Blackmagic Pocket 6k Tutorial - FULL Overview

what is going on everybody welcome back to the channel I'm your host Dan and today we're going to be talking about the Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera 6k so this is going to be a bit of a long video I'm going to do a full tutorial for this camera I'll have all of the timestamps down in the description below so if you need to jump to different sections of the video you can do that just by clicking the links in the description below so I do have the camera here in my hands it does have the tilta cage on it this is the cage that they originally made for the 4k version of this camera but it does in fact fit the 6k so before we get started going into how to use the camera let's just talk about the camera itself this camera is a cinema camera and it has a super 35 sensor on it it also has a canon EF mount on the front side this camera was released in August of 2019 and ever since then it has been a game-changer for the industry this camera took the industry by storm giving users the ability to shoot raw video format at a $2,500 price point which is still to this day completely unheard of now like I mentioned just a little bit earlier the camera does have the canon EF mount on it and it also uses the canon l PE 6n batteries to power it so let's go ahead and talk about the actual form of the camera it is shaped a little bit like a DSLR with a giant touch screen on the back that we can use to change all of our settings and also use as a viewfinder from the back of the camera if we take a look at it there are three buttons on the top of the camera with the on/off switch directly next to them those buttons can be changed to any function that you want and we'll get into that a little bit later we also have an ISO a shutter and a white balance button as well as a record button on top and a photo button so that we can capture stills with this camera now working our way to the front of the camera we have on the handle a dial that can be programmed to do whatever you want but when it comes from the factory it is programmed to do aperture moving our way towards the center of the camera we have another record button I don't really know what that's going to be used for I personally don't use that as it's really really close to the original record button so I don't really know why that's there and directly below the record button is one of the two microphones that are on the front of this camera these microphones are great for internal camera microphones I was actually really impressed with them but there are a number of different audio connections that we can use on this camera that I choose to use instead of the built-in microphones and then all the way in the top right corner we do have our tally lights so that we know when the camera is recording and when it is not when we are in front of that camera now on the handle side of the camera we have our card slots it has an SD card slot as well as AC fast card slot personally I don't use either one of those as we use the SSDs here and I'll get into that a little bit more as well so flipping around to the connection side of the camera we have at the top we have a 3.5 millimeter microphone jack underneath of that we have a headphone jack and then directly underneath the headphone jack we have our HDMI port our USB C port for recording to an SSD directly next to the USB C port we have our 12 volt connector and at the bottom we have our miniature XLR connector so moving our way to the back of the camera we have our giant touchscreen and then all the way over here on the right we have an auto iris button so if you press this button what the camera will do is it will take the average of your shadows and your highlights and pick the proper aperture based on those and then underneath of that we have the focus button this is if you have an autofocus lens set to autofocus if you press that once it'll auto focus on what is ever in the center of your image now underneath of the focus button we have our HFR which is the high frame rate button now we would use this if we were going to be recording in two different frame rates and we knew exactly what those frame rates were gonna be so for instance if we knew we were gonna be filming in 120 frames and 24 frames we could set our project to a 24 frames per second project and then have our high frame rate set to 120 frame so that whenever we press the HFR button it automatically switches to the 120 or back to the 24 frames per second so underneath of the zoom button we have our menu button that will bring the menu up and then lastly we have our playback so when we press this button it'll bring up the last file that we recorded so that we can play it back so now that we've taken a look at the physical features of the 6k let's go ahead and jump into the camera so that we can show you exactly how it works so for the purpose of this video I have the power junkie from blind spot powering my camera with an LP e6 and dummy battery going into the battery connector so once we have the camera powered on it'll bring up the main screen and from here you'll be able to do pretty much everything that you need to do if you want to go ahead and record right away you can just hit your record button and you'll be ready to go from there but let's take a look at some of the settings that we can change directly from this home screen so up in the top left-hand corner of the screen we have our monitor options now from the beginning we have our zebra option which is there to help us with our exposure it shows you what is overexposed based on the settings that you put in after that we have our focus assist which is also known as focus peaking we have three different options for that we have low medium and high after our focus assist we have our frame guides which can be used to show us any range of aspect ratios following that we have our grid so that way we can line things up on our camera the way that we want to in the grid after that we have our safe area guides this is there so that we make sure that everything that needs to be in frame is in frame regardless of what our crop is and then lastly we have our false color which is used to properly set our exposure so next to our monitor options we have our frame rate from here we're able to adjust our frame rate based on the settings that we have in the camera so for instance if we are shooting 6k Raw we have the ability to shoot up to 50 frames per second while using the full sensor if we want to shoot up to 60 frames per second in 6k we do have the 2.4 to 1 ratio this is also a good place to show what your high frame rate option is or if you are using an alternative frame rate while you are shooting so make sure you keep an eye on this part of the screen so that you know exactly what frame rate you are in because I can tell you from personal experience it's very easy to change the frame rate accidentally on this camera so next to our frame rate option we have our shutter speed or shutter angle options I personally like to use the shutter angle as I know I always want to keep that shutter angle set to a hundred and eighty degrees now if you're using the shutter speed option that you want to make sure that you always have that set to double your frame rate so that you have the proper amount of motion blur and then next to our shutter option we have the iris option also known as the aperture from here we can adjust the slider to whatever aperture we want to have for our lens so then next to our iris or our shutter we have our time clock this allows us to know how much time we've been recording and what the time code is for whatever files we are recording this way we know that we are able to match it up later on and post directly to the right of the time clock is our ISO and we can adjust this with the slider all the way from 100 all the way up to 25 thousand six hundred so something to keep in mind with the ISO for this camera is it does have dual native ISO at both four hundred and thirty two hundred what this means is when we shoot between the ISO s of one hundred and a thousand we use the ISO 400 as a reference point and then from twelve fifty up to the twenty five thousand six hundred it uses ISO 3200 as its reference point now something to keep in mind if you are using the Blackmagic RAW format is you cannot adjust an ISO outside of that range so for instance if you shot in ISO 800 you're not going to be able to adjust the ISO above 1000 and if you shot above 1250 then you're not going to be able to lower your ISO and post below that 1250 range that's not a huge deal if you properly expose your shots from the beginning but if you're planning on using the RAW format the backend then that is something that you definitely need to keep in mind so next to our ISO is our white balance and we can set this again using the slider at the bottom and then next to our white balance adjustment we have the tint adjustment which can be adjusted anywhere from negative 50 to 50 now at any point if you want to hide the display that we were just looking at all you have to do is swipe up on the screen and all of that will disappear and again if you need to bring it back on all you need to do is swipe down from any point on the screen and it'll bring me menu right back down so now let's go ahead and jump into the menu options so if we hit the menu button on the side of the camera the first thing that we see is the record options typically when I use this camera I shoot in the Blackmagic Raw as now it works natively with Adobe Premiere Pro that's my main editing software however something to keep in mind is that the file sizes for the Blackmagic RAW format are absolutely massive so if you're going to be using black magic roll you want to make sure that you invest in a good storage system so let's go ahead and jump into the menu and I will show you all of the different options we have for recording so under the record window for Blackmagic Raw we have multiple different options under this we have constant bitrate which allows us to pick our compression ratio all the way from 3.1 all the way up to 12.1 compression ratio typically what we do here at the gear focus studio is shoot with the 8 to 1 compression on as it leaves most of the quality there but also compresses the files significantly so that we don't rack up a ton of storage space just for filming our YouTube videos now if we click on the constant quality option we have the quality 0 and quality 5 if I were going to use this option I would use the quality 5 so underneath of the codec and quality options we have the resolution options now in Blackmagic raw we do have several different options we have the 6k then we have 6k two point four two one we have five point seven K at 17 by nine we have a three point seven K anamorphic and a two point eight K 17 by nine you'll notice that on this camera we do not have the ability to shoot in 4k raw however if we switch over to the pro res settings we have a high quality 4 to 2 LT and proxy setting this is again just different compression ratios for the pro res files and then underneath of the resolution we have the 4k options available as well as the HD option now something to keep in mind when you are choosing your recording quality is the different resolution options do have different crops associated with them so these 6k resolutions use the full sensor and when we switch down to the 4k or the 1080 it does use a windowed version of that sensor so it does crop in significantly on your image so on the second page of the record menu we have at the top our dynamic range options now the best way to think about these dynamic range options is as your color profiles so film is the flattest color profile that's going to give you the most manipulative post and then video is your typical rec 709 color space now extended video is a cross between the two it gives you the dynamic range or a closer dynamic range to the film setting but also allows you to have more contrast in your image like the video setting so next to your dynamic range options you have your sensor area and this is a way for you to choose what part of the sensor you are using and how much of that sensor you are using now moving down to the second row we have our project frame rate which I mentioned earlier this is where you can set the frame rate for the entire project so for instance if I know that I'm going to release my video at 24 frames I'm going to set my project settings to 24 frames this way when I record at a higher frame rate it's automatically slowed down and I don't have to do that in post so next to our project frame rate we have the toggle button for the off speed recording and then directly next to that we have the ability to set what our sensor recording rate is going to be based on the frame rate and then our third row at the bottom is for our during media so based on whatever recording media you're going to be using you would set what your preferences are for your recording so because we do not have our SSD plugged in that option is not up on the screen and then lastly on the second page we have the stop recording if the car drops the frame option we keep this on just in case that the camera drops a frame then we know that something is going on and we can stop and regroup and then set everything back up again so on the third page of the record menu we have our time-lapse options first we have the toggle switch for that time-lapse and then we have the frequency for what frames the time-lapse will capture we can set anywhere from every two frames all the way up to every ten minutes if we wanted to now underneath of that we have our sharpening options if we want to add sharpening in camera now I don't do that I like to do all of my image post-processing in the computer so that I know that I have all of them in appealability that I need on the back end and I don't have anything baked in and speaking of baking things in directly underneath of the detail sharpening is we have the apply LUT in file so what that means is if you have a lot loaded on to the camera you can record the file with the LUT already on there so if you know that your file looks good based on a lot that you're going to be using later on down the road you can automatically put that LUT on to that file so now let's move to the monitor menu so on this camera we have the ability to have two separate monitors if we are using an external monitor so with that we have the ability to choose what is on each monitor so the LCD screen is the LCD that is on the back of the camera itself and from here we have toggles for our clean feed which means it has nothing on the screen it doesn't show us any of the data and we can toggle that on and off with that switch we have our 3d lut which is the Luntz that I was talking about earlier so that you can toggle your LUT on and off to see what your color is going to look like after that we have our zebra which again is an exposure tool that puts a zebra line on anything that is overexposed directly next to the zebra we have our focus assist or focus peaking and then in the third we have our frame guides our grids our safe area guide as well as our false-color so we have the ability to toggle those options on and off for both the HDMI output and the LCD screen so if you knew you wanted to have false color on your external monitor you could have that but then also have the normal view on your LCD screen we have the options for frame guides and the guide opacity as well as our focus assist telling us whether or not we have colored lines or the peaking for whatever we're going to be using then on the bottom we have our focus assist level which essentially lets us choose the vibrancy of our focus assist tools I like to keep that on high as it really makes the things that are in focus very very prominent and then next to that we can pick what color we want our focus assist to be as well as the intensity for our zebras so then on the second page of the monitor options we have the ability to pick what our grids are this will allow us to pick either thirds cross hairs or a center dot or a combination of those three we can't have all three of them on at the same time and then at the bottom we have our safe area guide which essentially gives you a line around the image to show you where you are coming into the edge of your frame so let's talk about audio on the audio page we have the ability to select whatever our sources are for our two stereo channels right now I have both selected for the XLR microphone inputs that I don't have to make sure that both channels are the same when I go to do my editing in post-production but I can select anything from the 3.5 milimeter left-right and mono at line level as well as left-right and mono at mic level and then we also have the ability to just turn one of the channels off or we could use the microphones on the front of the camera that I mentioned before as well as some the two of those together to one single mono channel now underneath of our source select we have our audio meters which show us what the levels are for the audio coming into the camera typically when I am recording audio I want my audio to sit somewhere in this yellow region on the camera as that gives us the good balance between having good clear loud audio and then also not introducing too much noise on the back end when we boost the volume up now on the second page of our audio menu we have the ability to adjust our speaker volume as well as our headphone volume and from here we also have the ability to turn our phantom power on and off for those of you who don't know what phantom power is phantom power is an electrical charge put over the capsule of a microphone giving it more sensitivity allowing it to record audio and then lastly on our audio menu we have our meter settings as well so the next menu is the setup menu so on this we have the ability to set our date and our time if we need to adjust that as well as our language and then like I mentioned before we have the ability to choose between a shutter angle and a shutter speed but for me I'm gonna keep it on the shutter angle as I know I always want to have my shutter angle at a hundred and eighty degrees directly next to that we have our flicker free shutter which is for the LED light flicker that we get when we record at higher frame rates in the United States that frequency is 60 Hertz but then overseas that frequency is 50 Hertz so we have the ability to choose between those two options and at the bottom we have our timecode drop frame option so on the second page of the setup menu we have the ability to change our custom buttons from here we can pick anything from our frame rate to our iris white balance ISO and shutter as well as create a preset or a toggle for that now on the third page we have the ability to turn our tally light on and off as well as adjust the brightness of the screen from here is also where we would do our camera reset if we needed to do that or remap pixels if we needed to do that as well so that at the bottom of the screen we have our hardware ID as well as an hour software number and then for our playback options we have the ability to choose between all of the clips or a single clip so then the last page of the setup menu is where we would connect our Bluetooth application on our phone and I'll get into that a little bit later so next to our setup menu we have our presets menu now we could use this to make any number of presets for the camera if we know that we are going to be using specific options time and time again we can just set a preset in the camera and click that and it'll set everything in the camera that we need it to and then finally for our menu options we have our Luntz so we have the ability to shoot from 6k film to extended video 6k film to rec 2020 hybrid law gamma 6k film to rec 2020 PQ gamma and then 6k film to video so the last thing that I want to talk to you all about today is the Bluetooth app for the Blackmagic cameras this app is by far the best Bluetooth control app that I have seen for a camera it works extremely quickly and it is very reliable the majority of the settings that you could set on the camera itself you can set from the app so that you don't even have to get up and go over to the camera to even change those settings so let's go ahead and dive into that app a little bit just so we can see what it looks like so once you've connected to your camera the first page that you're gonna see is your color settings so we can set our white balance and our tint as well as any white balance presets that we would need from this we also have our auto focus button which functions the same as the auto focus button on the back of the camera then at the bottom of the screen we always have our record button as well as the card space and our slate this is nice to see what card space we have left and how much time in recording we have left as well so on the second page we have the ability to set our frame rate now if we set our project frame rate to 24 it's gonna automatically come up to 24 next to the frame rate option you'll see an OS button this is the off speed frame rate so this is the higher frame rate that we selected earlier on in the video and then from here we can also select our iris which is our aperture as well as our shutter based on whether or not we have a shutter angle or a shutter speed and then directly below that we have the ability to set our ISO all the way from one hundred to twenty five thousand six hundred and then on the third page we have the ability to set our zebra percentage as well as our frame guides and our grids and focus assist and then on the last page we have the ability to set our recording quality and our codec so like I mentioned before I do really really like this app it is very responsive and very easy to use that's one of the greatest things about Blackmagic cameras in general is they are very very easy to use they're very user friendly and they don't really take a whole lot of time to set up so that's gonna do it for the first tutorial for the gear focus Channel if we missed anything please let us know in the comments down below and also let us know what your thoughts are on this tutorial format we'd love to be putting together more tutorials for a bunch of different cameras for you and we intend to do several more soon and while you're down there in those comments make sure that you hit that like button and you hit that subscribe button as it really does help us out here on a channel again I am your host Dan and I'm always here to help you all feed your passion [Music]

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Length: 23min 31sec (1411 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 17 2020