Today I'm going to share with you how I recently filmed a band with a Canon EOS R, what the video and audio settings were, and how happy I was, how pleased I was with results. Alright, let's go. You're a beautiful person and a good person. And if no one has told you that today, let me be the first one to tell you that. Alright, so recently I was at an event photography gig and I was charged with taking photos of the speakers, the honorees, and getting crowd shots, candidates, etc. But there was a band there and I didn't know this ahead of time and I wanted to get a little video of the band. So first I'm going to tell you what I didn't do. I didn't use a gimbal, I didn't have a stabilizer, I didn't have an external audio, I didn't have an external mic, I didn't have a light, I didn't have an external recorder, I didn't use 4K. I didn't use slow motion, I didn't do any kind of b-roll. This was just documenting the band playing at the moment. And so I'm going to tell you how I used my camera, my video and audio settings to get, when I thought was a really good outcome, and this is props to the Canon EOS R because it is an absolute dynamic camera. I love shooting with it and this was no exception. Alright, let's get straight on to the setting. So first, you have to be ready with your camera and I was ready to shoot because I had recorded my preferred video settings on the custom mode. So when you're shooting photos, you hit the mode button at the top and then you hit the info button right there and then it comes up with your custom 1, 2 and 3, custom 2, which is my 1080p 24 frames per second, C log, and I am ready to go. So the exposure set at 1 over 50, which is the proper frame rate for 24 frames per second. I so set at 100, I am ready to rock. I was ready with one click of a button, actually 2, mode then info, actually 3, mode then info and then custom 2, I was ready to go. And so that's how quickly you can be ready to record some video on the fly. Second thing was, I used a wide angle lens and the 15 to 35, I am going to do a review on this. This has been a great addition to my kit. I know I made a video about how 35mm lens is the best RF lens out there. And that's until I got this one. But the price on this was a lot more. But for video, this wide angle lens is money. And so the wide angle lens minimizes the movement, your hand rolls or tilts. It minimizes that movement with respect to the subject compared to a regular lens or a telephoto lens, which is more exaggerated to the subject. So the wide angle lens helps provide a type of stabilization or stability relative to your subject. Also, I knew that the band was in such an area that I could push in with the wide angle lens. And I could get close shots. I could get close shots because I could move into that space. So that was something else that I knew I could do. So tip three is turn on image stabilization. So right here, you have stabilizer on or off. And you switch that to on and that helps with the lens providing stabilization. And then you go into your menu back here and you turn on stabilization from your camera. So it's a first menu, first tab, movie, digital image stabilization. And you just simply enable that. And so you have two types of stabilization ready to help you capture a great footage. Alright, so then the camera audio settings. Here's what I did for that. For the camera audio settings, first menu is sound recording manual. Sound recording was set to manual. So right here, you can change the recording level. And you can see mine is set on the lower side. It was set down. So helpful being a band could be loud, but it helped kind of to attenuate those or soften those sounds. For me, I used manual and I had it kind of set to a less sensitive setting. I created movement with the camera. So I saw the band there and I used several types of movement. I didn't just stand there and film in one spot. So I used at least five different types. First I pulled back to reveal the guitar player and then I moved back in and having seen the entire guitar player when the focus on the playing. So I pushed in a little bit on the guitar. And then I started to roll around. So I was kind of hiding the rest of the band. And then I pulled back past revealing the mic stand. So the mic stand to brush the frame and then revealing the singer. And then the keyboard player is coming up on my right. And as he's about to be revealed, then I push in on the hands. So it reveals part of him, a close up on the hands. And then I get the last two players, the bass player and the drummer. As I lift up and as I lift up, I'm also tilting down. So I'm revealing not only the band, but also the city lights behind them out the building were on the 50th floor. So that was a kind of cool moment as well. And the last thing is make adjustments on the fly. So when I started filming, it was a little bit dark. And so I was holding the camera like this. I knew that I needed to bump up the ISO. So what I did is you can hit ISO with your thumb and then tab tab right there. And you can raise it and touch like that. One more time, I'm filming. So I'm holding it with one hand. The fingers wrapped around that grip. And I hit ISO, arrow, arrow. And you see it brightens the picture. And that's what I did on the fly. So be prepared to make those adjustments. Well, that's it. I'm happy with the results. I hope that you've enjoyed this video and a little walkthrough of what a wide angle lens and the default audio on the Canon EOS R can do with the proper video settings and audio settings. You can have a great, great outcome. So like this video, subscribe. I hope that you've enjoyed the content. I hope you got something out of it and that you're ready using your custom video settings. And don't be afraid. Just shoot. Go shoot. Go shoot. And like this video, subscribe. Everything. Alright, thanks.