Jordan Westhoff
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I believe you are dealing with a more serious hardware issue here. I’ve run into the same problem with this line of cameras and similar hardware and it’s always either been the on camera firewire port (often) or a bum DataVideo unit (less often).
I’d investigate repairing one or both of these, fireWire can be a little rough sometimes.
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
Banding cause by fluorescent light is caused by the refresh rate (Hertz) of the lights interfering with the shutter speed (or theoretical refresh rate of the camera shutter) .
I’m not sure why the sky would do this, since the sky doesn’t (obviously) run off of electrical cycles like electric lights (like fluorescents would)
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
Are you editing on a Mac, or PC?
If you are editing on a Mac, I would transcode your assets to ProRes pre-import, edit and then export a ProRes file. Then compress to an MPEG or h.264 file for authoring or web upload. This should yield the best quality and better render times in addition.
Hope this helps!
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
Under normal usage conditions, you should have no problems with damaging the sensor.
Given that you don’t try to capture video for extended periods of time in extreme temperatures (greater than Canon designates as safe in your manual) and that you use Class 10 or equivalent SD/CF cards, you shouldn’t run into sensor damage.
Should you run into sensor problems, Canon should warranty your device because the damage is most likely inherent of a manufacturer defect.
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
What ProRes format are you using, or is it 422?
Also, look into some faster disk drives, I think your G-drive is slowing you down here.
(Computer has to load all of that date into RAM before it can play first.-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
I concur with Shane here.
It’s a real drag that Apple hasn’t made a plug-in for the C100 because the Log and Transfer process is so easy and provides great quality.
Use ClipWrap2 and set the format to a subset of ProRes422 (whatever you decide, based on bandwidth) but remember to keep your original footage assets for safekeeping. Happy logging and editing, I’m sure you have gorgeous footage from a system like the C100!
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
Most likely they are shooting a high frame rate with an abnormally high shutter speed. This removes any hint of motion blur which is quite startling to the human visual system, which interpets the lack of blur as “jaggy” or stuttery. If you saturate colors and sharpen, the effect will be amplified.
If you de-saturate and add film grain, voila! you have yourself a stereotypical war/combat movie film effect, as soon in Black Hawk Down, The Hurt Locker or Saving Private Ryan.
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
You do realize that these aren’t actually lenses, they are bolt on modifiers for lenses you currently have – ie. the glass you bought doesn’t really have any integrated optics.
If possible, I’d return these and maybe get a Canon 50mm like was also mentioned, or a similar Tamron. You want the highest quality you can from a single lens that will cover your bases, both close up and farther away. I’m assuming you’re on a tight budget, but if you are not, start looking at some Zeiss or Cooke glass, they will make pretty pretty images for your Ti.
Hope this helps!
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
Huge fan of the Zeiss 50mm or the 85mm full frame lenses. Unparalleled sharpness and clarity, also very very fast. Not sure what your budget is, but I’ve found 50 or 85 to be sufficient for shooting 95% of scenarios.
Happy Hunting, you’re going to love your 6D!
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015 -
I am a big fan of the 5DMark iii – although you’ve provided a tough set of choices since theses are all reputable full frame cameras (with the exception of the dinky GH3 sensor)
The Mark iii is a huge improvement over the Mark ii and it also has a lot of vital tools for when you dive into photography some more. My favorite features are the sensor bump and the reduced moire and aliasing additions – vital to the DSLR video crowd.
-Jordan Westhoff
Rochester Institute of Technology
BS Digital Cinema/Motion Picture Science 2015