XLATW 2020 Videography help

[Jayxdallis]

Hello everyone

Can anyone help with settings to take great video of my display? I am struggling with everything I have from a Canon DSLR Camera to a DJI Drone, the problem is the time of day/night and the blinky stuff confusing the hell out of the auto settings. I know nothing about exposure and iso etc and have resulted in a YouTube University Degree to learn however all I can find is static lights at night not the blinky stuff and my video is grainy as hell.

I am recording just on sun down (6:20PM) f.3.5 (max for my lenses) iso 800-1600. I'm in way over my head here and cant get a nice video to submit to XLATW when the time comes!

Regards
J

 

[Dreamin]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukzzFde35DI&feature=youtu.be


Try that. I saw this post on facebook too if you part of the xlights support group
View: https://www.facebook.com/groups/xLights/permalink/3479594148742982
and people mentioned filming at dusk rather than full dark.

LDL seemed to have good video just with his iphone! Maybe he can let us know how.

 

[djgra79]

Auto settings wont work well as the camera constantly tries to deal with very fast changes in brightness.
Low brightness setting on your lights will help also to see the individual pixels (10-20%) and also recording at dusk where there is still a little ambient light I've found helps too.
I sold my DSLR and just use my phone now (Samsung)