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Is there a Facebook group, Google group, or anything else where it's a little quicker to get answers about stuff? It takes ages to find the relevant info here on the forum, and even then you're never sure if it's up to date or whatnot. A chat group sure would be simpler.

Honestly I have a really hard time figuring out what's what on the website. The forums have stuff scattered SO much it's hard to keep up, especially if you're like me and only drop in once a year or so to see what the state of everything is in.

I'm wanting to shoot RAW with my 70D and my 6D, but wanted to know what the best current modules and settings are considered to be.

Also I think I read somewhere that you can compress the RAW video in camera, where can I find info on that? Thanks!

I know that we can shoot in 10, 12, and 14 bit in RAW mode, but is it possible to shoot with better color depth and still compress the footage so that it doesn't fill a card so fast? (6D or 70D are the two cameras I have, if that's relevant).

I primarily shoot wedding videos and stock footage. Running a 60D and a 600D I cannot see any real world practical use of RAW video.

Is it just that you get 14bit vs 8bit and no compression artifacting?

With either of my cameras I can't even shoot (with a fast card) 4 seconds of 1080p video (minimum for stock footage clips most places), so what use is it really?

Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking the incredible achievement of even getting this to work AT ALL. Just wondering what the actual practical use of it is at this point and what most folks dabbling with it are actually using it for.

Being a wedding videographer I still deliver 95% of my weddings in SD (DVD) and it's a pain to work with larger HD files that take up more space and make render times longer. It would be incredibly helpful if I could shoot at 16:9 SD 30fps.

Is this possible? Thanks!