Pete Burger
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Maybe want to take a look at these:
https://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/DSLR-Aperture/1
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Had to do a couple of bluescreen and greenscreen keying-jobs shot on DSLRs. It it possible, but I wouldn’t call DSLRs “well suited” for keying…
Light your screen as evenly as possible, give your talent a rim-light and maybe do a bit of noise reduction on your material before keying…
But as Richard wrote, this heavily compressed material it can be quite a pain to pull good keys.
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[Rich Rubasch] “But the 7D is a “dumbed down” HD output while recording, is what I have heard…true?”
Heard that also from a friend of mine who owns a 7D… not 100% shure though. The HDMI-output contains all of the screen-information, so no clean feed…
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[Victor Nguyen] ” actually can you go into detail why the focus is so bad?”
Well, you can’t relly grab the focus ring, that’s a big problem. Also the lens itself is made completely out of plastic. Feels like a toy – if I might say so. Don’t get me wrong: I like the 1.8 II, but if you have the money, get the 1.4. It’s better built and more ergonomic (and faster).
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The 50 1.8 II is a great lens for an unbelieveable price, but the focus-ring is a bad joke… If you can afford it, get the 1.4 – faster and better overall quality.
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[Victor Nguyen] “is it okay to install technicolor when I already have magic lantern on there?”
The picture styles you install won’t interfere with Magic Lantern. No problems with that.
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The only thing you’re doing wrong is to shoot with a slow lens. Shooting f4.5 and because of that having to push ISO so extremely high will inevitably lead to much grain.
Get a faster lens and try to avoid ISOs higher than 800 with the T2i.
Since you’re using ML you can use ISOs with multiples of 160 (160, 320, 480, 640, … ) which produce less noise than the “even” ones.
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Well, grain doesn’t have anything to do with the speed of your memory card.
Grain comes from too high or “wrong” ISO settings. On all Canon DSLRs (or at least all Canon DSLRs, I worked with), ISOs with multiples of 160 (160, 320, 480, 640, …) produces the least noise.
Also try to avoid the 720p mode whenever possible. Moiré and aliasing are much higher than in 1080p mode.
And never shoot auto. You never know what your camera does in auto-mode.
You should be fine with class 10 cards, but sometimes – if you don’t use quality cards – they are not fast enough. I had class 4 cards that could handle recording and I had class 10 cards that stopped under certain circumstances… Class 6 cards are recommended by Canon, so maybe try a different card. SanDisk have a good reputation.
A last thing: Since I don’t see any weird things happening in the example you posted, I guess that maybe you don’t work on a calibrated monitor.
I had the stangest issues with noise and artifacts on a new flatscreen at home until I recognised, it wasn’t set up properly. Sometimes you “see” the compression when the monitor shows things that aren’t meant to be seen 😉hth
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I’m using ML with my T2i quite a time now and I love it. Don’t want to miss it anymore. Too many useful features! 🙂
Problems? Well not every version is stable on every camera but if the camera hangs, immediately take out the batteries, format the card, make it bootable again and put a stable version on it (maybe you have to try an older version…)
What I read is, to never use a card with a bootflag but without ML on it. This might actually damage the camera.
But if you follow the instructions IHMO there’s only a very limited risk in using Magic Lantern.
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Like Noah wrote: You’ll have to transcode. Even with CS4 you’ll hardly be able to work with the native files. Native editing is possible since CS5 and since CS5.5 it’s working pretty flawlessly.
I’m still working on CS3 on my own computer for a couple of years now and with transcoded clips I haven’t run into trouble.
Just do a testrun. Transcode some clips with MPEGStreamclip or 5DtoRGB and import them to your NLE. Recommended codecs are Cineform and Avid DNxHD:
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“Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.” – Buster Keaton