is a solution to your issue: Go and download Mpeg Streamclip and convert the footage to "DVCpro HD 720 60/30/24". Once you've completed that step, bring the footage into final cut and make sure you have it selected in the media window. Then, use the DVCpro HD frame rate converter in the "Tools" dropdown menu and just click "conform to 24fps" and hit "ok". It'll ask you to name it and after you have, it will create a new file that has been slowed down.

[jussmes5]

What specific microphone are you using?

[kevp951]

nice clear audio....where's your microphone located for this video and what type ??

[bpbduncan]

@suzanneszarai A shutter rate higher that the standard film look rule will give you a jumpy look (which can be usefull). Also as stated below it can help during slow-mo or chromakey due to lack of motion blur.

[bpbduncan]

@gfoster31 If you shoot and playback any framerate it will be 'normal speed'. The trick is to shoot a high framerate then play back at say 24fps or whatever you usually use.