- So you just got these Sony ZV-E10. This is an incredible
camera to create content, and whether you're doing
photography or videos, you definitely wanna set
it up in a certain way, because straight out of the
box, it's not ready to go. So just follow me really
quick in this setup guide that I know will help
you get the best video and photos possible, so let's get into it. You gotta just press record. Hey, what's up, it's Omar
El-Takrori with Think Media. And if you have the Sony ZV-E10, I wanna encourage you to
subscribe to Think Media, because we got videos on this camera that'll help you crush it, no matter what it is you're doing. Now, I've segmented this
video into two parts. The first part is like
a quick setup guide. This is gonna get you going with the best video quality possible as well as the best photos possible based on just starting, right. And then afterwards, if you'd
like to stick around longer, and we put time codes in this video, but if you'd like to stick around longer, I'll go through the
menu all the way through so that you know this camera. I do think it's important that if you are an owner of the ZV-E10 that you understand the menu system and how
you can customize it to better suit your
content creation needs. So with that being said, let's get into setting this camera up to shoot videos and take some photos. So the first thing you're
meant without a box is to set your language and
time, so just do that quickly. Take the time to do that
because you want your files to be organized based off
of whatever you've captured, whatever you captured. So just take the time to do this step. And once you've done that, you could just tap into
the actual camera itself, and you're actually met
with intelligent auto mode. Now, if you are blogging or
if you just wanna legit start, you can literally hit record now. But here's, what's crazy it's out of box, the camera does not come set
to 4K and out of the box, and they have certain
other settings set up. So let's just really
quick set this camera up to start shooting high quality videos. I'm gonna first change the exposure mode. And so I'm gonna hit
the menu icon right here and then hop into the second menu. Change the shoot mode into manual. Like I said, intelligent auto is great if you're just wanting to
press record and get going, I'm gonna set this to manual. Another way you can
access this is through Fn, and at the bottom right
you can see that manual, or all the exposure settings are here, just so you know that if you
ever wanted to change it, you don't have to go into the menu. And then we're gonna scroll down and we're actually gonna
add 4K instead of 1080. So I'm gonna change this to 4K. And I actually like shooting
at 24 frames per second, and this is the hundred
megabytes per second option. This will be the most high quality option other than the 30 frames,
but I like using 24. And because I like using 24, we're also gonna set up the S&Q settings. Now simply put, this is
automatic slow motion. So when you tap into S&Q, which I'll show you in just a second, so it'll automatically
slow down your footage. So I'm gonna change this from 30 to 24. And I actually like this at 120, it's a five times slow motion effect. Or you can go about half speed, that's 60. So based off of what you like to slow-mo, you can do that as well. And this will be obviously in 1080, but the way you access S&Q
is you tap the top button and then you have S&Q mode. And in the same way, you
can change the exposure. So you can dial this in
as much as you'd like, so you can keep it on auto. But let's hop back into video mode by pressing that button twice. So now that we've dialed our
resolution and our frame rate, I'm gonna hit this Fn button and I'm gonna change
my focus area to wide. I just wanna make sure that it's scanning the entire frame for my face. And then I'm a hit Fn again. I'm actually gonna turn
off the soft skin effect, cause I'm just happy with my face. And then I'm going to
change the steady shot from active to off. Like you could see how much it
zooms in when it's on active. So if I plan on shooting, like talking head YouTube
videos or something, you can imagine how much
more a lens you're getting when you have it off. However, if you are vlogging, then by all means you could
turn that on if you'd like to, but this at 16 millimeters is a suite. The next thing we're
gonna do is just a rule that you could always remember is, I'm gonna double my shutter
based off of my frame rate. So I'm at 24 frames like
you can see from the top, which means my shutter
speed is gonna be 50. So I'm just gonna take this big wheel and I'm gonna scroll it to 50. And then that never has to change. The next thing that essentially never has to change is my aperture. So I'm gonna take the wheel on
the top and scroll that back, and that's gonna put me at 3.5 because I'm using the kit lens. And now the only thing
I really have to change to dial in my shot is
my ISO based on my shot. So right now it's on auto
and I'm gonna put this at around 250, which looks pretty good. And you can always double
check your exposure by looking at those
numbers at the bottom right where it says 0.00. If I changed my ISO, I
made it super bright, you can see it says, plus 1.3. Or if I went really
dark, it's gonna tell me that I'm at -0.3, but you're good to be around 0.3, but zero is just a good rule of thumb. But feel the free to move
around that as needed. The next thing you can do is just lock in your white balance. And so you can keep it
on auto if you'd like to, but I'd like to lock it in 'cause I usually shoot
in stationary places. So you can just go to this C temp filter and then I'm simply going to
scroll this back about 4,700, it's kind of daytime temperature, which I always set my lighting to, or I use a window or something. You're pretty good leaving it at around 4,500 to 5,000, in my opinion. And then if you really wanna
go there, a lot of people... And go 1.5 over here and
then go 1.5 over here. Not to go too deep into
the color science of Sony, they have improved it, but this does add a little bit more magenta to the image. So if you'd like to do
that, you can, I am. So I'm just gonna leave it
at 1.5 and 1.5 and hit okay. And really right here,
you're ready to shoot videos. And so that's pretty much
all you gotta do to do that. As far as photos go, we're going
to hop into the photos mode by hitting the button on top twice. And if you do again in the same way, just wanna point and shoot, intelligent auto is a
great place to leave it. However, I do have a more
favorable auto setting and that is aperture priority. And so I'm just gonna put
it in aperture priority and then you can keep your
ISO on auto in this mode, because you're just gonna allow the camera to adjust the shutter speed and the ISO all by itself while
keeping the aperture low, as low as you'd like
it, which is 3.5, right? However, in the same way, a video they shipped the camera
with JPEG setting on, and I like to edit my photos in lightroom and I like to adjust them heavily. So if you'd like to do the same way, you can change this from JPEG to RAW. And I don't wanna get into the specifics, however, you can do both,
it just takes up more space. But I like using RAW because
I'll edit them in posts, which is nice, but that's
really all you have to do when it comes to photos. Again, you can turn off
things like soft skin effect if you'd like and things like that. This is kind of like my
favorite auto photography mode. If you'd like to make it so
when you hold down it bursts, you can go into the drive
mode right over here, and then we can set it on high. So if I hold down, it takes
a lot of photos at once. So if your kids are moving
or running, I dunno, you can shoot that and catch it. They have a few different levels. They even have a faster option, but that's just for the most part, my favorite photography settings. So that's how I quickly set up my camera to start shooting awesome
videos and take great photos. And if you didn't know that
the camera came in 1080, you could have been shooting
in 1080 all this time. And simply changing that
from 1080 to 4K is huge because you bought this camera and you wanna shoot 4K out of it. Now the next portion of this video, I'll just be walking
through the menu system so that you can learn what things mean, whether you need to
access certain settings and also just dial in your menus a little bit more just to make
it easier to create content. I'll put some nice lo-fi hip hop music so there's a vibe while
we go through this, and it really will benefit
you to go through it so that you can learn your camera, your Sony ZV-E10 to its full capabilities. And so let's jump into the
menu walk through right now. All right, so I'm gonna
go through the menu and briefly describe
certain things based off of general photography and
shooting YouTube videos what I use the Sony ZV-E10 for. But the first thing I liked
doing with all my Sony's is creating my custom menu. This is awesome because it speeds up, me having to go through the menu. And there's just a few
things I'd like to add. The first thing I like to
add is to format my card. So right here on page 26, I'm just going to add that to my menu item as the first thing, because
I usually format my cards when I first put a card in it. And then the next thing
is the USB webcam option. So you can go through
the menus and find that, or you can just put
this on the custom menu. And when I'm gonna use
this for a Zoom call or a live stream, simply
hop into that custom menu, turn that on, and you're good to go. Now I do wanna take a moment
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to run your live streams. But that's why I like adding
the USB streaming shortcut to the custom control menu, but let's get back into
the menu walkthrough of the Sony ZVE 10. The next thing I wanna add
is the interval shooting. This is for time-lapse,
and it's deep in the menu, but this is something that is just helpful to have easily at hand. And so that's the interval shoot function is pretty much built in time
lapse feature in the camera. So if you like shooting a time-lapse or if you wanna start,
that's one thing to do there. So I think that's fairly all that you need that's what all that I need. If I need to change other things they're usually easy to get to, but let's go through from menu one. And again, just briefly gonna
describe things through, or just match my settings
and you should be good based off what is needed
to create content. And so for this first page, the only thing I change
here is from JPEG to RAW like I did earlier. But everything else I keep, you don't have to worry
about anything else as well. The next page is kind of irrelevant, never have to think about
it usually ever again in your life. And then over here, you're
met with the shoot mode, the drive mode there's that
interval shoot function, which would be nice to be easily accessed, so that's why we put
it in the custom menu. But these two settings are
accessed via the Fn button when you're just shooting
in regular whatever mode, which is nice. So you can go in here and change it. But if I just hit Fn, you have things like your exposure mode, you
have your drive mode, you have everything you need
when it comes to taking photos. So this camera's set memory
is if you really like to mess with custom settings all the time, and you keep jumping to
and from certain settings. You can actually save settings
to four different options, which is cool. So you set it up and then you load it into whatever one you like, and then you can access it later. I don't necessarily do that, I
know a lot of people that do, but that's that. The next thing is your focus settings. And so I like keeping most of the time shooting photos and video
on continuous auto-focus and then my focus area wide, you have several different other options, but wide is the easiest set
it and forget it setting. Focus area limit, don't mess with that. Here's your face and eye focus. And so you can based off
of whatever you're filming, they even have this thing
where they prioritize an eye. If you wanna prioritize your left eye, cause you sit at an angle or something, you could do that, which is cool. And then they have things
like auto focus with shutter, which you would like,
'cause you can hold halfway and it'll focus your photos and or video. And then we have focus frame
color, everything else here, you don't really need to touch. So that's cool. Exposure comp, this is really necessary if you like shooting in auto mode, but you prefer things to be bright. Or if you're shooting in auto and you want something to be bright, this is what you're gonna have to change. And so this also could be
accessed by hitting Fn. So if I hit Fn, you can
see the exposure comp, and because I'm shooting an
auto setting, as I change it, it's gonna do everything in its power to adjust settings based off of that, but there's nothing like
good old, regular exposure locked in at zero. So you can just keep that
at zero, which is nice. Your ISO which you could mess
with several different ways, face priority, everything
else you can just keep. We have flash mode, I
don't really use flash, so all this is kind of irrelevant. If you are using wireless flash, you'll start tapping into this portion. Then we have white balance. Again, something that we
could meet at the Fn menu, same with picture profile. This camera shoots great
straight out of the body. But if you wanna get into picture profiles like S log, HLG and things like that you can play with that. A lot of people will, but I'm just, I love the colors straight
out of this camera, especially with the tweaks
we made earlier in the video. So this page is all about focus assist. So you have your focus magnification time. So when you hit a button, it could zoom in and just show you if something's in focus, this is most useful if you're
shooting in manual focus and then you actually have
also the initial focus mag, and I'll show you how this
actually works in just a moment. Peaking is for when you
shoot in manual focus. You can see color around what is in focus, it just gives a nice visual. So I like keeping this on high and keeping it on red or yellow. Something that really stands out. Let's see if you can see it right now. So you could see how all
the things that's in focus that are there outlined in yellow. But if I turn on my focus from manual to auto or continuous, it goes away. So it's only helpful if you're
shooting in manual focus, kinda this whole thing
is for manual focus, hence the name focus assist. Page 11, some things that might want to know about is product showcase. This is an auto focus
setting that allows you to put up a product to the
camera and it'll focus on it. And when you put it down,
it'll focus back on your face. Some other things get
disabled when you use this. I'm not necessarily holding
up stuff to a camera, but if you're into makeup or you do something where you
need to show off a product, then turn that sucker on. The space registration, which you can literally
register your face. So you can actually
register somebody's face. So when you shoot a group
of people, it'll prioritize, someone's face that you
register when it comes to focus, like if you're shooting a wedding, you can literally like
prioritize the bride's face. And so whatever group
setting you're shooting, it's gonna find the bride's face based off of how you set this up, and then it'll keep the
bride always in focus, no matter how much people are in a shot. Crazy, right. Anyway, that's that. And then we're gonna move into this. Lemme put it in video
mode, so all this turns on. So we're in video mode
that's why it was great out. But on this first page,
you have your shoot mode, which again, could be
accessed by the Fn button when you're in the main shooting stuff. You have your USB streaming, which we added to the custom menu. And then we have your
resolution and your frame rate and your S&Q settings. We mess with all this
already, so let's move on. We got proxy recording, which is one of my favorite features on Sony cameras. You can actually shoot
a low quality version of your video simultaneously. Meaning if I turn this on,
okay, and I hit record, I'm gonna have a 4K file. And then I'm gonna have
a 1080 or a 720p file. So if you have a slow computer, you can actually tell your computer to communicate to the lower quality files. And then when you render it'll export the high quality files, that's proxy. Little deep, but if you learn about proxy with a slow computer, you'll speed up your workflow. But if you have a decent computer, the 4K files aren't that
crazy out of this camera. And then we have the speed of focus. I just keep this as is. If you wanna slow it down,
you can slow it down. If you wanna speed it up,
you could speed it up, pretty straightforward. And then we have audio recording, which obviously you wanna keep on. So next page, third page is your levels. Again, this is access by hitting Fn, and then you can adjust
on the fly, which is nice, the ability to see it,
so we wanna keep that on. Audio out timing, don't need to worry about any of this stuff. You can turn on wind noise reduction, which for the onboard
mic could be helpful. So you can turn that on
and use that as needed, why not leave that on just in case, right? Then we have steady shot,
which is the three levels, which again, could be
accessed by hitting Fn. Lemme just show you, hit Fn, and then under here in the bottom left you have active standard and then off. So just a few things
that you can know about. And then we have steady shots settings, but you don't need to worry about that. So on this fourth page, we have market display
and marker settings. You don't need to worry about that. Emphasize during record,
this is an awesome feature because when I hit record, it's gonna put a red
box around the screen, which is nice when you're
recording yourself. And then also the record lamp, also it turns on the light
on the front of the camera, which is nice. And then you can do movie
with shutter if you'd like to, but there's already a record button on the top of this camera, so you don't need to worry about that. Silent shooting that's for photography. If you wanna turn off the shutter noise, unless you need to do that. So you can do that as well. Something that's deep in the menu that you could add to the favorites menu, or you can add it to the Fn's menu, the functions menu,
but that's okay anyway. Moving on. So we are gonna go to zoom range. This is various different ways you can use the zoom rocker on this camera. So if I have clear images to zoom on, we can go like this and we
can get clear image zoom. I think that's what that
means, or I can go optical, which is just the lens itself. So clear image zoom is digital. And then this is actually, if
the lens has the capability, it'll zoom with the lens,
which I think is pretty sweet. So I'm gonna leave that on optical, especially with the kit lens,
just leave it on optical. And then all this other
stuff you can leave it as is. We have display button,
which you can customize what shows you, but
don't worry about that. Zebra settings, this
is not a cinema camera, so you don't have to worry
about zebra settings. I might get roasted in the comments. I like the grid line, so I like having the rule of thirds grid, which is essentially the nine boxes, but I know when I'm centered
in camera with that. So I like actually keeping
that on, it doesn't bug me, also helps me keep the camera
leveled in certain times. Exposure set guide, we'll leave it. Auto review is on for two seconds. That's if you take a photo, it'll show you the photo you just took without having a press play. And then one of my
favorite things with Sony is just the ability to
like fully customize the entire camera. And so based up on what you
find yourself doing often, by going back into the menu. If it doesn't make sense
to add to the custom menu, you can actually add
it to places like here. So if you wanna... I'll never mess with soft skin effect, 'cause personally I just don't need to. So I can actually swap
that out for something else I think I'll need. So for instance, I'm
gonna hit this right here and then I'm just gonna
go to the soft skin girl, and then I'm just gonna take her off and just change it to
something like silent shooting, because it was deep in the menu. So now if I'm shooting at
like church or something, I can just go here shooting photos and then turn this off, which is nice. So you can use it based off of how you use the camera itself. So that's kinda all this. So I like how it generally comes. But if you think you
need something special, just start adding certain
shortcuts and things like that to the camera. The ninth page, you have touch operation, which I'm a fan of touch tracking. You don't need to
necessarily do anything else. Touch tracking just simply puts a box around something you tap
on and it focuses on it, which is I think what most
people would want it to do. We have audio signals. I actually like them off 'cause I'm not trying to be a goober pressing record 30 times in
a quiet room or at a wedding. And people are like,
dude, shut off that thing. And then we have a lot of the other things that have to do with like
connecting to your smartphone and sending photos to your smartphone, I think these are all separate use cases. So we don't have to go through it now, but that's what this all is. And then this next portion of the menu is all about when you hit the play button and review photos or videos. Really everything is straightforward, you don't really have
to mess with anything, except I'm not a fan as my
photos showing in groups, I just like them to be individual. So I just want all my photos to be just straight in front of me. If you do it as groups,
it's just gonna group different photos and then
you have to click in, but just turn it off,
just trust me on that one. Turn it of, so that's cool. And then we're good on the playback menu. Now we're almost done guys. You made it so far, oh my goodness. Congratulations. Anyway. So we have our monitor brightness, which you can make it bright or manual. Sunny weather makes it
very bright, which is nice. But if you wanna save battery, you can just leave it on manual
and adjust that as needed, but just know that if you go outside, you could make it brighter,
which is nice to know. We have gamma display assist. This is only if you're really shooting with like S log or flatted color profiles. It'll just show you like a
fake color corrected version of your clips, so you
can get an idea of it. We have volume settings, which is when you play back your footage, you can adjust that even then. But again, keep that maxed
that out, that's fine. Delete confirmed. Just leave all this. You don't wanna mess with this. One thing I do like to do
is under power saving option or power setting option, I do put this auto power off on high, so when the camera gets warm, because I don't want
my camera to shut off, it's not gonna melt from the internals. And that's the warning it gives you. But just trust me on that one as well. Just put that on high and
you'll be glad you did. And then this next screen, really, the only thing is touch operation. If you like to use the screen
to touch stuff like focus and this and that, leave it on. If you don't turn it off,
but I'll leave it on. Then we have HTMI settings, which you don't have to use
an HTMI with this camera 'cause you can just use a USB
and then hit the USB mode. But this is just so you
could set it manually based off of the resolution that goes out. HTML info display, you
probably want that off 'cause you don't wanna
show all your settings, but really these two things
that I just did are great, and you'd be good to go based
off of those two things. So that's HTMI settings. We have a couple other things
that don't really matter. If you don't wanna adjust
your date and time, you can do that here. Change your language,
you can do that here. And then this fourth page,
really the only thing that needs to be mentioned is that you can change the name of your files. So you can add your name, you can add the type of camera. If you have multiple cameras,
this is really sweet. I actually do like adding
the camera that I'm using, so they don't all match. I know that files that
come from this camera, it says ZV-E10 or something. So you can actually do that, let's do that while I got you here. Z V E ZVE, that's cool. So now I know that anytime
I take photo or video, it's going to add ZVE to the clip, and now I know it came from that camera. And so that's just something you can do. You can add your initials
just so you can own your files or what have you. But that's just so you know that. And then this stuff's not too important. If you wanna put your camera
into factory settings, you can hit initialize
setting reset initialize. But unless you need to do that, do that. And then we already set up our
camera with our custom menu, so that breaks down the entire walkthrough of the ZV-E10 menu. Congratulations, I believe
you're ready to crush it with your Sony ZV-E10, whether
if you're taking photos or if you're doing video, but that you have a good general knowledge of what this camera is capable of doing. Now, if you haven't
been subscribed already, make sure to do so and
I'd love to know down in the comments below from you, what will you be using
the Sony ZVE 10 for. Lemme know down in the comments below. I love this camera for
shooting YouTube videos and live streaming because
it's so easy to do so. And I've also taken it on some trips and it's really easy to vlog as well. But if you wanna check
out more ZV-E10 videos, be sure to click or tap the screen, and I can't wait to see
you in a future one. Peace. (upbeat music)
