Ryan Loetscher
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It depends on what you’re talking about… if your in the information business (I guess we can label TMZ that), like news, anything easy, quick and hand held will be king… my old station has basically switched to reporters with flip cams in the field. A reporter could never use one of these cameras.
Now as for in the field… I have to agree its all about the image. I’ll suffer for my art… and we’re not talking about a lot of suffering here. Everybody today is so spoiled… The film days were not that long ago. Don’t you remember what that was like?? Now we can achieve that quality at a way cheaper cost, and its STILL more convenient. Its not that bad pulling focus, and I always use external audio anyway. The only thing I wish I could fix at the moment (a DSLR/Camcorder hybrid would obviously be all around better of course), is the codec. That does affect quality.
We’ll have the crossover platform soon enough… in the meantime this is awesome! And I’m very happy with my camera. I kinda like having the bonus of a professional grade still camera as well. I’ve used that more than the video all of a sudden!
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I tried shooting with a fresh memory card today and it worked fine… I didn’t think it was that full, guess it was. Don’t I feel sheepish.
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Sorry that took a bit, been sick… so it is a Delkin 16GB CompactFlash PRO. Not seeing the speed on there (of course I dont have the packaging any more)… but a canon rep picked it out for me… I just asked him to give me the best one for video at a decent price. He seemed to think it was great for video.
The card wasn’t nearly full when it was happening, as I remember it happened fairly early on. I’ll just have to keep checking it I guess.
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Does anyone know what the price will be on this panny? I just bought the 5D and (not having much budget ever), I’m super terrified that I’m gonna turn around in a few months and there’s going to be true camcorders on the market with the same sensors at around the same price and I’ll be like… damn! Should’ve waited!
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Dude, I have the lens and its awesome. For video you don’t need a faster lens… even at f/4, on the 5D you are going to get far and away better low light performance than any video camera you could buy. Though I’m not going to say its not beneficial! I bought some faster primes for those situations that I needed to shoot in either less light or get shallower depth.
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A Canon rep told me that the camera cant support that codec.
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Definitely agree! I’m like, come on canon! You’ve taken the first step, now get that chip and those lenses on you XL bodies! It be f-ing amazing to have the weight, shoulder mount, controls, jack pack, better audio and all those goodies that come with cameras meant to shoot video.
For me, if you made a list of positives and negatives chart for DSLR’s, there would be way more checks in the negatives than positives… but that image crushes them all! Its all about image quality in the end. If you just take some time to figure out a system that works for you, there’s not comparison.
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What all are you considering when you say “equipment needed to shoot decent video” on the 7D? I just got the 5D for full time video! Unless you’re doing “run and gun” hand held video, the 7D will be better out of the box than any camera you could rent up to the Red One…. (my opinion anyway).
Pros: The depth of field, low light performance, quality of image and both focal lengths (both wide and long) cannot be matched by any camcorder you would rent. Far and away better.
Cons: Difficult to shoot hand held well. Even with an IS lens if you move around a lot it will shake with out a steady cam unit. Pulling focus takes some practice… but is doable (depending on how shallow you’re going to be). You’ll have to take audio separately if you want professional audio. The on cam mic is basically reference audio and picks up a lot of internal camera noise and the camera only allows for a mini jack for audio, which is rubbish for true pro audio… (however in most pro environments I would be taking audio separately anyway, you’ll just have to match it in post rather than connecting it in cam via xlr connections.) The codec can be difficult to work with unless you have CS5, but you can download something as simple as mpeg stream clip for free to convert the video to something more workable.
In my opinion, since you already have the 7D and know how to work the camera and are comfortable with lens (and have a wide array), you will get far and away much better quality without spending money on a lesser camera. Instead of renting a camcorder, use that money on the right audio setup for what you’re doing, and just use a tripod (or you can even build a stead cam by using a mono pod type contraption with weight on the bottom, indy guys do it all the time.)
Indy filmmakers left and right are dumping their expensive video setups to switch TO the DSLR’s.
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I found an explanation of what it is… its interlaced footage where both fields are shot at the same moment in time. So its basically progressive. Why the hell they cant just then make it true progressive, or even what the difference is beats me. I guess it looks the same.
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Quick update. I got the quick clusters to work as far as the activity monitor is concerned, but the export continues to get slower! For some reason it let me do 16 cores… activity monitor was lit up to 100%, but the export was 2-3 hours. Utilizing 8 cores it utilized 50% and took about 30min. Using 1 core it utilizes 15% and takes 20min… WTF!