 Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. I want to do a video on a couple of slightly more very deep features. I'm going to call this advanced settings even though given that this is a really basic entry level camcorder. There's nothing, nothing so advanced about the Vixia HF R800, but just a couple of things I found kind of digging through the menus that I think are useful to know about. So in order to get to the kind of deeper menus, this is your first menu as such and it's accessed by clicking on the bottom right icon, but to get to the what I call the deep menu, you want to hit on the home icon and then you want to jump into the other settings. So that's going to be the first thing on the menu, but you're going to have to scroll all the way left to get it. Once you get there, you get to this, I call this the deep menu, but it's a three tab menu. You can see one, two, three, you've got three different tabs and just going to talk about a few of the features that I found helpful. Firstly there is a self timer. So if you want to use this camera in selfie mode, well sorry, in auto mode, as in you want to set a timer that's going to go off, then this is how you do it. You change that to on and then when I go to the home screen, so I've just started recording a video and you see there is now a countdown from 10. So I'm going to stop that recording. So I don't think the countdown can be adjusted. So it's not an amazing feature, but it's better than not having that feature at all. So that's what that does. So I'm going to just go take it off now, back to the main screen. Oh, the negative thing about this, and this is actually really worth pointing out, is that it resets each time. So like you can see I didn't even have to turn it off. It's gone back to off by itself. So that's pretty annoying. It's kind of a one time thing. You have to do it each time. Zoom speed. So this is going to be basically how fast it zooms in. You've got variable and speed one, two and speed three. So variable is going to be however quickly you hit the wide, tight rocker, it's going to change the speed or you can go for a fixed speed. So I'm going to, this is variable, I'm going to go up to speed three. And just to show you what I'm looking at, this is my desk here. So that's speed three. So as you can see, it's a fixed speed. There's no kind of difference whether I'm going fast or slow as I hit the button. It's just, it's just going consistently. I'm not terribly sure why that would be useful. So I keep it to variable, but just let's go back to speed. Let's go to speed one now. Okay. And I'm going to, so now I'm actually hitting, I'm going to just move this back of it so you guys can see. I'm actually zooming as fast as possible and look how slowly it's going super slowly. And now I'm zooming out as fast as possible. So zoom one is really slow. Zoom speed two is a bit less slow and zoom speed three is the quickest. So I'm going to go back now to other settings and I'm going to change my zoom speed. I think variable for most people is going to make the most sense. I'm sure that's why it's the default setting because this is going to be, you can actually use the, depending how quickly, how hard you press the, the rocker is going to be how fast it zooms zoom position. It started up. I'm going to skip. I'm going to skip the very obscure ones. Framing assistant, automatic and manual. Framing assistance area. Focus assistance. Okay. Face detection and tracking. I do think is a good feature to actually turn off. I personally find this distracting. It tries to grab onto people's faces and focus on it. So I have it turned off, but if you do want to have that auto focus and have the camera show you where it's picking up faces, you can go for that one. Automatic backlight correction is by default turn on auto show. Slow shutter is off. Flicker reduction. I do find very helpful. If you don't have this turned on, you will see flickers when you film stuff like LCD LCD displays. So you've got two options besides off 50 Hertz and 60 Hertz. I go for 60 Hertz because I think most LCD monitors are refreshing at a refresh rate of 60 Hertz. Therefore, to get rid of that flicker, 60 Hertz is the appropriate setting. Here is another important one. Image stabilizer. Now, I'm not sure why dynamic is not available for me. I think it might be the shooting mode. I mean, it's grayed out. I can't access it, but I can turn it off or go for standard. Now, this is separate than the powered image stabilizer just to be clear about that. So in my opinion, the image stabilization is really, really helpful. I've done some comparison shots. It definitely does make a difference. So I think it's all image stabilization is good. So I go for a standard and you can look up the documentation for this. It'll tell you the difference between standard and dynamic. If you're curious, video snapshot length, I have no idea what this does. I'm going to just go through the ones I am familiar with and which I do think are important. On-screen markers is definitely important if you want it and what it's going to do. So I'm going to go for a white, gray, and white, and this is going to give you a frame and grid. Okay? So let's go for white firstly. And now you can see I've got one. And that's going to show me basically when stuff is on the complete horizontal on my camera monitor. So that's kind of cool. I ran the second page already. So that's the first on-screen marker and it's going to show you what it's going to look like. So you can have one line across that's white, one line that's gray, or you can have a grid that is white and a grid that's gray. So let me just show you what the grid looks like. This is the grid. So this is something that a lot of photographers would be familiar with for the rule of thirds, etc. You're going to get a three by three grid and you can get that in either gray or white depending upon your preference. And I'm going to go ahead and just turn this off. So I find it a bit distracting, but some people might really benefit from that. I've put on-screen displays. This is a super important setting if you are using this webcam for a streaming, okay? If you are streaming, you're not going to want to have the on-screen displays come out of the HDMI, so you're going to need to turn that off. Very important. LCD brightness and LCD backlight, these are actually quite important too because someone's pointed out that another YouTube video I saw about this camcorder that it's actually really hard to see this. I have it set to normal. It's definitely fine, normal. It's obviously brighter. It's going to use more battery life, the brighter the display is. So I would do normal. Most people I think need normal. Dim is definitely quite dim. If you are doing outdoor recording, you might want to bump this up to bright for your shoot and then dial it back to normal or just leave it there. I find the battery life not amazing on this, so I tend to be a bit conservative. LCD mirror image is definitely something most people would not want. The HDMI status will tell you basically if you've got a HDMI output running and if video and audio are going through it. So that on this menu is pretty much the only things that I think most people want to play around with. Timezone DST. I think this is important to set because it's going to get puts in the metadata and you can also configure a traveling time zone. So I have my time zone set here for my local time and in fact I haven't set wrong. So I need to go and change that. Available space memory is, let's you know how much space you've got left. H, AV headphones is another important one here. This I've done a separate video on monitoring your audio with the Vixi HF-R800 and if you are plugging in headphones to the 3.5mm, I'd put the monitor. You want to have this set to headphones, the default is AV. However there is a limitation and that's that it's going to also play through headphones when you're playing back clips in the playback area. So if you want to play them out live through the little speaker built into this camcorder, you're going to have to toggle to AV if you want to like you know show it to somebody. But I leave it on headphones and it's just I'd prefer to you know have to occasionally switch it than every single time I want to monitor have to switch it the other way if that makes sense. This is also useful it's basically how loud it's going to play through the headphones or speaker. Notification sounds I personally find these distracting so I have them turned off. I have done a separate video on the custom control button. I think it's probably featured not a lot of people are aware is even there. It's one of the little icons on the front of the the camera I'll make a separate video about that. Battery info, your display units can be meters, feet pounds, I do meters because what I'm familiar with. An auto power off is definitely something I also find annoying so I've turned it off. I think it might be on by default. So just remember to turn off your camcorder. I think that's better than having it try to be too smart and turn itself off. A rarely used feature power on using LCD panel. I have it off but you can enable that so you can turn the camera off with the LCD on with the LCD. Sorry. Here's a good one to know about initialize SD. This is where you can basically format your SD card and you can see I've got a 537 gig really, really big SD card in there. So this can actually support a lot of storage and that is basically it. So I think those are kind of the important features that I've found helpful on the Vixie HFR 800. The video was useful and if you'd like to get more videos from me please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.