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In this Nikon D3400 video from Camerawize we look at video.
THE NIKON D3400 VIDEO SET UP
The best VIDEO SET UP for your Nikon D3400 is a first look at the D3400 and tells you all about this camera and shows sample images and video.
The Nikon D3400 is an entry-level DSLR camera designed by Nikon for people who are moving up from bridge cameras or from compact cameras and whilst it takes excellent stills it also shoots superb video. One of the selling points of this camera is that it shoots Full HD video which is 1080 at 60 frames per second, which is really very impressive, and gives you a very smooth and very high quality video reproduction. One of the downsides however is that it doesn't have an external microphone socket and that is very much in common with most cameras in this category - though ironically its predecessor, the Nikon D3300, does have an external microphone socket and I would say that if you're going to shoot a lot of video, which will require a lot of sound when you're actually recording the video - perhaps you are doing interviews or you are recording bands - then you might want to look at the D3300 rather than this camera.
On the other hand one of the things that I really do like about this camera is that it has a lot of effects and modes, so that you can be quite creative with the way that you shoot stills and those effects are translated through to videos too which is really quite fun. So you can have a lot of fun with photo illustration which shoots a sort of comic effect but in video. You can have fun with the miniature effect which shoots a sort of time lapse but within the miniature effect option, and you can also have some great fun which I found with toy camera effect which gives a really OLDE WORLDE type of shot through video with vignette and quite unsaturated color. This Nikon D3400 video from Camerawize is one of a series, please look to for the others..
Now if you are shooting at a given frame rate it is recommended that your shutter speed is twice that frame rate. So if you are shooting at 30 frames per second, the shutter speed should be about 160th. Likewise if you're shooting at 60 then your frame rate should be about 125th. You do have some flexibility here it's not carved in stone. You could easily go up to 1/200th or 1/400th if that's what you wanted without the video suffering too much. In terms of keeping equality as good as possible then you'd like the ISO to be as low as possible and the aperture, of course, will control your depth of field. The three elements here, ISO, aperture and shutter speed can all be changed when you're in the manual setting. Let me show you how. The odd one out, in a sense, is aperture because you cannot change the aperture when you are actually shooting the video, so you need to pre-set your aperture and you can only do that outside of Live View and if you are outside of Live View then you can see the aperture when you are in the back screen and you can change that by pressing the exposure button on the top and using the main dial to go along to change the aperture either up or down. Now at this point you can also change the ISO and the shutter speed in exactly the same way. You can change the shutter speed by using the main dial on its own and you can change the ISO by looking at the I button and moving across and choosing the ISO and changing it. However you may want to change either the ISO or the shutter speed whilst you are actually shooting the video, in which case you can either use the function button which you have preset to change ISO and use the main dial which will change the ISO, even if you're shooting at the same time. Or you can use the main dial on its own to change the shutter speed. Again even if you're shooting video at the time and the great thing about using the back screen is that you can instantly see the change, in either changing shutter speed or ISO, the image will go lighter or darker. So those are the ways that you can change the shutter speed, the aperture, or the ISO when you are shooting video now just as with stills you can set your picture control as well, and that can really be quite important when you're shooting stills you can set it to be mono or vivid or bright and that can affect the exposure of your pictures.
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Best tutorial for using the D3400 I have found. Thank you for posting these!!!
best tutorial on the internet on how to shoot videos using the D3400! Thanks friend
Excellent! I actually bought D3500 last year and haven't used video much, but wanted to learn how to do it properly. Not many people explain the aspect of shutter speed, aperture and ISO for video settings like you did here. I originally thought that the camera would figure this all out for me when I am in video mode. Thank you.
I've used my D3400 as the main cam, and another camera as my alternate angle, and then synched them that way with a voice recorder picking up audio. A little complicated, but works well enough.
You did a fabulous job on this video. It's good to have a professional around.
i am watching your video all the time so that my mind remembers what you say and what to do.
Thank you for the info its a big help to me. I just bought my d3400 a week ago.
I am so pleased you enjoyed this, thanks!
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. I appreciate your advice.
I'm a beginner and just got this awesome camera. I will be doing videos. But need a microphone
now i know how to get th e camera going next to use it.thank you for the infor and directions
Thanks for sharing this
Excellent video thanks a lot!!
Fantastic source of information. Thanks.
It was soooo helpful ... thankyou
Your videos are always so informative. Thank you!
thank you very much you helped me a lot
Please did the same video but for the Nikon D5200
Thank you! Great vid.
thank you, i hope it helps.
I got this one like six months ago but only like month ago I’m considering practice videography bit more since I kinda got into time lapses and slow motion videos and I want to learn how to do that
Hi AmyLee, this is a pretty good canera for video. good luck. drop me a message if you upload your videos onto YT.
@@NikonD5200Channel Thank you. I was on budget and since I was mostly having stills in mind I paid no attention to all microphone situation. But I believe I don't particularly concentrate on that for now as I really want to explore timelapses.
I actually did already couple videos but not all are done by D3400 because I have also FujiFilm AX650 that I experiment with for timelapses but I doubt I did any grace for quality as I'm still learning all the editing (iMovie on my iPhone because I couldn't find any free program for Windows that had all things I needed)
It’s kinda funny when you look at the comments and you can see straight away some of the questions proving they haven’t read the instruction manual, because cmon man some of those questions are beyond stupid...
Hello, I am happy to try to answer any questions, no matter how foolish they may seem to others. We all had to start somewhere and I want people to take their cameras out and take great pictures and videos.
Thanks for sharing this info
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Thank you!
Very useful thank you.
digital voice...I am totally amazed
Yeah but I don't know what to do because it keeps being blurry whenever I film...I hoping for some tip perhaps.Thx! 🤓
can you show me some of your video? I might be able to help
Same problem with me ... Sometimes it's blurry nd sometimes its ok... How to fix the focus in videos plz tell😊.
Why dont i have optical VR ,on my d3400,, is it down to an unupdate of software...
but how to set the length of available recording time to the limit of memory card capacity?
There is no particular way to do this. the camera will only record a maximum of 29 minutes or 4GB on the card. At 1080, 25 frames per second it records about 170mb per minute. if you know how much space you have on your card, you could work it out from that. when the space on the card is less than the maximum recording time, the time available will show when you are recording.
Do you know how to tether with Nikon d3400
Hello,
Great work, very helpful. Question. I have a Atomos Ninja Star and am having trouble. Hook it up via HDMI turn on camera go to Life View turn on Ninja and life view clicks off. The camera is talking top the Ninja, turns rec on off and does record video but I can't see what I am recording on viewer. Tried all different sequences. camera on first then Ninja etc. Any thoughts?
cheers
Does anyone know if I can transfer videos from the Nikon D3400 to my iPhone? With a cable or anything at all?
Darius Kitchings Download SnapBrigde on App Store and you can transfer it through on Bluetooth.
Also, you can tansfer the videos with the sd card to your pc. Then yo send the video to your Gmail and download it on your smartphone
Has anyone ever told you that you look a bit like John Terry 😂 Great and helpful video, though.
Not John Terry. I have been told that I sound like Ricky Gervais, Sean Bean and....Nigel Mansell. I think that was an off day...
Just got this camera and I seriously need a class. Tried to take video and it appears I know nothing on how focus works during recording. I started recording and all was well. Till I zoomed in and out and the recording was all blurry. Ugh. Why does this have to be so difficult?
CatzEyes93 it’s not that hard
Lsa Photography thanks. Your post is not only informative, but helpful.
CatzEyes93 that’s one of the easiest parts as you zoom in rotate the zoom lense to adjust it to the mm your at, and read through the instruction manual, but actually do it because no one ever does and that’s why you will get confused, and once you know the basics on how to operate it, turns it to A aperture priority and then finally to manual did that help?
Is there a way to lock focus permanently using remote (in video mode) while I am standing in front of the camera? I need it when recording video by myself.
ok, this is what I do. when i am setting up, i put a box where i am going to sit and focus the camera on it. then i switch the lens to manual. that way I know that the camera won't wander in and out of focus.the important thing is to keep the aperture fairly narrow. so i shoot manual, 1080x25fps, 1/60th second, f6.7 and 1000 ISO. move back, so that there is a reasonable depth of field, i make sure that the camera is 6-8 feet away.
thanks for this video, are you planning on creating a video on how to shoot videos at night? for the life of me, I cannot get any good quality night mode, it's all grainy.
take a look at this one: ua-cam.com/video/O8LtCvJstLs/v-deo.html it is not specifically for this camera, but the basics are the same.
@@NikonD5200Channel thanks, I've got the night photography completely figured out, my question was about VIDEO, I played with all sorts of settings but cannot get any good result.
Hey, sorry about that, I misunderstood. I am not going to be doing a video anytime soon, but this video here will give you some pointers. good luck ! www.izzyvideo.com/low-light-video/
Also, I would not shoot on night mode for video. shoot on Manual if you can. Check out the scene first by trying it on P mode, and then switch to Manual and make any changes you need ( that are mentioned in this video).
@@NikonD5200Channel thanks a lot, I will experiment further with the settings. I have a prime lens that opens up to f1.8, it's definitely allowing more light in.
Sir, can we actually connect an external mic on Nikon D3400? Is there anyway we can do that as it doesnt have a built in mic jack?
No, you cannot connect an external Mic. You have two choices - either rely in the internal Mic, which isn't too bad, or use an external recorder. The advantage of that is that you can get the mic much closer to the sound source. You don't have to spend a lot on a recorder , you can get an app on your mobile phone that will do it. Then you just synchronise the video and sound in the editing software.
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Can u explain us, where did you find out the miniature effect, or the comic effect?
I cannot understand from your video.
thanks
Hello, turn the mode dial round to EFFECTS. This allows you to select your effect with the rotating dial, press the LV button so that you see the picture through the back screen and then just press the video on button..
Just but an adapter for a 3.5mm jack
Hi sir please help me i am trying to connect a wireless microphone with nikon d3400 but i couldn't do it please help how to connect a wireless microphone with nikon d3400
I don't think you can. There is no external microphone socket on the D3400 and it doesn't have WiFi connectivity, just NFC.
What ?
If i can connect wireless microphone with nikon d5200. Can it possible ?
what system do you have?
I am made a pank video so i need a wireless microphone
Hi there,
I am trying to do timelapse with my Nikon D3400. You talked about it, in the beginning, could you please elaborate a bit more.
How to do it? I had Nikon D90 the intervalometer for that one doesnt work for Nikon D3400.
There is no time-lapse function on the D3400.
You have two options: the first is to shoot your videos in Miniature Effects. This shoots the video as a time-lapse video and puts it together in the camera to play straight away. However it keeps the miniature effect setting of blurring around the edges. This may not be a problem if your subject is in the middle of the frame, but if you are shooting a landscape and want to catch the moving clouds etc, it isn’t going to work.
To do this, turn the mode dial round to Effects, then turn the rotate dial until you get the Miniature Effects option and then press the video start button.
By far the best way is to get an intervalometer. This plugs into your D3400 and allows you to operate the shutter remotely. It also allows you to fire the shutter a certain number of times at set intervals. They are not expensive, just make sure they will operate a Nikon D3400.
Here is one, for example: www.amazon.co.uk/Andoer®-Viltrox-Intervalometer-Control-Shutter-As-Shown/dp/B00N3JQW7U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1510569209&sr=8-2&keywords=Time+Lapse+Intervalometer++nikon
When shooting, you should be on manual mode and also manual focus - to prevent the camera changing the exposure or refocusing during the shoot. Ideally you should try to stay out of live view as this will drain the battery faster. You are going to shoot 25-30 frames for each second of video, so the battery must be fully charged - if you are shooting 15 seconds of video, you will need to take around 450 frames possibly over a period of over an hour.
The time between each frame depends on what you are shooting, but here is a rough guide:
Clouds moving very slowly, interval of 10 seconds.
Clouds moving normally: interval of 5 seconds.
Clouds moving very fast: interval of 3 seconds.
People walking down the street: interval of 2 seconds.
Path of the sun on a clear day, interval of 30 seconds.
Night landscapes, stars, moon, etc.: interval of 20 to 30 seconds.
As you can see this is a big commitment, so it is a good idea to do some tests first and plan well. it is worth making sure that you have a large memory card and plenty of room on your computer.
The software recommended at the moment is Picasa from Google, which you can download for free (please be careful where you get it from). I don’t have it myself, but this video shows you how simple it is to use. ua-cam.com/video/ZuI9dep0dGo/v-deo.html
I hope that helps. let me know how it works for you!
WOW..... I am totally pleasantly surprised how much time and care you have taken to answer me.
You, sir, are an amazing person.
Actually, I did not ever try to discover anything from the effects dial in the camera.
Now not just I found about Miniature Effect but also all other effects.
Nokia D3400 doesn't have any GPS port so the usual intervalometer does not work here. And it doesn't have a wireless function so apps on a smartphone do not work either.
My option is an expensive one an intervalometer from Nikon which is worth $140 here in Australia.
I really appreciate your reply.
I hope people return your kindness with gratitude. thank you
take a look at Pulse Camera Remote from Alpine labs. I have emailed them and they confirm that it works with the Nikon D3400 and you can shoot time-lapse with it.
I’ve got one but it’s terrible for videos because there’s no headphone jack for a mic
I have never had good results with 60fps. It looks jerky.
it might be worth looking at your shutter speed, which should ideally be about 1/125th sec. that might help.
Can someone tell me what camera i should for photoshooting beginer!?
It depends on how much you know about photography and what you want to photograph. A good basic DSLR camera, like this D3400 or a Canon 1300d/T6 would be a good start if you know the basics. They have the advantage of you being able to change lenses and use off camera flash to widen your experience. With those you can shoot almost anything. If you are a beginner, you might consider a good bridge camera, with a zoom lens. this would allow you to practice and then, once you have decided on what you want to do, you can upgrade accordingly.
CameraWize Photography that was really helpful thank you verymuch .
How do I take OFF the automatic iOS on my nikon D3400?
Hello, turn the mode dial to manual, then go into your shooting menu and find iso sensitivity settings. switch that option off.
It is impossible to make quality videos for youtube with the D3400. THERE IS NO EXTERNAL MIC INPUT. Nikon's choice to remove the external mic input from the D3400 was a BIG BIG MISTAKE !!!!
You can record separately using a different recording device - perhaps your mobile phone with an app? my course discusses it..
so you CANNOT hook an external micrphone to it???
no. this camera does not have an external microphone socket.
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So if where to film lets say, a vlog or a tutorial with this camera, i'd have to film the video with the camera, record the audio on a seperate microphone via my audio interface, and then splice the video and audio in post production?
@@Janne-k- Essentially, yes.Depending on the acoustics, you could try recording with the internal microphone, but for vlogs, I use a clip on mic, which I think is better. it is not too difficult to synchronise the video and sound..
@@NikonD5200Channel alright, thank you so much for the answers :D
Very helpful!
Your video is blurry
Are you watching at the highest resolution? Sometimes if the internet connection is slow, the video plays at a low resolution
In that case, I know who needs better lenses :)
CameraWize Photography nah your lense is dirty ahah
I bought the 3400 for videos, but now I know I shouldn’t have due to the lack of audio
:( annoyed
yes the lack of an external Mic socket is annoying. But you can record sound on a separate device - your mobile phone for example - and synchronise it with the video
No, I am afraid not. Neither of the two sockets on the D3400 will allow you to record sound, even if you had an adaptor.
And the focus its not to great...
I know I got amazing photos with the 3400 but now I want to record music videos and have a very nice bic condenser microphone and cant do anything with it.
bruno ferreira you realise autofocus isn’t really the camera fault quite usually the lense because the d3400 has the same autofocus motor as a lot of Nikon’s posher cameras with auto focus
Does anybody know how to use the HDMI port on this camera to use a mac as a monitor while recording videos? I want to use this camera to record youtube videos but since the viewfinder lacks mobility, I need some type of external monitor