Overview

Almost all modern digital cameras (including the Panasonic GH5) allow you to customize your camera's settings and save them to a file. The advantage of doing so is that you can restore these exact settings at any point in the future. There are a number of reasons why your camera's settings may have changed on you: its internal battery died, you changed settings and can't remember which ones, the student before you changed everything and you're lost (oh no! but fear not).

• What you'll need
• How to copy settings from web to GH5 camera
• How to load settings to GH5 camera
• Troubleshooting/Common Problems

What you'll need

• Computer (laptop or desktop)
• USB-A to USB-C adapter
• SD card

Copy settings from web to SD card

The IMC maintains online versions of recommended camera settings used in Comm Arts classes (in UW Box). To access the settings for the GH5, follow these steps:

1. Insert an SD card into the computer's SD slot or an attached SD Card reader.
2. Move all folders and files on SD card into the trash bin and **empty the trash bin** (not emptying the trash will cause the process to fail).

1. Open the UW Box folder containing the settings for the various camera models and select the folder titled "Canon XF400". 

1. Download the folder entitled "AD_LUMIX" and copy it directly into the root directory of the SD card.

• Safely eject the SD card from the computer.

• Unplug the GH5 camera from the computer.

Load settings from SD card to GH5 camera

• With the GH5 camera powered on, press the "Menu/Set" button.

• Navigate using the camera dials to the Wrench icon (without the "C" superimposed).

• Scroll down and select "Save/Restore Camera Settings."
• Select "Load".

• Select "COMMARTS" or for 355 select "CA4K"

The settings should now be set. It may return you to a black screen—to get back to main display, press "DISP" button.

The SD card must be inserted into Slot 1 in the camera, otherwise the Save/Restore Camera Setting option cannot be selected and the following message will show.

Troubleshooting/Common Problems

• I put camera settings on card, but I do not see "COMMARTS" when I go to load them onto the GH5 camera.
  It is likely that you failed to put the "AD_LUMIX" folder into the root directory of the SD card. Reconnect the GH5 camera to the computer, and click on LUMIX when it appears on the Desktop. If you do not see "AD_LUMIX" when the SD card folder pops up, you know you have failed to put the settings in the proper place.
• The text on my camera is showing up in a different language. How do I change it back to English (or my preferred language)? If the text on your camera isn't in your preferred language, you can change the language back by following certain symbols. Open the menu by pressing the menu button on the right side of the camera. Next, select the "wrench" symbol, and scroll until you see a symbol of a face and a speech bubble with three dots. Upon selecting this menu option, you will see a list of languages from which you can choose your preferred language.
  
• When I put the XLR audio adapter, no sounds come out. When the switch is turned to "1-1" (which mixes channel 1 and 2). input 2 is disabled. So, if you put the mic in input 2 there will be no sound. To resolve this only put the XLR cable in input 1, because input 2 will have no audio.