Used to own an EOS M as well as a 5DII, before all the crop builds so I only had tried 720P or sub-1080P recording.
I sold them some years back and switched to a Panasonic S5. It's been a great still camera and has created a lot of beautiful memories of my family. But I have always been struggling with the video recording with it. Sometimes it produces beautiful 4K footage but other times it just failed to capture the colors I wanted. Also the footage is quite difficult to grade in Davinci Resolve as I can do very limited grading.
So I am considering buying a 5DIII for raw videos. It is insanely inexpensive now in the used market. But in the past days I have been doing some research and I am very confused:
1. If I want to record 1080P raw videos with no crops, which build should I go for?
The official builds are very much dead regarding development so I think I should go for the Danne's crop_rec_4k, but the thread has basically no information at all. What kind of framerate options do I have assuming I have a fast enough CF card? I should be getting stable 24 (23.976) and 30 (29.97) right? Is it possible to go beyond them? Like 48 or even 60 FPS?
2. Regarding the 5.7K mode. I saw a lot of YouTube videos discussing this and the footage are all so beautiful. It requires both a CF and a fast SD card so I assume that I need to get both cards installed for it to work right? In this situation does the camera store the still images in the SD card or the CF card? Also, do I get the live view when recording 5.7K video? If I want a 16:9 footage at higher than 1080P mode without a massive crop, is it possible with this build?
3. For 5.7K video to work, I need a fast enough SD card and a SD overclock with ML. How reliable is the overclock? I live in a city where the summer can get very hot, over 35 degrees Celsius. So I am wondering whether my SD card is going to be cooked when I record for a long time.
I know it's a lot of questions, so if you can point me to a link with more detailed explanations about the Danne's crop_rec_4k build I would be extremely happy. Thank you for your time.
I sold them some years back and switched to a Panasonic S5. It's been a great still camera and has created a lot of beautiful memories of my family. But I have always been struggling with the video recording with it. Sometimes it produces beautiful 4K footage but other times it just failed to capture the colors I wanted. Also the footage is quite difficult to grade in Davinci Resolve as I can do very limited grading.
So I am considering buying a 5DIII for raw videos. It is insanely inexpensive now in the used market. But in the past days I have been doing some research and I am very confused:
1. If I want to record 1080P raw videos with no crops, which build should I go for?
The official builds are very much dead regarding development so I think I should go for the Danne's crop_rec_4k, but the thread has basically no information at all. What kind of framerate options do I have assuming I have a fast enough CF card? I should be getting stable 24 (23.976) and 30 (29.97) right? Is it possible to go beyond them? Like 48 or even 60 FPS?
2. Regarding the 5.7K mode. I saw a lot of YouTube videos discussing this and the footage are all so beautiful. It requires both a CF and a fast SD card so I assume that I need to get both cards installed for it to work right? In this situation does the camera store the still images in the SD card or the CF card? Also, do I get the live view when recording 5.7K video? If I want a 16:9 footage at higher than 1080P mode without a massive crop, is it possible with this build?
3. For 5.7K video to work, I need a fast enough SD card and a SD overclock with ML. How reliable is the overclock? I live in a city where the summer can get very hot, over 35 degrees Celsius. So I am wondering whether my SD card is going to be cooked when I record for a long time.
I know it's a lot of questions, so if you can point me to a link with more detailed explanations about the Danne's crop_rec_4k build I would be extremely happy. Thank you for your time.