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#1
This spring I shot my first short film on the 550D (with ML of course), called "Familiarly Alien". Unfortunately this was about a week before ML raw became usable, so it is shot in h.264, which I sort of regret when doing effects work in post. Anyway, it is meant as an experiment to find out what I can accomplish with an extremely low budget and (a bit too much) use of greenscreen, and at the same time making something more exciting than random action scenes completely without any plot.

In short, it is about a guy whose brother is abducted by aliens, and he has got to save him. Because I don't really have much experience with making films, I figured out the script would probably suck anyway, so I filled it with silly clichés and illogicalness, hoping that would make it more interesting. Also, there is only one actor for the three roles, which should make everything a bit stranger.

I have finished the first trailer, but because I really have to learn most of the software I need to use as I go, I can unfortunately not say when the film will be finished, although I am hoping it will be sometime  near Christmas. I hope you catch interest in my project, and I would highly appreciate advice and comments on what I have so far made. If you are interested, I will post here whenever something exciting happens.



Link to Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FamiliarlyAlien
#2
Quote from: Akos on June 16, 2013, 10:54:34 PM
you might wanna look at what i do before you go out  like this... i was sponsored and am sponsored by about every major leading photo brand out there, for the last 25 years or so ;)

Please, feel free to show us your work along with some facts that actually make sense.
#3
Are you mixing mega-pixels (MP) and megabytes (MB)? A frame of 4000*1700 can take everything from a few kB, if we are talking 1 bit colour with severe compression, to several hundred megabytes, if it is uncompressed 4:4:4 32bit raw. Considering Canon cameras, a raw raw picture at 16MP from the 550D takes about 25MB. In JPEG, it is somewhere near 6MB, but for now, ML supports either H.264 or raw filming, both of which result in quite different file sizes from what you suggest.

The point is that with the current generation of cameras, this is not possible. Of course 12K filming will be a reality in the future, but not on hardware that exists today.

Also, the Mark 3 has got 5760 pixels horizontally, not vertically, which could be called 6K, (if it could film at that resolution) but that is still just a quarter the pixels needed for 12K.
#4
I think you have misunderstood the concept of a number with a "K" behind. That number is not the total number of pixels of the sensor, but the approximate number of horizontal pixels.

Also, it is so far not possible to read the whole sensor without actuating the shutter, so 22MP filming is not, and will not become, a reality.

Please be quiet now.
#5
I'm sorry to point this out to you, but you seem to know absolutely nothing of what you are talking about. No current Canon DSLR (or any other electronic camera on the market) will ever be able to record 11K, simply because there are no commercially available sensors of that resolution. The closest thing must be IMAX cameras, which record to 70mm film, which can in theory be converted to 12K digital frames. This, however, is not done, as 11K video files would just take up far too much disk space, and be too heavy to edit. What those 22 milli-bit pixels you talk about do, I have no idea. Even if you meant to write megabyte pixles (abbreviated MB, NOT mb), it still makes no sense. What 3x zoom mode has got to do with any of this, I do not know either. That iCloud document you linked to does not make anything clearer, except the illustration sort of explains why there are advantages to filming in zoom mode.

Now, once again I am baffled of your amazing way to draw lines between unrelated subjects, as the "Panavision aspect ratio" (which by the way is not 2.3:1; Virtually anything can be called Panavision when filmed on Panavision lenses, but the most common are 1.85:1, 2.39:1 and 2.20:1 (non-anamorphic) or 2.27:1 (anamorphic), the latter two being Panavision 70) and everything else mentioned in your post. Please explain thoroughly, preferably after reading all the Wikipedia pages on the subjects, or shut up.

Regards, cbmk

EDIT: Sorry, Alex, didn't see your post before I published mine. I presume yours is sufficient, but perhaps mine will make some things a bit clearer for him. I did not know 3.5K was achieved on the 5D3 though! That is amazing, even though it only lasts for a matter of seconds!

And one more thing: maybe this thread should be closed before anyone else wastes their time reading the nonsense written here?
#6
Quote from: otherman on June 03, 2013, 10:17:48 AM
what about send video data to USB, instead of SD card? Is it possibile?
I'm thinking of an app (on PC or on android tablet) recording the raw video; our DSLRs send liveview on USB, than it is theoricaly possible in some way.

(Sorry forma my english, it's not my language)

Thanks all the Devs for this amazing work!

No, the mini-USB 2.0 is actually slower than the SD controller, so just trying would be pointless. What could be interesting, however, is to try (if possible) making the HDMI clean 10 bit 1080p 16:9, and record externally to something like 10 bit Prores. It definitely would not be raw, but still miles better than the in-camera H.264.
#7
Tragic Lantern / Re: Uncompressed 600D Raw Video
May 27, 2013, 07:57:15 AM
Now, I must say I am not a coder or expert on cameras in any way, but would compressed mathematically lossless raw, like on the BMPCC, not be a better alternative for getting as great quality as possible on to SD cards? Or perhaps the camera processors are too slow to compress the footage? Just 2:1 compression should help alot, and if 3:1 or 4:1 would be possible, the results might actually be very good.