Olympus OMD video walkthrough - setup, AF and handling tips on shooting video with your OMD camera 

YAY! Joe is back with Oly content!

This is a big help to me, especially the work arounds for exposure using the green bars in the histogram, etc. Great job, Joe, much appreciated.

Thank you for this fine video, Joe! It really helped me get my bearings with my Olympus OMD EM-1 mii for video, and also helped me straighten out my settings. I look forward to seeing more of your content!

Glad to see you back with your useful and informative content. That was excellent. Thank you.

I am so glad that your back Joe, thanks for the GeForce and insights these are very helpful.

Welcome back Joe, I have always enjoyed your no nonsense Olympus videos.

Most complete list of tips for the EM1! Never thought about using touch focus for video, brilliant.

Welcome back Joe! Great video, very informative..

Thank you. Have been using my OM-D for tons of video and appreciate the tips.

thank you very much, Joe, about that tip concerning histogram! I learned something today! I appreciate everything you teach about photography, especially for us Olympus users! Keep up the outstanding work!

These are fantastic tips. Thanks a bunch Joe!!

Thank you Joe for your time and guidance.

That was a very useful session. Thank You very much. I had no idea about all the settings available for video on an Olympus camera:

Great walk through. I certainly learned a few items. On the pro res RAW element I use it when colour and tone are critical to the end use.

Glad to see you back 👍

Thanks for this. Along with 2 other videos here it has given me the understanding of video despite having had the camera for about 4 years. All the best

Great Video Joseph, thanks for these Video Tips!

Thank you so much for these precious informations Joseph !

I thought you disappeared big time. Glad you are back. Interested what you think what will follow in m43 world. Keep up the good work.

Great tips for how to manage your settings for video. Thanks for sharing.

Great explanation. I will apply those setting in my next video. Thanks 😊

Thanks for the great tips, Joe!

very helpful Joe as I am new to video. Thank you so much

Great info. Thank you.

Joe, another attaboy from me. And since you first published this, I have added an Atomos NinjaV to my 1X and 1iii setups for continuous record, which I need for my solo pistol shooting videos. Even in Normal compression, 1080p 30 fps and using Pro Res LT on the NinjaV's, the video looks great. But I'm always in good light and these are static setups. I shoot some 4k recorded internally in short clips where the Atomos NinjaV isn't necessary, but I love the bright screen and the focus and exposure controls available when using the external recorders, or even a Shinobi.

Appreciate the info about setting custom white balance in photo mode and it carrying over to video.

Would love to see a short video on how you process your flat profile as I have zero video editing experience

Thanks Joe this was a huge help!!!

Best info - video setup is separate from stills. Aha moment for me! Very nice

Not too much into video, but good to see you back -- always instructive videos!

Thank you very useful. Wish I had seen it about 2vears ago when I got my 1.2

Love you Joe.

Great info , thank You so much

Excellent content !!!

Enormously functional advice, Joe. I frequently warn my friends that I am shooting video. The reaction is hilarious! However, for some time I have wanted to get the hang of the video settings. Your preference for flat focus is very interesting. And of course you can see it in this RU-vid. South African trailmaster his name I forget does get advice on the Boqua shot for 4 shooting himself and individuals.

Thank god, i thought you had ditched Olympus!

Thank you SO much Joe!

Always great tips! Thank you! We are missing you in the mft community! :) I would love to see new reviews about mft gear: 8-25mm f4, the new 20mm f1.4 and the OM Wow Camera. Hopefully you will comeback to mft also for wedding photography! I think that the OMDS is in a good path!

Video auto-iso is possible by setting the camera to photo mode and then start video with the dedicated (red) button. I once had some color banding on a face while using the log profile. This was probably due to 8 bit color depth and never happened again since I now use the flat profile.

Great to see you back! I curious - how do you stabilize your videos if you not use a tripod?

Very informative. Thanks. How do you grade your flat profile clips?

Great video! I'm having trouble setting the ISO to Auto when in video mode but you answered that question. So your saying there's no Auto ISO in video mode is this correct I thought there was something wrong with my camera!

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thank you.

Hi Joe, how did you get the video screen to include the sound meter levels and and spirit levels. I cant seem to put it in mine. Thanks, your tutorials had been a great help for me setting up my camera.

Thank you sir, I have a em 1 m ii using in video c af it's lost focus at time camera moving to the subject ,my firmware is 3.0

Helpful video Joe. Can you please double check your statement about the best stabilization for video being M-IS 2? Other videos and pop-up text within the camera itself, indicate that M-IS 1 is sensor + digital stabilization. M-IS 2 is sensor only. At least in my Mark III. Thanks.

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I enjoyed this video it was helpful. You mentioned that you have the FN lever set to switch from single focus to continuous focus. Can you explain how to do that?

Found your video while hunting for solutions for the lack of auto iso in manual movie mode (and no, the photo to movie mode trick does not work). You helped me realize that there is no zebra display at all on these cameras. That is such a bummer. The green pointer from a spot meter in the histogram display is just not going to cut it for me. And the Hi/low, red/green display only operates before or after recording. It's so weird for a video camera to leave off these 2 common features! Anyway thank you for explaining so much!

Auto-ISO is such a useful and standard feature in all other cameras. My budget Canon M50 has it, how could Olympus not include it in the EM1 II and EM5 III???

thanks! on my E-M1 mkIII the Super Control Panel is not present when I'm in movie mode...When I press the 'ok' button it comes up with a vertical strip on the right hand side, a sort of slimmed-down version of the SPC. Any help...did I miss something? Cheers!

Hi! Have not found out how to customize the 1-2 switch.

Another question. I know to turn off the IS when using a tripod, but should I also turn it off when using a monopod?

Thank you so much, I learned a lot here. Regarding the histogram, is it so that optimal exposure is reached when the green marker is at its central position ?

Great advice. I have a question regarding audio sent through the HDMI. I record the HDMI output from my EM1 mkii on an Atomos Flame ( no overlay). The audio is embedded in the HDMI signal. I noticed that the sound to the Atomos recorder from the camera's internal microphone was being sent via the HDMI even though the setting in the camera was Movie Sound OFF. This got me thinking and I am now working on the assumption that all the sub items in the Gear record sound in video such as noise limiter, wind noise reduction DO NOT apply to the HDMI audio stream. The audio is just feed straight from the inbuilt microphone (or external mic) to the Atomos via the HDMI and is not affected by any alteration selected ( noise limiter etc) that normally be applied if the video and audio went to the internal SD cards. Does anyone know if this is correct? If so it is not a big problem as I separately record using an Zoom H5 and substitute the video audio in post. However I am keen to know

When I'm shooting in video mode the exposure compensation says +2.0 even though the dial is set to 0 for exposure. How do I dial that down? I'm using the mark iii by the way.

Hi Joseeph, I've just received my Olympus EM-1 Mark iii. In Video Mode, I can't work out how to set the Autofocus Tracking while I press the Shutter Button or Back Button. Or is there a toggle I can set up, to Start/Stop Constant Auto Fucus. I'm a Wildlife filmmaker so the Auto Focus Tracking is important, but I don't want the Constant Auto Focus going all the time, when I walking along or waiting for something to happen. Hope you can help.

Can I switch between caf and manual focus, while recording video? I can’t find a way..

Thanks a lot! Going to do another video job this evening... I just got a second E-M1 II because it's much better for video than my older Olympus models, including Pen-F. By the way, auto-iso is possible with the E-M1 II when using a photo mode and starting recording from there. As color profile, I most like the "natural" profile. Only for high-contrast scenes I found Log useful. I experienced problem with skin colors falling apart, using it, probably due to only having 8 bit. (I use DaVinci Resolve with the Olympus LUTs.) I have a problem with Cinema 4K with artificial light, because I need to have 25 fps to avoid flicker (in Europe, where we have 50 Hz power). But C4K only supports 24 fps :-( My most serios complain, however, is the lack of highlight clipping indication in video mode. The histogram is quite small.

Thank you -- most useful and in-depth explained! One question: I have E-M1 Mk II bought brand new in December 2020. It came with fw 3.0 and I have not updated to 3.4 because of this alledged issue with the stabilization in video mode. Are you foremost referring to the major 2019 fw 3.0 update for E-M1 Mk II when you say updating is critical, or do you mean updating to the very latest 3.4?

Havent heard one word from you about the bugs in this camera ? Like the one where each last frame of every (video) shot is saved as a 'freeze frame'? So the first 1 hour you're sitting there just removing the last frame from each scene you shot, before you can actually go to work? Orders from the big boss from OM Systems? Or you havent found it yet?

12:17 I don’t think C-AF is in fact different between photo and video modes. C-AF continuously focus what is in the focus point area.If the subject moves away from the focus point, the camera won’t focus on them any longer. Hence it’s not tracking. If I need tracking I’d use C-AF+TR, or face detection. Is my understanding correct?

I’m puzzled - for the past year I’ve been shooting in auto iso with my EM1 Mk2 and the results have been excellent - yet you say this isn’t possible. What’s up here?

do you know how to change the aspect ratio for video, because when i record it keeps cropping in (16:9) and a non cropped, custom aspect ratio would be extremely beneficial for me. my firmware is up to date.

Thanks for the video Joe. I am not sure if you can help me but I have had Lumix cameras for years and never had a problem with video functions with those cameras (GH5, GH3, GH1, etc). But now I've purchased and EM1 Mark ii, I set the dial to the video selection, hit the shutter release and the orange button and then... nothing. I've tried to reset the functions of these buttons a dozen times. I've reset the camera twice, and still I cannot get the camera to start recording video. All cameras have conditional settings disable other functions and sometimes you find out the hard way and have to look them up on blogs or youtube videos. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how I disabled the video function. Is there anything in your experience that you are aware of that would disable the cameras video recording function? Thanks.

Hi Joe, do you notice any audio preamp hiss when recording on em1 mkiii? Mine seems to be very bad and I’ve tried all of the in camera settings to try and fix it, but can’t seem to. I absolutely love this camera and my lenses for it, but this audio preamp issue has me very close to selling all of it. :(

How can you get the camera not to break into sections? When filming a 10 min video, it breaks up into 3-4 files. Is there a way to have one video file?

what is that tiny microphone? Nice to fit for OMD.

Do you have a course???

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Does this apply to the M1X?

Oh yes! Welcom back, I was afraid you had died... 😳 So good to see you back!

It's too bad that you can't use BOTH USB-C power and HDMI out at the same time. You have to pick your poison. Either longer battery life for recording, or, use of a monitor. Even the Sony ZV1 can handle them both. Kind of crazy. I can't find it mentioned anywhere in the literature, but Oly subtly hints at it by saying you can use the USB port to "charge the battery between filming sessions."

Ah, the Mk IV doesn't shoot log 😔