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Thanks a lot for sharing! Absolutely great!
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[Steve Crow] “I don’t think so, the video is still being compressed into the AVCHD format in either case. You could try raising the bit rate (if possible) that should do more to improve the overall quality of the clips you are capturing.”
Maybe I misunderstood, but as I got the question, the bitrate is fixed but you can change the framesize.
Since 720p has just about half the information than 1080p (if I calculated correctly) and if you’re compressing with the same bitrate, framerate and codec, IMHO the resulting clips will almost certainly have better quality.
The question is though – just like you wrote Steve – if it is perceivable.
But even if not perceivable by eye, I’d almost bet that in post you’ll have more “room” to play with 720p clips of 24mbps than with 1080p clips of 24mbps.
One uncertain factor for me is: Does the camcorder record with cbr or vbr, meaning: are these 24mbps the maximum limit or does it use the full bandwith no matter which framesize.
But Alan, just as Steve wrote, do a little testing. Record some clips under difficult conditions like low-light, fast movement and a lot of details, like “moving leaves on a tree at dawn” 😉 something like that and than compare.
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Dynamic Link, as Dave recommended, is a great way to not lose any picture information, so that’s what I’d suggest too.
One neat little trick for keying highly compressed material I frequently use (read it in Stu Maschwitz’ fantastic book “The DV Rebels Guide”) is as follows:
– Apply an adjustment layer with the Median filter (radius of about 2-4) in AE above all the footage. Then set the transfer mode of the adjustment layer to color to get rid of the color compression artifacts on the edges. Precomp the layers and apply Keylight to that PreComp.
Will give you much better keys.
Just my two cents.
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Just use the same settings for both cameras. With similar lenses you won’t notice much of a difference. Shouldn’t be an issue. The 7D has a bit less noise when using higher ISOs. But other than that, the picture should be almost identical.
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Glad I helped! Checked the thread in the german forum, an indeed, as Sareesh wrote, there seems to be no way (yet) to extend recording time on the Canons…
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Glad I helped a bit!
All the best!
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[Steve Crow] “My understanding is that the limit is BOTH a file size limit AND a time limit but it would be worth the research to get a definitive answer to that”
Yes it’s both. The file-size restriction is because of the FAT32 file-sytem of the card, the 29:59 min. restricion has somehow to do with taxes AFAIK and it’s built-in.
I read a discussion on a german DSLR forum some time ago about formatting the card in a different way (can’t remember how) to break that 4GB limit. Don’t have the link handy so I can’t look it up right now, but as far as I can remember, the conclusion was, that neither of those limits can be broken… even when not using FAT32
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Agree with John. Shooting interviews with any Canon VDSLR as an A cam is not the perfect solution.
Even when using Magic Lantern (which is AFAIK available for all Canons other than the 7D) to automatically start a new clip when reaching the 12min. limit, you’ll still won’t get seamless video and audio for it skips a second or so when starting the new clip.——————————————
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Using ML on my 550D for quite a time now. No real problems. With earlier versions the camera sometimes “froze”. Even switching the camera off didn’t work. Had to remove the batteries, wait a couple of seconds and restart. Since the December 2011 version, ML is stable on my cam.
What ML does: It eats batteries (can confirm that) and it is said to allow overheating faster (never had that problem).
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[Rafael Amador] “I hope you had a nice one 🙂
Congratulations.
rafael”Good friends, a couple of beers and many laughs. Was a good start in a new year! Thank you, Rafael!
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