Chapter 12      Movie Mode

 

[Note: The basics of shooting video were covered earlier in Section 3.7.]

If you're approaching this camera from the perspective of an experienced still photographer, you may feel that the video options are too many and their explanations too few. And so before I get to the ins and outs of shooting high-end video with this camera, let me talk about the formats for just a moment. (Or longer.)

Here’s what I’m going to cover in this chapter:

• Video Nomenclature Simplified (Section 12.1)
• How to choose from the barrage of video setting options (Sections 12.2 and 12.3)
• 4K Shooting and capturing a 4K Freeze Frame (Sections 12.5 and 12.6)
• Manual control options in movie mode (Section 12.7)
• Slow-Motion Video (Section 12.8)
• A Primer on S-Log2 and S-Log3 (Section 12.9)
• Shooting 2 video formats simultaneously (Section 12.10)
• Options when playing back videos (Section 12.11)
• External Microphones (Section 12.12)
• External Display (Section 12.13)
• Monitoring Video and Audio (Section 12.14)
• Importing your files to your computer (Section 12.15)

12.1 Video Nomenclature Simplified

An important new feature of the A6300 is the 4K video capability. But there is a lot of nomenclature and settings to choose from. That needs to be explained first.

Analogy can be a wonderful tool for explaining things. So to explain some of the parameters let me use the camera's still image settings as an analogy to the video settings: