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Share Your Videos / App Promotion 5d Mark II / Raw Video Workflow

« on: August 30, 2013, 04:42:45 PM »

I did my first video completly with RAW Workflow on my 5D2.
It's a promo video for the company i'm working for. I'm not a pro... just a screen designer with some ambitions in video. Hope you like it.

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: August 30, 2013, 04:16:15 PM »

I did my first video completly with RAW Workflow on my 5D2.
It's a promo video for the company i'm working for. I'm not a pro... just a screen designer with some ambitions in video. Hope you like it.

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: August 03, 2013, 11:23:33 PM »

Other folks with 5DII are using it too just hit the 5x zoom botton with raw video on and press record, its that simple!

But I'm still having the same problem... couldn't find a way to get it working

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Raw Video Postprocessing / Re: Ginger HDR: Direct RAW import into Premiere Pro and After Effects

« on: July 05, 2013, 11:32:55 AM »

Works like a charm for me. Congrats!

EDIT: I can edit fine with it in Premiere, but with After Effects I'm seeing that the DNG's hold a bit more highlight info. If I lower the exposure with camera raw in the DNG's I get more detail in seeemingly blown up highlights than with the exposure tool in combination with highlight recovery in the tonemapping (basic) effect with the RAW file.

Is that so? Can it be avoided?

Other than that I really miss the lens correction tools for deformation, vignetting and aberration of ACR.

The Ginger HDR tool remains very useful for avoiding editing with proxies with premiere, but I don't know if I would color correct from them.

Just downloaded the test version, and this is exactly what i see. Somehow the dynamic range seems to appear lower then in ACR with the DNGs.
The Ginger HDR Toolss are nice but in no comparison to ACR - what would be ok, if I could use the additional dynamic range with other plugins like Colorista. But as already said... somehow there seems to be less information available then over DNG / ACR

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: July 02, 2013, 05:41:56 PM »

Vesuvio? Nice place 

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 26, 2013, 05:06:45 PM »

Somehow the latest build with this new saving method of buffer is not so much speeding up my recordings.

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 07, 2013, 10:15:00 AM »

I'm noticing vertical stripes in some test footage I just shot. Both the a.d. and ML bitbucket builds of raw2dng.exe (that was just updated) exhibit this anomaly. Unfortunately, I didn't keep the previous version around to see whether it's a problem with Raw2Dng, the latest ML build (6397e112ed41), or something else. Raw2Dng seems to be making a lot of corrections now whereas a lot of values were at 1.000 in the older version.

edit: JPEG for a quick look: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63799907/000350.jpg
DNG: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63799907/000350.dng

You are right... i also noticed those stripes... but with my footage they are not that obvious and looked like some noise pattern.

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Raw Video / Re: 5D2 You will get extra buffer stars in main dial custom and automatic mode!!!

« on: June 06, 2013, 03:43:40 PM »

For me it stays the same... but it was fast enough anyway.

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 06, 2013, 02:00:17 PM »

I know that 24fps are cinema standard and 25fps PAL Standard. So i always just sticked to 25fps without really questioning why. I also used 1/50th to apply to the 180° shutter rule, and so far everything worked out. But I don't understand - is it a big difference to record in 24fps? Is it noticeable? Haven't found good articles on the net about it.

@Olik: I'm using a Lexar 1000x 64GB Card - and strangely it didn't work out first, but now i did about 15 recordings all about 7 or 8 GB, and Buffer was always very stable on 1 or 2 *

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 06, 2013, 09:57:22 AM »

just zoom in

Also thought so - but my zoom buttons are not working with Magic Lantern, which makes it somehow hard to focus, also.

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 06, 2013, 09:56:19 AM »

Haven't changed anything... now it's running on 1880 x 854 25fps without problems. Buffer is always between 1 or 2 *
Perhaps a bit off topic but - I'm not a filming pro and everything I know, I learned through tutorial videos or articles on the internet. But what are the advantages of using 24fps? Sure, in this case it's less data on the card. But what are the advantages from a "design" point of view?

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 04, 2013, 10:42:54 AM »

Did you try turning global draw in ML menu to OFF? In my test it is suppose to be continuous. I tested up to 16 gig then i got tired and turned it off.  I will try longer.

Yep - Global Draw is off. I tried now three times and it stopped after around 7 Gig each approach.
The only thing that I can see on the screen is one small line showing the recording area and - perhaps i can deactivate this somewhere, a box for face detection.
Which build are you using?

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 04, 2013, 10:16:57 AM »

Glad you got it to work.
The komputerbay cf cards are really not performing as advertised as I can get stable and continuous recording with 1000x lexar at 1880 x 854. 1,596 frames at 1880 x 940 and 349 frames at 1880 x 1058.

I've got a Lexar 1000x 64GB Card and I can get around 7 to 8 Gigs with a 1880x854 Resolution - what are you doing to improve the speed? I turned of Canon Screen Overlays, I also set Still Picture in Canon Menu to JPG L like you said (btw: why does this matter?) but all in all the buffer seems to fill up after a while.

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Other experimental builds / Re: 12-bit (and 10-bit) RAW video development discussion

« on: June 04, 2013, 10:03:38 AM »

Is there some progress on this topic? Would really love to test a 10 or 12 Bit build and help you with some feedback.

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: June 02, 2013, 07:09:54 PM »

Great!, that is so great. I shot a video at 1880x756 with a previous build and got an average of 600 frames using a lexar 1000x 16g.
I should try your way..if it works for me too, I will be so happy...I hope that by the end of June there will be a more stable and practical way to shoot raw in the 5Dm2, I'm shooting a short film this month and I'm considering to go RAW, the workflow is so complicated but every minute invested is totally worthy.

I think if you are planning your shots in a good way it's worth a try. The workflow is not that much more complicated when you directly go with After Effects and then render out to ProRes422 HQ oder ProRes444.
Only thing that I really wish happens is, that they figure out a way to record with 12 Bit.

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a.d. & pravdomil's 5D2 builds / Re: 14-Bit RAW video Builds for 5D2

« on: May 31, 2013, 11:20:17 AM »

xxx .RAW file is at 4,185,570 KB
per DNG frame is 2,857 KB

this is at 1720 x 968 16:9

Stupid question maybe... but as the processor is not used in this case for converting to h264, could there not be the possibility to encode directly into dng or is the buffer to small for this?
Cheers
Clemens

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Raw Video / Re: Raw video on 5DMK2

« on: May 31, 2013, 09:51:57 AM »

The 5D Mark II can't do 1920 because of hardware limitations. Even the 1920 available with the stock firmware and h264 is upscaled from 1880, as that is what gets output in RAW form.

Thx for this information... didn't know this so far.
Hopefully my Lexar 1000x card will arrive today. I want to shoot some green screen tests with - let's say "not perfect green screen enviroment" and hope it will increase the quality to key it better.

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Raw Video / Re: Raw video on 5DMK2

« on: May 29, 2013, 10:55:09 AM »

Jipppiehhh, it's working fine for me on me 5D Mark II - I'm so happy. Just ordered a new CF Card. This is really revolutionary.
My workflow so far it using After Effects CS6, and that really worked out great, and I did not have any Crashes.
Only problem i had so far is, that sometimes, when the recording crashes, Raw2dng doesn't recognize the Raw file.
So will there be the possibility for only 12Bit Recording for the MKII, so that I can record in higher resolutions? Or perhaps the Ability to do 1080p in 14Bit? What's the Bottleneck there - is the card slot to slow?
Greets
Clemens