EOS R5 Mark II -- video settings when you hit REC button while in photo mode

[joebelfiore]

I'm mostly shooting sports -- I mix photos and videos in a shoot, depending on the situation on the field ... even from one second to the next, with my left hand on the lens to zoom/stabilize the camera.

As a result of hand-position and fast-moving action,  I want to shoot photos and video just with my right-hand... press the shutter for photo and press the REC button for video.  I've got an R6 and this works great.. exactly as expected.

---  the problem --- 

I rented an R5 Mark II hoping I'd get way better images ... but...  whenever you press the REC button for video while in photo mode, it seems to use some baseline "default" video settings and NOT the settings either (a) from your photo session OR (b) from what you have video set to.   There are two settings in particular where this is very problematic:
- frame rate
- exposure settings

I had set video to 59.97 fps ... but when in photo mode and pressing rec it only shot at 29.97.  I didn't discover this until after I had shot the whole event and was editing.  😞   Secondly -- it was a bright sunny day, so I'd stopped down the expoure 2/3 of a stop ... and this stuck for (a) photos, (b) video IN VIDEO MODE, but NOT (c) video when in photo mode.   

these two are pretty awful -- it's as if the camera insists on using some settings you DON'T WANT while in camera mode.

I looked everywhere for a setting to change this-- but no luck.  Do any of you know if this is fixable?  I won't buy the canera because of this and one other problem I will post separately.

thanks!

[joebelfiore]

Actually -- it's even worse than I thought.  It not only shot at 29.97 fps, but it also shot at 1080p resolution instead of the 4K I had the camera set to record normal videos.

as you could imagine... I was quite disappointed when I discovered that tons of my clips came out at low frame rate, low res.   It seems there's NO WAY to change the settings for video-record when you're in photo mode.  Can that be right?    

[p4pictures · Accepted solution]

When you are in still mode and press the movie button the camera will use the settings for movie C3 mode. It's best to select movie mode, setup the C3 custom mode with the settings you need before you go out shooting. 

This is different to the EOS R6 Mark II, where the movie settings used when the movie record button is pressed are set from stills mode. EOS R5 / R5 Mark II it uses the C3 movie mode.

[joebelfiore]

Thank you!!  Sure wish I had known that before my rental weekend.  🙂

[p4pictures]

Can you mark my reply as a solution so that others can find it? Thanks