From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses

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Blackmagic USA 4K EF menus

Blackmagic USA 4K EF menus

- Rich talked about some of the things we like, some of the negative things. Let's go a little bit more in depth into some of the buttons that control the menus and some of the operation here. - Now we're on two sides of the camera, more or less. Rob has got his menus over there, and I got mine. So we can have like dual configuration changes. Like you touch my record formats, I'm going to get mad, but you're going to tend to be the audio guy, and you'll update the audio. - Yeah, and that's actually an important point. These sides or monitors here all act independently. So you could be, for example, I don't know, in the menu and I could be configuring the slate, or looking at audio levels, or whatever. But I could totally see the director going on one side tweaking a setting that pissed the DP off, so make sure you have good on set communication, 'cause they control the same camera, they're just independent menus, but they obviously affect both things. - Now on both sides we have a set…

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