Canon - C200 - Quick Start Guide for Recording

Plug in the DC Power if you want to not use Batteries
Turn the Camera On
Put the SDHC cards in the slots. One or two cards.
You have to close the doors of the card slots or else the camera won't recognize the cards
Click the Menu Button Also use the the joystick to navigate the menus
Navigate to the "wrench" icon and choose Reset Resetting the menus gets the camera back to a default state so you know everything is reset to a starting point
Choose System Setup >Reset >All Settings
OK
Set the Date and Time
Navigate to the Media icon page 1 Set the System Frequency to 59.94
Navigate to the Media icon page 1 Set the System Frequency to 59.94
Same menu page 2 set the Frame Rate to 23.98
Next format the SDHC cards Same Media Menu Page 1 Choose Initialize Media
Choose which card to format
Choose Complete formatting
Click OK to confirm
Same media page choose the Main Recording Format as MP4
Same media page choose the Main Recording Format as MP4
Media Menu Page 2 choose Resolution as UHD 3840 x 2160 YCC420 8bit
Go to Media Menu Page 3 and Choose to turn on Relay Recording this will enable the recording to span the two SD cards if you have two loaded
Navigate over to the Image menu and choose to turn on Canon Log 3 if you want to record in Log Or BT709 if you don't want that log setting
Auto Focus On or Off Turn ON if you want to use the Face Detection. That is useful to make sure you keep faces in focus.
Auto Focus ON Go to the Camera Menu Page 5 Face Detection Turn it ON
Face Auto Focus choose Face Priority
Back One page on page 4 on the Camera Menu
Choose AF Frame Size Large
To change Brightness ISO/Gain Click on the ISO/Gain on the side of the camera wait till you see the red scale on the display
Then use the Joystick on the LED display and move it up and down to adjust the level of light coming into the camera
You can also use the Joystick on the back of the camera and move it up and down to adjust the brightness level
Audio Settings on the side of the camera you can plug in XLR cables for external 2 Audio inputs Input 1 set on Analog Choose Mic +48 for a microphone that needs phantom power If a Mic has a power source like a battery choose Mic Mixer Board input would be Line Level
Input 2 Audio Settings on the side of the camera you can plug in XLR cables for external microphone inputs Input 1 set on Analog Choose Mic +48 for a microphone that needs phantom power If a Mic has a power source like a battery choose Mic Mixer Board input would be Line Level
Then click Menu again and look at the "Audio" page Joystick 3 tabs over on Page 1 Select Ch1/Ch2 Input here Good advice is to set channels 3/4 to the on camera microphone Manaural Mic
Good advice is to set channels 3/4 to the on camera microphone Manaural Mic
Finally Record Button press to record and to stop recording
If you want to look at the recorded data on the card Switch the Power button to Media
Here you will get Thumbnails of all the media Use the Joystick to toggle through the clips and press selected clip to play the clip