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Hello everyone! Is it possible to remap my VIDEO/MOVIE record button to a Pistol Grip button on my water housing?

Hi all, I'm a long time reader / first time poster with a quick question about autofocus for video on the A7rii. This topic is covered a lot online, and I'm clear on how to use AFC with video (currently on wide). It works pretty well. The only issue is, often when you're shooting, you can't really see what the camera is focusing on until you review the footage on a larger screen. Peaking works of course, but only in manual focus mode. Sometimes face tracking does what I am saying, by drawing a while box around a face. Obviously if I hold down the shutter, I get a green box on what is in focus, but of course it's impossible to shoot like this. So the issue is, all of these are useless if I'm on AFC in video mode, and there isn't a face in the shot. It would be great if there was a way to turn on peaking in AFC, or if there was some display (green/white boxes) that existed in this mode... Am I missing something somewhere in the settings? Thanks!

This might sound like a silly question, but is it possible to view movie previews as a simple (clear) image, instead of the blurry clip with the ugly film strip graphics on top? I’m shooting with an A7II. I film a lot of painting progress videos and it’s crucial that each shot matches the one before it exactly. With my old Nikon, the movie previews presented as a clear image so I could go back and forth and fine tune my camera position if it got bumped or anything. With my A7II, it’s hard to tell what the video even is, never mind making those kind of adjustments. Honestly, it’s enough of a concern that I may not be able to shoot with this camera after all. It looks so dorky anyways, haha.

I shoot video in very quiet venues where there is a public speaker or a very audience attentive performance. How do I disable the digital start/stop noise for movie recording??