Today I'm gonna show you the best settings
to shoot slow motion on the Sony a6600.
These settings are gonna work
on any of the Sony Alpha lineup.
Also stick around to the end of the video
where I'm gonna show you a couple tips
and tricks to get way
better slow motion footage.
You gotta just press record.
All right, so let's jump
right into the tutorial.
We're gonna start off by jumping into
the Sony menu system by
hitting the menu button.
And we're here on the first tab,
but we actually need to
go over to the second tab.
So you click over on the first page
where it says Movie 1.
We're gonna go down to File Format.
We need to change our file format first
because if we open this up the 4KXAVCS,
4K does not allow us to shoot
in 120 frames per second.
So we need to go down to XAVCS HD
and then our record setting,
now we have some options
for shooting slow motion.
We can shoot at 60 frames per second,
we can shoot at 120 frames per second.
We actually want to shoot
at 120 frames per second
because that is the slowest it can go.
And so the difference
between 60 frames a second
and 120 frames per second is 120 is
twice as slow motion as the 60 frames is.
Typically, 24 or 30 frames would be
your 100% normal speed, and so 60 frames
is just about 50% slow motion,
whereas 120 frames is gonna be about 25%
slow motion from real
life, what our eyes see.
So we're gonna go to 120,
but there's two options.
There's 100M, which stands for megabits,
and there's 60M.
The higher the number,
the more megabits per second,
so we definitely want to go with 100M,
because that's gonna be a
bit better video quality.
So we're gonna select 120 100M.
Now that it's selected,
we gonna hit menu again
to go back into our display.
You can see that our shutter
speed was adjusted to 1/125.
I'm not sure exactly why Sony does this,
because want to keep your shutter speed
at double your frame rate.
So if we're shooting
120 frames per second,
your shutter speed should be 1/240.
So as I turn the dial
here, there is no 240,
but there is 250, which
is gonna be close enough,
so we're gonna stick our
shutter speed at 1/250.
Now when it cms to your
aperture and your ISO,
this really is just up to your taste,
and what you want to do.
We actually have a video
on what that means,
and so you can click the card
if you're not really familiar
with aperture and ISO
and shutter speed, all that stuff.
I like to keep the
aperture as low as possible
at 2.8 for this lens, and then my ISO,
I'm going to adjust that a little bit
to make it brighter for this scene.
When it comes to auto focus,
sometimes when you're shooting
120 frames per second,
you can see a little bit of the wobble
in the auto focus and so you can leave it
and trust in the auto
focus, or you can decide
to shoot in manual focus.
For what I'm gonna be doing,
I actually want to do manual focus because
I don't want to see any
wobbling in the lens
or have weird things happening,
so I'm gonna play it safe.
I'm gonna go to my manual focus
and change settings to manual focus.
On the first tab, Camera 1, and then
on the fifth page over, at the very top
we see focus mode.
It's set to continuous auto focus,
and we're gonna go down and
set it to manual focus.
So now if I grab my lens,
I can adjust manually,
and so sometimes when you're outside,
or even inside,
you really want to know your focus,
but the screen is not super bright.
It's a pretty small screen,
and it's hard to know
the focus, so we are gonna set peaking.
And this is going to
highlight our focus point
so when we're manually focusing,
everything that is in focus
is gonna be highlighted
with a specific color.
I'm gonna show you how to do that.
We're gonna go back into the menu.
On the first tab, Camera 1, and page 13,
we're gonna see our Focus Assist.
Now at the very bottom we
have a Peaking Setting.
And right now it's set
to off, so we are gonna
want to turn that on.
And then our peaking level.
we have a high, mid and low.
And so this is the intensity.
I'll show you some examples here
of what maybe high looks like,
one mid looks like, and
what low looks like.
I like to keep mine on mid.
I feel like it's a good
balance between the two.
And so for peaking color, I'm gonna leave
mine on red, because
that's going to stand out
in the shot that I am shooting right now.
Now, if you're having trouble,
maybe knowing your focus.
With manual focus, I
would definitely recommend
just switching back over to auto focus.
Here's another quick tip if
maybe you're having issues
with the auto focus or the manual focus
and you just can't nail it because maybe
something is moving by really fast,
and you're trying to keep it in focus.
What you want to do is
increase your aperture.
So if we increase our
aperture to say eight,
we have a lot better
chance of it being in focus
because now a lot more is in focus,
where at 2.8 a lot less
is going to be in focus.
You have more of a blurry background.
At F8, it's not as blurry of a background,
but you're gonna have a way better
chance of getting your
subject in that area
that is in focus.
Next up, I'm gonna show you two
amazing tips and tricks that's gonna
take your slow motion to the next level.
But before I do that,
give this video a like
and comment down below.
How do you like the Sony a6600 so far?
Are you planning on getting one?
The first tip to take your slow motion
to the next level is to film something
with a lot of movement.
If you're filming people talking
or maybe grass growing or paint drying,
obviously the slow
motion is not gonna have
the same effect as if
you're filming something
like skateboarders or waves at the beach.
You really wanna capture something
with a lot of motion
because the slow motion
is then going to show off by making
everything very slow.
The second tip is to use camera movement.
Now, slow motion does
look great on a tripod
or hand held, but you can
really take your footage
to another level if there
is some camera movement.
If you check out this shot right here,
we have something in the foreground
and we have something in the background.
And the camera movement makes it look like
there's a lot more camera movement
because of that subject in the foreground.
If you see this clip without anything
in the foreground, you can
see there's a difference.
It looks like the camera's
barely even moving.
So it's important to add camera movement,
because it's just gonna
take it up another level.
And when using slow motion,
your hand-held shots,
because they're slowed
down, are naturally gonna
take away the small jitters and shakes,
and so you can almost get a slider
or gimbal type of shot
just by using your hands.
So if you've seen those
really cool B-roll videos
on YouTube and you
wondered how they've gotten
these really cool, smooth moving shots,
they're using 120 frames per second.
Most of them are doing it hand held,
but because they are shooting that slow,
and they're probably adding some
image stabilization in post or in camera,
you get that really cool B-roll effect.
Check out our other
videos on the Sony a6600.
See you next time.
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