A simple home studio video setup using natural light.
✨ Shoot in a room with an abundance of natural light. The more natural light, the better.
🧙 While natural light is free, it's also wildly inconsistent due to changes in weather and time of day.
🧙 For best results, turn off all ceiling lights to prevent hot spots and unflattering color shifts.
💎 These image quality settings will produce fantastic detail, color, and dynamic range without needing to color grade.
Rotate the Mode Dial to Movie Mode
Set the File Format to XAVC S 4K
Set the Record Setting to:
Set the Picture Profile to PPOFF
Set the Creative Style to Standard
🧙 If you prefer a more natural look or a better starting point for color grading, I recommend increasing saturation slightly while lowering contrast and sharpness.
🧙 DRO/Auto HDR brightens the shadows and produces an image with more dynamic range.
Set DRO/Auto HDR to Lv5
🫥 These autofocus settings will allow the camera to focus on your face continuously.
Set the Focus Mode to AF-C
Set the Focus Area to Wide
Set Face/Eye Priority to On
Set the AF Drive Speed to Normal
Set the AF Tracking to Responsive
🌤 These exposure settings will put an emphasis on your face while automatically adjusting the exposure as light fluctuates.
Set the Exposure Mode to Aperture Priority
🧙 The lowest possible aperture F-number depends on your lens and focal length (zoom).
Set the Aperture to the Lowest F-Number
Set the ISO to Auto
Set the Metering to Multi
Set Auto Slow Shutter to On
Set the White Balance to AWB (Auto White Balance)
🧙 A custom white balance corrects any color shifts and produces an image with accurate colors and better-looking skin tones.
🌓 Steps to make the image brighter or darker.
Decrease [-] the Exposure Compensation to -0.3, -0.7 or -1.0
Increase [+] the Exposure Compensation to +0.3, +0.7 or +1.0
🎤 These audio settings are intended for a dedicated microphone, which will significantly enhance the quality of your audio.
Connect a Microphone into the Mic Input
Set Audio Recording to On
Set Audio Level Display to On
🧙 To prevent the audio from clipping, make sure the audio levels never surpass -3db while talking into the mic.