From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
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Shooting video with a DSLR
From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
Shooting video with a DSLR
Rich Harrington: We're just about to set for rolling video. I want to go through some practical advice on getting things set up, and Abba is going to be a second set of eyes for me just looking at the monitor. It's always good if you have an opportunity for a second opinion. Typically if I'm on set, I'll be working with the director of photography, if I'm directing or vice-versa, we'll just have a conversation to make sure we feel like everything is working. Okay, so here we go. I've got the camera. I want to talk a little bit about the settings that matter most in this camera and for video, there's this concept called the Exposure Triangle. Now, I'm going to go ahead and switch over here and check a couple of things in the menu first off. Now I'll call these settings out, and I am shooting in manual mode as opposed to aperture priority or shutter priority. The reason why for manual mode is you want total control, you don't want things changing in the shot. As she would turn from side…
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