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Equipment & Techniques => Motion & Video => Topic started by: flashfredrikson on July 30, 2014, 01:27:49 pm

Title: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: flashfredrikson on July 30, 2014, 01:27:49 pm: Hey everyone,

I shot my last video job, a fashion-travel thing in sweden ( https://vimeo.com/100425355 ) using the 5d III w ML raw and I have to say, this hack really works great and the results are so much nicer than anything I was able to get from this camera before. I used the fast sanDisk cards, after six days of shooting I ended up with about 1 TB of raw files. Edited in prores LT and graded from the original cinema dngs in resolve.

If you ever hesitated to try magic lantern, give it a try, I did not regret it.

cheers,
martin
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: Morgan_Moore on July 31, 2014, 06:03:09 am: looks very nice!
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: bcooter on July 31, 2014, 02:00:47 pm: Quote from: Morgan_Moore on July 31, 2014, 06:03:09 am
looks very nice!

I agree, very, very nice story telling.

IMO

BC
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: Andres Bonilla on August 01, 2014, 02:26:20 pm: Fantastic job both in cinematography and editing. I shot with a Panasonic P2 camera at work but I recently got a dslr and I have been wondering about Magic Lantern. What specifically did it help you with in your shooting? Peaking for video, audio meters ? Do you use Rsolve lite or the full version?

Thanks!

Andres
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: flashfredrikson on August 21, 2014, 12:53:44 pm: Thanks everybody!

ML helped with the ability to shoot raw video. The sharpness, detail and dynamic range plus the ability to change white balance and all that makes video out of the 5d so much better.
I have a full version of resolve but the lite version works just a good for fullHD.

cheers,
martin
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: Ron Steinberg on August 24, 2014, 09:43:18 pm: Quote from: bcooter on July 31, 2014, 02:00:47 pm
I agree, very, very nice story telling.

IMO

BC

Yes, very nice indeed. Nice cinematography, editing and grading.
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: mjrichardson on August 25, 2014, 12:56:49 pm: Superb job, I have a house up in Lapland and live here most of the year, you managed to show the place really well, I enjoyed watching the video.

Mat
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: G_Allen on September 05, 2014, 10:06:14 am: Gorgeous work, well shot and scripted, great editing.

Out of curiosity, what did you use to stabilize the camera while shooting? It looks all hand-held.

Please let me know, and thanks again for sharing your work. Cheers
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: deanwork on September 09, 2014, 07:56:13 pm: Yea very nice editing and fluid movement through time.

And, how DID you stabilize it? I can't tell what was shot with a tripod and what wasn't.

john
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: flashfredrikson on October 08, 2014, 12:12:46 pm: Sorry for the late reply guys.
Everything was shot off the shoulder, no tripods. For the stuff from the helicopter I used a small Kenyon gyro.

thanks again,
martin
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: deanwork on October 10, 2014, 08:59:49 am: Off the shoulder with what kind of mount or stabilizer?
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: flashfredrikson on October 10, 2014, 09:40:16 am: Nothing fancy, shoulder pad and some grips. See one of our local crew in Mongolia with my rig on his shoulder in the attached pic.

cheers!
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 10, 2014, 11:58:02 am: As a still photographer who doesn't know anything about video (and doesn't want to know), all I can say is that this one is mesmerizingly beautiful and well done.
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: deanwork on October 10, 2014, 03:39:33 pm: Looks like the Red Rock shoulder mount.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/673395-REG/Redrock_Micro_8_003_0022_microShoulderMount_for_35mm_Adapters.html

All I can say is just works. Your footage is excellent. Thank you.

john
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: jjj on October 12, 2014, 07:33:26 pm: Very nice work Martin.
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: flashfredrikson on October 13, 2014, 03:39:09 am: It actually is a Vocas shoulder mount with rods, Redrock grips and the Redrock/RRS Baseplate and a Vocas arm thing for the EVF :)
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: R_Medvid on October 13, 2014, 07:23:08 am: Great video! Was your experience with ML absolutely flawless? Like did you have any cases where you had to reboot camera, re-insert cards, any lost frames?

I'm well experienced in ML on my 50D, but the experience is slightly heartbreaking )))

Thanks!
Title: Re: First time I shot a job with 5d III and magic lantern raw
Post by: flashfredrikson on October 15, 2014, 03:40:16 am: No, ML is not perfect. I have to reboot from time to time or remove the battery to do so, but without ML I also have to do that, as for example occasionally the evf won't connect or something else happens.
But as soon as the camera booted fine and ML is running, and that is really mostly the case, everything works fine, no dropped frames, no glitches.
I just shot another video for the same brand, and again on the 5d3 with ML, everything worked fine again.

cheers!