The Sony zve E1 is one of the most Powerful cameras that Sony has ever made But it's also a pretty complicated Camera and unless you know the exact Specific settings to use you won't be Able to get the best quality for your Photos and videos from this camera and Without the right settings you more than Likely will not be able to make this Camera work for your shooting style so In this video I want to give you a Simple straightforward guide on how to Get the most from your zv1 and this Guide is also set up for beginners Casuals but also Pros looking to Maximize their camera let's get into it Alright so let me introduce you to the Zve E1 so this is the body and right up Here you have your record button which Is the red circle your shut button for Photos up here is a zoom rocker which is A digital zoom and I do not recommend Using it next to it is your defocus Button which I will explain later it's a Very cool feature on this camera and Right here in the center is your mode Toggle on the left is photos middle is Video and on on the right is slow motion And quick motion and I will explain all Of this more in depth as the video goes On and right up here people will Probably think this is a speaker but This is actually your microphone and This actually has three microphones
Built right into it and this is what's Capturing your audio your speaker However are these two little holes right Up here at the top this is where all of Your audio is going to come from and This camera also does not have a Mechanical shutter in it so if you ever Hear the shutter sound it's actually Just an audio playing right up here Through this speaker and right up here Is your on and off switch so once you Have your camera on let me show you how To control your camera once you go into Your camera you want to make sure your Lens is actually extended if you are Using the kit lens like I am and back Here is a scroll wheel for your shutter This knob right up here is your aperture And if you want to change ISO simply Want to hit right here and your ISO will Come up one thing I love about this Camera is that everything is touch Enabled it really does feel like a Smartphone you can actually touch your Shutter speed feed and change your Shutter speed using the touchscreen and Speaking of touch enabled when you open Up your camera you'll actually see a Menu right up here all of these are menu Options that you can simply tap and Touch and I'll go over what each of These menu options do now these menu Options do change depending on what mode You're in if you're in photo video or
Slow motion and another way to control Your camera is also the FN button right Here once you hit this you'll get Another quick menu here and this will Give you some of the same options some Of the different options but this is Also another way you can control your Camera alright so let's talk about how Do you get the best photo and video Quality from your brand new camera now This really comes down to the type of Files you're shooting so depending on if You want the best photos and videos make Sure you have your camera set to the Exact mode Let's talk about photos first From there you want to hit menu once you Hit that you'll kind of go into your Home menu which is this little white Home icon and from there you want to Scroll over using the scroll wheel on The left it's also a button pad to jpeg If you're someone that's tuning mainly For casual Everyday Use jpeg will be Just fine but if you want to shoot the Best possible quality you want to be Making sure you're shooting raw but this Camera also gives you different options For what kind of jpegs and what kind of Raw photos you can shoot so once you go Into jpeg you want to pick jpeg from There you can pick if you want to just Shoot raw JPEG and RAW or just jpeg I do Not recommend shooting both Because Unless you need jpegs for your clients
And raw for yourself to shoot one so for This purpose we're gonna go with raw Because you're going to get the best Quality and once we scroll over to Middle Rob which you at the top you can See raw file type you want to go into This and you have three options Uncompressed lossless compress and Compress uncompressed basically means The full file no compression nothing is Done to it you're just getting be pure File unless you're doing professional Commercial work you really don't need This and compressed is it takes the file Doesn't throw away any of the data but It makes it harder for your computer to Edit those files what I recommend most People do is go with lossless compress This way you're going to get the maximum Quality but it's going to compress the Files just enough so that you're not Eating through your SD card but your Computer is still going to be fine when It comes to editing these files now if You are someone that's working on a Really weak computer I recommend Shooting uncompressed just know that You're going to eat through your card Very very fast and if you watch someone That's shooting jpegs only you want to Go over to jpeg quality click into that And you'll get extra fine or standard Now there is never any reason to shoot Anything besides extra fine jpegs really
Don't take up that much space and this Way you know you're going to get the Best jpegs possible and just in case you Want to do some heavy editing to your Jpegs you will have access to all of That information using extra fine mode Never ever use standard or anything Below that now depending on what kind of Subject matter you're shooting if you go Right down here you'll see drive mode Now all these settings are up here and Once you go into drive mode you have a Bunch of options a single shooting is Just one photo and the camera stops but With continuous shooting you can simply Hold down the shutter button and the Camera will keep shooting until the Camera Electronics need a break now for Most people like I said earlier I Recommend shooting in low but if you're Shooting something with high moving Subject matter I recommend shooting in High plus but there's one setting that Most people Overlook and this is one of The most important settings when it Comes to photos it's your focus mode and Now this camera actually has a really Complicated Focus mode because this Camera actually has artificial Intelligent based autofocus so there's a Few settings to change alright so from Your home menu you want to go all the Way to the bottom to focus area now this Is going to determine what area of your
Frame or what area of your sensor the Autofocus is working in now the first One is wide the second one is Zone and There's different reasons to use each One if you're using wide this is going To have autofocus on your entire sensor And this is what I recommend to most People but if you're shooting something That you know is going to be in the top Left top right center of your frame I Actually recommend going into Zone and Picking what zone you want your Autofocus working in this is going to Make it easier for the autofocus to just Focus on one area and it's going to make It more reliable and faster next up Let's talk about what Focus mode you Want to be shooting in so for that you Want to go back into your menu here you Want to go left over to focus mode as You can see up top click into it and You've got single shot automatic Continuous TMF and manual focus now it's Really nice that Sony has given us so Many options but you really only need to Focus on two and anything else is a Waste of your time you want to pick Single shot if you know your subject Matter is sitting in one place and you Know maybe you're shooting portraits Product photography something that's Stationary with single autofocus it's Just going to keep the autofocus in the Same place and even if you hold down
Your photo button it's just going to Keep the autofocus or the focus in one Place but if you know your subject is Moving around a lot you want to go with Automatic Auto Focus this way it's going To figure out where it's going what Focus mode it needs to use on its own This camera is very very smart now there Is continuous autofocus and as great as It is to have continuous autofocus you Really don't need to use that mode Because it's just extra leg work for you To go between different modes for most People if you know your subject matter Is moving I recommend going with auto There's also DMF and manual focus you Really don't need this because these are Manual modes and you know if you're Going to spend thousands on a fancy Camera why would you ever use manual Focus in some cases you might want to if You're focusing on something very very Specific and the camera is not working For most people you really won't need it And the last setting that you need to Know for autofocus is subject tracking If you go into your main menu right here Is the your touch menu if you don't see A touch menu you can also hit FN and You'll see this little like recognition Target right here so you want to click Into that and you'll see a human animal Bird cat animal all these things this Allows your camera to understand what
You're trying to focus on if you're Shooting shooting just animals it will Ignore all the humans and it will just Focus on the animals if you're just Trying to shoot humans it will ignore The animals and if you're just trying to Shoot trains and airplanes guess what It'll just focus on the vehicles ignore The people this is a really really Important setting to pick for your Camera because if you're shooting in a Crowded environment this is going to Help your camera to use autofocus better And it's also going to make your Autofocus faster and more reliable so if You don't use any of the other settings I talked to you about you want to make Sure you use subject detection or Recognition so your camera knows exactly What you're trying to focus on and all Of these settings that I just showed you For autofocus also work for video so now You know both now video is why you Probably bought this camera but video Has a ton of complicated settings and it Takes a lot more work to set this thing Up for video in the right way depending On what you're shooting so let's dive Into the video settings and set this up For different use cases so the first Thing you want to do is you want to set The mode dial to video and next up you Want to go Get back into your menu and you'll
Notice you now have two home menus that Do wildly different things so let's go Through the first one the first thing You can do is change your frame rate now Your frame rate will depend on the type Of content you're shooting if you're Doing a sit down talking head video kind Of like this you're talking to people You can actually choose 24 or 30. now For most TV and YouTube I recommend Shooting at 30 frames per second most of The big YouTubers shoot at 30. it makes Your video look smoother but if you want To shoot something a little more Cinematic a little more artsy 24 is Generally accepted as the Cinematic and The Artsy frame rate but most people Don't know a difference or don't see a Difference unless they're really into Video so this will really depend on what You want 60 frames per second is Interesting because 60 frames per second Has two very distinct uses one 60 frames Per second is usually used for sports Wildlife something with a lot of action Something where you want the audience to Feel like they're right there in the Action 60 frames per second is going to Give you more information because it's Going to shoot more frames per second And it's going to give you smoother Motion in your video the second reason You want to use 60 frames per second is For slow motion when you're editing your
Video you can simply slow down your Video by 50 or 60 and you will actually Get two times slow motion with this Video and now we will talk about slow Motion and how to get the best results For slow motion later in this section But I just want you guys to know that This camera will shoot anywhere between 24 to 60 frames per second now one of The most overlooked settings for getting The best possible video quality is ISO Most people shoot up whatever ISO they Want so they're just like yeah it makes My image brighter but the truth is when It comes to video ISO is very critical And to get the best results you have to Shoot on very specific isos also known As native isos or base isos so let's go Into the iso here and you'll see all Whole bunch of isos and this camera can Shoot at a really high so as high as Four hundred thousand two hundred Thousand like it is Bonkers but you'll Also notice that some of the isos have a Line underneath them so when you see a Line on the iso what that means is this Is not a native ISO and shooting on Those isos will give you not the best Results so that also means if you shoot At an ISO too low or too high your Camera will give you grainy or staticky Image so with Sony zve E1 and the a7s3 The fx3 because the sensor is the same Generally the best isos to shoot at is
640 and 12 800. 640 is probably what Most people should be shooting at if They're shooting Talking Heads stuff Like this stuff Outdoors but if you're Shooting low light stuff it's best to Shoot at 12 800 ISO and one thing to Note is if you're shooting outside and You're okay with just 8 000 ISO it's Actually better to bump up your ISO to 12 800 ISO because you will get better Dynamic range better quality overall by Shooting at 12 800 ISO rather than just Eight thousand eyes so you so you want To make sure you're either just on the Native ISO of 640 or 12800 ISO and you Want to make sure if you're close to it Just go down to that native ISO and Compensate with your aperture and Shutter speed hope that made sense now The best way to make sure that you're Getting the most amount of data and the Highest resolution from your camera is By scrolling over to right here you'll See file format at the top go into this And there's a ton of options here They're pretty confusing so I'm going to Try to keep it as simple as possible if You go all the way down to Xavcs ihd you will be able to shoot at The highest quality and if you want to Shoot 4K you want to go over to xavcsi 4K wow that is a mouthful and that will Give you the highest quality but I do Not recommend shooting on this mode
Basically unless you're planning on Shooting something like a short film a Commercial and you want to make sure you Get the most books out of this camera Because in that mode it is going to eat Up your battery way faster it's going to Burn through your card and the camera Will also start to get hotter now here's The thing with overheating on this Camera I have personally not been able To get this camera to overheat but I Also live in Canada where it is freezing Cold all the time if you live in Arizona La New York where you guys actually see The Sun that glowing thing in the sky Your camera will without a doubt Overheat in this mode so when you're Shooting in this mode you also have to Keep in mind that you are going to need To take breaks and you won't be able to Shoot for more than 10-15 minutes and if That's something that's not a problem For you feel free to shoot in this mode Because it will give you the best Possible image quality but if you're Like me and you do a lot of talking head Stuff and you don't want to deal with Overheating you actually want to pick Xavcs 4K and right above that is xavc HS 4K now these are slightly different Modes and depending on what you're Shooting it'll be a little bit different If you're editing your videos on a Mac With a brand new Apple silicon you will
Probably have a very easy time shooting On xavc HS 4K this is a compressed Format but it's also a brand new file Format that works best on Apple silicon But if you're a peasant like me you're Editing on a PC I recommend shooting on Xavc S 4K you shouldn't see too much of A quality difference but you will see a Difference in the type of videos you can Record and I'll explain what I mean by That in a second once you have your mode Selected and you go into record settings You will have a bunch of different Options here if you're shooting an xavc S which is the standard mode you will Only have choices between 200 megabits 422 10 bit which refers to the amount of Colors this video file has 200 megabits Is a lot or 150 megabits 4208 bits and I Never ever ever want to see anybody Shooting in 8-bit it is too late in the Game to shoot in 8-bit this camera costs A lot of money you should always shoot In 10 bits but you will only be able to Shoot in 200 megabits per second in 10 Bits the advantage of shooting in xavc HS 4K is that once you pick that you Have way more options of 10-bit footage This way you can also shoot 10 bit at 45 Megabits per second so you'll save a Bunch of information in terms of hard Drive space and card space but you'll Still get 10 bit color and this is going To be really useful for someone that's
Maybe shooting a really large Documentary you're burning through cards It just gives you more I guess Discretion and more flexibility over Your data so to summarize if you want The highest quality like movie like Quality you want to shoot an xavc SI in Either 4K or HD and if you're just like You want to shoot standard you want to Get 200 megabits per second you want to Shoot an xavc S 4K and if you've got a Powerful Mac computer and you also want More control over the how much data your Video take up on your card you want to Shoot an xavc shs hope that made sense Like I said this camera is pretty Complicated so feel free to rewind this Tutorial if you need to to re-watch that Section all right so now that we know What frame rate and what file type we're Shooting the most important settings is Your color profile one of the cool Things about modern cameras is they Allow you to shoot in 10 bit color which Gives you way more color information Than electronic cameras have ever been Able to capture and it also allows you To further color grade your videos to Make them look more cinematic more Commercial and just more professional in General so you want to make sure you Pick the right color profile for Whatever you're shooting and if you're a Vlogger I have not forgotten about you
I'm going to show you how to set up your Vlog setting so that you get cinematic Vlogs let's get into it alright so to Set up your picture profiles you want to Hit the FN button and you will get your Quick menu to come up and from your Quick menu you want to go to the top Left corner and pick picture profile now You'll see 11 different picture profiles And it's kind of overwhelming but what You want to do is you want to pick your Favorite number and set that picture Profile up for you and once you pick Your picture profile you want to hit Right and it will open up a whole bunch Of complicated settings but I'm going to Keep it simple for you so you want to go To gamma and you want to pick s cinetone And you want to go down to color mode And pick snotone again pretty simple now What is acinotone acetone is a Rex 709 Picture profile simply put it is the Picture profile that you should use if You're just a casual shooter you just Want your videos to look good out of the Camera you're a YouTuber you don't want To do any color grading to your video or Very little color grading and you just Want a cinematic look Sony recommends This as just like the built-in film Emulation look and I personally really Like it the downside of it is you don't Get as much flexibility with your colors Or light data so if something is too
Dark too bright you'll have less room to Play around it if you you want more Flexibility or as I say maximum Flexibility in both your colors and your Like data you want to be shooting in log So for that you want to go to gamma Again and you want to go down to S log 3 And you want to go down to color mode And here you actually have two separate Options thank you Sony so many options But you either have S gamma 3 cine or S Gamma 3. now there is a slight Difference escapement 3 is better suited For short films cinematic color grading If you're planning on making something Look like a movie but for 90 of people This is going to be the picture profile You go with just because there's a more Dynamic range but if you're someone That's a Sony shooter already you'll Want to go with s gamma 3 because most Of the Cinematic Luts that are out there You know those filters that you just Slap on and you get a cool look are Actually made for S gamma 3. if you're Using Luts from a few years ago or if You just have a lot that you want to use Most likely you want to go with s gamma 3 because this is the setting that most Luts are made for now one of the issues That a lot of you guys will run into When it comes to shooting s-log is that All of your footage is just going to Look milky and white and it's kind of
Hard to just like look at while you're Recording so the best thing to do is is That you want to go back into menu again And from menu you want to go to your First home menu and right here you'll See assist more than likely this will be Set to Auto but you want to set this to S-log 3 it will basically make it so That you can now look at it the way that It will kind of look like after you add Your conversion lot to color grade slog3 You need to take your select 3 footage Add a conversion lot so it looks normal And this will kind of give you a close Approximation of what that looks like And you also want to go to the setting Right next to assist which is also Labeled assist but you want to go into Assist and make sure this is on because Without it it won't actually add that Monitoring Lut so what if you're a Vlogger and you want to get cinematic Vlogs more than likely you're not happy With the colors you're getting you don't Want to edit your videos later on or Maybe you're not a professional vlogger But you just want to get cinematic Footage while you're traveling going to Music festivals or just doing Adventures So how do you set it up to look Cinematic well it's really easy there's Actually a mode in this camera called Cinematic Vlog mode so this is what you Normally get with your Sony camera and
The lighting in here does not look good It looks good for the main camera but I Probably look too pink and magenta right Now but most likely this is what you're Getting but with cinematic Vlog mode you Get this now this is going to make Everything look way more cinematic for Two reasons one you have the black bars At the top and bottom and it's also Now Using a cinetone but it does have other Color options it's going to make your Skin look way better and you can also Add a color filter on top of your Footage I'll show you guys right now This is gold this is ocean this is Forest and this is going to help make Your footage look even more cinematic so Let me show you exactly how the setting Works so once you go into cinematic Vlog Mode you turn it on from right here You'll see a bunch of options here at The bottom first one is your color Option from here you can choose acetone Clean Chic fresh mono which is black and White now this will really depend on Your personal aesthetic and what you as An individual like I personally really Like sitting tone gives you a little bit More room to grade but for most of you Guys who don't want to do any kind of Color grading or color editing you Probably want to go with clean next to It you have your color filter so with That you can also go into gold ocean and
Forest it will add a bit of a color Filter and next to that is focus speed So you can go to High mid low there's no Reason to ever shoot in anything but High it is the best Focus setting use The best settings now one thing that I Don't like about cinematic Vlog mode are The black bars at the top and bottom it Doesn't really work if you're not Watching things on a TV and it doesn't Really look good on YouTube and it does Not work on Instagram or Tick Tock so For that that I actually recommend Turning off cinematic Vlog mode and Right below that is St you've got a Bunch of different color filters right Down here Vivid portrait standard a Bunch of cool things so if you want to Adjust your colors that way that's also Another option okay so I know I've given You guys a ton of information on how to Make your colors look good how to get The best quality out of your camera and I hope I'm not overwhelming you guys but There's one more setting that you have To look at and without the setting Honestly you're missing like one huge Part of this camera and that is Stabilization if you're shooting Handheld vlogging you want your footage To look smooth and shaky footage always Looks bad so let's talk about how to do That so you want to go back into your Menu system and right below your main
Menu you'll see this little camera icon You want to go hit right and go all the Way to the very very bottom and here You'll see image stabilization and Inside of vaping stabilization you'll See steady shot now there's a few Different modes and they can get a Little confusing but I'm gonna keep it Simple Dynamic active will crop into Your sensor just a little bit and with That it'll give you silky silky smooth Footage but for most people that don't Have incredibly shaky hands or you're Not running with your camera active is The way to go now this will still crop Into your footage just a little bit but You won't see too much of a loss in Quality standard is going to be for People that are cinematic filmmakers That know how to handle a camera for Handheld shooting and off is for people That just don't want any stabilization Because they're putting the camera on a Gimbal or for most people you want to go With active and active gives you Incredibly smooth footage if you don't Turn the setting on you are really Missing out on this camera's features And one quick side note this camera also Has a mode to give you that blurry Background effect that everybody wants Usually you need an expensive lens to Get it but there's actually a button Right here at the top and if you hit it
It'll do whatever it has to do in camera To give you that blurry background Effect sometimes it'll add it digitally Or sometimes it will open up your lens To a wider aperture to give you that Blurry background effect but it's a Really cool feature on this camera and I Highly recommend using it especially for Vloggers and cinematic filmmakers so if You've been watching the video so far You probably want to know how to get the Best slow motion on this camera and the Answer is a bit complicated but I'll try To keep it simple so you want to go to The top of your camera and go to slow in Snq which is slow in quick motion and Once you go into menu go over to this Camera icon hit right image quality and Settings and then go over to snq Settings and from there click into it And you'll get frame rate settings and Record settings first you want to go Into record settings and you want to Pick the highest quality possible this Will make sure that your slow motion Doesn't have any reduction in quality Because a lot of cameras will reduce Quality when you go into slow motion and Then you want to go into frame rate Settings now you'll see two settings Here it can get a little confusing but I'll try to my best to keep it simple as I've been this entire tutorial let me Know how I'm doing in the comments so
You'll first see your record frame rate And snq frame rate so your record frame Rate is what the camera is going to Record your slow motion footage as so For this I recommend going to 24 nothing Below 24 because then it's going to give You weird choppiness and then you want To go to 60 which is the highest frame Rate and if you look at the bottom You'll see 2.5 times slow motion which Means that whatever you record will be 2.5 times slowed down if you don't want It to be that slow you can go to 30 and You'll get 1.25 but the thing is if you Go below 24 like I am with 15 frames per Second you'll actually get quick motion Where you're where it'll kind of just Look like a hyperlapse where you know a Video is moving really really fast Almost like a Time Lapse video and this Can kind of be used as a time lapse Setting you could hold this camera move Through a space shooting at a faster Frame rate and then when you shoot it You'll kind of get like the speed Ramping effect but if you set up your Camera in this way you'll be able to get Slow motion in camera however if you're Planning on using the slow motion for a Commercial music video I don't recommend Doing it this way I recommend simply Recording 60 frames per second at the Highest setting you can and slowing your Footage down in post-production this way
You have more flexibility over how slow It is but you'll also get better video Quality overall so I have one more Feature to talk to you guys about and This is possibly the most exciting thing About this camera but it's also the most Complicated and very specific people Need this and this is AI Auto reframing So a lot of you guys are shooting your Videos you're moving around a lot you Don't have someone to pan with your Camera you kind of have a wide shot and You wish someone or something could kind Of do zoom in shots wide shots all that Stuff right wouldn't it be cool if you Had a cameraman inside your camera well You kind of have this possible now with Auto reframing so for auto reframing you Want to go back into your menu system go Into the camera icon all the way to the Bottom of this menu and on the rights And go down to Auto framing settings and Here you'll see auto framing you want to Turn this on and you've got a few Options here so framing operation Mode Start when tracking basically refers to If you have someone behind your camera When they have pressed the shutter Button for autofocus that is when it Will start lower than likely if you're Using the setting you don't have someone Behind the camera so I actually Recommend going with auto start or There's also auto start 15 second switch
And auto starts 30 second switch what This does is you can start talking to The camera and after about 15 seconds it Will switch to a close-up switch back to A y can set this to either 15 or 30 Seconds this is a really good way to Have Variety in your shots and at the Same time you also have crop level you Can have a large crop medium crop or Small crop this is basically how close It gets with the reframing to your face And then you also have frame tracking Now in my testing it doesn't really make Too much of a difference if it's three Four or five so I kind of just like to Leave it at four because I found also at Five it can sometimes times be a little Too quick like a little too jittery so In terms of quality I just leave it at Four and now here's the interesting Parts movie record streaming if you're Someone that is doing a live stream when This does it it crops in for your live Stream and keeps your recorded footage Wide and then there's also HDMI output Which is much more exciting what you can Actually do is have the camera footage That is recorded in camera be a wide and Have the footage that is recorded out to Your external monitor or your external Recorder that can be a crop so that's Kind of a cool setting and it helps add Variety to your shots now this is not a Setting that I expect a lot of people to
Use but it is a really really cool Feature and one thing that I have to Make sure you guys know about is that if You're going to pick up this camera Shoot with this camera you want to make Sure you get the fastest possible SD Cards for it I'm going to leave links in The description down below for the best Pricing on the zve E1 but also those SD Cards if you guys are thinking of Picking up this camera or those SD cards Make sure to check out the links Description down below and with that Being said I will see you guys in the Next video peace
