Chapter 8
Recording Movies with Live View
IN THIS CHAPTER
Recording movies with your Nikon D780
Kicking your movie making up a notch
In addition to being an excellent camera for still photography, your Nikon D780 is a superb video camera. You can create movies automatically, or drill down and use settings to create high-definition (HD) video. You can specify video quality, frame rate, file format, and much more.
In this chapter, I show you everything you ever wanted to know about creating videos on your D780 but were afraid to ask. I explain the settings used to create squeaky-clean video for the Internet or for viewing on your TV monitor. In addition, I share some tips for creating better movies. If you want to be the next Steven Spielberg, read on.
Making Movies with Your Camera
With your Nikon D780, you hold in your hands (or your camera bag!) a tool that allows you to make amazing movies — the kinds of movies you pay big bucks to see in movie theaters! In the following sections, I show you how to capture video and perform other movie-shooting tasks with your camera.
Recording movies
Recording movies on your Nikon D780 is easy: Flip a switch, push a button, and you’re recording. You see the whole movie unfold on the tilting monitor. When you’ve finished your candidate for ...
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