[Avid-L2] Re: Mac Smoke Official now new Sheriff in town now DSLR/DSMC?

We had a segment come in for our season opening doc from a custom Canon Mark 5D set up by freelance photojournalist Danfung Dennis. He built it with a sidemount Sennheiser shotgun and hotshoe mounted wireless going through another sidemount pre-amp mixer into the camera for better sound. Mounted it on a Glidecam to smooth out his movement. He was able to get some stunning material with it. (<http://tinyurl.com/ObWar>, footage is 1:35 in)
The producers fell in love with the shallow depth of field. Something hard to achieve without the very large imager on the 5D or a bulky lens adapter on an eng rig. Now we have DP's and Producers calling us to get authorization to shoot with 5D's.

We had some problems with the footage. 4 1/2 minutes took 3 1/2 hours to import/transcode (SNDX 3.5). The bigger problem was that the footage had dropped frames. We couldn't seem to isolate the source of the problem. Also, audio is 44.1 khz and frame rate is 30p only. Not deal breakers, but not ideal.

The large imager looks beautiful, but the workflow could be better.

Tim Mangini
FRONTLINE

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "johnrobmoore" <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> That was kinda my thought but since I'm not on the business end of a camera I'm curious what the shooters not the been counters think. I've dealt with my share of bad B camera shot by the PA just because they had an extra DVCam handy. Will I now get the same kind of B roll only coming from a DSLR/DSMC camera? I can't imagine the footage getting much worse but I bet the "I wanna be a cameraman" PA stuck with a DSLR will probably shoot even worse than they already are now with existing camera solutions.
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
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> > In other words, by the time you spend the buck and effort to make a 7D as ideal for reality TV as any of the HD video cameras out there, what have you gained?
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