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Okay... thanks.

Does anybody have any info on this? I'm not after RAW. Just standard 1080p 60fps recording. Can ML provide this on 600D?

Apologies if this is in the wrong section!

I'm shooting a music video soon and only just remembered (not sure how I forgot...) that the 550D only shoots 60fps at 720p. I thought it was 1080p. After a quick search I found that Magic Lantern can override the frame rate on the 600D and allows it to shoot 1080p at 60fps?

Is this correct? I have access to a 600D and if it's stable, I'd love to shoot it at 1080p with 60fps.

Thanks in advance!

Very nice video     Some part's of the video, like in the pool, got a lot of noise, it's not possible to clean that? Or is youtube?

What kind of light did you use? and for the slow motion, 550D have 60 fps or you use twixtor?

Keep the good work! ML are production very nice directors 

Thank you! Glad you like it, the noise is partially due to the YouTube compression but also from using a high ISO on a 550D. I cleaned up some of it using NeatVideo's plugin which helped a lot. In the forest I tried to stay below 400 ISO to avoid noise, but you always get some.

We had 4x2000W blonde's and some 800w redheads for the forest, the pool was lit with one 2000w shining directly down like a spotlight onto the singer. We used 60fps and that was slow enough for me.

Shot this music video a while back using 4x2000W lights as backlights for the forest scenes. Then we went underwater in a pool. The warehouse was fun too!

Since I got Magic Lantern I've never shot without it. I used a higher bitrate for this video thanks to ML as well as some other features that helped really push my 550D to get the best image possible.

Would love to know your thoughts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f23UFqiYjfQ

Here's my little test, unlisted on YouTube. RAW certainly has given better colour but I am finding it hard to see much of a difference. Is it just me? I used Ginger HDR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f23UFqiYjfQ

Here's my little test, unlisted on YouTube. RAW certainly has given better colour but I am finding it hard to see much of a difference. Is it just me?

Jack my answer is yes, absolutely! Hey, now, if you have a 5dm3 or 50d, I would say use them first. You probably have already jumped out your editing chair seeing the details of that raw footage from your t2i. You will not get that clarity shooting H.264.

I am not expecting ML to make any more improvements to our camera. Right now I am more than satisfied. I have two music videos, a short film and some sound bites scheduled the next two weeks. Every one of them will be shot raw with theT2i.

Jack, I hope this helps.
Derrick

This really does help, and I can't wait to see your music videos and the short film shot on the 550D RAW. Really eager to see.

Jack I was thinking about you today after shooting 90% of a short film. The director agreed to shoot it in raw and with the Panasonic LA 7200 anamorphic adapter, using a vintage Cosina 28mm lens. The lens and adapter worked so well together! I've been telling Alex that  I am not a fan of blown out highlights that are in most movies today? Two of my challenges were focus and capturing details in all the shots.  Every scene was shot outside today, most with ND filters because the LA 7200 works best when the taking lens is at 5.6.

We filled four 8gb cards, one 16gb card and half of another 16gb card. The biggest problem was with the only Kingston card. The 8gb class 10 card could only record between 235 - 400 frames per take before stopping. The three Scandisk 8gb cards recorded continuously even thought two of them are old class 6 cards bought in 2010 when I purchased the T2i. I think the Kingston card writes at only around 15mb per second. My year old Micro Center 16gb card recorded at most 400 frames per take but the new Micro Center 16gb card Alex purchased yesterday recorded around 1200 frames per take? I'm saying all this to say, most class 10 cards write too slow to record raw continuously at 960 x 540. Make sure your cards write faster than 21mb per second!

Even with the cards slowing down production I am looking forward to finishing the film in raw. I will post some footage by this weekend.

Happy shooting,
Derrick

Derrick, can't wait to see what you've shot. The question is, does a workflow lose quality? I used Ginger HDR on some stuff I shot recently and honestly I am having a little bit of a tough time seeing the difference. Which made me a bit disappointed. But I'm thinking maybe that's because of GingerHDR importing directly into Premiere? I'll post the video unlisted shortly so you can see.

Thanks!

Has anybody noticed any quality loss when using GingerHDR? It's my first time shooting RAW and it seemed like the quickest/easiest workflow but I'm now finding it hard to tell the difference between a H264 shot and a RAW shot.

Yes, you can record in HD resolution (1280x720) with the 550d, but continuously only with 12,5 frames per second when your SD card can write the frames fast enough. When you choose a resolution and frame rate combination that exceeds 20MB/s you will get drop outs. But maybe you could buy a Canon EOS 50d. This model should be able to write around 80-90MB/s to an compact flash card.     

PS: Nice & professional looking music video. Good work!

best regards,
Marco

So basically a 550D's max MB/s is around 20? So it can't be pushed higher than those resolutions, unless you go for a lower fps? And glad you liked my music video, thanks!

Hey jackdelamare, The first thing I would like to say to you is I loved your video. You are an true artist indeed and your last comment inspired me to come hang out with the big dogs!I think, at the moment, Magic Lantern Raw, the t2i and music videos are a really good match. Shoot your video with the t2i because from watching "Twelve Ton Trouble" you will definitely hit a home run!

Thank you so much for your kind comments! You think I should shoot my music video using my 550D in RAW? Or stick to what I know won't cause problems (ie: normal h.264 shooting)? It's difficult. I think I need to get more used to shooting RAW. I went out yesterday and filmed some stuff in RAW and I'm using GingerHDR now to edit it through Premiere. Is this the best method? The workflows I've seen are what I'm dreading the most... GingerHDR seems to have given us the simplest way to edit RAW.

Hello everyone, long time visitor first time poster.

I have a 550D which I've shot with for many years (most recently this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1W-Vu1wXJs) and I've been loving what the ML team have been doing with raw video as of recently, and amazed that even the 550D has been able to shoot raw.

I'm interested in shooting raw and in fact shot a little test yesterday, but I have a bigger question. I'm about to start production on another music video that's going to be shot in a sunny forest. I want to get the best quality I can (and have the ability to work with a higher dynamic range) and I feel like shooting raw is a wise idea, but I'm worried about a couple of things. Obviously the build is only in alpha stages right now and I noticed I do get the occassional frame drop that stops the recording. The lower resolution I go the less that occurs, but I want at least 1280x720 resolution and I'm worried my 550D won't be able to do this without constant frame dropping and screw-ups on set. I know that I'm going to need a faster SD card but can a faster SD card provide non-stop 720p recording?

What should I do? Is it worth pushing my camera and shooting the video in raw or should I stick to normal shooting? I'm just inexperienced with shooting raw and I wouldn't want anything to go wrong on set while we're trying to film within the allocated time.

Thanks!