Sony ZV-E10 Tutorial: Quick Camera Setup & Best Settings for Video

one of the best cameras you could be using to create content with is the sony zve10 because it's just awesome it's small it shoots great video however in order to get the most highest quality video out of this camera you want to dial in your settings and that's why in this video i'll be sharing three different best settings for this camera the first i'll be talking about youtube talking head settings like what you're seeing right now the second i'll be talking about the best settings for vloggin

g with the sony zve10 and then third i'll be sharing the easiest slow motion settings so that you can have super cool cinematic videos with your sony zve10 so with that being said grab your camera and let's get into it you got to just press record hey what's up it's omarskoy with think media and this channel is all about helping you build your influence with online video and we do that by sharing the best tips and tools on how to do so so if you're interested in that be sure to hit that subscrib

e button and just want to encourage you if you are watching this video and you have this camera be sure to have it in hand to make it easier for yourself to follow through and then second save this video because oftentimes if you reset your settings or something goes wrong you can reference this video in the future and we've also put chapters so if you want to jump to a specific point be sure to check that out as well but with that being said here are the best settings for youtube talking head v

ideos and this is for like stationary videos kind of like what you're seeing right now but this is how you get the best quality video for that setup now make sure your camera is in video mode and you do that by pressing the top button on the top of the camera and you'll see on the top left of the screen a little video camera and that's how you know you're in video mode the next thing we're going to change is the shoot mode you want to make sure that it's set to manual so go into the menu under t

he second page and you can select shoot mode and make sure that is set to manual or m you can also access this setting by hitting fn and then selecting manual that way as well now it's time to select the resolution and the frame rate just scroll down to file format and you're gonna select xavc s 4k the next thing we're going to select is our frame rate and so you're going to scroll down to record setting and we like to shoot our videos in 24p 100m this is the highest quality version of 24 frames

per second you can also shoot in 30 frames per second or 30p 100m either one just make sure you choose the option with 100m we like using 24 so that's what we're gonna select today now let's exit out of the menu and you can do that by tapping the shutter button on the camera and then you're back to your camera mode and the next thing you're going to want to do is set your shutter speed using the big wheel in the back of the camera scroll the wheel in the direction that gets you to 1 50th of a s

econd that's one over 50. remember how we selected the frame rate to be 24 you want your shutter speed to be double your frame rates and so 1 over 50 is double of 24 frames and if you selected 30 then you can do 1 over 60 but in this case we're doing one over 50 because we selected 24 frames then using the wheel at the top of the camera you're gonna scroll that in the direction to bring that number as low as possible if you have the kit lens on the camera that means this number most likely will

be 3.5 because i have the sigma 16 1.4 lens i can scroll that number down to as low as 1.4 which will give me a super nice blurry background the main rule of thumb here is to just keep your aperture as low as possible based off of whatever your lens will allow you now if you're shooting videos yourself i want to encourage you to put the camera on a tripod flip the screen back towards you and turn on whatever light you will be using to be filming your videos because now we're going to dial in our

iso and so you want to start at 100 it's a good rule of thumb and based off of the amount of light you want to shine onto your face adjust your iso until the exposure is set to about 0 or plus 0.3 if in the event your aperture is as low as it can go and your iso is at 100 but yet your video is still bright i would encourage you to dim your light or move your light a little bit further away from you now if it's a little bit dark you can either crank up your iso or brighten your light a good rule

of thumb is to try and keep your iso as low as possible because that's how you're going to get the cleanest image out of your camera as much as possible the higher that iso number is the more grain will be introduced into your video footage and so i just want to encourage you to use a good light and make sure your iso is as low as it can be while making sure your exposure is at zero or plus point three kind of something like that the next thing we're gonna do is dial in our white balance to mak

e sure that our colors are right and i would encourage if you are doing stationary videos to not shoot an auto white balance and scroll down to the custom temperature setting and set that to about 4500 now you could play with this based off of the light you are using but 4500 is kind of like your daytime temperature which is typically the temperature of light you want to hit your face is a daytime colored light so you want to be at around 4 500 and you can adjust that accordingly based off of yo

ur environment or situation but just locking in your white balance settings will make a huge difference now we're going to make sure that you're always going to be in focus no matter what and so we're going to change our focus area to wide and make sure that it's always set to wide and then make sure our focus mode is set to continuous then we're going to go back into the menu and under the first tab in the fourth page we're going to select face i autofocus settings and just make sure that that

is turned on it is set to human and then you can select right left eye select to auto and just make sure that face i frame display is on there's been times where i haven't seen the white box tracking my eye or my face and this is the one setting that allows you to see that so make sure that that is turned on and then as far as animal eye display you could turn that on or turn it off now typically i would move on to the next thing from here but 50 of video is audio and so we want to lock in our a

udio as well to get the highest quality video and so i want to encourage you to set your audio levels at anywhere around 9 to 15. now obviously do some audio tests and audio checks by testing your audio hitting record and then throwing your sd card into a computer to listen and make sure it's good but a good rule of thumb is just to make sure your audio is around negative 12 to negative three decibels and that you're right in that middle sweet spot for recording videos it's always better to uh i

ncrease the volume of your audio in editing rather than fixing distorted audio because you kind of can't so just keep it in that sweet spot and you'll be a-okay now if you're getting value in this video please let me know by hitting that like button and if you could comment below by letting me know why did you buy this sony zve10 did you buy it to start some youtube videos or did you want to you know start filming your family let me know down in the comments below we'd love to know why you bough

t the sony zve10 but with that being said let's talk about the best settings for vlogging which isn't too far off from what we talked about but there are some slight adjustments i want you to make now the zv10 has an incredible feature when and if you are using this camera for vlogging and simply really the only change you need to make is to change your shooting mode and you know when we were setting it up for youtube videos we set it to manual now we're going to change that from manual to intel

ligent auto this mode allows the camera to automatically identify whatever scene it is in and adjust the settings accordingly now what's cool about the sony zve10 is if you ever are using this mode and you want your background to be a little bit more blurry just press the defocus mode button and it'll blur the background behind you and then if you press it again it'll make everything in focus now some things that intelligent auto doesn't mess with number one is the resolution so still make sure

that you're shooting in 4k 24 100 m or 30 100 m whichever one you like the second is your audio make sure your audio settings are still dialed even though you're vlogging and then the third thing is stabilization there are a few levels of stabilization in this camera and if you put it on active it's going to crop in a lot of it and then it's going to be a little bit harder to see more of what's going on but it will stable the footage it's kind of wonky and kind of wobbly and that's because of th

e rolling shutter you don't need to know all this but i would encourage you to either keep it on standard or even off and just be cognizant when you're vlogging to not shake like crazy but either way i'll leave that up to you based off of your needs but i like to keep it on standard or even off and just do minimal moving when i'm vlogging now i want to talk about the best slo-mo settings for the sony zve10 but i want to tell you about our youtube master class i don't know if you are going to use

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u but when it comes to slo-mo what's so cool about the sony zve10 is that it has what is called snq mode this is a mode when the camera will actually slow down the footage for you without you having to do anything in editing which is super nice especially for beginners what you're going to want to do is make sure you're in snq mode by selecting the top button until you see s and q on the top left of the screen head into the menu under the second tab on the first page go into the snq shoot mode a

nd change that to manual exposure then you're going to go down to the bottom and go to snq settings on that same page select it then select the record setting you want your video file to be in in this case i'm going to select 24p and then we're going to choose the frame rate now you have the option to select 60 or 120 frames if you want your video footage to be super slow motion i would encourage you to select 24 frames per second but i like kind of like medium slow motion and so i'm going to se

lect 60 frames per second and now anytime that i'm in s and q mode and i record something it's going to play back the clip in slow motion without having to do anything now once you've selected your frame rate we're going to dial in our shutter speed again and since we're shooting in 60 frames per second we're going to change our shutter speed to 1 125th of a second if you chose 120 frames per second then i would encourage you to select one 250th of a second and if that's even super gnarly just j

ust copy exactly what i'm doing and you'll be just fine but you're essentially ready to go now the only thing that you'll really have to adjust is your iso based off if you want it to be brighter or darker but simply shoot whatever it is you want to shoot in slow motion and it'll play back in the frame rate that you desire now i do want to let you know that if you shoot in snq mode that you won't have audio on your video clip and if you want audio on your video clip that you're gonna be putting

in slow motion i would go the other way of getting slow-mo video and that is changing your resolution to 1080 changing your frame rate to 60 or 120 frames and then dialing your settings from there and then in editing you would then slow down the footage but i think for most beginners the sq route is the way to go especially with this camera since it's so easy to use so those are the best settings for video with the sony zve10 thanks for sticking with me all this way and whether you're doing yout

ube videos vlogging or slow motion footage you should be good when you dial in your settings just like i taught you if you got value in this video let me know by hitting that like button and be sure to check out that free one hour master class at thinkmasterclass.com we'll post a link to it down in the description below if you want to check out another video from think media you can click or tap the screen and i cannot wait to see you in a future video peace you