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0:00one of the most intimidating things
0:02about using your canon m50 for your
0:04youtube videos is getting the settings
0:06right in the camera and i think a lot of
0:08people just become overwhelmed with the
0:10idea of tweaking and changing settings
0:12in the camera manually and they just
0:14leave the whole thing on automatic and
0:16in the end you don't get nearly the
0:17quality result that you could if you
0:19actually took a little bit of time and
0:21tuned the camera in and set it up so it
0:23produced an image was really just to
0:26your liking and suits the style of
0:28youtube video that you're producing and
0:30arguably the most important thing to the
0:32way your video looks is the lighting and
0:34this video is part of a playlist where i
0:36go through all my tips and tricks in
0:38using this camera for your youtube
0:40videos and certainly lighting is the
0:42most important one so make sure you
0:44check out that video because the
0:46settings really won't do you too much
0:47good if you have not tuned your lighting
0:49in first
0:50[Music]
0:54and probably the easiest part of the
0:56settings and maybe even the most fun
0:58part of the settings is the picture
1:00styles and the picture styles are
1:02essentially like a film simulation or a
1:05color simulation they're just a set of
1:07settings in the camera that just allows
1:10you to choose what sort of style of
1:12coloration you want it gives you control
1:14over the color tones it gives you
1:16control over the saturation the contrast
1:18the sharpness and there's a few
1:20different built-in ones and there's
1:21really four that i recommend using for
1:24youtube videos and those are the
1:25standard picture profile the neutral
1:27picture profile the portrait picture
1:29profile and the faithful picture profile
1:37and what you're seeing right now is just
1:38my standard settings that i use for all
1:40of my youtube videos and this is the
1:43neutral picture profile and i've just
1:45taken that and i've just turned down the
1:47contrast about one notch in the in the
1:49menu below and i've turned the sharpness
1:52up two notches
1:55[Music]
1:58now we're in the standard picture
1:59profile and i think this one looks
2:00really good and i have used this before
2:03for me if i'm gonna use this i want to
2:05turn down the the contrast just a little
2:08bit and i also turned down the sharpness
2:10just a little bit just to soften up the
2:12look on my skin and you'll often find
2:14that a lot of people
2:16think that the image coming out of this
2:17camera is actually too sharp and isn't
2:19very flattering on their skin and just
2:21by turning down that contrast and
2:23turning down that sharpness it just
2:25softens things up and it looks a little
2:27bit more natural and just a little bit
2:28more flattering on the skin
2:35now we're in the portrait picture
2:36profile and this one is just generally
2:38designed for taking portraits of people
2:40so as a rule it tends to be a bit more
2:42flattering on the skin it's got a little
2:44bit lower contrast a little bit more
2:46muted tones but once again really the
2:48only way to work out which of these
2:50picture profiles works for you is just
2:52to play with them in your own
2:54environment in your own lighting so i've
2:56sort of gone through and tried these
2:58different picture profiles for myself
3:00and i did eventually settle on the
3:01neutral picture profile
3:05[Music]
3:07now we're in the faithful picture
3:09profile and this one has like these
3:10really muted tones it's a bit more of a
3:12filmic look and i've often used this for
3:15sort of family travel when i just sort
3:17of want a low contrast sort of almost
3:19hollywood feel to it if you want it to
3:21even look more filmic and more cinematic
3:24once you go into the faithful picture
3:26profile you have the ability to decrease
3:28your contrast and saturation and
3:30sharpness so now i've just gone down and
3:32i've turned down the contrast i've
3:33turned down the sharpness i've turned
3:35down the saturation and what you can see
3:36is it's starting to look very filmic the
3:39tones are much more muted and you're
3:41getting a very a much more cinematic
3:43feel and and particularly if you're sort
3:45of outdoors this can be a really good
3:47one because it sort of evens out those
3:49harsh shadows and and bright spots and
3:52it is kind of a nice one i think
3:54particularly for outdoors but in this
3:56type of environment i want a little bit
3:57more color and a little bit more punch
3:59to the image that i'm putting up on
4:01youtube and the way we access our
4:02picture profiles is we just are in our
4:05normal mode here we are we hit q up in
4:07that top corner and then along the
4:09bottom here is where we've got our
4:10different picture profiles and if i page
4:12over
4:13this is the standard that's one of the
4:14ones i recommend checking out this is
4:16the portrait
4:18over here is the neutral and then just
4:20on the next page here the faithful those
4:22are the four that i recommend and if you
4:24go into each one we can click into the
4:26standard then we click info and up here
4:28we have our
4:31sharpness and that takes our sharpness
4:33up and down if you're finding that it's
4:34a bit too sharp on your skin and you're
4:36seeing sort of every pore in your face
4:38and you're not into that just turn that
4:39down a bit
4:41the next one is our contrast once again
4:43this is another one that's worth
4:45tweaking down if you just want to soften
4:46up the image a bit if you think there's
4:48just too much contrast or a little bit
4:50much too much detail in your face and
4:53then here's the saturation sometimes
4:55with youtube videos people like a little
4:56bit more saturation a little bit more
4:58color punch so you just pop that up and
5:00down you can even see that what it's
5:02doing there
5:04don't actually trust exactly what you're
5:06seeing in the in the screen on the m50
5:08you really have to take the shots bring
5:10them into your computer and see so you
5:12can see how crazy colorful that is way
5:15over the top and the skin tones but you
5:17might want to just either pop it down
5:19one or two like that and once again just
5:22shoot some shots have a look in the
5:24camera come back shoot again and just
5:27keep playing with it in your environment
5:28with in your lighting to figure out
5:31which one you think looks best for the
5:32sort of setup you're doing or the style
5:34you're going for so i'm just editing
5:35this video and i've realized i've left
5:37the sharpening up too high in the
5:38footage for the rest of this video so
5:40what you see in the talking head part
5:41that is not the way my video normally
5:43looks and it's not the way your video
5:45should look either but it is how the
5:46video would look just coming in the
5:48standard picture profile with the
5:49standard sharpening and over sharpening
5:52is one of the problems with the canon
5:53m50 so you do need to make sure you turn
5:55down that sharpening but even though
5:57that image isn't perfect all the
5:58information you get from here on in is
6:00spot on and i hope that this will help
6:02you get better footage out of your canon
6:04m50
6:09and even before we go into the picture
6:11styles and we start experimenting with
6:12them we really need to get our white
6:14balance right and and i do that manually
6:16and i use the kelvin value to set the
6:19white balance and just to show you
6:22how much changing the white balance or
6:23getting the white balance wrong can
6:25affect the way your image looks i'm just
6:28going to jump in and i'm going to change
6:29it now and i think you're going to be
6:31astonished by how much it skews the
6:33image and the colors in our image now
6:35the correct white balance for this scene
6:37is about 4 200 kelvin which is a setting
6:40in the menu system i'm going to show you
6:41here in a second but i've just gone in
6:43and i manually set it to 2500 kelvin so
6:45now you can see it looks like i'm on the
6:47surface of the moon or something and
6:48what's happening here is every light
6:51whether it be sunlight or shade or
6:53reflected light or artificial light like
6:55the bulb i'm using here has a kelvin
6:57color temperature and the camera unlike
7:00our eyes which automatically compensates
7:03for what the colors are in the
7:04environment and then our brain just sort
7:06of calculates it out to look a certain
7:08way the camera can't do that it just
7:10picks it up the way that it comes into
7:11the camera so you have to tell
7:14the camera what color the light is so
7:18that your image looks natural and now
7:20we're at 10 000 kelvin the other end of
7:22the scale so you can see on the one end
7:24of the scale we are cold and blue and on
7:27the other end of the scale we're sort of
7:29red and crazy sunburned looking and the
7:31way we set our color temperatures is
7:32just once again we go up to the q
7:34and then we're gonna hit this um the
7:36white balance will be here we're using
7:38the kelvin value so it says k but right
7:40now on yours it'll probably say awb
7:43because yours is probably set up to auto
7:44white balance at the moment so we're
7:46going to click on the awb and then
7:48that's going to bring our white balance
7:49up along the bottom here we're going to
7:51page over to the kelvin value and then
7:54we're going to hit the set color
7:56temperature this is going to allow
7:58us to change this number up and down now
8:01how do we know what number we want this
8:03to be what we do is we go look on the
8:06light bulb or the light source that is
8:08giving us the primarily primary light
8:11and it should have a kelvin value on it
8:14now if you're in direct sunlight the
8:16kelvin value i think is about 5500 if
8:19you're in shade it's going to be more
8:21like 4600 so you can sort of play with
8:24this and just look at the the color tone
8:26on your skin to work out what looks best
8:28or what you're happiest with but in this
8:31case i've got a 4000 kelvin bulb and
8:33i've been happy with this when i've set
8:35the color temperature in the camera to
8:374200
8:38but the best way to do this is just to
8:40do it in your own environment with your
8:42own lighting
8:43with the setup that you're going to use
8:44normally and then take a few shots maybe
8:47at a few different kelvin values and
8:48then put them in your computer and look
8:50at them and work out what you think work
8:53looks or works best for you and in my
8:55case um i've actually gone even though
8:58the bulb is a 4000 kelvin i've ended up
9:00doing a 4200 kelvin because i just
9:02thought that looked a little bit better
9:04and just warmed my skin up a little bit
9:08[Music]
9:11now the next thing we need to talk about
9:12is our shutter speed our iso and our
9:15aperture value we're going to set all
9:16this manually and what we're going to do
9:19is
9:20actually i'm going to have to stop this
9:22so i can show you up here
9:24you'll see we get a choice between
9:26manual or automatic
9:28that is in the menu system up here in
9:30the top left corner so if that doesn't
9:32have an m in front of it
9:34if it looks like this
9:37if it looks like that then we're in
9:38automatic mode we want to click on that
9:40we want to select the m we want to hit
9:42ok
9:43and now we're in the manual mode that's
9:45going to allow us to set our
9:48shutter speed our aperture
9:50and our iso manually now
9:53what we need to do to start with is you
9:55want to take the aperture you want to
9:56make it the lowest number you've got on
9:58this lens that i'm using right now
9:59that's f 1.8 if you're using the sigma
10:0216 millimeter that's going to be f 1.4
10:05and if it's the kit lens that's going to
10:07be f 3.5
10:09then we are going to set our shutter
10:11speed to 1 over 50 and to start with
10:14we're going to set our iso to 100.
10:17now if you're in a situation like me
10:19where if you send it to these settings
10:21and you can see that the scene is too
10:22dark what we're going to do is we're
10:24going to take that iso value and we're
10:26going to continue increase it until it
10:28looks about right
10:29then to make sure if it's right or not
10:31we're going to half press the shutter
10:33button and see if that little dot lines
10:35up in the middle there at the bottom
10:37this is our exposure meter this tells us
10:39if it the if the camera thinks that our
10:41image is exposed properly so it's
10:43hovering there about the middle so it
10:45thinks that we're exposed properly i'm
10:46not actually sitting in the proper
10:48position right now because i'm leaning
10:49in to adjust the settings so that makes
10:51it a bit hard but all we want is to make
10:53sure that that is lined up so we've got
10:55this at one over 50 we got here at f 1.8
10:58on this camera or this lens in yours
11:01just set it to whatever the lowest
11:02number you can get the lowest number
11:04allows you to get the most light into
11:06the camera which means that the opening
11:09that allows light into the camera is at
11:10its largest size it's kind of confusing
11:13the smaller number the bigger the
11:14opening but that's just how it works so
11:17set that number to the smallest possible
11:19and then slide your iso up until you've
11:21got everything properly exposed and that
11:23little line is in the middle
11:25now the canon m50 doesn't do really that
11:29great with high iso so if this iso
11:32number here in the corner is getting up
11:34over
11:35a thousand then it means we don't have
11:38enough light and we're gonna need to
11:39bring more light into our scene to get a
11:41good quality image because the further
11:43that goes over about a thousand the more
11:45grainy and gritty our footage is and the
11:47poorer quality footage we actually get
11:50so we want to make sure we keep that
11:52under a thousand now what happens if we
11:54set everything up and it's too bright if
11:57it's too bright when you're at iso 100
11:59and i'm just going to simulate this by
12:01just putting this up to 1600 simulate it
12:03being too bright
12:04say that you've got this down to 100 and
12:06it's too bright still then what we're
12:08going to do is we're going to use the
12:09shutter speed to bring this
12:11into
12:13properly
12:15exposed so we're just going to half
12:16press the button again there now we're
12:18properly
12:19exposed so imagine this is uh the iso is
12:22at 100 not a 1600 or what i've just set
12:25it to
12:25and if it's too light we're going to use
12:28that shutter speed we're going to
12:30increase that until we're properly
12:32exposed
12:32[Music]
12:37and the last thing we're going to talk
12:38about is shutter speed and
12:40if you just want the simple answer i
12:42want you to go into your camera into
12:44region and set it to pal mode and then i
12:46want you to shoot in 25 frames per
12:49second in full hd and what we want to do
12:52is for our shutter speed to start with
12:54we're going to have to go into the menu
12:55system find the wrench icon and go over
12:57to the number three then we're going to
12:59click the video system
13:02and then we're going to select pal mode
13:04and then what we're gonna do is we're
13:06gonna just back out of that
13:09we're once again gonna hit the q button
13:11we're gonna go over here full hd and
13:14we're gonna choose 25 frames per second
13:16now what you can hear from a lot of
13:18people and a lot of big youtubers is
13:19shooting 24 frames per second because
13:21that is the most cinematic thing
13:23and just to cover this off yes 24 frames
13:26per second is seen as cinematic it is
13:28seen as cinematic because hollywood
13:30movies back when we had the big reels
13:33those little pictures only slotted
13:34through at 24 frames per second so we've
13:36gotten used to watching movies that are
13:3924 frames per second so even in the
13:41digital age where none of this matters
13:42and we choose any frame rate we want
13:44people generally choose 24 frames per
13:46second because it looks more cinematic
13:48and you'll hear that from all kinds of
13:50big youtubers but what i've found is a
13:52lot of the youtubers and a lot of even
13:54the big youtubers don't shoot in 24
13:56frames per second anymore they shoot in
13:5825 frames per second and the reason for
14:01this is to the to the naked human eye
14:03and when we're watching video we cannot
14:05tell the difference between 24 and 25
14:08frames per second it is completely
14:10indistinguishable because it is such a
14:12small difference
14:13but
14:14when we're shooting in 24 frames per
14:17second and we decide to go shoot
14:18something in slow motion our only option
14:20in the menu system is to shoot at 60
14:22frames per second
14:24if you shoot footage in 60 frames per
14:26second and you're putting it into a
14:28project or movie or youtube video that
14:31is a 24 frames per second production
14:34and you decide to use that footage you
14:36shot and say hey i shot that i meant for
14:38it to be slow motion but right now i
14:40just realized that this actually works
14:42better at regular speed and regular
14:44motion if you try and play that 60
14:47frames per second in your 24 frames per
14:49second video it gets choppy and jumpy
14:53it's just the way it works i won't go
14:54into too much detail but effectively
14:56every six frames or so it dumps a frame
14:59and you've probably seen it before
15:00whether it be your footage or somebody
15:02else's when they get the frame rates
15:04mixed up like this is it'll be a panning
15:06shot and it'll pan and jump pan and jump
15:08pan and jump this sort of defeats our
15:10whole purpose of trying to do cinematic
15:13video and we know if we are trying to do
15:14cinematic video the slow motion is a big
15:17part of that so at some point in the
15:18project you're going to be shooting at
15:20these higher frame rates
15:22if you change it into pal mode
15:24and use 25 frames per second
15:27we have a slow motion option in that
15:28menu system which is 50 frames per
15:30second and the power of this is we can
15:32go out and shoot all day at 50 frames
15:35per second and then when we're editing
15:38the footage we can decide whether we
15:39want to use any of that in slow motion
15:41or any of that in regular motion and
15:43because
15:4450 frames per second divides evenly into
15:4725 frames per second
15:49all that happens is every other frame
15:52gets dropped and we get perfectly smooth
15:54regular motion which looks exactly like
15:57we intentionally shot it in 25 frames
16:00per second but if we choose with any of
16:02that footage to make it slow motion we
16:04can slow it down to 50 percent and we
16:06get perfect slow motion if you're
16:08interested in succeeding on youtube with
16:10your canon m50 i have made an entire
16:13playlist dedicated to doing just that so
16:16click on the link that's on screen now
16:17and that'll take you straight through to
16:19that playlist
16:21[Music]
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