5d arrives tmrw morning. Music Video tmrw night. Any setup tips/advice?

ryan brown

ryan brown

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As the title states, my 5D gets delivered tomorrow morning and I have a music video shoot tomorrow night. I was planning on shooting on my 7D, with a couple of 60D's running for b-cams and various pickup shots.

I'm thinking of hitting the ground running and using the 5D as my A-Cam instead of the 7D. Any setup tips to maximize video quality that I wouldn't be aware of on the 7D??

How about picture styles? I'm shooting at night with about 7 Mole Richardson lights varying from 1k's to 250watt lights. There should be plenty of light, but what's the max iso people are shooting at safely? With my 7D I don't like going above 800, but on occasion, I'll push it to 1000, and that's with a 50mm 1.2 lens.

Any other tips more than welcome

cheers

-brown
 
I would watch Shane Hurlbut's video on setting up the camera that can be found on BHPhoto. It just shows you how to turn everything off that you don't want on. Going on the isos that you say you shoot on I would say you can go up to ISO1600. The ISOs I would recommend shooting on are the intermediate one's ie 160 320 640 1250 1600. Also remember that the 5d has a little more rolling shutter than the 7d. As far as picture styles I like Standard with sharpening and contrast all the way down and saturation 2 clicks down, however you may like to use Cinestyle.

Hope this helps.
 
If it's a paying job, I wouldn't shoot with it the first day I got it. There's to much that could go wrong from lack of experience with the cam. But if you have shot with a 5d in the past, and it's just a refresher, then sure, you know your comfort zone. Myself, I don't use gear unless I know it inside and out, especially on a paying gig. Time is money.
 
samphibbs said:
I would watch Shane Hurlbut's video on setting up the camera that can be found on BHPhoto. It just shows you how to turn everything off that you don't want on. Going on the isos that you say you shoot on I would say you can go up to ISO1600. The ISOs I would recommend shooting on are the intermediate one's ie 160 320 640 1250 1600. Also remember that the 5d has a little more rolling shutter than the 7d. As far as picture styles I like Standard with sharpening and contrast all the way down and saturation 2 clicks down, however you may like to use Cinestyle.

Hope this helps.
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Thanks for the excellent tips. I'll check out that video now. Yeah, I'll probably stick to a variation on the "standard" style, like I do with my 7D.

maranfilms said:
If it's a paying job, I wouldn't shoot with it the first day I got it. There's to much that could go wrong from lack of experience with the cam. But if you have shot with a 5d in the past, and it's just a refresher, then sure, you know your comfort zone. Myself, I don't use gear unless I know it inside and out, especially on a paying gig. Time is money.
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I hear you clearly, and I may end up shooting with my 7D if I don't feel comfortable, but I have shot with the 5D before... just on brief occasions here and there. I've shot with just about every other DSLR and pro vid camera that's popular right now, though, and I can't imagine the 5D would be that much different than the 7D. Or is it??

I'll play it by ear and see how the day rolls out.
 
Im getting good latitude results with the technicolor cinestyle. You might consider using that profile.
Also, as a future consideration, having known the new pricey offerings from canon and red, I realized having bought the anti aliasing filter was a cheaper investment in getting better video from a dslr (5D) with greatly minimized moire and aliasing.
 
im a fan of cinestyle with some variation on contrast and saturation...however it is a noisy profile so if you use it make sure you have enough lights. I 2nd the Hurlbut video on BHphoto. And stiick to ISO 160,320,640,1250 and if u must 1600. on the 7d the highest 1250. Those iso are cleaner than the iso's low them respectively. so if you want to go with 1000 just go to 1250 for example...it is cleaner.
 
If your not used to using black stretch on certain cameras or red raw files, looking at cinestyle on your lcd or monitor is scary at first. ;) I suggest you test it and get used to exposing for highlights.
I have my sharpness at 1 and saturation at 2.
Contrast and tone at default 0.
 
I like it...but as i said. it is noisy. Its great in high contrast scenes and really opens up the blacks. It really does allow me alot of Grading room also. I also have my sharpness at one...but i mess with saturation and contrast on a project by project basis. Sometimes i want to retain more contrast/ saturation in cam ect.
 
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