[Johnny Wu]

Hi everyone, I took the time and compiled together a full page of references for you to read on if you are interested in assembling your own 3-Axis Brushless Gimbal, I decided to go with Came-7000 from Came-tv.com because their product is sturdy, their customer service is good, and I got the kit within 3 days. Even cinematographer Tom Antos feels this is the best within the price range (under $1k).

So if you plan to build your own gimbal, consider using this page as reference. https://www.mdifilm.com/2013/?p=1291

Enjoy!

[Johnny Wu]

Hi. We have shot with 5D3s in a studio environment similar to you. Director wanted to see it as well as client. For us. To make the cameras mobile, we used Lilliput 7″ monitors that has hdmi out on each camera. So the camera person can watch on the bigger monitor. And at each hdmi out. We connected to a hdmi wireless transmitter ($157) and sends the signal to the clients’ monitor.

At one less mobile environment. We just run 3 50′ long hdmi cables to the video village to three hdmi monitors with hdmi out. And use the wireless from each monitor to the clients monitors. Good thing is the wireless range in our scenario can send signals up to 40ft away.

So that worked for us.

[Johnny Wu]

I have canon 70d and editing on cs6 no problem. There isn’t any issue with it.

[Johnny Wu]

If not mistakes all dslr cameras are 4:2:0 unless it is specified.

[Johnny Wu]

I don’t you can. Been checking on that as well

[Johnny Wu]

Congrats in the interest in getting a camera. I just recently sold my hvx200 and went all dslr. Lol

And I shoot a lot of action and green screen films. 🙂 and some interviews for clients.

The reason I went with dslr is because I rather buy an equipment that is new now and easily being able to continue using for some time. And since hvx200 is now like $1000 compared to when I first got it in 2007.

I would suggest get something you can use for 5 years that can still be resale or being serviced then so you wouldn’t have a camera that gets broken and gets expensive to repair.

[Johnny Wu]

That’s not a bad idea. Depending on your internet speed, the syncing may take forever. I have done so for small projects and psd files.

[Johnny Wu]

Congratulations of getting in DSLR shooting

I know I’m a bit late on responding but I hope it helps.

many of Canon’s DSLR cameras recording format for SDCards is that it would stops about 12minutes due to the write format is FAT32 system, They did since recently, with firmware update (like t4i, 5d3, 6d, 70d, 7d, etc) you can record up to 30mins continuously (the file would be broken down to several 12mins long clips internally).

When synching up the audio with external devices, you will be able to sync it easily, and if you do the quick stop and record, you really don’t need to slate again since you can use the audio’s wave file to sync it up fairly quickly (I can do that faster than pluraleyes can do).

60D can only record up to 12mins and it will stop, so the stop and go would be useful, if you are using a sdcard that is faster than 40MB/s write speed, you should probably have like 5-10sec audio lost.

Best practice when I do video shoot with the 60d back then, was to stop interviews right about 11mins. for long events, 60d may not be a smart thing to do unless you have a separate camera or don’t care of the lost of 5-10 seconds during stop/record.

Lastly, you may want to keep in mind that when you sync the audio and video together with Canon’s DSLRs (most of them), you need to make sure to move the audio track two frames back so it will sync with the video 100% (trust me, even though your playback on your editing system may look synced, when you export, you will notice the differences when showing on big tv).

I believe that issue was ‘resolved’ with the 6d, 70d cameras. (I haven’t had to do the frame adjustment, but I do have to do that with 5D3).

Johnny

[Johnny Wu]

I have been using the Tascam DR-60D with canon 5d3 multi cam setup. It’s not gen locked but it’s easy to sync looking at the waves. I have used wireless mic and shotgun to tascam and line feed out to dslr mic in. Although the dslr now records a cleaner audio, it is not as good as the tascam’s. I have also tested the zoom h6. The tascan is sway getter to work with and -30db less noise.

[Johnny Wu]

5d3 is great but it may be overpriced if your goal is using the video functions more like music videos, commercials, etc. you can also consider the new canon 70d as it’s video capability is really great, compared to 5d3 though it will have a bit more moire issue yet the camera does well on low light as well. Video af is great. So your subject is always in focus.

A dslr is good for short run recordings (since it stops on 30mins) so a camcorder is good for event recordings and such. If price is an up issue, you can consider also the hvx200, a used one is about $900 now.

Johnny
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