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R5 for wildlife video -setup & operation basics?

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fairfaxian Regular Member • Posts: 396
R5 for wildlife video -setup & operation basics?

I'm primarily a stills shooter of Wildlife/Nature/Landscapes. I have dabbled in video, and am awed by the many wildlife documentaries. I also understand that capturing and EDITING quality video are in another universe compared to stills.

Goal is to be comfortable capturing & processing short video clips of nature/wildlife to compile into short vignettes set to music etc., and not intended as commercial fare.

I have the Canon R5 and a decent collections of lenses (no cinema lenses). But I suspect my Canon 15-35 F2.8 RF will be the workhorse when not capturing wildlife with telephoto (500mm f4 + 1.4x telex). I have a decent fluid tripod head etc, and a workable gimbal.

Am starting to delve into the many youtube how-to's. And I have done some very basic editing in Premiere Pro. (I am a pro retoucher for advertising, but just stills, not video)

Just looking for basic R5 video setup info and general pointers for a stills guy wanting to add some video. Got any favorite online how-to video links to share?

Some basic questions:

-Capture in C-Log?

-Manual focus mostly? Seems workable for slow moving wildlife & landscape. But am thinking Canon's eye autofocus should work for BIF (as it does for stills)

-I like seeing wildlife in Slomo, which the R5 seems capable of. 4K/2K?

-Shoot 4K & edit down to 2k?

Again, no intension of offering commercially.

Thanks!

Canon EOS R5
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