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Just wanted to share a quick video I shot in the fall with a lot of Magic Lantern RAW footage from Canon 5D3.  The slow motion footage is from an a7S II, as well as a few of the super low-light street scenes of Halloween decorations, but majority of the video is 5DIII.

Processed via ACR, FilmConvert + Gorilla Grain applied in After Effects, final edit and color (via HyColour Pro) done in FCPX.  Lifted the blacks a bit and gave a lot of the scenes a greenish tint to the shadows to fit in with the strange aesthetic of the music and scenes I was filming.  Overall, wanted to achieve a lower contrast and less saturated look than my previous videos.  Went with a 1.66:1 aspect ratio and a mix of various 16mm film grain overlays from Gorilla Grain and CineGrain to achieve a 16mm-ish look (despite the Full Frame sensor).

Loving how the 5D3 can shoot at 1600ASA noise free and push to 3200-6400 easily in ACR.  I was able to achieve pretty much any street scene in Manhattan, even at night and the shadows stayed clean so I could lift them without worrying about much noise.

Started out looking to shoot an entirely Halloween-themed video, but it kind of morphed into more of an odd montage of Fall NYC street scenes in the end.

Thanks, everyone.  Yes, the VAF filter is a must.  Definitely softens the image a bit more than I'd like in a perfect world, but without it, half these wide shots near infinity focus would have hellish moire.  There's actually a few shots in there from a night where I forgot to install the filter -- luckily those weren't too bad, but some of the other cool shots I did that night were unusable.

[Specs:]

Just a little video I shot in December -- mostly on my Konova slider, but with a small dose of handheld mixed in using exclusively IS lenses.  My goal was to capture a little more of the strange, quiet side of spending the holidays in NY.  As festive as the Big Apple can be this time of year, there's a tangible mood that winter brings that forces you to be introspective about the city and all its millions of inhabitants.

Specs:
Canon 5D Mk. II ML RAW 1880x800
VAF-5D2B Anti-Aliasing Filter
Canon 35mm F2.0 USM IS
Canon 24-105mm F4 L IS
Canon 85mm F1.8 USM
Konova K5 Slider (30cm)
Zoom H1 Recorder (for city ambience)
Film Convert 5207 Color 50%, Grain 45% + Gorilla Grain 35mm Medium with Opacity of 50%
Initial grade and ProRes 444 transcode done through Adobe Camera RAW in After Effects CS6, followed by edit of ProRes files in FCP X, then XML output and final pass in Davinci Resolve 10 for final grading.

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy...

Hello all,

Here's a quick video I put together of some footage I shot on my Canon 60D, converted to IR, running the latest nightly build.  Pretty awesome having a infrared video camera that can shoot RAW video that fits in my messenger bag.  The footage admittedly is pretty soft, but personally, I think that suits the sort of dreamy look black and white infrared produces.

Intro shot on 5D Mk. II in RAW to mix in a little color -- everything else after shot on a 715-nm converted Canon 60D running ML.  Walking timelapse shots were shots as longer exposures to enhance blur and minimize walking jitter.  I mixed in a few slider time-lapse shots as well, but the majority of everything else is just handheld RAW footage with a 24-105mm F4 L IS lens at max resolution for 2.35 ratio.  I used the VAF-60D anti-aliasing filter for portions of the IR footage, which definitely helped with moire, but then it got cracked during an installation a day or two in, so unfortunately there is still a lot of Moire strewn about in the footage.