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Vincent Laforet's Weekend with the 5D MKII

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    ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    CSwinton wrote:
    Mine plays smoothly as long as I am in full-screen mode - in windowed mode it is a bit choppy. Something to try...

    Mine plays better in full screen mode, but still choppy, ah well.
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    cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    mine is rather smooth, but I am getting frame drops. It is playing at 24fps on the iMac, but encoded for 30fps.
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    ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    cmason wrote:
    mine is rather smooth, but I am getting frame drops. It is playing at 24fps on the iMac, but encoded for 30fps.
    Wonder what's causing that. Mine is playing @ 30 headscratch.gif
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    Just did 15mins on Leo Laport's TWiT Live show, with Vincent clap.gif!

    will be posted here when Leo has it in the can:
    http://www.twit.tv/ttg
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    NomadRipNomadRip Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Just did 15mins on Leo Laport's TWiT Live show, with Vincent clap.gif!

    will be posted here when Leo has it in the can:
    http://www.twit.tv/ttg

    I just caught the end of it off Vincent's blog link (which is gone now). Great job! wings.gif
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    DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Just did 15mins on Leo Laport's TWiT Live show, with Vincent clap.gif!

    will be posted here when Leo has it in the can:
    http://www.twit.tv/ttg


    Fantastic! thumb.gif
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    LiquidAirLiquidAir Registered Users Posts: 1,751 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    jogle wrote:
    My fairly recent Macbook pro (2.2ghz core 2 duo, ATI Radeon X1600, 3gb ram) is very jumpy and stuttery, only playing the clips at 22 - 24 fps (quicktime will tell you in the movie inspector).

    Anyone know of any tricks to speed it up? I'd hate to go back to the days of doing offline edits with lowres proxys.eek7.gifeek7.gif

    Curiously my 3.2 GHz Dell XPS desktop does not come close to real time but my 2.4 GHz Macbook Pro plays it fine. I think the difference is that the MacBook has a more recent video card which likely supports H.264 decoding. I'll bet that if I upgrade the video card in my desktop machine and use a decoder which takes advantage of it, I'll have no trouble playing it back.
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    jdryan3jdryan3 Registered Users Posts: 1,353 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    Both the actual film and the behind the scenes piece played much better as long as I wasn't much more than 1/2 thru the download.

    I kept having to back up on the 'Behind' piece due to stutter or freezing. On my 3 year old Optiplex with 2GB RAM, either bottom of rung or integrated Intel v-card, so nothing special.

    So when I did the actual film I downloaded the whole thing and then played it. No problem.
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    joglejogle Registered Users Posts: 422 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    After a bit of reading, you want to look for a video card that supports either:

    PureVideo2 for nvidia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureVideo

    AVIVO HD for ATI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIVO

    Thats for windows, I know that purevideo2 isn't supported in the linux drivers yet and I'm not sure about mac.
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 27, 2008
    Stills are up:

    http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2128
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    ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 23,823 moderator
    edited September 28, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Stills are up:

    http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2128

    Thanks Andy. thumb.gif

    That ISO 3200 with the 400mm, f2.8L @ f3.2 is to die for. clap.gif
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    ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited September 28, 2008
    ziggy53 wrote:
    Thanks Andy. thumb.gif

    That ISO 3200 with the 400mm, f2.8L @ f3.2 is to die for. clap.gif

    What are you talking about? They're ALL to die for. iloveyou.gif
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    Manfr3dManfr3d Registered Users Posts: 2,008 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    Oh my good, this keeps looking better and better by the minute ... thumb.gif
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    PindyPindy Registered Users Posts: 1,089 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    This is helping the self-flagellation needed to muster the savings of $3000 by the end of November, in the midst of starting a 401K, 2x 529s and everything else. I hope the auto ISO at least makes up for some of it. :D
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    Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    5D HD video
    WOW!
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    Michiel de BriederMichiel de Brieder Registered Users Posts: 864 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    I hate the 5D Mark II :cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry

    Now I'm going to have to save up for it big time, because this is *the* camera I want, I've been lusting for a full frame for a long while and this one, with the added 10MP sRAW and all the other ridiculously excellent features is just the thing the doctor ordered :D
    *In my mind it IS real*
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    Mr. 2H2OMr. 2H2O Registered Users Posts: 427 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    Oh golly, thats just silly:

    "La, deee, daaa, while I'm shooting a totally cool video, I think I'll just snap a gorgeous picture...oh, okay, back to cool video..."

    Isn't anybody as awestruck as I am that one of our highly admired photographers can just pop out some totally cool video shots with a mere smidgen of prep and his normal focused hard work ethic...

    Vincent really does have a keen eye and wonderfully creative spirit. Kudos to him and we get to sit back with popcorn and watch. AAAAAAnd he is so nice to blog about it so we can share the experience with him.

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    joglejogle Registered Users Posts: 422 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    There are many feature film directors that started out as photographers, a good eye isn't stuck in one medium. My favourite example is Stanley Kubrick who used to shoot for Look Magazine

    KubrickForLook.jpg
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    Spent another day with Vincent. We shot up NYC tonight, ya'll are not gonna believe the shots we got iloveyou.gif

    I'm slobbering over my Mac Pro fight now. Stay tuned.
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 29, 2008
    More to come, this is an indication of the type of light we had :) Unprocessed jpg:

    383454594_xkqGJ-L.jpg
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    Mr. 2H2OMr. 2H2O Registered Users Posts: 427 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    More to come, this is an indication of the type of light we had :) Unprocessed jpg:

    HOLY GUACAMOLE!

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    aktseaktse Registered Users Posts: 1,928 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    HOLY MOLY!

    :jawdrop
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    DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    aktse wrote:
    HOLY MOLY!

    :jawdrop


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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    Dang!!!!

    Truth be told, I am more amazed by the processing and storage power than the actual sensor itself. The sensor is amazing but the rest of the signal path also have me dropping my jaw

    :jawdrop
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    SchnauzerSchnauzer Registered Users Posts: 253 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    I know that he said he had to give back his 5DMII. Did you guys get your hands on another or were these taken with something else. 50D maybe?
    Andy wrote:
    More to come, this is an indication of the type of light we had :) Unprocessed jpg:

    383454594_xkqGJ-L.jpg
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    CasonCason Registered Users Posts: 414 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    ziggy53 wrote:
    Thanks Andy. thumb.gif

    That ISO 3200 with the 400mm, f2.8L @ f3.2 is to die for. clap.gif

    Man...you can see the hairs (peach fuzz) on her face.
    Cason

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    Michiel de BriederMichiel de Brieder Registered Users Posts: 864 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    Awesome shot Andy!! Any chance of a 5d Mk II gallery in your Smugmug home??? mwink.gifwinkmwink.gif
    *In my mind it IS real*
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    AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 30, 2008
    http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=934133#post934133
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    darryldarryl Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2008
    Oh the irony!
    So Don wrote on his blog:
    * We posted full HD versions of both Reverie and the behind-the-scenes footage for the world to see, crossing our fingers that our bandwidth bill wouldn’t be more than we could bear.
    * Our customers went bananas. Awesome! They’re thrilled we’re interested in this stuff, because they’re interested in this stuff. Ok, great, so maybe this bandwidth bill will pay of in goodwill. :)
    * The press went bananas - both mainstream and online. Awesome! They’re gaga over the user response and the remarkable camera.
    * We got busy (and I personally got busy) telling everyone, press and non alike, who called, emailed, tweeted, blogged, etc that the Canon 5D MkII is a game-changing camera the likes of which we haven’t seen before.
    * Canon asked Vincent to ask us to take Reverie down.

    SAY WHAT?!

    Canon asked Vincent to ask us to take Reverie down.

    And:
    But look at it from my point of view. I was risking an awful lot of money on bandwidth (I doubt it would have topped 6 figures, but easily could have been in the 5s) because I’m a camera geek and I love this stuff.

    And hahaha, check out Canon's official page for hosting the low-res version of Vincent's video today (10/03/2008):
    DUE TO HIGH DEMAND OF VIDEO CLIPS WE HAVE EXCEEDED OUR DOWNLOAD CAPACITY.

    WE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING ALTERNATIVE HOSTING METHODS.

    Doh! Canon, I have a suggestion... nah, nevermind. :-}
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    NomadRipNomadRip Registered Users Posts: 180 Major grins
    edited October 3, 2008
    Vincent's blog says it got 1,500,000 downloads in 10 days, and they couldn't hack it. deal.gif

    I may have left a comment last night.
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