[Bob Dix]

Hi Claus,
We have been using a 5D mark II for 18 months, the 24-70 F2.8 mm L seriies lens Ef Pro is too heavy and not image stablised.Great for stills. We have used a 28-135mm Image stabilised lens EF great for wide angle and you can get in far enough for travel stuff. If you do not use a tripod and no image stablization you will have movement problems. But, what stunning video and stills.

It has become a prime lens for us, we used to use 35-350mm it is just not needed.Run the 5d at 1/50 sec on PAL 25fps in video exposere mode and you cannot go wrong, But, you will need a stereo mike, we use a RODE X/Y Condensor other wise you will pick up IS noise etc.

Ps., You will need a i7 Quad Core 64 bit computer with Raid 0 plus approved video card , see Adobe for minimum requirements for editing H.264 mov files at 1920 x 1080p from this camera other wise you are going to have editing issues ??????????

You do not need a fast lens on this camera as the ISO setting can be set at automatic , and believe me you do not need additional lights to do fashion or art galleries, the result is broadcast quality.

As this camera runs at 38.5 MB/s you will need a SanDisk or equivalent CF card at 45-60MB/s UDMA for 1080P for smooth running.

Incidentally all the Canon Lens can be manually adjusted, I like you ,like the “old way’ of doing things like depth of field etc.But, setting the camera to Shutter Priority @ 1/50sec is the only way to go for smoothist video.https://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2326
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[Bob Dix]

Unlike you I have not take the leap into the unknown CS5, am still using PP1.5.1 for HDV and conversion in PE4 and it still works like a charm, Adobe should be able to sort this one out, because I have a new i7 64 bit Quad Core with the approved video card, I look with interest to see if they can work your problem out ?????????????????

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[Bob Dix]

Hi Michael,

I appreciate your information, we are basically still photographers with a foray into wedding some years ago with Panasonic 3ccd Standard Digital units , but, have always been involved with Canon 35mm and L series Lens Cameras and Hasselblad.
I have found the advance in digital technology in the past 10 years mind boggling.
I am sure you are enjoying the Canon XL H1 as I the Canon 5D mark II nearly the best of both worlds.Professional editing in this video area has been a steep learning curve.I am greying early .

Thanks for your time.

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[Bob Dix]

Hi Michael,

I appreciate your information, we are basically still photographers with a foray into wedding some years ago with Panasonic 3ccd Standard Digital units , but, have always been involved with Canon 35mm and L series Lens Cameras and Hasselblad.
I have found the advance in digital technology in the past 10 yaers mind boggling.
I am sure you are enjoying the Canon XL H1 as I the Canon 5D mark II nearly the best of both worlds.Professional editing in this video area has been a steep learning curve.I am greying early .

Thanks for your time.

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[Bob Dix]

Hi Michael,

That is interesting because Canon state that the tapes recorded in HDV standard with the Canon LX H1,XH G1 or XH A1 can be played back on their HV20/30/40 and when played back on a Full HD Video Monitor the result is impressive in fact equivalent to blu ray or may be on a good day shooting better ? Even the output from a Canon 5D mark II at 1920 x 1080p to a HV40 reduced to 1440 x 1080i looks pretty good, via Premiere Pro.
The XLH 1 as a camera is lens superior etc in many ways, but, the HV40 does a very good job as a VTR

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[Bob Dix]

You are right, not”sexy”

Thanks,

Bob

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[Bob Dix]

Check out version comparisons, they do not cost much

https://www.adobe.com/ap/products/premiereel/upgrade/

As I said I am still using 4 only for transcoding

Regards, Bob

My son runs a company Markad doing roughly what you do? Separate from his art company https://www.stevendix.com/2009/index.php/
The weird stuff out of Hong Kong was shot on a Canon 5D mark II using Canon’s Fish -Eye lens Ie., in You-Tube clip.

I do a lot of his art event stills and video in Australia but, he does all overseas.

He uses Final Cut Pro, but has had rendering problems with H.264 in it, and now uses iMovie which is amateur version to better effect, but, does not do blu-ray, incidentally a DVD Standard Digital 576i burnt from a High definition timeline in Premiere Pro can look pretty good ?

Der australische Kuenstler, I do not know where he got his German from ?

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[Bob Dix]

Peter,

You will have snow for XMAS I believe.We have deep fog on top of the mountain here.

If you have CS3 still , I would imagine you will have no problems ?

Bob

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[Bob Dix]

Hi Peter,
I only use Premiere Elements 4 for this as it is so simple.

1. The completed edited timeline from Premiere Pro (saved) is Imported into Premiere Elements 4 ” as is Avi “(1440 x 1080i)Anamorphic not 1920 x 1080i as I use the Cineform Codec for HDV in Premiere Pro 1.5.1 or the Saved m2t file Ex Export to Tape from PP.

2. Imported on to the timeline in PE4 >SHARE> A window will open, either DVD or Blu-RAY. WHICH HAS 2 SETTINGS EITHER a H.264 OR MPEG-2.
Now using H.264 will give the same quality as mpeg-2 but, will compress the size so that more can be saved on say a 25GB BD-R TDK Disc. I think you could drop 60 minutes at least onto the disc, one project was 35 minutes the other 55 minutes. The cost per disc TDK Single Layer is about 7 EURO. The cost of going to tape on a SonyDigital MASTER HDV/DVCAM PHDVM-63DM is about 25 EURO.

Click allow to fit to disk with mpeg-2 will probably take about 51 minutes for a 25 minute production. However, h.264 @ same size may take 3 hours (not fit to disc)? Unless I activated the wrong command. Both, looked identical in quality. We have produced 5 mpeg-2/HDV this way (no issues)as we mainly go to Tape. This was for archiving purposes. When we go to CS5 we will use ENCORE.

I believe in CS5 Premiere Pro you must use ENCORE ?

I don’t know if you have noticed , but,all the Adobe programs speak to each other, if you change something in Photoshop, it changes the colour , brightness etc and visa versa in Premiere. And the codecs are easily read between Premiere Elements and Premiere Pro ?

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[Bob Dix]

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/280/568

Have a look at that ?

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