Lesson Info
9. Camera Controls: Video and Playback Mode
Lessons
Class Introduction
08:52 2Photo Basics
03:22 3Camera Controls: Basic Controls
05:56 4Camera Controls: Shooting Mode
25:22 5Camera Controls: Multi Function Button
12:07 6Camera Controls: Top Deck
03:14 7Camera Controls: Back Side Controls
25:06 8Camera Controls: Quick Control
12:32Camera Controls: Video and Playback Mode
09:50 10Camera Controls: Left Side, Right Side, Bottom, and Front
09:04 11Lenses
14:15 12Menu Functions: The Basics and Shooting Menu
43:29 13Menu Functions: Video Shooting Menu
18:31 14Menu Functions: Autofocus
14:17 15Menu Functions: Playback Menu
09:22 16Menu Functions: Set Up
31:59 17Menu Functions: Set Up Video and Custom Functions
13:41 18Menu Functions: My Menu
04:17 19Camera Operations
09:58Lesson Info
Camera Controls: Video and Playback Mode
When you are in the video mode of this camera, the Q menu changes a little bit again. And so there are some unique items in here that you don't see in this still section, So I wanted to cover those here. First up is sound recording audio levels. Do you want the camera to automatically adjust audio levels for you, or do you want to manually go in and control them yourselves, where you can set that right here Next up, they have a wind filter. So if you are under windy situations that can cause a really ugly sound with the cameras, the wind is buffeting the side of the camera, and so you might want to turn it on under especially windy conditions. The attenuate er this deals with loud noises, and so, if you're gonna have loud noises, could be fireworks or possibly allowed concert noises. You may want to turn this on so that it muffles those noises a little bit, gets the dynamic range of the sound where the camera can handle it. There is something called movie Digital. I s where the camera ...
crops in a little bit on the frame to give you digital image stabilization, and there is going to be a little bit off loss of resolution when you do that. But it is going to stabilize things, so there's a bit of give and take, and so if you really need stabilization and you don't have it with the lands, this is one way of getting it in camera. And then we have our movie recording quality on so we can choose whether we're shooting four K full HD or HD quality and different frame rates right here. And so it's pretty quick and easy access rather than diving into the full menu system. Now the way these screens look will very according to what your info button status pressed in. And so you can change this by pressing the info button on the camera and then pressing the Q button going back and forth between the quick control screen. And so it may look different. May have the layout that we've done here, or it may just have the little panels on the side. If you are looking at an image and the same thing is true with video and so you could always hit the info button on the back of the camera to cycle through the different options to see which one you like to work with, and it's easiest for you to see, and that is your quick control and set button. Now, of course, around this is our cross keys, the up, down and left and right in. Each of these can be programmed to be its own unique feature on the camera. And so these are all customizable buttons that you get to go in and program as you wish. Next up is playback pretty obvious. Press the playback button is gonna play back the most recent image. If you want to get rid of it, there's an erase button there. And then for navigating your images, you can either use that back controlled ill. Or you can use the cross keys on the back of the camera to go to previous and the next image. If you want to jump a little bit more quickly, you got a lot of images to go through. You can jump 10 images or some other parameter that you program in, and so it's ah, great way to jump between different start images and different types of images. If you want to go into the playback menu and customized the image jump option now, as I mentioned before, this is a touch screen. And so you have common gestures that are going to work here for touching the screen and moving the image from one side to the others. Moving from 11 image to the next and moving around a magnified image. You can zoom in and zoom out by double tapping on your subject as well. You can also magnify by using the zoom in an option, and you can adjust magnification, turning the top dial. So let's go ahead and play around a little bit with the playback mode and let's go ahead and play back some images. Let's see if we can find something interesting to zoom in on here. Okay, so I took this little bit earlier today, gonna turn off some of that information, which we could do by pressing the info button. And so if we want to just swipe around, we can move our images left and right by swiping around. If we want to zoom in weaken double tap, we can let's use our fingers to zoom in and move around on our image. If we don't want to be doing this on the screen, we can do this. As you can see the little indicator down here, we can zoom in. We consume out. We can navigate around by using our cross keys. If we zoom all the way out, we can go into thumbnails and see all the other images that we've been shooting and maybe find her image is a little bit more easily. We have our manual zoom in over here. If you don't want to use the screen, you can use this to zoom in and then, of course, move around as always, like that. So those are some of your basic controls in the playback mode. If you want to change the magnification, one of the options that you can do is go into the playback menu and have it jump into a 1 to 1 magnification so that when you do jump in, it's gonna go pixel for pixel. Each pixel on the sensor will then become one pixel on the LCD screen, which is the best way to judge sharpness as you're looking at your play images being playback you can hit the info button to cycle through three different screens of information, and you may or may want more or less information about what you're doing. One screen will allow you to scroll through quite a bit of information and realize that there's a lot more information if you just dig a little bit deeper in here. So let me show you what this looks like on the back of my cam Russell. Let's go ahead and play back an image. And so once again, to change to the different screens, we press the info button, and it cycles through these different screens. And when you get to this one, these bottom three rows can be scroll through and there's a scroll window over on the right hand side that you can see. And there is all sorts of metadata that is stored in here about your images. And so, depending on what you're looking for, just scroll around for that additional information. If you are in the playback menu, you can also hit the cue button, and that's going to take you into a quick menu that allows you to do a number of things with your images that you're playing back and you will find these again in the playback menu. But there are right here in case you want to quickly access them. And so I'm not gonna go through each of these individually right now, but realize that there are more things that you could do. That quick menu is always a great way to get in and have additional options in any particular mode that you're in. So when you are hitting playback in video, then that changes things once again, and so will be able to control the volume up on top. And then along the bottom, we're gonna have all our standard controls for controlling the video, going to first frame, last flame, pause and play, and so forth. And one of the options that I think is kind of interesting is the frame grab in four K, and so you can grab a single frame of four K video, and I want to do a little demo of this. But I actually have to shoot some video because I haven't done that yet on the camera today. So I am going to go ahead and set this camera up for video. So I'm gonna press the mode button, hit the info button, and I'm just gonna shoot basic video right here. I want to make sure I'm shooting four cave video. So I'm gonna go into the Q mode and come down here to the video image quality. And I am going to shoot four K. I'll shoot this one right here. I p b right here. So now I know I'm shooting four k video, and I'm gonna hit the info button so I can see what I'm recording at. And I'm just going to do a slow zoom out once I start recording. So I'm gonna go ahead and start recording, and we'll do a little bit of a slow zoom out and one of these points, I'm going to grab an individual frame of this. Okay, let's call it good. Right there. Whopping 10 seconds of video. And so now I'm gonna hit playback, and I'm gonna hit the info buttons so that we can see this. You can see a still photograph. It's just a basic image. And a video is gonna have the playback. I can either touch that playback or it can hit the set button, and then I will help the set button again because there's additional controls right here. And I'm going to hit the pause button here, and you could see my additional controls along the bottom. Here. I'm gonna play this along a little bit further. Let's see you look at something and I'm gonna want to freeze this frame right here. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna come over and select the frame grab option right here and select this button by setting, Okay? Save as a new still image. Yep. That's exactly what I want to do. So I'm gonna say OK, so it just saved that. And I can either go back to view the original movie or I'm going to view the still image, and this is the still image. And so I'm gonna kick out of this press playback. There's my still image, and there's my video. And so if I want to actually wrong button, zoom in. But I want to zoom in on this. I can zoom in, and this is on a four K still image pulled from the video. And so if I need to use this for a particular reason Aiken have it available, right? There is a JPEG image, and so that's how you do a frame grab. And it only works in four case what will not work in the standard high definition or the full high definition mode?
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