Full guide for shooting video with D7000?

Blue Bomber said:
You can reduce the appearance of moire by lowering in-camera sharpness and by applying chroma noise reduction. You'll still have moire leftover, but it won't be as noticeable since it'll be softer and won't be continually changing color.
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With what program are you applying the chroma noise reduction? Any chance you would be able to post an example?
 
I was just messing around in After Effects with its standard noise reduction filter. There's a point where it will remove random color noise, but won't mute the rest of the colors.
 
Soymilk said:
The d7000 pretty much is the same as any other video Dslr. You use it as how you would use any other Dslr to make videos.... There are only a few exceptions that make the d7000 different. Let's all post experiences and tips/tricks to make a guide.

#1. Aperture can not be controlled in livemode with "G" glass. You have to exit live mode, set aperture. Then go back into live mode. Not a deal breaker but it is cumbersome. That or use glass with an aperture ring.

#2. Nikon d7000 does not have any camera profiles/settings for video. It uses the same profiles as stills. So if you plan on doing post color grading, you should use neutral color profile with sharpening and contrast turned all the way down.

#3. In live mode, there is no metering bar. You have to judge by looking at the output on the screen. That or exit live mode, adjust exposure in viewfinder and return back to live mode. There is also no live view histogram. If this is vital, you'd have to take a picture and review the picture to check histogram.

Everyone feel free to add to this list. That's all I can think of that's for the d7000. Any other tidbits of info is just general Dslr video info.
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Hi,

Although still kludgy, there are a couple of things that you can add that will make your life easier and the product better, two.

This assumes that the Menu Settings are have Manual Move Settings On, and you are in Manual (M) mode.

You do have to set Apeture when Live View is off, but I turn *Info* on. This give me a meter to work by. You can measure the exposure by the Info window/check White Balance use the ISO/Fstop/Shutter Speed/ whatever to get the right combination for the shot.

I also take a still.

In my menu settings, under playback control - Display Mode, all the boxes are checked for focus point, highlights, RGB Photo Info, & DATA. This allows me to scroll thought the still to check for blown out areas of the still to check if any of the area in the video I'm about to take will be out of range. If so, I can go back to Info and make adjustments.

It works pretty well, and naturally, it works with G lenses as well as D or any of the AFS lenses.

While it takes a while to get used to doing it, I can't fault it much.

My best,

Mike
 
Here's a brief clip I made last Friday:

https://vimeo.com/41673428

Really, my first foray into DSLR video.

I used a Kessler KC-Lite and tethered the D7000 to a small laptop mounted on the tripod.

Software was Cimematographer Pro, which allowed me to exit live view and change the f-stop with the computer.

I could also specify a focus spot and auto focus.

The software will also display a histogram.

As expected, there were issue viewing the laptop screen, and the image looked nothing like the data the camera was recording, but I had faith in the histogram.

This is ungraded footage, perhaps a little more contrasty than I had hoped.

RBD

Oh, and yes, it was a little cozy in that small corral with all the cattle.

Still, only one really close call.

It was a risk I was willing to take.
 
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