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Creating custom setups

Creating custom setups - Alpha a7 Tutorial

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Creating custom setups

- Now that I've got the basic presets selected, I want to customize my options. You'll see that it prompts us that if we press the Delete key here, it'll bring up our choices. In this case now, I can dial in my settings. First up is my file format. I strongly recommend that you don't just save a movie. You have a choice of writing a movie, writing stills, or writing both. I highly recommend both. Next is the interval. Now this cloudy preset recommended a five second interval. In this case, the wind is pretty still. So I'm going to actually speed that up a little bit and I'll go to a seven second interval which will make the clouds appear to move faster. Finally is the number of shots. You can set between zero, which would be kind of pointless, and take that up all the way to 999. Well, let's go with 300 here. You'll notice it does the math for you. It says with a seven second interval, at 300 frames per second, based upon some of our other settings, this is gonna equal a 13 second…

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