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Title: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: [email protected] on April 14, 2015, 04:20:13 PM
Hi! I was wondering if anyone knows if you can film on 5d with an external recorder, so that there is no need to be dealing with the continuous recording issues and mega-fast and expensive cards. (I can only manage to film for 14 seconds).

Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: vertigopix on April 14, 2015, 04:30:38 PM
http://atomos.helponclick.com/kb/article/products/ninja/how-to-setup-the-canon-eos-5d-mark-iii-with-the-atomos-ninja-2
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: vertigopix on April 14, 2015, 04:33:01 PM
And pleeeeeaaaaase RTFM !!!
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: DFM on April 14, 2015, 08:23:31 PM
Quote(I can only manage to film for 14 seconds).

That means you're shooting raw video, which cannot be saved externally from a 5D3. Field recorders plug into the HDMI port so they get 8-bit 4:2:2 data that's a slight step up from the internal H.264, but nowhere near the quality of RAW/MLV. It won't solve your problem of only getting 14 seconds of raw footage - for that you simply need a faster CF card - if anything it'll make it worse as turning on HDMI mirror mode increases load on the CPU.
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: [email protected] on April 15, 2015, 10:35:24 AM
Yes, sory, forgot to mention I'm trying to film on magic lantern vertigopix.

DFM, thanks for the response. I've been baging my head for a week, just can't afford the faster cards.
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: Walter Schulz on April 15, 2015, 10:43:38 AM
Take a look: Komputerbay 1066x 64GB CF-card. Around 10 minutes recording time.
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: vertigopix on April 15, 2015, 04:47:45 PM
Understood, but ML will not give you RAW through HDMI so there's no difference...
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: goran on April 18, 2015, 08:29:33 PM
Just a quick note, HDMI out from 5dmkiii is 8-bit 4:2:0 and not 4:2:2. The Atomos Ninja/Blade/Whatever will record in 4:2:2 but the signal is 4:2:0 unfortunately :(
Title: Re: Continuous recording 5D mIII
Post by: dubzeebass on April 18, 2015, 09:22:12 PM
Untrue. It is 422x8