Canon 650D T4i Getting Started in Video

Are you interested in shooting video with your DSLR, but not sure where to start? This course will get you up to speed quickly. Get instant access to this course now. This is a beginner level course, and it is prerequisite for more advanced courses to come. This course covers the camera in great detail (everything video related in the manual and more), but it does not cover items sold separately from the camera, editing, rendering and photography features.

The manual for the T4i/650D has 372 pages, but unfortunately Canon's manuals are biased towards photography and leave a lot to be desired when it comes to video. This training course fills in those gaps. The true value of this course is saving you weeks or months of time testing your camera to get the best results.

Who is the course for? People that have never owned a Canon DSLR before, or people that have had their camera for a while but never shot video. Or, this course is great for people who have not tested all the different settings. You will be able to see how those settings affect your videos.

What if you own a Canon 7D, T2i/550D, T3i/600D or 60D will this course apply to your camera? It does apply, however I would hold off on buying this course if you can wait for when I come out with those courses. The T4i/650D has features like a touch screen which I use a lot in this course and different focusing modes that might confuse beginners.

Course running time: 4 hours 4 minutes

Level: Beginner

$39.00

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Table of Contents

Quick Start

What's in the box

13:51
Quick start Guide - shooting your first video

01:59

Getting Started

Tour of all the buttons, dials and controls

15:45
SD Cards: which ones work well for video and errors messages you can get with the wrong cards

04:05
Understanding why you can't use the viewfinder for video mode

02:31
How to use Lens Image Stabilization for your videos

01:53
Understanding Rolling Shutter

01:53
Understanding Aliasing and how to avoid it

01:00
What does Moire look like and how to avoid it

03:18

Menus

Quick menu items

06:07
Avoiding menu confusion

03:15
What is "Baked in"

01:49
Red menu items

20:08
Blue menu items

05:22
Yellow menu items

12:45
Green menu items

00:41

Exposure

Understanding Metering

03:50
The importance of Exposure

03:48
How to set your Shutter Speed for video

09:15
ISO: tips on how to get clean video at high ISO's

11:22
Understanding and Setting Aperture

12:49
Squeezing dynamic range to expand it out later

01:00
How to use the Histogram for exposure for video

04:52
Using the Highlight Alert Tool for video

07:28
Understanding Exposure in One Stop relationships

03:24
Punching in 10x and using your Eyes

03:59

Picture Styles

The importance of Picture Styles for the look you want to create

13:41
Where to set your Sharpness and what it can do to your videos

04:40
The importance of Contrast

01:36
Saturation and how Canon handle the color red saturation

03:12
Color Tone does to your videos

01:02

White Balance

What is White Balance and how to set it in different lighting situations

11:30
Getting the perfect White Balance using Custom WB

04:55

EOS Utility

Installing the EOS Utility software

02:14
Tour of the Software

03:05

Focus

Getting the perfect Focus, manual and auto

17:40

Putting it all together

Putting it all together

22:51
Tea with a Fugitive

01:07

Try it out!

Try Before You Buy

Above in the Table of Contents you will see at least one free video in the course so you can try it out before you buy.

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Covered/Not Covered

What is covered:

Only video related items.

How to set up your camera for video.

Basically everything in the manual that relates to video plus more info that the manual neglects to mention.

The Canon manuals can be very cookie cutter and are biased towards photography and do not cover video as well as they do with photography, in this course I will fill that void.

What is not covered:

Photography information such as exposure compensation, the flash unit, RAW image files, etc..

This course does not cover how to edit, render/export your files, this is mostly a prerequisite course for more advanced courses to come. This is for people that have never owned a DSLR before or are interested in shooting video.

I will not cover items sold separately from the camera. For example, while I will cover all the ways you can focus in movie mode, I am not going to cover items sold separately like a follow focus and how to use them for video.

Shooting video snapshots feature on the T4i/650D. Also specs in the back of the manual.