Canon R5 Announced with 8k

Most people will be filming with the R5 in short bursts for high-quality b-roll for commercials, music videos, fashion clips, product shots, etc. in which the camera will likely never overheat. Start and stop, start and stop...move around...start and stop, start and stop.

This isn't a camera for 45 minute keynote presentations in 8K, which would be a complete waste of resolution even if it was. The other 4K modes will not overheat, will be easier to work with, and will look great if you did need to shoot longer clips (with a slight pause around 30 minutes).

A compact package with stills, DPAF, IBIS, 10-bit, 8K, 4K/120p, nice colors, endless lens options, amazing menu and programmability and very nice ergonomics outweighs any worries about overheating most people will not even experience in the first place unless [again] they are purchasing this camera for the wrong type of work.

This. But I can also see narrative here too. I mean I just had a shoot during the madness with The BMCC 4K with actors and there’s on and off during a shoot all the time. I shut down the camera numerous times while I worked things out. All I want to see is some low light night shots with the r5 recording at the 19 minute mark.
 
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second this - a XLR adapter from Canon would be great, sooo convenient with those for Pana and Sony, especially on Pana where the batteries last long.

You could try the Saramonic SmartRig+ 2-Kanal XLR adapter. I had it with good results on the z-cam E2
 
I just played for 10min. I will check tomorrow in resolve. Time for sleep in the ‘ole world

So you're using the Canon RAW Plugin 1.4 that's downloadable on the C300 Mark III page or the 1DX Mark III, correct? (I'm confirming again.)

I simply cannot import this new CRM into FCP X. (No problem with the C200's CRL.)

My Mac just barely meets the minimum 'required operating environment' specifications they include in their white papers, but still should work.

But maybe not because they even referenced the "No Importable Files" notice in FCP X, and said to check if you have the required environment if you do receive that message.
 
Did a quick color grade. I'm noticing on Resolve 16.2.4, there is no change to the image when switching gamma between Canon log and log2 in the raw tab. However there is change when switching from either log or log2 to log3.

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I had the same problem with CR Plugin 1.4 and FCPX ...

Bottom line is Canon states the required environment for their plugin is the ability to run FCPX ... which I can do.

No joy with the Canon 1DX III files ... and I have a Mac Pro with 12 cores 3.46 Xeon with 96Gb Ram ... should be adequate
for this application.
 
It just hit me.

The information is of course for the 5.5K CRM and not the 8K CRM as the camera isn't even out yet. No support is published for it yet.

Sure enough, tried the 5.5K CRM from the other thread and it goes right in. It's perfect. (It didn't work months ago with FCP X, so I used CRD to convert it to ProRes back then when some of us were talking about.)

The 8K resolution CRM is going to no doubt have new minimum specs.

But it shouldn't affect too many people. Shouldn't be using an older computer for 8K anyway.
 
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I had the same problem with CR Plugin 1.4 and FCPX ...

Bottom line is Canon states the required environment for their plugin is the ability to run FCPX ... which I can do.

No joy with the Canon 1DX III files ... and I have a Mac Pro with 12 cores 3.46 Xeon with 96Gb Ram ... should be adequate
for this application.

Did you try downloading one of the 8K CRM files on the last page? And importing into FCP X?
 
Did a quick color grade. I'm noticing on Resolve 16.2.4, there is no change to the image when switching gamma between Canon log and log2 in the raw tab. However there is change when switching from either log or log2 to log3.

Same here in Resolve, but interestingly enough the 5.5K RAW I can import into FCP X has a different look for C-Log1/2/3 via the built-in LUTs.

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This. But I can also see narrative here too. I mean I just had a shoot during the madness with The BMCC 4K with actors and there’s on and off during a shoot all the time. I shut down the camera numerous times while I worked things out. All I want to see is some low light night shots with the r5 recording at the 19 minute mark.

It seems less useful for folks to say this camera will work for me or it won't. It seems more useful to determine what the thresholds of its capabilities are so people can decide for themselves. Sometimes in narrative you will roll for at least 10 or 15 minutes as you're doing multiple takes in a row + waiting for logistic resets. Everything depends.

I'm sure there will be more noise right before it reaches the overheat limit unless they are forcing it to shut off well before temperature increases noise noticeably.

This was a graph of camera temperature and noise from an astro photographer experimenting with dry ice-cooled DSLR set-ups. Yellow line is camera temperature, blue line is noise. In this case it looks like a marked increase in noise by the time the camera hits 77 Fahrenheit:

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Did you try downloading one of the 8K CRM files on the last page? And importing into FCP X?

No ... I can get FCPX up but really no interest in other codecs that work ... just want the one I use to be recognized.

I will take the 5.5K CRM with no heat issues or time constraints based on the hardware ... I can record to the external recorder all day
without issue.

The 12Bit Raw is compelling ... and DR Studio does a great job ... but Canon needs to address the intermittent corrupted frame in their
internal recording.
 
If you have some time or end up trying it, let me know...would love to know if it imports for you into FCP X.
 
Oh yeah, they can be good on things like one handed gimbals for some quick b-roll or other beauty type shot, but I would go nuts trying to use one as a primary camera, even without the recording limits.

You should try using one as a primary cam as an experiment if approrpriate. Something where you only need a single audio channel and don't need to feed the image anywhere else.

I want to try an AUTO EVERYTHING shoot (probably in the style of a short news package) where every single possible setting is set to automatic. I bet the results would be pretty good.

I'm definitely going to pick up an r5 when it makes sense. I've got a shoot coming up and in this case it'd be better to use than my c200.

I will never record 8k/ultra long clips with the camera so don't share the same overheating concerns as others, which seems like more of an easy topic to turn into a youtube video than a valid warning for the majority of owners.

If the camera overheats at the most important moment while recording, I probably chose the wrong tool?
 
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Over the weekend, this thread has become the official record holder for most replies for a topic in the "Industry News & Information" section with - at the time of this writing and including this post - 1637 replies.

But that pales in comparison to other threads like the Komodo one over on RU with 5600+.

Or even the DVX200 thread here a few years back with almost 3000.
 
Over the weekend, this thread has become the official record holder for most replies for a topic in the "Industry News & Information" section with - at the time of this writing and including this post - 1637 replies.

But that pales in comparison to other threads like the Komodo one over on RU with 5600+.

Or even the DVX200 thread here a few years back with almost 3000.

Just wait until the camera has shipped and we talk about crushed jobs due to overheating. Plenty of talking possibilities to raise the number of replies.
 
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