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#1
Thank you!! It was such a unique experience working with this camera in this way for something that was slightly higher stakes. I've never seen a digital camera look this close to film before straight out of the camera.
#2
Hey ML friends!

I had picked up a 7D a few months ago and had done some testing with the raw video features on there. I kept telling the director/writer on my production team that I was dying to shoot a short film using just this camera and the 14bit raw it has to offer. Finally he wrote something for me and we got our chance this weekend and drove out to the desert/mountains with the 7D in hand and a couple 64 gb computer bay CF cards with ML on them.

To say I was scared during the entire shoot would be an understatement. Besides not really being able to watch footage back cleanly (MLV viewing module is great but when on a time crunch the footage plays back to slow, I mainly used it to just verify that footage indeed made its way onto the card.) I was in constant fear of dropped frames in the middle of scenes or just corrupt files in general.

Despite this fear I made the creative choice to continue to use the 7D on this shoot and man am I glad I did. I accepted the 7D as a 10+ year old camera and once I got that in my mind nothing could stop me. I embraced the noise as a creative style for this rather than trying to fight it.

My workflow:
Canon 7D Running Magic Lantern 1728*976 16:9 (The 2k crop and unknown limited recording time as well as space forced me to use a lower resolution here but I'm not mad about that. It's not about the K's I always say it's about the quality of those K's and the 7D in raw has some high quality HD)

We shot everything in one evening. I only pushed ISO to 3200 once. everything else was 1600 or below. As I said above I embraced the noise as a "creative touch".

MLV App to convert the raw files. I used the Alexa default flat profile preset and then exported everything to Pro Res 422 HQ in 1920x1080.

Edited in FCPX as well as color corrected there. I usually use a creative LUT or creative colors but honestly once we adjusted our exposure I was loving the colors coming out of the profile we had exported from so we just left it.

I'm super impressed. We usually shoot on an EOS R or a GH5 and I can say that the colors that come out of this camera even in the lower resolution are just mind blowing.

Would I do this again? Honestly as fun as it was and as creative as it was, I have purchased a Z Cam E2-M4 cinema camera for it's raw features and laid the old 7D to rest selling it to someone who probably has no idea on the quality it can truly provide them.

Hope you all enjoy this short film!



#3
Thanks! I was going for a more filmy unique color style as an end result. This was my first experience with raw video so I'm hoping my technique and style will improve over time.

I actually used MLVApp to convert all the MLV files but was not confident in using the features with the app quite yet. I will for sure try it on my next shoot here though!

I'll keep the 10bit recommendation in mind, I saw the option but figured if I have 14bit might as well use it. Of course converting the files took about 3 hours so I may use 10 bit next time here to speed up that work flow a bit.
#4
Share Your Videos / Lemmon - [2:08] Canon 7D ML Raw
April 22, 2020, 03:49:18 PM
Hey all! I picked up an old 7D for $200 just for fun recently as a second shooter and beater camera (I also own an EOS R but don't like to take it backpacking). After some research I threw dforts latest build on it and went out for a day hike. Here is the end result of that day.

Camera: Canon 7D
Resolution: ML Raw @ 1728x972 16:9 Exported in 1920x1080
Lens: EF 24-105 f/4 L
Color Graded in Adobe Premiere

Besides the unbelievable size of the files I was working with I had no complaints and it was so worthwhile to achieve the end result here. I'm super excited to continue to use this camera for my personal creative work.