BEST manual focus techniques for video (stop using Auto focus, this is how!)
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Need to know how to focus manually with your video camera? In this video I break down the 8 best techniques and tips I've discovered to help you nail your manual focus perfectly every time ALL the time. So if you're using Vintage glass, Cine lenses or you have a camera or lens that can't do Auto focus, then this video is for you!
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0:00 Why is Manual Focus important?
0:30 8 Tips for Focusing manually
0:42 Tip 1 Magnification
1:18 Tip 2 Focus Peaking
2:51 Tip 3 External Monitors
3:10 Tip 4 Follow Focus
4:29 Tip 5 It’s all about the eyes
5:08 Tip 6 Increase your F.stop
6:14 Tip 7 Control movement
7:03 Tip 8 Refocus while recording - Фільми й анімація
Might sound silly but I really like your point about not being afraid to re-focus. Sounds super obvious that it's better to lose a second of footage vs a whole take, but I'd always have it in my head that I'd have to get the entire take absolutely perfect, and if I went out of focus for a second I'd have to do another take.
I'm with you mate, just refocus mid shot, do it all the time.
Great observations.
Thank you very much.
Stay strong.
Thank you, I will 💪
That was fantastic! Thank you. Just what I needed to know,
Appreciate the comment glad it helped.
Great tips.
Nice and simple explanation of videography tips.
Subscribed.
Happy to help 👍
Great content, thanks.
Another thing I found useful was to open up the aperture, reducing the depth of field, set the focus with focus peaking which now has a narrower range for better accuracy. Then reset the aperture to increase depth of field to the desired setting.
Great tip!
Im a noob what does open up the aperture mean
Thanks! Your video very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
thank you for easy to understand tips.
You are welcome!
another banger - thanks guy!
Any time!
Great stuff ! Bravo !
Many thanks!!
Thanks, easy to understand for a newcomer.👌
Glad it helped!
Nice tips. Thanks!
Glad to help!
solid advice. thanks!
Any time!
You fell out of my UA-cam feed for a while (UA-cam thinks I can only be interested in about 3 things at a time). Good to be back (and good to see your 6K Pro working again).
I find the focus peaking on my 6K Pro's monitor good enough. And I've been shooting hand-held and using a Sigma 17-50 F2.8 which has very short throw. I can do decent pulls with muscle memory, though. I am definitely considering a follow focus but not totally sure how well it would work handheld; I find by cradling the lens I can focus without introducing wobble.
Damn Rob, click the bell icon and never lose me to the algorithm again! Follow focus is best for lenses with slightly longer focus throws, but I love to use it with my sigma 18-35.
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Thank you for this great video, you are really pedagogical, professional and the tips are clean and simple.
I have just one question: I've bought recently cine lens, and the focus is really slow to operate. I mean the ring is hard to turn, so I can do only small focus distances. How can I focus faster on a cine lens ?
Follow focus is good, but impossible for a solo operator to frame while focusing
Thank you for the kind words! A follow focus is really the best option. Now you can purchase a Electronic follow focus, such as the Tilta Nucleus Nano/N which can potentially pull focus quicker than you can manually, this may be your best option for quicker focus pulls. But this is also a feature of a lot of cine lenses which can be both good and bad.
Спасибо бро!
Seriously, thank you for this video. #youtubeacademy
Happy to help.
The thumbnail with the eyebrow raise totally looks like The Rock lol
If ya smeeeeeeeeeeeell...
Any advice for low light situations filming fast dancing or should I just buy a sony?
Sony is going to provide you the easiest filming in those conditions.
Wow! Could you do one on lighting! False color, wave form, and mood of certain lighting techniques!
That's a great idea but a huuuuuuge topic Bryan, I do have some lighting breakdowns on my list but sheesh, that'll take some time.
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cool tips. watched a few minutes from the older movie , too many clip changes was making me dizzy , constructive critic , watch more old movies and study the story lines and scene changes , felt like a bunch of clips passing too fast .
I'm sorry mate but for you to comment on story - you have to have watched more than the opening credits of my film (so you understand what the story is). Jump cuts and fast paced montages are part of many old movies as well as new ones, so my familiarity with this construct is not the issue, your attention span is.
my 80D don't have focus picking. how about this ?
Use the magnification function to set your focus.
@@thesavagefilmmaker Thanks
All this shit was common sense
Perhaps to you. But not to a beginner just trying to learn their first steps in the manual world, which is who it's for. Jog on mate.
As if every little thing has to be taught
Seems to have been very helpful for many people, so I guess it does. 👌