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[Mohan]

Hi,
I did my entire movie with 5D Mark 3 RAW. Taught of sharing my experience with you guys up to post.

CAMERA: 5D Mark3
Lens: CP2
Build: magiclantern-Nightly.2014Oct07.5D3113.zip

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PRODUCTION
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I had an onsite DIT who was doing footage dumping and conversion onsite.
Problem #1: The MLV filename were not sequential. My DIT was in doubt if camera assistant was erasing the clip which it wasn't the case. Maybe some bug?
Problem #2: Using HDMI Monitor big No No. Recording was constantly stopping.
Solution #2: Use AV Cable (SD Resolution). No dropouts.
Request #3: In-Camera format to Ex-fat will be big plus. Avoiding Laptop when DIT is away.

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POST PRODUCTION
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Problem #1: For faster and direct conversion to offline (proxy) files I used Adobe media encoder (with support of Drastic). This method is faster and i don't have to go through DNG's extraction and then conversion to offline. But Adobe media encoder workflow gave additional job in my post grading session. As media encoder don't write any timecode into the proxy Resolve nor Scratch doesn't Read my XML very well.
  Solution #1: Extract DNG's using RAW2CDNG. (Don't throw 100+ files on it. Crashes often.)Use Davinci Resolve Lite to do proxy conversion to DNXHD 720p 60. Use REEL Name, Source timecode burn-in.

Problem #2: Related to scratch reading directly MLV files. Scratch uses Drastic inside which does very poor job of reading. I get lot of artifacts. Poor Demosaicing algorithm.
  Solution #2: Extract DNG's using RAW2CDNG.

And don't use MLRAWViewer to convert DNGs as it doesn't include REELID and CinemaDNG format conversion. RAW2CDNG 16bit gives 3+mb individual DNG whereas MLRAWViewer give 2 mb approx. (donno what bit depth it is exporting at)

I Hope somebody may find this useful.

Regards

Mohan
DOP, Colorist.

While shooting anamorphic to get exact 2.35 ratio we need the resolution be recorded at 1440x1080. So that it would fit to 1920x818 cine 2.35 ratio. So is it possible to implement the custom resolution / 4:3 ratio?

Shot with ML RAW for an feature film, mark3 body and processed. What you guys think?

Today i shot a series of test shots with 4 sets of kowa lenses.. By mistake i shot in 2.35 ratio. Will do another test some another day. What  you guys think?
Body: 5d MarkIII with raw.
No filters
Lenses used:  40mm, 50mm, 75mm, 100mm & angenieux zoom lens
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