Do this before using your Sony FX6…

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This video is about some quick and easy tips on how to set up your Sony FX6 before you're next shoot!
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[butcherfest]

If you press and hold the S&Q button you can select your frame rate instead of going through the menus.

[hollandparkmedia]

The line feature is used when your sound input isn't from a mic but from e.g. a mixer. Microphones often need to be gained to come to line level. So think of it this way, a mic needs to be gained to become line and that's why you have expensive audio gear in order to e.g. give a clean gain. Think of audio gain the same as ISO or gain on cameras, if you pull it up too high, you're also raising the noise level too. But in audio.

What's important to note is that if your input is from a mixer or something else that gives you line level, it's essential that you set the camera to line. Because when you're on mic, the camera will try to gain it. But if you gain a line level audio, you just clip the signal and push the port past its rated threshold aka you blow the port.

So if you have mic, stick to mic unless it's a condenser that needs phantom, so then mic +48V. But if your sound input is line, then stick to line so you don't send your port to heaven. If you have a mic plugged in and set your camera to line, it just won't work cause you don't have the gain. Hope it all makes sense.

[robertmuhammad]

Line level is for taking an amplified signal from another electronic device like a mixing console or something with pre-amps in it.

I do a lot of events and we will have the A2 give us house sound from the mixer, usually an aux out.
If you take a feed like that and your set for mic level audio, you will have a miss match and your audio will be over modulated (distorted). Set it for line level and it can handle this amplified audio and sound normal.

[konixtwenty]

I love all your tutorials. Always straight to the point, concise and extremely informative. Thank god no annoying loud background music. Nicely turned down so can clearly hear you and louder only in approproiate places. You have good taste. Seems like the set up is easy but often overlooked. I picked up great ideas from you that we weren’t doing. The most important one is actually your point about formatting the cards in advance. Might appear as a simple thing but if you don’t do it in advance then you run out of room. So you would basically waste all that space on the card. Maybe a small point but can mess up your production. Thank you very much. You rock!

[solaieditz]

Line Feature is for When you Taking Output from audio mixture board and connecting through XLR input to camera you have to set to Line Option

[SuperGravityFilms]

Great work, Kofi! The line level definitions are good in this comments section. Another way to look at it is; when you plug your mics into a preamp, the specification it turns your mic level into is "Line level", such as the output of a mixer, as others have said here. If you have a line level source you're plugging into your camera, switch to Line level on your camera audio input as your signal will be too hot if your input is set to accept mic levels.

[RayShunFilms]

Would love a video on how you have your camera set up, like custom buttons and what not. Picking this baby up later this year

[impacttwenty]

Cool tips. Looking at jumpin into the FX6 in a few days time...Got an FS5 now and it has same mic input settings. Line is for taking a feed from a mixer or something that already has a preamp, so if you're recording a DJ and you want the feed directly from the DJ's mixer into your camera aswell as a mic to get some ambient sounds (crowd etc) then this is perfect to use both.

Audio in line dont need to be amplified. But for mic, they need to be amplified by 60db cus the signal is too low (i could be wrong in the number), so +60db with or without phatom power

[levi_holi]

Thank you Kofi! I have watched a bunch of your videos this morning. Just bought the FX6 and am learning a lot. Much Love!

[matthewwinne]

I don't think you need to reset the Cine EI values. When you switch between the base ISOs the preset values change accordingly. I believe the default settings are exactly what you mentioned here. Great content. Keep it coming.

[DCBSCVD]

When you do custom white balancing A and B, you are nulling out the tint on all three photodiodes on the sensor Red/Green/Blue but when you do Preset (manual) white balance you are only nulling out the red and blue tint. That is why if you look closely, you will always see a slight green tint in Preset White Balance vs A & B white balance. On the FX6 don't listen to the people saying fill the frame 60% - if you want to get the best white balance fill the frame all the way and expose the white card correctly using the main light source. (use clear image zoom to get in all the way on the white card).

[AllThingsFilm]

Thanks for this walkthrough. The FX6 is on my radar for upgrading to a higher spec cinema camera.

[earlduncan]

Line feature is just the mic line going in for wired mics

[FilmedbyFresh]

Always appreciate these kinds of videos

[RunaBayDay]

Love your videos Kofi. You have the best way of explaining things. Thank you so much!

[ConorMcLoughlin]

The line option is for having a lav mic directly into the camera instead of through a transmitter/receiver!

[dellmingo]

The line future is to connect directly to a sound board/Mixer

[tomcourtney]

Very well presented, good tutorial, thank you

[salvadorbernal]

Buena información. Resumiste lo que encontre investigando en muchos sitios web y videos. Tengo la FX6 desde hace 2 semanas. Saludos 🤝