EOS R7 - Can't Find Aspect Markers

[VideoGuy2025]

Hello!

I recently upgraded from my Canon r50 to an r7 for some freelance sports videography. I've been loving the camera but one issue I have is that I'm having a hard time finding the Aspect Marker setting. I used it on my r50 when filming video I knew would be for social media but I can't find it on the r7. My camera is set to movie mode and I'm looking under Shooting Info Display, which is what I had to do to get there on the r50 but that option isn't in there on the r7. Is there another step I am missing?

Thank you in advance for any insight provided!

[stevet1]

VideoGuy2025,

This Canon Support Page tells you how to set the Aspect Marker on your R7:

https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART174760

Steve Thomas

[VideoGuy2025]

Thanks for the quick response, Steve! Unfortunately, it looks like your link sends me to the support page for the Canon EOS C700 cameras and appears to reference menus that aren't available on my camera. I tried to follow the instructions anyway, but got stuck on step one where it says to open to the "Markers submenu", which to my knowlegde isn't a submenu on the EOS R7.

[stevet1]

VideoGuy2025,

You are right, and I am so sorry.. In my haste to be helpful, I made a rookie mistake.

Steve Thomas

[Waddizzle]

I downloaded it copy of the User Guide. The latest Apple OS update has broken the Search tool in the Books app. Searching for keywords is now a chore. 

But, as near as I can tell the R7 always records video using a 16:9 aspect ratio.

 

The User Guide can be downloaded from the R7 product support page. 

https://www.usa.canon.com/support/p/eos-r7 

[shadowsports]

I did the same spending nearly an hour going through the manual page by page reviewing all the tabs on the Shooting menu looking for Display which is often the menu option that Markers is a sub menu of.  I could not find it any reference to it.  🤔

[VideoGuy2025]

No worries, thank you for trying! I appreciate the time you took to help!

[VideoGuy2025]

Thank you for taking the time to try helping! I appreciate you taking the time to help me out.

I was aware that the R7 only recorded in a 16:9 aspect ratio which is why I was looking for an "Aspect Marker" option like the one the R50 has which put an overlay in different common alternative aspect ratios (like 1:1, 4:5, and 9:16) so that I could see what is in frame if I cropped the 16:9 video to one of the other aspect ratios in post. 

I tried looking deeper at the digital manual after making this post and found that the R7 just doesn't have that setting. Looking online, the R50 came out almost a year after the R7 did and I guess in that year was when they started putting aspect markers into at least the beginner to intermediate cameras. 

[VideoGuy2025]

Oh no! Yeah, I looked more into it after I made the forum post and came to realize that the R7 just doesn't have Aspect Markers like the R50 does. It looks like the R50 came out almost a year after the R7, so I guess maybe 2023 was when Canon really started adding aspect markers to more of their cameras.