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My bad. It’s the C100 that shoots to h.264. So you spend $5,000 on a body that shoots to a delivery format.
[Ryan Holmes] “The push towards RAW and 4K seems very analogous to run towards HD a decade ago. Most in our industry were clamoring for more and more resolution, but having the whole pipeline in place to handle HD took years and years to arrive.”
I’m not sure that is a great analogy. Sure 1080p “Full HD” (a term that I hate, btw) seemed gimmicky at first, but before long it became the standard. 4k will surely be the same. I agree that it will probably be several years before the average user has a 4K TV, but nonetheless shooting 4K has 2 significant advantages, one being that you can shoot wide and have plenty of room to reframe in post, and another being that 4K footage downressed has higher level of detail than footage shot 1080p. Even if these advantages are slight, the fact is that competing companies are providing them to their consumers at low prices, whereas Canon is only doing so at much higher prices.
[Ryan Holmes] “I would put a caveat on this and define the term “better.” Better in terms of dynamic range, compression, artifacting, and moire. ML is not better in terms of stability, ease of workflow, storage, heat issues, etc. I love my 5D3 with ML, but there are situations where it’s not going to perform well because of other considerations – heat, storage, workflow, etc.”
Really? These are issues with RAW, but that can be easily switched off with ML. Otherwise ML is rock solid, easier workflow than built-in firmware (at least as far as on set goes), no additional storage or heat. You can’t possibly argue that the default firmware is in any way better than ML.
I do agree with you that the 7Dii is meant for photography, I guess my point is that Canon had a huge edge on the video market, and to me it’s a shame they are letting it go
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As Bill said, Magic Lantern will auto-restart but you will still lose some frames. Having said that, ML is still an amazing firmware and I highly recommend you install it.
The Canon 6D can record ~30 minutes continuously (perhaps more, not exactly sure as I myself have never pushed it beyond ~23 minutes.) It will break it into a few different clips, but not a single frame will be dropped between them
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Photos might be another discussion, but for video absolutely. Canon was once the revolutionary force in low-budget, high quality video cameras for people entering the field. Now after all these years they have essentially not improved at all. Now you can spend $12,000 on a C300 which still shoots h.264, or $10,000 for a 1DC, or just switch from Canon and spend significantly less on cameras that shoot 4K, RAW, and higher frame rates, with focus peaking, zebras, and other features. The most astounding thing about Canon DSLRS is Magic Lantern, here we have a group of hackers who in their spare time create better firmware than this multi-billion dollar company! If it weren’t for them making Canon DSLRs actually usable Canon would have already lost it’s corner on the market years ago. It’s amazing to me how badly they are falling behind.
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Few things. First off, the inner workings of Canon DSLRs are such that they produce much LESS noise at ISOs that are multiples of 160. They produce much MORE noise at ISOs that are multiples of 125. So keep that in mind as you shoot. You also need to keep in mind that they shoot highly compressed, 8-bit h.264 footage. There is not much color information there so the more grading you do the more you will see noise and compression artifacts. It’s important to try and get as close as you can to the final look that you want while you’re shooting, so that you don’t need to grade too much.
As for grading and effects, a better workflow would probably be to do your grading in Premiere, and effects on a clip by clip basis in AE (if possible). AE does not not do a very good job at all with h.264 compression, so it is best to render your AE work out as lossless animation, then import it into your Premiere timeline
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Just saw this in a Google search and I realize I might be late to the party, but I see that people seem to be missing the point of your question. I am currently exploring the option of shooting everything in 60p and still getting a real time 24p look if I want it. From what I can see it doesn’t really work, and while Premiere (or probably any NLE) can drop the extra frames to *sort of* give it a 24p look, it ultimately has a sort of jittery feel and isn’t quite as filmic as actually shooting in 24p. So if it’s not too late, my recommendation is to switch back and forth on the day of the shoot.
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I don’t see how it would make any difference whatsoever. The only benefit would be the one mentioned above, where the video is immediately recorded to the edit-friendly ProRes on the spot vs having to take the time in post to convert it if that is your normal workflow.
As far the image quality, 8-bit vs 10-bit etc it will make no difference. Just wrapping it in a 10-bit codec doesn’t add any information that wasn’t there previously. It’s like if you were to shoot 1080p video, then export it as 4k from your NLE. The computer may say it is 4k, but it is completely different from video shot in 4k.
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Prelude is available in CS6. So you could purchase it and own it, although I’m not sure what the price is
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Hahaha.
Well whatever you want to call it there is this culture surrounding Apple that drives me crazy, and it seems to me that it is exactly the culture they want to generate. However, it is encouraging to read that the new CEO is planning on taking things in a more transparent direction. I was unaware of that until today, as I don’t exactly spend a lot of my free time reading details about the company
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Personally I hate Apple and it’s PR. Don’t get me wrong, OSX is great along with many other Apple products, but the fanboyism that is displayed for this company is ridiculous. The sense of allegiance, pride, elitism, awe, wonder that people get from looking at a man on stage talking about a cell phone with 2 new features is a bit over the top, and it’s mostly generated by the PR department and their ridiculously gated and self-worshiping promo events. Bleh
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I’ve seen a few impressive shots with Twixtor. You are definitely right though, nothing is like the real thing. I was merely suggesting an option for < $20k 🙂