First video made with ML (700D)

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Last week I finally got around to putting ML on my 700D, and I shot a simple, quick promo video for a friend who just started his own recording studio and produces beats.  I mostly made this video to both test out the new 24mm f/2.8 prime lens, to experiment with slow motion and Twixtor, and to familiarize myself with ML and see what I could do with some of its features.  It was also just made for a bit of fun.

This was shot on Canon's recently-released 24mm f/2.8 STM pancake prime lens (STM AF left off, I only have it on when using it with my 70D).  Slow motion clips were shot at 720p 60fps with bit rate set to 3.0x CBR (~130Mbps), stretched by 250% from 60fps to 24fps, then stretched another 200% to interpolated 12fps using Twixtor to ultimately achieve 5x slow down.  Unfortunately the Twixtor effect had to be removed from certain frames due to some awful warping, and there are other areas where I chose to keep smaller warping artifacts for the sake of preserving smooth motion.  I ignored the 180d rule and left shutter speed at 1/60 as I wanted more motion blur.  The last clip was shot raw at 1280x720 24fps, mostly just to learn the raw workflow.  Noise was cleaned up with Neat Video, with slight sharpening applied on top of that.  All post work, including basic color grading, was done between After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Ultimately I learned that Twixtor should only be used for very short segments and it can't really be relied on for applying to whole clips.  I thought about overcranking to 70fps and stretching to 30fps, but setting 65fps and 70fps still resulted in 59.94fps, and I don't know enough about FPS override to mess around with the advanced parameters.  I also could not get exact 60fps like I wanted, and 59.94 doesn't go into 23.976 as neatly as 60 into 24, which may have cause some slight judder.  In addition, the 700D is limited to IPB compression, and I think the difference between IPB and All-I is magnified with slow motion.

Anyway, here it is, hope you enjoy!