[Uli Plank]

Give the 30-days trial of Premiere Pro a try.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Use Apple’s Disk Utility to save an image from the card and later mount that, the viewer will see it just like a card. Good way to write your backups anyway.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Better shoot HD and scale down.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Another solution that doubles for film and photography would be the Panny GH2 – especially now that it was hacked by Vasilij Kiselev.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

You need to test data rates on high detail / high contrast / high motion imagery to see the differences.

Try full screen leaves against the sky in the wind or rippling water in backlight with lots of reflections.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Same with Premiere Pro: always go through Media-Browser.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

You can shoot slo-mo in camera – but not beyond 2:1 in Europe.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Sorry, but the 5D doesn’t have a cinematic look – it goes considerably beyond that with it’s 35mm photographic sensor. Have a look at this: https://vimeo.com/18104656

The FS100 has a S-35 cinema sensor – exactly the size of a 35mm frame as presented in theaters all over the world with the same DOF characteristics.

If you like to constantly fight with focus, a crappy LCD, aliasing, moiré and a poor audio section, get a 5D. (If you want to shoot excellent photos, get a 5D too)

But if you want to make films, get the FS100 if you can’t afford the F3!

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

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[Uli Plank]

Sorry, but you need to test ANY camera before doing that! And the manual gives a warning, BTW.

Even the FS100 has crappy slo-mo if you try the factor 4 version, because it samples fewer pixels and interpolates them. The only cameras (other than specialized slo-mo cameras like Phantom or Weisscam) doing it well is the RED One or EPIC. Due to it’s higher resolution sensor it can afford to sample a smaller window in the center to get higher frame rates. Even that camera will look softer at 2K, but far better than the two NEX cameras.

You can use 50p or 60p in full resolution in the Sonys, though, and slow it down to 24p or 25p with tools like Apples Cinema Tools. Very good quality, but maximum factor 2.4.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Uli Plank]

Not really. There is TC out on the HDMI (AFAIK an industry’s first), but I haven’t seen a splitter for it yet. I’m curious myself how to use it. In this respect the AF10X from Panny is better…

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts