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Hi-Def DSLRs May be Cheap, but Talent is Priceless
David Harpe, Photographer
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Myung Chun, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 3:11 PM on 11.20.09 |
->> Interesting article but the writer doesn't seem to be very familiar with the technical aspects of DSLR.
"Canon responded to complaints in June by introducing a firmware update for their 5D Mark II which allowed manual aperture, ISO and shutter speed control, but not allowing manual control of the video function"
Huh? The firmware update allows for manual aperture, ISO and shutter speed control of the video function
"While the Nikon D90 shoots video at 24fps, the Canon Mark II records at 30fps, which would need to be converted before using many popular editing programs."
The very popular FCP will edit the D90's 24fps as well as the 5DMk2's 30fps without any conversion. That's not advised as the D90's Motion JPEG compressed files and the 5DMk2's H.264 files will really tax your processor. You'd want to convert it to a more edit friendly format to ease the workflow.
"...and be a slave to Canon’s 15-minute take limit"
I don't think it's so much Canon's fault as it is the FAT binary of the recording media that limit it to 4GB chunks.
"The post-production process required extreme patience as the large files caused havoc for his laptop and needed to be converted to Apple ProRes 422 LT to ensure quality."
Trying to edit the native H.264 files will cause havoc and a major headache. Converting it to something more edit friendly, i.e. Apple ProRes, HDV, XDCAM, Apple Intermediate Codec will make the workflow much smoother.
Sorry to nitpick, but I didn't want those reading this article to be misled. |
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