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#1
I hope you enjoy it!



#2
Hello,

Huge thanks to the Magic Lantern team for making this video possible.

This film was shot over 17 days split between the Island of Hawaii (the Big Island) and Kauai in February of 2016.  My bases on the Big Island were the towns of Waimea, Honomu, and Volcano, while I mainly stayed in Princeville on the island of Kauai.  Each day I planned where I would spend sunrise and sunset the next day, and I tried to capture Hawaii's most beautiful natural settings in spectacular lighting.  When I left, I instantly missed the beauty of the Islands, the delicious acai bowls and sushi/poke, and the wonderful people I met just about everywhere I went.

On a more technical side, this was all shot on a Canon 5D Mark III utilizing Magic Lantern to shoot in 14-bit RAW.  I mainly used a Canon 16-35mm f4, with a few 50mm and 85mm shots as well. I used a Rokinon 24mm f1.4 for the Astrolapses.  The (sometimes) smooth, floating shots were achieved with a Glidecam HD-2000 that I had bought just weeks before this trip.  I'm hoping to get better and better at it with practice.

Thanks for watching!




#3
Hey all,

I got the 5d mark iii in the middle of January, and went to Hawaii in early February.  I got this camera so that I could make this video of my fiancee who is battling brain cancer.  Thank you to everybody here who helped make this raw video possible.  As you can imagine, I shot all of this mainly guerilla style, so please forgive any focus/exposure issues that you may find.  I'm hoping to get better with each video.

This was all shot mainly with the Canon 16-35mm f4 L.  The nightlapse composite scene was shot on a Canon 6d with a Rokinon 24mm f1.4.



Enjoy,

Kendall
#4
Share Your Videos / A Puppy in a Blizzard
January 29, 2016, 03:42:19 AM
Hello all!

First, I want to thank everybody who has contributed into making this wonderful firmware!!

I just got my first 5D Mark III at the beginning of the month, and I've read as much as I could from the forums.  I probably spent an evening learning about the installation process, then another evening learning about the raw video.  With so many different .MLV workflows, it gets to be a bit confusing after actually shooting the video.  My first test yielded a lot of noise and magenta, but that issue was quickly resolved with the "fix black level".

I live in Virginia, in the area hit hardest by this most recent blizzard, and my dog absolutely loved it.  I kind of figured he would, so I decided to test raw video and the glidecam that I had just received the day before the storm.  Considering the conditions that I was shooting in, which was a blizzard during the day and quite dark at night, the results that I was able to achieve on my first real attempt are just incredible!

Gear used:

5D Mark III
Canon 16-35mm f4 (day shots)
Rokinon 24mm f1.4 (night shots)



From when my dog Fenway enters the scene up through about 1:30 were supposed to be slow motion.  I shot them at 48 fps, but was struggling to actually translate that into a 50% slow-down.  Whenever I would import that DNG sequence into resolve or after effects, it seemed to automatically import it at 30 fps.  Even when added to a 24 fps composition, it was still running too quickly.  For example, the first scene I shot was 636 frames, so it should have been 26.5 seconds long at 24 fps.  However, it always ended up being 21.2 seconds (which would be 30 fps).  I ultimately just left it at whatever resolve wanted to give me.

My workflow is MLVFS, which creates a temporary directory.  It seems like I cannot just copy all of the folders from that directory, though.  I have to open each folder, copy that set of DNG's into another folder that I've created, and do that for each set of DNG's.  Is this the only option?  It usually ends up in me needing to be present in 3-7 gb transfers, so open a folder, move them, wait about 3 minutes, repeat.

Once I have the DNG's, I import them into resolve, grade them, export them as proxies, load them into premiere, stretch (for slow-mo clips), edit, stabilize, and export.  A lot of workflows I've seen are resolve to premiere and back to resolve for grading.  When I tried that route the first time, it seemed that the stabilization was lost in the roundtrip.  Any suggestions to better my workflow?

Thank you all!

Kendall