5DmkII video basics?

mountainhouse

I've not shot video in many years. What are some of on-scene logistics on using the video mode in the 5DmkII? Based on this article I guess you need to transfer 800 Mbps or so. That seems to surpass Wifi.

mountainhouse

So is this a question with an obvious answer, or do folks just not know. I mean, I've seen a lot of hype about the 5DmkII's video, but I'm not clear on how to store it. Carry a hard drive on your belt? I'm wondering if this requires so much storage, as to amount to no more than a novelty for most amateurs.

Andy

It's all new. You'll probably need some patience

Vincent Laforet, our new best friend, has posted a ton in his blog, have a look http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/09/23/behind-the-scenes-video/

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com

ziggy53

mountainhouse wrote:

I've not shot video in many years. What are some of on-scene logistics on using the video mode in the 5DmkII? Based on this article I guess you need to transfer 800 Mbps or so. That seems to surpass Wifi.

The short and quick answer is that much video now is "captured" in what would normally be a "presentation" video format. This keeps the bandwidth down to amounts that can be stored on flash media cards.

The 5D MKII is using a high-compression and lossy codec. In order to edit the video it has to be both decompressed and intermediate frames need to be generated from the surrounding media. It has only become practical to edit this sort of video in recent years. (It requires tremendous computational horsepower.)

It may be possible to record the video direct from the camera onto external storage in a different format and codec with discrete frames more suitable for editing, but I haven't seen any documentation to know if that is supported.

For now, it's just amazing what the 5D MKII is capable of and that is amply demonstrated by Vincent's video. Just splendid. thumb