Hello, I'm about to make a short documentary for a project and I figured I use my 600d. I have only used it for photographing, so I'm not really sure on whats the best way to film with it.
I have installed ML nightlybuild and I have been looking through the forums trying to understand. I've seen some quite crispy footage from the 600d in RAW format. However when I tried that with the recommended settings I only got a decent loss of frames.
I was hoping someone could give me some help and set the camera up the best way to film this.
Thanks in advance!
Personally I would not use raw for anything other than hobby fun stuff with the 600d.
It's only for a school project, so it dosen't need to be flawless RAW.
Would you recommend recording in H.264 then? What settings? Tragic lantern?
Also, I forgot to mention that I use the stock lens 18-55mm, I will probably be shooting outdoors so I should maybe pick up some ND filters too?
there is no benefit in using tragic lantern in your case, stick with ML nightly.
well, one thing I could suggest - get an other lens, 18-55 is bad, real bad. in budget range there are either 17-85 f/4-5.6 IS USM by canon, it is not awesome but much, much better, or tamron 17-50 f/2.8 (get one without stabilizer, much better picture) anything else would cost more than your camera ;)
forget raw on SD cards, and there is so much hassle when dealing with it that there is no point in doing that unless few exceptions.
Use regular h264 and crank bit rate up 1.3x - 1.5x (test how high can you go while being stable). learn to use audio monitoring http://wiki.magiclantern.fm/userguide#headphone_monitoring
anything else is not to do with the camera but you skills. :) good luck!