Using my D750 Camera for videoing instead of stills
Here are 5 reasons why I have decided to use my camera for video. I have also considered how film and video have been developing within the photography industry.
Here is the instruction on how to start and set up your camera so that you can start videoing.
1. Set your camera to PROGRAM, allowing the camera to set the exposure.
2. Go into the MOVIE SETTINGS and choose the quality/frames per second.
Most videos are shot at 1920x1080/30p. This is Full HD, recording at 30 frames per second. If you want to give your movie a more cinematic or film look, choose 24p for 24 frames per second. HD is 1280x720. The higher the image quality, the larger the file.
3. Set the ISO to AUTO to allow your D-movie camera to make changes to the ISO as necessary.
4. Set the Focus Mode.
Depending upon the subject you are shooting, you may want to set a specific Focus Mode. For general video shooting, AF-S will suffice. AF-S is good to use for subjects that are not moving, AF-F is ideal for moving subjects. The other choice is MF or Manual Focus, which you may want to try as you get more experience shooting video with your HD-SLR.
5. Set the AF Area Mode. Choices are: Face Priority, in which the camera will focus on faces; Wide, Normal and Subject Tracking, which is good for moving subjects. Normal should work for most subjects.
6. Turn on Live View.
7. Press the Record button and you’re shooting the video.
Editing experiments
This is an experimental video clip I have from filming a aerial yoga session. I am trying out different editing apps and video settings on my camera.
The above clip has been edited on Apple IMovie, where I have been able to amend the colour to black & white, and increase speed and crop. I have looked at the quality of this video and when the video is increased in size, it looks rather noisy, this could be the editing process or the effect of settings when recording. If you play the clip the sound has not been deducted and so the words being said and the music, is a squeaky sound.
Second version with no sound.
Here is the original video clip, with sound and at the speed it was recorded at.
This is a clip of a yoga teacher directing a student through a set routine.
Photoshop experiment
I am going to use the same clip and play with editing the clip with this program and see the effect I can use. I would prefer to use Premiere Pro, but I do not have this program on my laptop.
So while in Photoshop you can amend the exposure of the clip, and colouring and you can amend the noise in the clip, see the next few images on how to do this below.
The main issue with using Photoshop is the program becomes slow when using video, and I then have had to reduce the image size to edit the clip, to then render it into a video format.
This is the version from Photoshop, I have reduced the size of the image and taken out the noise and the quality is terrible. The quality could have been affected by the image size and the increased speed.
After experimenting with both programs I will keep with IMovie if editing on my laptop and I will not use Photoshop as this really affects the quality. I have only been amending clips and I have not tried forming multiple clips yet, which is rather a concern after this experiment.
Before I do any further experiments I will play with the apps available, as I have used the small version of Premiere Rush on my phone and this was great. This will cause an issue due to sending the camera files to my phone as my laptop is restricting me from downloading the program.
So back to the drawing board for the editing and think I will play with ISO when recording the clips and use more light when recording to help reduce ISO.
Please leave me any suggestions if you have any after reading this blog.
Final Social upload version
This version has been duplicated and made so that it went faster, to show the move that the model completes per instruction.
