0:00 today I'm gonna run you guys through my Panasonic gh4 settings for cinematic looking video and keep in mind these are just my settings you're looking at the footage right now if you want to achieve a look similar to mine then you can follow these settings if you have your own settings that you like and that is totally fine this is just my settings as requested by a bunch of viewers of my channel so I've reset the camera settings to default so we can go through this from the very top let's start by basically checking your AFA lock you'll see I have mine on manual focus I always shoot manual focus the auto focus on the gh 5 is not great even with the new update I love manual
0:45 focus I leave it on that at all times and right now this whip the wheel menu that I'm on at the top is I switched it right now to custom one now let's click the menu button here and do my first thing you'll see system frequency is set to fifty nine point nine I want to switch this to 24 Hertz cinema mode that is the mode that I shoot in I find it looks the most cinematic so I'm gonna do that and turn the camera off as it says and then turn it back on and now we have switched to 24 Hertz cinema mode and now we're gonna start to go through some of the other settings so what I do I set up three or three custom profiles that I
1:32 shoot in using C 1 C 2 and C 3 on the top dial right here so the first one we're gonna do I want to make sure that my exposure mode is on manual that's always how I leave it and now we're going to go here and we're gonna decide we're gonna make this our 4k 60 frame per second preset so this is the mode I shoot in most of the time to get cinematic b-roll so pick this setting right here it's the first one after 1080p and we're gonna click that and then we're going to go back up here to the variable framerate and we're going to set it to say d % right there boom and there we go that's a good start for this profile so
2:19 we've got 60 frames per second at 4k and you'll see that I also have my SS gain operation set to angle I so what this is this is my shutter speed what it means is instead of setting my shutter speed each time I change modes I just leave it on 180 degrees so if I'm shooting at let's say 60 frames per second it means that my shutter speed automatically will be double that if it's on 180 degrees so 60 frames a second the shutter speed will be 120 if I'm shooting 24 frames a second it will be around a 50 shutter speed will be around 50 so it just makes our job a lot easier so set your SS gain
3:04 operation to angle and leave it at 180 if you want shots that look like mine and then let's just scroll through this menu make sure everything's good I keep the master pedestal level at 0 and then in this menu I used the record format MOV it's just my personal favorite sometimes I've also shot in mp4 to be honest there's not much of a difference between any of these modes see how they play back on your computer but if you're on a Mac it should be totally fine to use any of these modes MOV and then let's keep going down photo style this is very important to make sure you can get the most out of your image and you'll see my link to my hundred gah 5 presets below if you're using the
3:50 presets I would recommend using the same settings that I have here so I'm on sin like D mode in the photo style and then I have contrast at minus 1 sharpness at minus 5 noise reduction at zero saturation minus 1 and hue at zero and we'll click set and we're going to keep that photo style consistent through all of our three presets it likes keeps rolling down luminance level I leave at 16 to 255 metering mode I leave it on the default one and highlight and shadow I leave that you don't want to mess with any of these settings it just you basically want to give yourself the most amount of play in post-production as possible I put the high dynamic at low resolution
4:36 resolution off and keep scrolling down here nothing we need to adjust that all looks good and then what we can do is go into exposure so ISO increments we want these set to 1/3 evey instead of one evey basically that allows us to up our iso in smaller increments so where it would jump let's say from 400 right to 500 or 400 to 600 it only goes 400 to 500 and it just gives us a bit more play so yep set your ISO increments to 1/3 extended ISO it doesn't really matter because I'm not gonna crank it above 1600 anyways AEE lock that doesn't really matter
5:22 anyways because I'm shooting manual let's keep scrolling down here I sensor this is the most annoying thing when you wave anything in front of this eye sensor here and your screen goes dark I don't like that all so I have that set to off and we'll keep scrolling down here and then this is my favorite manual focused assist mode and it basically it just zooms in so any time I turn my focus wheel on my lens it basically zooms in close so before I start recording I can basically focus up on the subject and then when I half press the shutter it comes out and I make sure that everything is in focused
6:08 so I would recommend manual focus assist set to this one right here the second one down and then assist display on full and we'll keep rolling down here this is what I love about the gh 5 there's just so many custom settings that you can have so I feel pretty lucky to have this camera peaking is a huge one basically I set my peaking and I set it to high you can choose your display color green or blue is pretty common and what that is is for focus when I go focus on something it will turn green on my screen when I am focused on something so if it's someone's face what peaking does is turn it green anything that's in focus will turn green
6:55 or blue depending on what color you using and I put detect level on high and we'll go back here histogram I always have my histogram on you'll see it in the top corner here you can drag it around wherever you want basically it just lets me know how exposed my images and how evenly exposed as you can see now it's very underexposed everything is far way too far left you want to evenly spread out between the left and the right but I always have this on my screen very helpful way to nail exposure so histogram on guideline I just liked having the grid on there at all times and then the center marker I have that off highlight off zebra patterns this is for when I over expose something so
7:40 let's say I go crazy here you see these lines on the camera or maybe it's too bit too bright let me lower it down basically anytime something gets overexposed these zebra stripes are gonna come up on the area that's exposed so if this whole upper half is overexposed the lines show up and let me know that so I would highly recommend turning your zebra pattern on and setting it I set mine to either a hundred or ninety five percent and then basically just select which one you want to use and that is a very helpful exposure tool highly highly highly recommend that one and we'll scroll down exposure meter on that's just a little bit down in the bottom there I don't use that very often to be honest manual
8:27 focus guide I always leave that on monitor info display leave that on so you can just get as much info as you can and keep scrolling down video priority display put that on and that should be it for those settings now we can go down here Oh a double slot functions so the gh five has two slots for SD cards I put my recording method to backup so if I put two cards in it records the same thing but to two separate cards safe safe way to do it if you want to switch that you easily can and have them record one at a time but this is a safe way to store your footage make sure you don't lose anything so I like that mode a lot and
9:13 what else do we have here and then now we're gonna want to set this so this I'm on c1 my top wheel up here is on custom one and I want to basically overwrite it so these settings are saved as my 4k 60 frames per second custom so I can just switch the wheel to this at any time and I will get these settings so now we have our 4k at 60 frames per second setup and ready to go now let's switch to c2 and I'm gonna make this my basically I want us to be my 24 frames per second for when I want any audio and all the settings that we just did will be the same in terms of you know exposure mode
10:00 manual and all that but I'm gonna go over here and change the record quality to what I want which will be I could shoot in 10 bit personally I don't really need to I know some people will be really mad to hear that why aren't you maxing out the camera I'm a bit of a running gun filmmaker very happy with the results that I get so I'm just gonna leave it on this mode and then just make sure that variable framerate is off and now this way this is gonna be if I want to shoot an interview with someone I'm just gonna switch it to this 24 frames per second mode and leave it on that and now what we want to do is save this setting so custom memory set save it as
10:48 ce2 like that overwrite current settings for custom to yes so now basically if I want my slo-mo settings boof I switch it to c2 and we're at see frames per second in 24 cinema mode and then if I want to quickly do an interview with someone I'll switch to 24 frames per second with audio and now for c3 I can do a super slow motion setting which I rarely use to be quite honest with you I don't use the slow motion 1080p like 120 frames per second too often but let's just have it set up because I know some of you probably will want to do that so we'll go down to this setting right here and we'll click it
11:33 boom and then we'll go up to variable frame rate set it and 120 and you might be wondering why not go all the way up to 180 you start to lose sharpness you lose a lot of sharpness as you add a higher frame rate so I would cap it at 120 but do whatever you want to for a slow motion and click it there again all our other settings have been saved and now what we need to do is go down to custom memory and save this as our c31 save it boom done and there we have it we have our three settings for the gh 5 all good to go
12:18 and basically when I'm out in the field I'm shooting in 60 frames per second for all my b-roll slow motion beautiful cinematic stuff and then if I need to do an interview with an artist I'll quickly just swap over to this mode see to where I have my 4k at 24 frames per second and I'm gonna capture audio that way and then I have my c3 for insanely slow motion footage if I want to do that 1080p at 120 or the c2 mode when I'm recording interviews sometimes I do go to mic level adjust depending on the microphone I'm using and I turn it down if I'm using a lav mic so that's a helpful setting to use at times
13:03 then the final thing first Abel is a for a stabilization within the camera for the stabilizer a lot of the time I'm using Canon lenses with the meta bones so I actually can't control what my settings are for the stabilizer I just have to let the camera do that for me so if you're using native lenses it will be slightly different for me I just leave it how the camera lets me use it and I seem to get a pretty amazing result so that is pretty much the gist of how I set up my GH 5 for filmmaking if there's anything I missed and I'm sure some of you in the comments below a bit why the hell don't you use 10 bit and some other preferences that you guys might have I get it you know everyone has different preferences these are just
13:50 my settings the way that I like them I'm not saying it's the only way to set up the gh 5 but if you want results similar to mine this is how I set it up check out my hundred gh 5 lot pack in the description below if you want to add some presets to your films and yeah leave a comment below what you thought and some films that you would like to see me do in the future and I will see you guys in the next video
