[Errol Lazare]

Are you on Mac or PC?
You can get Dual Eyes which is a stand alone application which will sync the recording from your sound device and your canon 5d audio.

You will want to do some testing before relying on no audio output from the 5d. For example if their was a bad cable from your mixer to your 5D or a connectivity problem and there was a buzz. Would you know about it? You would probably find out about it unaware until you reach post.
For safety, keep the audio recorded on the external recorder. In addition to this you also have the backup audio on the 5D. It isn’t 100% perfect but it can save your ass. Any audio is better than no audio.

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

Yeah…
Also have you heard about PluralEyes which automatically analyzes the waveform and syncs an audio source to the scratch track of the cameras audio? Check it out.

You should also take a look at a bag or something for holding the gear.
I just bought a lowel pro inverse (69$) but you can swing it infront of you, change lenses and even put your zoom in there!
Whatever works right?

Cheers,

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

Perfect!

You are all set then because those are great frame rates! Very good.
This should have been my very first question… lol

Happy shooting,

Cheers,
Errol

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

What frame rates does the camera shoot at?
Errol

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

I remember being overwhelmed at the beginning with which cards to use.
I am finally happy with what i have:

I use the Sandisk 60mb/s extreme card and it has worked perfect for me. No camera buffering like I got on the cheaper card (buffering basically stopped my recording because the card couldn’t handle the info recorded)(kingston 133x cards)Not fun.

I use the 32gig verison of the Sandisk and even bought a sandisk FW800 CF card reader. It transfers 32gigs to my internal hard drive in 12-minutes. Definitely recommend it.

I bought everything at BHphotovideo.com

Did give you a little more insite?

Cheers,
Errol

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

Hey Tony,

What will you primarily be shooting?
This will be an important factor.

Just to give you an idea I shoot weddings and events and I found that a good wireless lav transmitter and receiver has been one of the best investments I have made. I use it all the time and found I was limited with only one set so I bought another one and can put wireless lavs on 2 people during a shoot.

That and a good audio recorder (zoom h4n) a good shotgun mic (sennheiser ME66) and definitely an important piece of metal: a few Y shaped mounting brackets that mounts into my cameras accessory shoes. It makes things easier to carry when you have all these accessories.

Cheers,

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

Hey Andrea,

You have 2 options I believe for using sound with the 5D.

Option 1:
Use an external recorder such as the Zoom H4N to record the audio. It has 2 XLR inputs and records to flash memory. This will need to be imported and synced with the video in your NLE software

Option 2: Buy a beachtek adapter or a juice link adapter which is basically a mini mixer for your camera. It can mount underneath the camera using the tripod screw and has a few XLR inputs that can be either set to Mic in or Line in I believe. The adapter can feed the audio into the 5D’s mini jack mic input.

If you are going to do option 2 I personally would recommend still using a zoom H4N recorder as a backup/secondary audio recorder as you never know what the audio quality will sound like going into the camera since you can really only monitor from the beachtek/juicelink adapter, not from the camera. Notice there is no headphone jack on the 5D.

There are 3rd party camera firm ware upgrades that do give you more options to hack your 5D but I have not installed these to mine.

Hope this helped.
Cheers,

Errrol

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

Tony,

I am trying to understand what you are really looking for in terms of all this.
Why do you want the video function on your still camera? Is it even important to you. What we are telling you is that video has 3 common and standard frame rates: 24fps, 30fps, and 60fps. When you watch television news the frame rate is 30fps when you watch movies the frame rate is 24fps. I don’t want to confuse you more with all this so I have a few questions:

1. Why do you want/care about video on your DSLR camera? Is it just for fun to use, or do you want to produce high quality movies.

2. What if your camera did not have a video function. Would it make much of a difference to you?

Now, if you don’t care much about making movies on your camera and are more just interested in taking pictures, stay with your nikon.

If you want to get more into the filmaking side of DSLR cameras and exploring different frame rates than get your hands on a Canon 7d or T2I camera because they shoot 18megapixesls and also shoot 24fps, 30fps and 60fps.

Did this all make sense?
Hope I could help

Cheers,

Errol

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

It most likely will. I tried a test where I very finely shook my hand and the image floated very nicely

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com

[Errol Lazare]

30fps and 60fps are standard video frame rates. Without them you pretty much don’t have video as that is the foundation which video displays each image (30 frames per second) 60fps can also be referred to as slow motion.

Errol

Errol X. Lazare
EXL Films
http://www.exlfilms.com