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 

[joebelfiore]

OK .. I just got an R5 Mark II and tried this solution ... and it only PARTIALLY WORKS.

WHAT WORKS:  using C3 to set frame rate, resolution, file type ... and even 'temporary' settings like dropping the exposure by a stop.   When you SAVE TO C3 ... this is what you get on rec in photo mode.  Good!

DOESN'T WORK:  there's no 'memory' for "temporary" conditions like exposure.  If, in one shot, you drop exposure by 2/3 .. then on your next shot it doesn't go back to that, it just goes back to whatever you set as the C3 default.   This means, in practice in the field-- it's not really able to work like every other part of the camera where your exposure setting is remembered from one shot to the next.

CANON -- please address this in a firmware update!  the Rec button in still mode doesn't work in a way that makes it easy to shoot many shots!   

[p4pictures · Accepted solution]

When saving the custom shooting mode, there is an entry to Auto update stored settings, it is disabled by default. If you enable it, then any change even exposure compensation, ISO, shutter speed, aperture will be updated in the stored custom mode. 

[joebelfiore]

Brian ... you rock!!  THANK YOU for the continued help.   

I really do want to buy this camera...  any chance you have ideas on the issue I posted in this thread related to the SORT ORDER of photos/videos on playback?   I checked with Canon support and they didn't.  This is also critical for shooting sports...

EOS R5 Mark II - sort order for video/photos in pl... - Canon Community

[p4pictures]

Unfortunately I don't have a way round this playback behaviour and I agree that it seems very odd to not at least have the option for chronological display. I know you can choose to play back video or stills using the mode button.