The Canon 1300D or Rebel T6 is an excellent camera for taking photos and videos, and these are the best settings for taking videos. To make any changes to the 1300D for video, you must be in video mode. Turn the dial mode to the bottommost option showing a video camera and you will hear the mirror appear inside the camera. That allows you to see through the view screen on the back, which is the only way you can shoot video on this camera. It also gives you access to menu tabs that are dedicated to video and the first thing to do here is to choose your video system. This was developed when TV systems were very different and if you wanted to show your videos on a TV screen, you had to align what was shot on camera with the TVs you were going to show the video on. There are two systems, one is PAL and the other is NTSC. NTSC tends to be the system operated in the United States and PAL tends to be the system operated in Europe and other parts of the world. There isn’t a huge amount of difference. However, it does change the way the camera works very slightly. So when you start looking at the frame rates, you’ll see that under NTSC you get a frame rate option of either 60 frames per second or 30 frames per second. When you are in PAL you have the option of 50 frames per second and 25 frames per second. It’s the real differences you’ll notice. Most people these days don’t shoot DSLRs to display their videos on TVs. They tend to use it for social media or display it on a laptop. In which case, it doesn’t really make any difference. But to change that you have to go into the menus and head over to tab 2 and at the bottom you have the option to change the video system.
The second thing to think about is file size and frame rate. These things are quite important because they will decide the quality of the videos you record. This camera is pretty good: it will capture 1080p, which is Full HD, and it will also capture 720p, which is standard HD, both of which are perfectly acceptable for social media platforms. To make those changes, we go back to the Video 2 tab and look for Movie Recording Size. If we click on that option, we have four options. Depending on whether you have chosen NTSC or PAL, your maximum speeds will be 60 fps or 50 fps.
The third thing to think about when shooting movies with this camera is exposure. When you take pictures with the Canon 1300D, you have many options. They’re all on the mode dial and go from full manual to semi-auto to full auto options. In most of these modes, the camera is trying to get the best exposure for the still images you are taking within the given parameters. that you have presented With movies it’s different. You have two options: you can shoot in automatic or you can shoot in manual. With Auto on the film setting the camera will try to get the best possible exposure for you and in many cases it works very well so I suggest you at least shoot on Auto initially just to get an idea of how the camera works and then you don’t have to worry about exposure because the camera will do the best it can for you. However, if you want to go Manual, there are different ways to change the various parameters for Manual that are different than the way you would for stills. In the menu, the movie exposure is on the Video 1 tab and you get the two options, Auto or Manual. If you choose to go Manual then you have a lot more control over the settings than you can. You will see that you have options to set the Shutter Speed to set the Aperture and to set the ISO. For shutter speed, rotate the main dial. By pressing the AV button here and turning the main dial, you can change the aperture. The ISO is changed by pressing the flash button and turning the main dial.
The fourth thing you should think about is sound. The Canon 1300D does not have an external microphone jack. It only has an internal microphone, so sound can be a bit limited with this camera. But if you go into Menus and the Shooting 2 tab, the second one down is Sound Recording and you can set it to one of three options. You can have Automatic, Manual or Disabled. I would argue against disabling it entirely because sometimes it’s useful to have sound even if you don’t intend to use it in the final cut. Auto isn’t bad, but it will try to pick up as much sound as possible and you might not want that, you might not want ambient sound. Manual isn’t too bad as long as you’re reasonably close to the sound source. There’s a decibel bar at the bottom, and as with most cameras, the goal is to try and max out at about 12. In terms of your recording itself, it’s actually pretty good, so you don’t I would be opposed to using the internal camera. microphone, you just have to be a little careful.
The next couple of options we’re going to look at are in the Video 3 tab and may seem like they’re less important than the other options, but they do affect the way your video looks, so they’re worth checking out. If we go to Video Tab 3, at the bottom is the Picture Style option. These are the same options you get with stills and you can choose Vivid or Sepia or many other options and some of them are set to bring out the best qualities for portraits and landscapes. With video it tends to be best to try and shoot video as flat as possible so the best option to start with is neutral so you should always set it to neutral for video until you make a decision to change the Picture Style . and shoot something different. The one right above on Video Tab 3 is Custom White Balance. It’s very important for shooting video because if you start moving around and shooting things in a different light, then the only stable element, the only constant, is going to be the white balance.