If you're serious about in the best looking video from your Canon camera, then you really need to know what a flat video profile is. In this video, I'm going to show you what a flat video profile is and how you can use it to achieve the best looking video with your Canon camera. Let's roll that intro. Welcome to Ben's Guide. Your guide to the best news, reviews, and how to's from the world of photography and video. If you're new here, consider subscribing to join our growing community and hit that notification bell if you want to be updated of new videos every single week. If you're not sure what a flat video profile is, take a look at this. This is me in the flat video profile mode. And now this is me in standard video profile mode. I can guess that most of you probably prefer the standard profile and that's understandable because you have more colour, contrast, saturation, and it just looks well more visually appealing. So why would you be interested in using a flat video profile if it doesn't look as good? Well, it's not about how it looks now, but it's more about how it will look. When shooting with a flat video profile, you're actually capturing more information. And this extra information can be used to get more dynamic range, more colour, and it gives you more flexibility when editing your video. Now Canon has its own colour profile, which is flat and it's called sea log. But unfortunately, they haven't included this on most of their budget and medium range DSLRs. But don't worry, because if you do own a budget DSLR or even a medium range like the one I'm shooting on now, the Canon 80D, then there is a fix for this. In fact, there's two fixes and I'm going to show you what these fixes are in today's video. Now, we actually made a video all about getting the best video settings for the Canon 80D, just a few days ago. So if you're interested in taking this a step further, then you can click the link showing above my head now in the video. Now, this will actually apply for most Canon cameras. So if you don't own a Canon 80D, don't worry, it's going to cover you whatever Canon camera that you're actually using. So the first way to get a flat video profile in your Canon camera is to use a picture profile. And the specific picture profile you'll need to use is neutral. So let's take a look at how to find that in your camera. Okay, to find neutral, navigate to the cubone here on the back of your camera. Press it and then it's going to give you a bunch of options which show up. Now, on the right hand side, you can see it already highlighted, but this is the picture styles or the picture profiles option. Let's just click that back on again. Click that there. And then on the bottom of the screen, you'll see all the different variations. Now, we want neutral. So click the end and this is going to bring you into neutral mode. Then click info and this is going to give us the different options that we can change to make this profile even flatter. The first one is sharpness. So we're clicking there and we want to turn this all the way down to zero. You can turn this down by just clicking the dial on top of your camera. Press the back button and then the next option is contrast. You want to bring contrast all the way down as well. So just make sure we're inside it. And then finally, we need to come over to saturation. Now, saturation needs to be down two stops. So at the moment it's down one, so just bring it down one more and then press the back button. Okay, and there are the options that you need to make a flatter profile in the neutral profile of your Canon camera. Okay, so for the second part of this, I've had to come back in the studio because we've actually got to install a profile onto the camera. But there's some good news. This is completely free and I'm going to provide this flat profile for you to download in the description. So the next thing you've got to do after you've downloaded this from the description is you've got to open up your Canon EOS utility. If you look at the screen, you'll see it on the right hand side. Now, of course, if you haven't got this, all you have to do is pop into the description again and I've provided a link to it there. This just basically connects your camera to your computer and enables you to download this software onto your camera. So let's go ahead and have a look. So you can see there's many on the right hand side here and we've got picture profile. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to choose user deaf one because this is basically a profile which you can choose on your camera and then install a flat profile into it. So it's adding your own one in. Now, there's two things you've got to make sure you do before you add this in. You've got to make sure that your cameras are manual and you've got to make sure you're in photo mode because otherwise you might not see this option pop up. So you've got to click on this and then go down to register user defined style. Click on that and then it's going to come up with which one that you want to register. Now, you can see I've already downloaded cine style which is the flat profile which I've left in the description for you onto my camera. So all you've got to do is choose it when it's downloaded and then go ahead and click OK. Now, this is going to be installed onto your camera now. It's literally as simple as that. All you need to do is go onto your camera, navigate through to the picture profiles area and cine style will be actually where your user death one is. 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