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aaphotog: let me see how I get on with various jobs today, and I'll try to load something up for you later on.

All the best,
David.

Thank you for your comments everyone, its much appreciated.

SamW4tson: maybe we should meet up - fancy shooting a video for the Farnham360 project?

aaphotog: its a slightly convoluted workflow, but then raw workflow often is, as I'm sure you know already.

The. RAW files were renamed using Automator (Mac), converted by RAWMagic, then imported to Davinci Resolve 10 Lite with a BMD profile. I then put all the clips I want to use on the timeline and export proxy files to import into Final Cut Pro X.

All editing is done in FCPX, and then an XML file is created, and imported back into Resolve.

Colour correction / grading is then done, before creating higher quality ProRes(422) HQ files and an XML file.

Back to FCPX to add titles, sound and any audio, transitions, etc. I then create a master file and use QuickTime Pro 7 to get the correct aspect ratio - if you watch it on Vimeo there are no black bars top and bottom (or on the http://farnham360.blogspot.com site).

Writing all this out makes it sound a horrendous workflow, but its actually fairly quick and simple.

One more thing, in well over 20GB of RAW recording I had 3 corrupted magenta frames, and they were at the very start of the clips. I'm loving RAW!

Camera set to 25p / 1/50th.

Back to

So, there I was sitting waiting for the fog to clear on a cold, damp December day; it never did clear, so I figured I go out shooting the following morning. When the morning came, it was foggy again. In the end, I went out anyway to grab some shots around Farnham, in Surrey.

'Farnham 360' is a personal project to try and capture the essence of my home town; it's a place that sits on the Surrey / Hampshire border and from the centre of the town you can be in wide open spaces within minutes, or sitting next to the river, or walking around an 11th century church.

There's so much to see, little details that people just don't notice as they go about their daily tasks. 'Farnham 360' will be providing some insight into these things.

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Camera: Canon 600D / T3i.
Lenses: Prakticar 35mm & Kaligar 135mm (both vintage M42 mount lenses).
Magic Lantern 2.3 + Tragic Lantern [NewMem] giving continuous raw recording at 1088x448. {Canon settings at 640x480}.
Davinci Resolve 10 Lite (DNG files loaded as "BMD") & FCP X.

I was asked to create a short video to be used as a resource for a new horticultural book that should be out in the new year. I decided to shoot it on RAW (Tragic Lantern 2.0, [600D] New System) and it's been under wraps until now (it was shot in June!). Anyway, here is that video...

... at the time, I had a tortuous workflow involving a Windows laptop, Adober Premiere Elements, then transferring it to the iMac and FCP X.

Shortly after this, I gave up using RAW, and just the other day I thought I'd check out ML2.3 and the latest Tragic Lantern RAW. So, I've now loaded up with '[600D] New Mem', sorted out the exFAT filesystem on the SD cards so I don't have to worry about the 4GB limit, and I'm now using a much better workflow with Davinci Resolve 10 Lite and FCP X

This is the latest using the new workflow / ML/TL, it's just a quick trailer for a new idea that I've got...

Having completed the simple highlight / skin tone test for my camera, I wanted to find out more about how it would deal with lowlight conditions; so I set up a simple test using a single candle to light a 'scene'.

The results surprised me...

Having the ability to shoot is great; not without its issues to be fair, but I wondered what it looked like compared to H.264.

This isn't a scientific test, but I did shoot to try and learn something about what the limitations were and to directly compare the formats. The video is below, and I've written up my findings at http://www.davidvickers.co.uk/blog

Cheers,
David

At last I have a workflow that allows me to use FCP X; after converting from RAW to DNG, each clip is converted to MOV using Premiere Elements and saved directly to an external HDD.

The disk is then connected to the Mac and each clip imported into FCP. This means I can use H.264 encoding for the initial conversion, create an Edit Decision List, then convert the DNG clips again to MOV but this time with uncompressed 10-bit YUV 4:2:2, then apply the EDL to those clips.

Very long winded, but I have just shot a proper job with the 600D and RAW, and it's looking good!

My monitor is just a very basic 7" generic model bought off of Amazon - the name escapes me for the moment, but it's not expensive and seems to work ok.

So, there I was sitting in the office just pointing the camera at a few things at trying out some of the RAW settings to see what worked with which settings. Then I had an idea for a very short 'short', and here's the result...

As FCP X won't accept the DNG files, I've taken a step backwards to be able to deal with the DNG files and am using Adobe Premiere Elements 8. I tried to do a bit of colour grading on this (basically put some blue into the shadows, yellow/orange into the highlights and then desaturated it all slightly); added some audio and voila!

As far as the batteries go, you'll end up 3600mAh, as they will be connected in series, rather than parallel. So, you'll double the [current] capacity in relation to the LP-E6.

But, 6x1.5v is 9v, whereas with rechargeables are often 1.2v(?) which would supply 7.2v. I assume the apparent over-voltage is taken care of by circuitry.

That's curious, because I quite happily used my external monitor via HDMI out on my 600D, whilst recording in RAW, with no issues!

On the documentary that I just finished I used waveforms rather than histogram as I just found it much more intuitive to use.

I must admit that for the few test shoots that I've done, I've continued to expose for the highlights - but I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do for RAW. I'd be interested to know how others deal with it too...

@Andy600: did A1ex put something up about RAW exposure? If so, would you be able to point me to it please?

Thanks,
David.

Buoyed by my success with the first attempt, I tried again... this time at 1024x432 (RAW) [camera still set to 1920x1080, 25fps].

I did get somewhat confused after filming some test clips and then formatting the card (in-camera), as the camera reported 14MB used! It wasn't until I put the card into the PC, that it was apparent that the camera had recorded RAW, but wasn't reporting it all. Curious! Still with the knowledge that it was recording, I went out to the front garden and shot this at the new (to me) resolution of 1024x432, then upscaled to fit the width of the 1280x720 frame.

Thanks to the ML team 

Hi,

I spent several hours last night reading the forum, getting to grips with how to get my camera to shoot RAW, and then trying to work out a usable workflow Then this morning I went out and short a little RAW footage

Canon 600D, ML2.3 and Tragic Lantern [600D] New System. RAW, 960x468 to provide continuous recording.

The RAW was then converted to a DNG sequence by BATCHelor2 and imported into Adobe Premiere 8, which seemed to accept it just fine. I did convert each clip into MOV then import that into FCP X, but I got loads of aliasing, so went back to Elements 8! The video above is from Elements 8.

The Vimeo version (via FCP X) is here...