Steve Crow
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You should really check out the videos done by StillMotion and in particular their instructional videos showing how they shoot weddings with DSLRs.
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stillmotion’s guide to lenses for weddings and events // a cinema caravan tutorial from stillmotion on Vimeo.
The 85mm on a T2i is much to “zoomed in” for every shot you will need- you will have to be in the next room to get anything. A wedding video is a lot more than just filming the ceremony where indeed you may be filming from quite a distance.
Also you will need at least 5 16GB cards for each of the two main cameras I would think
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Are you shooting using a “flat” picture profile setting? Those are designed to give you maximum latitude for color correction and is what most of the pros are using (not all, not all). If you have no idea what I am talking about look up in this forum or on the Google for Philip Bloom Picture Profile settings or simply flat picture profile.
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thanks for the update Rob!
For me, I’mw waiting to see what Canon announces for the 5DMIII and their new “Cinema Cam” which is supposed to be like a baby brother (or sister) to the C300.
For me, a camera in the price range of a 5DMII that has full audio capabilities, reduced rolling shutter, two storage card slots and that eliminates the over heating problem would be just about the ticket. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few dream specs but you get the idea. The CS300, while nice and everything, is just too darn expensive – it’s going to be awhile before they come down to $1-2K price range, (5-6 years???)
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I would think he/she probably last formatted the cards in a different Canon camera – they could still be written to but not imported as normal – that’s an educated guess. Try simply renaming that folder to what you expect and try it again.
Otherwise you can just use Mpeg Streamclip or similar to convert all the clips to to ProRes and then import those files manually.
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Well I know a few of the very latest DSLRs, like the NIkon D4, let you capture uncompressed video ouf of the HDMI port but I don’t know any format details. For that camera in particular there was some early concerns that you couldn’t be recording the signal to the storage cards at the same time you were getting the signal out of the HDMI port, I don’t know if that issue? was resolved or not.
Oh another issue was that not only did you get the video out of the HDMI but also all the overlayed menus that you would seen on your LCD screen which is not useful. I seem to recall that now there are cameras that don’t do that anymore.
Do a search on Google for DSLR and HDMI out and see what you get.
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I know it’s been awhile since you posted this but do you happen to have additional pictures showing more of the overall rig? The closeups are great but it looks like you are also using some kind of rail-based setup and I was wondering if you could share how that was working for you and what you put together for yourself for that part of the setup.
Thanks!
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HD-DSLR Video Production Rig from Steve Crow on Vimeo.
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Yeah what Phil said, that’s what I use. I have a video on my blog showing the rig which holds two wireless lavs, a Zoom H4N, Rode Video Mic (in hot shoe) – it’s not super fancy or anything but it works okay for me. The rail-based systems look very nice but too pricy for me right now.
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Check out KEH.com for used wide angle lenses (primes) – look at 2nd Tier brands like Sigma and Tamron – something in the 24mm range would be nice for you. Since you are not so much into the shallow depth of field thing – you should be okay with slightly “slower” lenses say in the 2.8 to 4 something range.
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You know those football game highlight films made by “NFL Films”? from the 70’s mostly? Those were great, I’m not a sports fan (big surprise, huh!) but I loved those films – they always shot on film and looked just great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myO07RZAN8g
Today I know they’ve hired well known DSLR shooters to create content from them. I heard on a podcast StillMotion did work for the NFL on the draft and I THINK they also did some stuff along the lines of the old NFL Films stuff too,
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