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Top man I shall give that a go. Thanks for taking the time to help, didnt know if I would get laughed at for such a basic question. onwards and upwards! Do you have some of your work I could look at?

Hi andy lee, In terms of focusing I half press the shutter button, to get into focus and then leave it? Do you suggest just doing a manual focus instead? I often wonder if i will nail the focus as its only a small screen? (maybe thats just me) When i look at the video the plants in the garden are really noticeable in a bad way, they have no sharpness to them at all. I have just bought a 50mm f.18 lens. Hoping this will give me a better look. Big thanks andy lee and nigelbb for the tips! Hopefully and slowly i will improve! I have seen some really stunning short videos shot on the 600D so hoping to get halfway to that standard! Cheers

Hi All, Hope you can help with my newbie situation. I’m trying to make some lovely sharp and nice looking HD video shots with my canon 600D. I’m using the stock 18-55mm lens, and although I know this isn’t the best lens to be using, my videos just look pretty rubbish. They don’t seem as sharp or crisp as I would expect. I’ve had a look over a few forums, and youtube to try and work out what I may be doing wrong, but at the minute I’m rather clueless. As you can tell I’m rather new to all this, so not really up there with the technical stuff, (Which im slowly trying to learn). I’ve included some photos of my settings? Hopefully I’m doing something wrong?