frozentomtom>>> I am also new to videography. I will try my best to help you out. My answers solely based on the experiences on the Dragaon Naga video shoot.
1. Understand that PAL (50 or 25fps) are for TV format in Asia. But if I set my DSLR video recording to NTSC (60 or 30 fps), does that mean that there will be a incompatibility issue with my video on my home TV?
>>> Honestly, I did not pay attention until your question. I have been shooting on PAL. I would try it out on NTSC and see what happens. So far, all my videos I am able to play it on TV without any problems
EXCEPT the colours. My
this video looks kinda bad on my LED TV but not on my LCD TV. The reddish/orange turns out to be bright and offset.
Things to take note :
- For TV, it has to be at least 24 frames per second or higher
- For TV, your colour broadcast has to be within the 75% limit. I am using Premiere Pro CS5.5
- For TV, if you are doing TV Commercial, I believe you need to convert to BETA format for transmission, which I have no idea about it.
2. For this video, did you use auto or manual exposure?
>>> For videography there is no auto exposure. You have to set it manually for your video shoot. For this video shoot, these are my settings :-
- ISO 320 - ISO 640
- F3.5 - F5.6
- Kelvin presets for my white balance
- 1/125 shutter speed
- 50 frames per second
For this shoot, I was meddling and playing around with my
ISO settings,
Shutter speed and
Frames rate to allow more light into my 60D. Not forgetting, I was shooting at :-
- Neutral
- Sharpness ~ I click all the way to the left
- Saturation ~ I click all the way to the left
3. If you used manual exposure, what is the recommended FPS, shutter speed, ISO and aperture did you use for this video?
I have answer this question above. I would like to share this recommendations
(based on my reading up on the internet and videos that I have watched) would be :-
- Once you set your frame rate, you have to go 180deg for your shutter speed. Meaning if you are shooting at 24p, your shutter speed has to 1/50
(there is no 1/48). I have ever shot at higher shutter speed at 1/2000
(I think), so that when I slow mo in post, it won't have much a motion blur.
- Once you have set your frame rate and your shutter speed, this is
FIXED (General rule), so you can't adjust it. The only two parameters that you can adjust would be your aperture and ISO settings. Adjust to your likings.
- Best ISO Settings would be in multiples of 160; Followed by multiples of 125; Followed by multiples of 100
- For FPS, if normal video shoot, I usually shoot at 25FPS. For paintball I shoot at 50FPS. Soon, I will try to capture paintball in 60FPS for better and smooth slow-mo actions.
- Try not to get overexposed shots because you will lose the details. If you can watch some of my paintball videos
here, there are some clips that overexposed until it is an eyesore. No matter how much I bring down the highlights or reduce the brightness, I already lost some details on the paintball bunkers.
I hope I have helped you in any way I can.
I believe this brother could help you out and make you understand better as I did.
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