Posts tagged HDSLR

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Posted 2 months ago

Philip Bloom’s review of the new Canon 5D Mark III.

I see a constant flow of new gear streaming past me. Hacked gear - using things for a purpose for which they were not intended - is all a matter of tradeoffs. Each new bit of kit seems to do what Magic Lantern and a 600D does - but for more money and new tradeoffs.

The Mark III seems qualitatively different.

Nevertheless, I don’t like the idea of shooting without Magic Lantern. I’ve come to rely on a waveform monitor, and focus assist, and being able to zoom in on the image to focus while recording, and normal video white balancing, and Cinemascope crop marks in camera, and so on.

(Source: vimeo.com)

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Posted 2 months ago
The Canon EOS 5D Mark III was finally released. It’s much more beautiful unpainted. Filmmakers are becoming spoilt for choice. It’s still a world of compromises, but the choices are more nuanced. Zoom

The Canon EOS 5D Mark III was finally released. It’s much more beautiful unpainted. Filmmakers are becoming spoilt for choice. It’s still a world of compromises, but the choices are more nuanced.

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Posted 4 months ago

Magic Lantern firmware for Canon HDSLR cameras has a new feature: High Dynamic Range imaging in motion. Since HDR always involves multiple exposures, it’s of limited value for shooting moving subjects. This will change when cameras can shoot 50 frames per second at 1080p. Most currently only record this fast at 720p.

(Source: vimeo.com)

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Posted 10 months ago

Five shots in this movie trailer for the new George Lucas movie were shot on Canon HDSLRs. Identify the shots and win amazing prizes (like omniscience)!

(The point is no one can tell except the person who shot them, and even then it’s a matter of memory.)

(Source: youtube.com)

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Posted 10 months ago

Excellent monopod tips from StillMotion.

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Posted 10 months ago
FCPX is almost unusable for me now. It reminds me so much of Motion, it’s uncanny. It eats all my RAM, leaving 15MB free. It beach balls all the time. It crashes constantly. A mistaken click can cost 30 seconds of patient waiting. I restart often. I’ve ordered 8GB of RAM. FCPX is dying on an iMac 2.93Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM working on ProRes proxy files (960x540). Switching from H.264 HDSLR footage to ProRes proxy doesn’t seem to make much difference, despite being 1/4 of the size. Perhaps the problem has just gotten progressively worse. (It’s been beach balling since I began typing.) Zoom

FCPX is almost unusable for me now. It reminds me so much of Motion, it’s uncanny. It eats all my RAM, leaving 15MB free. It beach balls all the time. It crashes constantly. A mistaken click can cost 30 seconds of patient waiting. I restart often. I’ve ordered 8GB of RAM.

FCPX is dying on an iMac 2.93Ghz Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM working on ProRes proxy files (960x540). Switching from H.264 HDSLR footage to ProRes proxy doesn’t seem to make much difference, despite being 1/4 of the size. Perhaps the problem has just gotten progressively worse.

(It’s been beach balling since I began typing.)

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Posted 11 months ago

A good carry around lens, Sigma 17-50mm f2.8

(Source: youtu.be)

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Posted 11 months ago

Q&A with Larry Jordan on Final Cut Pro X, London Supermeet - Part 6

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Posted 11 months ago

Q&A with Larry Jordan on Final Cut Pro X, London Supermeet - Part 5

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Posted 11 months ago

Larry Jordan on Final Cut Pro X, London Supermeet - Part 3

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Posted 11 months ago

Larry Jordan on Final Cut Pro X, London Supermeet - Part 2

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Posted 11 months ago

Q&A with Larry Jordan on Final Cut Pro X, London Supermeet - Part 4

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Posted 11 months ago

Larry Jordan on Final Cut Pro X, London Supermeet - Part 1

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Posted 11 months ago
FCPX | H.264 HDSLR footage plays fine on a middle aged iMac! It consumes much of the CPU when playing, which then drops to zero when you hit Pause. But the footage plays fine, despite simultaneously downloading and installing 2GB of updates, using the web, etc. No apparent dropped frames. It plays back better than in QuickTime player. Even scrubbing seems to work OK. iMac 2.93Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GT 130 Zoom

FCPX | H.264 HDSLR footage plays fine on a middle aged iMac!

It consumes much of the CPU when playing, which then drops to zero when you hit Pause.

But the footage plays fine, despite simultaneously downloading and installing 2GB of updates, using the web, etc. No apparent dropped frames. It plays back better than in QuickTime player. Even scrubbing seems to work OK.

iMac
2.93Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 130

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Posted 11 months ago
FCPX | Show viewer on 2nd display. I was a bit concerned FCPX didn’t open using both displays. I panicked when I couldn’t immediately see how to make it use two displays. Window > Show Viewer on Second Display This menu help system, which is a couple years old, is really invaluable. Zoom

FCPX | Show viewer on 2nd display.

I was a bit concerned FCPX didn’t open using both displays. I panicked when I couldn’t immediately see how to make it use two displays.

Window > Show Viewer on Second Display

This menu help system, which is a couple years old, is really invaluable.