T3i live music video question

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Moontower

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Im planning on recording my band perform next week and our performance is 45-50 minutes. i know the t3i stops recording after 12 mins or so depending on SD card. i read somewhere that magic lantern can solve that problem. I have Magic Lantern installed but don't know much about it yet. Any help on how to set that setting would be appreciated!

Also, if anyone can point me to a thread about best settings for live music videos with t3i and h4n combo, that would rock!

Thanks!
Chad
 
Can't address the ML issues, but plenty around here can.

As for settings, there's no magic answer. All depends on the lighting you're working with and the look you want. Generally people will advise to shoot with a neutral profile, with saturation, sharpness, and contrast dialed down to some extent. Those are starting points though, you really should be testing settings yourself to discover how they change the look and what you like best.

In my experience, the most important thing about live band videos is getting as many cameras going as possible, and either try to match their look via settings or in post (usually both). If you don't have similar cameras available, that's when you do more extreme grades, or go black & white/tinted, etc.

I shot this with a Panasonic AC-130 and a T2i - 2 very different looking cameras, but they match well enough. (This was shot in multiple takes with just me operating, but essentially how I'd have shot it live - 3 shooters, a camera on a jib out front, and shoulder-rigged cameras left and right).

 
ML has an option to start recording again after the 12 minute limit. It's not continuous, you'll get various 12min files losing about 2 seconds between each one.

It's a good option for an unmanned camera. The con is that the recording could stop right in the middle of a song, so i would recommend having someone pressing stop and resume recording after every song if possible.
 
Concerts are about the most difficult things to shoot with a DSLR. They are usually a very high dynamic range with minimal lighting and it can be very hard to keep focus. I second everything said. Also, it can be really difficult to determine the right color temperature. Usually the lights are gelled and it can be really easy to clip a color channel. I tend to err towards 3200K or 4000K if the lights are naturally tungsten. Some clubs are using LED's now, though. Desaturation is your friend. The Canon Video X profile works well for this type of shoot.
 
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