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Video problems with 5D mark 2
When I did some test shoots I noticed some stuttering in the video and was wondering if anyone else has come across this. I had it on a tripod and did a slow pan and the video stutters really bad… almost like when you play back a video in QT and your computer doesn’t have enough RAM to play it back (which is not the case because I checked it out in FCP, even did different conversions to ProRes to check it out).
The memory card should be fast enough and it was freshly formatted.
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[ryan loetscher] “The memory card should be fast enough and it was freshly formatted.”
if you are asking for help why not give useful info, type and speed of the card.Does it go from smooth to jump every now and then or is it choppy throughout the pan? What frame rate are you using?
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I’m using the 30p setting and I would say its not consistent. Its throughout the pan, but I would say its sporadic, not like if I put 24 into a 30 timeline if that’s what you were thinking. To me it definitely looks like a write speed issue, but I was assured my card was fast enough (of course I don’t have it on me at the moment).
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I noticed this sporadic shutter on my T2i the other day. I thinking I’m wrong about my class 4 being okay (I know they are below spec) in my last time it was really hot outside, close to 100 degrees. I’m getting Transcend cards at Class 6 now.
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>>if you are asking for help why not give useful info, type and speed of the card.
Norman Willis
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Because if you read my post, I didn’t have my card with me at the time. I was at work without my camera… however, I totally forgot to grab the card again! I’ll make sure to reply to this tonight with the card speed… I actually don’t know anything about the requirements of the cards.
Michael, let me know what you find out.
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>>To me it definitely looks like a write speed issue, but I was assured my card was fast enough (of course I don’t have it on me at the moment).
The different classes of cards refer to the different write speeds, which is why Michael was asking about what class of card you were using.
Please understand that if I don’t write smiley faces all over the place, the fact that I am responding means I am trying to be helpful.
Norman Willis
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Canon recommends Class 6 cards for my HF S10 (in AVCHD), with 24/25 MBps. I believe the T2i records something like half again as much data as that.
On the Canon Cameras forum I was told that the T2i needs Class 10 cards, and B&H recommends Class 10 cards for the T2i. However, the fact that Michael has had good success with Class 4 up until now might indicate that perhaps you can get by with Class 6 cards…or perhaps not.
If it was me I would get Class 10 Transcend. But maybe that’s just me. You can do however you like 🙂
Norman Willis
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Thank you for the help. I really do appreciate it. I’ll check the cards when I get home in a couple of hours. A Canon rep visiting the store where I bought it picked out the card for me, so I’d like to think he knew what he was doing… but it seems for the sake of my issues I should hope he didn’t. That would be a much easier fix!
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Ideally card should have a min speed of 38.5mbps ( this what the camera writes at) or more say Sandisk Extreme IV. However, if you have an Image Stablized lens on the 5D , turn off the IS when on a tripod. Always pan smoothly, according to Canon Australia the Canon 70-200 mm is the only lens with a horizontal stablizer and you may have some movement of the pixels in panning. We now use a 28-135mm Canon IS lens for all 1920 x 1080 Pal @25fps video and have just come back from Tibet and China with broadcast quality video out of Premier Pro editing to pro tape. We find the L Series Pro lens are too heavy to hand hold, in any case the stabilizer in Premiere will fix any slight movement.
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Well I think I might be wearing the dunce cap… it might actually have something to do with my computer. My cards are definitely fast enough. Delkin CompactFlash PRO, 45mb – 63mb/sec. But I was testing some HDV footage and was seeing the same thing. I think my processor’s just not keeping up with the footage or something. If its not one thing its another!
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