Sony S&Q Mode - What is it and how do you use it? (A7iii, A6400, A6600, a7iv,A7riii, A7riv, A9)

[@MarioSoMedia]

How often do you use S&Q on your Sony camera? For a full tutorial on the "conventional" way of shooting timelapses, visit my other video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/al7JZ2iuqrCMaqs

[@davidmarino7894]

The easiest and most informative video on this topic. Thank you very much!

[@MarioSoMedia]

I'm glad you found it helpful!

[@arisinphoenix]

I appreciate your calm tone and simple break down of instructions :) Plus I was so excited to be able to apply these settings.

[@MarioSoMedia]

You are welcome! Thanks for watching. I do get that I'm calm quite a lot lol. :)

[@samijud]

Man thank you so much for this video

[@MarioSoMedia]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

[@pippencreekproductions]

Man I really appreciate you making this video. That was simple and to the point. I’d been wondering what that setting was used for but hadn’t tried it out yet. Thanks!

[@MarioSoMedia]

You're very welcome! Glad you found this video useful!

[@markiesvids]

Before this video I no clue what S&Q was. Now I’m juiced to try it out! I have an a6600 that I love ❤️. Thanks 🙏

[@MarioSoMedia]

Glad you found this video useful. The a6600 is a solid camera! Have fun with it!

[@tombrossard435]

Nice video, thanks for sharing your skills

[@MarioSoMedia]

Thanks for watching! Hope this helped!

[@JLsMakerSpace]

Thanks, helped a lot (:

[@MarioSoMedia]

Glad to hear!

[@RayRomanMedia]

Thanks, I just haven’t attempted to use it on my camera yet and this was very informative!

[@MarioSoMedia]

Thanks for watching and yeah it's a quick way to capture slow motion or timelapses in-camera.

[@RayRomanMedia]

@@MarioSoMedia I just watched another video where if you do it the other way with just the higher frame rate you will get a higher bit rate and although you have to slow it down in post your image looks better. I think that way would be best for low light situations, potentially for time lapse but this S&Q way would be great to eliminate the post processing to achieve what you want in camera so long the image is looking good enough.

[@MarioSoMedia]

Yes for sure! I shoot at a higher frame rate almost 90% of the time since I always spend some time editing everything. You get way better quality. But sometimes if you're just posting on social media S&Q does the job. Unless you have the a7siii then the quality of S&Q is pretty darn good straight out of camera.

[@JoJo-bb6de]

Hello Mario, like this video !!! what shutter speed did you use for S and Q in your examples ?

[@MarioSoMedia]

Thank you! I doubled the shutter speed of the frame rate captured. So if it was at 120fps, the shutter speed would be 1/250.

[@JoJo-bb6de]

@@MarioSoMedia thx Mario for your quick response !!! shutter speed of 1/250 is what i understand for the "slow" motion (double the time for the fps = 2 x 120) but also for the "quick" motion when you use for example 2, 3, or 4 fps ?

[@MarioSoMedia]

+Jo Jo for quick motion I go by the final output version which is usually 24fps so I usually set it to 1/50. But you can experiment as well depending on how much motion blur you want in your timelapse

[@cristianwallace5368]

This really helped!!! 👌🏽👌🏽 thanks so much Mario!!

[@MarioSoMedia]

Glad you found this video useful! Thanks for watching!! 😀

[@sigvardbjorkman]

Great thanks a lot!

[@MarioSoMedia]

You're welcome! 😀

[@MarioSoMedia]

+Sigvard Björkman You're welcome!

[@gabrieljamesvlogs]

If I’m shooting s&q 24p & 120p slow mo do I put my shutter speed at 1/240 or 1/50? Same with 24p & 60p 1/30 or 1/50?

[@MarioSoMedia]

You would set your shutter speed with the frame rate you are capturing in mind, so if your frame rate is 120, then 1/240 if your intended look is the natural motion blur. In the end it all depends on the amount of motion blur you want.

[@ramonbannister9498]

Is there any quality loss in S&Q mode for slow motion vs doing it the standard way in post? Also, do you have a tutorial on those transitions?

[@MarioSoMedia]

Yes there is. It's always best to do it the standard way but if you want a quick turnaround and are sharing for instagram, S&Q does the job! I have another video on in-camera transitions that you can do on your phone or any camera. Hope you find it helpful :) : kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGSllJKgfbqkqNk

[@ipanaya]

Thanks.

[@MarioSoMedia]

Hope it helped!

[@danielkhalifa616]

hi Mario, I got a question is that is there any difference if I use 100p 100M to shoot and slow it down afterwards, and shoot S&Q mode, 100fps? which one is technically higher quality? this question really bother me a lot, will be appreciate if you can reply

[@MarioSoMedia]

Hey Daniel! Shooting at normal 100fps (or 120fps) will always be better quality than using S&Q mode. S&Q stitches the video together for you and it's already either slowed down or sped up. S&Q also doesn't capture audio. I would suggest you shoot normally and slow down the footage when you are editing. I only use S&Q if I really don't have time to edit that clip. Hope this helps man!

[@danielkhalifa616]

@@MarioSoMedia thanks man! it does help me a lot lol

[@MarioSoMedia]

Happy to help man!

[@HelmutBemboka]

Hi Mario - when I set 120fps in S&Q mode, an additional frame is displayed on the screen. Initially I thought this might mean that only a smaller section of the view is recorded, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Do you know what this frame is for?

[@MarioSoMedia]

You mean like a square? Is it the focus point

[@HelmutBemboka]

@@MarioSoMedia No they're four little corners on the screen. It's a shame I can't send you a photo - but just try it. At 120fps (24p_ you should see them. At 60fps they're not there.

[@MarioSoMedia]

+HelmutBemboka Hmm. I don't see it. You can DM me on IG if you want at maritoso7

[@geoffswan1254]

It's a pity that the timelapse does not go lower to 2/4/8/16 seconds per frame.

[@MarioSoMedia]

Yeah for that you would need to shoot the timelapse the conventional way. But keep in mind that if you shoot at a slower shutter speed, your shooting interval can't be faster than that.

[@SonuKumar-858]

Fast motion kasa kar