Setup tour for video on Olympus OM-D EM1 MKII 

Hi Joseph, just a quick note to say thanks for all your hard work to create these videos, I have referred to them many times over the last 5 years. Your insights and expertise are incredibly valuable, thanks for sharing your vast knowledge of the Olympus system.

Thanks, Joseph, appreciate the effort you put into this and I'll watch it a few times 👏

Thanks for this and all the other videos you have been producing. You have really helped me understand my camera much better which will directly help me be more creative.

Great combination of settings. I would never have been able to figure out all these on my own. This is a huge help in my understanding of what this camera is capable of.

Wow! I’ve learnt so much about my settings from this one video. Thanks indeed Joseph. Now to have a little play.

Very good set-up tips for video. I have just recently started using my EM! MkII for video, so these were helpful to me. I have now supported your channel. Cheers.

Just started doing video for our school. Ty for cutting down my learning curve a bit

Some great content here. Keep up the good work!

Really enjoying your videos, I’m just in the process of changing system to Olympus and find your advise excellent! Thanks...

Superb precise and very informative . Many thanks for making it

Fabulous video on video Joe... thanks tons!!!

Thank you for this tutorial, super helpful!!

Some serious multiple rewatch will be required for me to grab a handle on my camera's video. Thanks for the leg up.

Great informative video as ever..Thankyou.

Great video, thanks!

Thanks Joe, you saved me once more (sound of my camera did not work on a crucial moment, I forgot the plugin power)

More hands on time thankfor video Glad to see someone else gets confused in menus

Good overview. Exactly what I was looking for. Even more excited to upgrade from OMD EM5 M1. Just waiting on news/leaks on upcoming cameras. So many features, so many hybrid cameras to choose from, how does one decide in 2018...Sigh

Thanks so much for another great tutorial! Your explanations are very clear and precise. I have an EM1ii and love it for stills, but I need to learn to shoot video. I’ve noticed that the aperture and shutter settings I use for stills don’t seem to translate well to video and I end up with dark clips. I also would like to be sure I can retain my video settings while jumping back and forth between video and still modes for things like hybrid portraits. Can you please do some more tutorials for those of us who are so video-challenged? Thanks again :)

The other night I was sitting on the balcony capturing still images of the moon in the clouds. I selected manual mode. As the clouds moved by the moon captured a video image. The video was all black. It’s as though the manual exposure settings for still images were overridden. Hmmm …. strokes goatee.

Excellent and much needed video. Your tutorials, particularly the set up videos, have been essential for me as I make the conversion from Canon to Olympus. In this video you highlight how one can set up the camera for taking videos. In particular you mentioned using the function lever as the switch from still photography to video. I've been trying that out but have become a bit confused. When in switch position 1 (still photography) I noticed that I can just hit the record button and the camera will begin recording video --- using the PASM mode that I was using for still pictures, and using the same exposure settings I had been using for still pictures. (Or at least that is the way it seems to me.) When I activate switch position 2 (video photography) I the camera leaps into the full video mode which if I had selected cin4K meant the exposure settings change drastically (ISO whatever I had in last video shot, Shutter at 1/48th, and aperture wide open ) This creates a problem though because the exposure settings are now a big mis-match to my previous still shot exposures and I find I need to rapidly crank the Shutter/Aperture dials to get a suitable image. How do you avoid this?.... Or alternatively, what is the advantage of using the function lever to go from still to video?.... It seems to me that any speed advantage is lost when I'm fumbling with the exposure settings upon making a change. (In other words, I might as well have just used the dial on the top of the camera.) Thanks for any advice you can provide..

I really like your tutorials! I would like some tips on low light situasjons

great tips ....thank you for that ...!!!

Thank you!

Thanks you helped!

Hi Joseph, really appreciate your delivery of these videos that you put up, really helpful, easy to understand. Could you recommend video editing software, I am slowly introducing some video work. Again, thanks for the clarity of your information!..Marty :)

Thanks for bonus tip about White Balance. Could you please explain how to do proper manual White Balance in video mode? the front button works different than in photo mode. You can shut of Auto WB but I can't find the mode where I focus on a white or grey peace of paper to adjust.

Great video. I am new to Olympus with the E-M1 MKIII. I am also new to videos with a DLSR. I noticed that the button labels on the EM1- MKII are different so this created some confusion for me. Could you post a comparison of the Function Buttons used in this video with the buttons on the EMI-MKIII? Also, how do you set up the card slots for Movie mode? Thanks.

Today. Do you recommend the same settings? Thanks

Thanks for a good video👍 Do you know what Stettings i get when i hit the red bottom in stills. mode?

Hi Joe, thank again for some much great quality information. Can I ask; on a UH2 SD card, at Cinema 4K, what size card would you recommend? Is biggest (i.e. 256(?)) always best and how long could I record for? Is there a cut off of 1/2 hour (like some Sony cameras)? Are there any cautions about filming for longer periods of time. Really appreciate any thoughts you can send my way.

Hi Joe, I know you have a lot of experience with the EM1 MKII. I own this camera and have an issue. Basically in mechanical shutter. I can take 50 60 100 photos and no problem. Then for some reason I take a photo, the screen and LCD goes black. When it did I removed the Lens, thinking the shutter jammed. But it was down and the sensor was visible. So I turned it off then back on and all good again. However I later realised after waiting when it goes black, it then shuts down. Turn it back on again and ok again. I have now set it to silent mode activated the beep and flash and use it in silent and all corrected. Have you heard this before. It seems to have appeared since 3.2 firmware was installed. Could SD card cause this. I am using 16GB slow version scan disk. Your thoughts would be appreciated

I leaned a lot from your video, thank you very much. Now that the EM5 MKIII is out, does it have the same capabilities for shooting motion video? I'm considering to buy it because of its light weight; but I need a good camera to shoot ballroom dancers indoor.

this is still relevant to me. thank you for the effort and the sharing. your vids are always informative. some video-centric questions: does the OM-D EM1mk2 have access to zebras? are the audio meters visible during recording? is there a way to expand the image to check focus during recording? thanks in advance. thumbs up.

Thanks, very helpful; if I may make a little comment…lower the music, it is rather distracting. Still, very helpful video!

So can you take a sample exposure of an area in your composition to set for video as you would in a photo?

Hi Joseph, just wondering how you can control the exposure compensation when in manual mode?

I have an Olympus OM-D E-M1 camera and am not happy with its autofocus while recording video. It's so slow. My Nikon 1 V1 focuses 5 times faster. Am I doing something wrong ? Should I switch „ON“ FULL- TIME AF ? Your tutorials are very precise , and useful and it's a real pleasure to watch them. Best regards !

Lots of good info but the background music is very distracting and doesn't go with the video.

When you are shooting slow motion (60p) in manual are you using 1/120 as your shutter speed?

Great video. A question I have is if it is possible to record more than 2 min continuous shooting at Cinema 4k? I have a UHS-2 card on slot 1 and my videos are always broken up in smaller 2 min video clips that I have to then Stoch together in post, which is very annoying when doing just a video of my kids playing around in the park.

Thank you for that. Do you really leave video noise filter to standard?

Oh and when you say using a shotgun mic over your shoulder ... is that attached to your gimbal?

I know a lot of RU-vidrs say "24 frames/sec." "It's more cinematic." however, the most pixels you can put on a FHD TV is 1920x1080 - 16:9. 4K, same ration. Nobody in all the world broadcasts TV at 24 FPS. USA and a handful of others broadcast 30 FPS. Everywhere else, it's 25 FPS. Cinematographers use any different aspect ratios. If you don't shoot 16:9, then you must crop in post, or the video is letterboxed - black bands top and bottom. The camera has one UHS-II slot. There is no point in using a UHS-II card in slot 2. It requires UHS-I U3 cards for its maximum video spec. UHS-I cards are cheaper that UHS-II. I have one camera that can definitely benefit from UHS-II card, it's a Panasonic GH5 which requires UHS-II V60 cards, but only for its maximum resolution and speed.

Great tutorial. I will try your settings. But a little request, please take out the really bad/annoying background muzak, as it's really distracting, and isn't needed. It always seemed to get loudest when you were covering the more important aspects of setting up the already over complicated menu settings.

hi your video's are great can you consider us newbies and explain a little slower i can't follow your video's

I think you have a lot of good information. I have watched 2 of your video's. Why do you have all of that annoying background music. It's distracting and really annoying. So I prolly won't watch anymore. Sorry it's not worth the headache.