Canon’s Display Matches 4K Video with DCI Colour Precision

Canon’s Display Matches 4K Video with DCI Colour Precision | H-WARE:
Canon’s new DP-V3010 4K 30-inch video display combines a proprietary image engine and RGB LED backlight system with an IPS LCD panel to achieve the level of colour reproduction, resolution and contrast currently required for professional production editing and colour checking.

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Magic Lantern Team Discovers 2K RAW Video Capability on the 5D Mark II and III

Magic Lantern Team Discovers 2K RAW Video Capability on the 5D Mark II and III:
In what may very well be the most exciting Magic Lantern development ever, the team has discovered a RAW DNG output in live view on the 5D Mark II and 5D Mark III. What this means is that, in the near future, 5D Mark II and III owners may be able to record crystal clear 2K RAW video that blows H.264 output out of the water and then some.

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Working with C300 LOG Footage in FCP7 - Plus Free LUTS

Working with C300 LOG Footage in FCP7 - Plus Free LUTS | Jonny Elwyn - Film Editor:
The other day I had to work with some C300 LOG footage in FCP7 and needed to quickly apply a LUT that would show the client what it might actually look like in the final grade. For a simple free way of doing this just grab LUT Buddy from Red Giant Software and follow the tutorial below. You can also download several free Canon C300 LOG LUTS from the great people at AbleCine.

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Canon Cinema RAW Development Software

Canon Cinema RAW Development Software | CineTechnica:
Canon has released their very easy to use Cinema RAW Development software for Mac OS Lion and Mountain Lion, which allows you to ingest, play, and export Canon RAW files. The user interface is very intuitive; just click on a clip and it immediately shows up in the Preview window. You can play it straight, scrub, go through it frame by frame, and set in and out points. The Preview window also includes some basic look controls, such as viewing gammas, sharpness, white balance, and brightness controls. There is also the ability to view frame and clip information. You can also use the software to play your footage out to an external monitor using an expansion card with SDI output.

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What Exactly is Canon Raw?

What Exactly is Canon Raw?:

The new Canon C500 is just hitting the streets, offering both internal 50 Mbps 422 recording, as well even higher quality outputs. The camera can output HD & 2K in 4:2:2 up to 120p, or 4:4:4 up to 60p, and uncompressed 4K Raw data up to 60p and 120p at half vertical resolution.

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Working With Canon Log

Working With Canon Log:

Recently I have been getting a number of questions about Log mode in the Canon C300, which is great because that means that many of us are using this mode. However, there are some really important things to know before jumping in. Canon has recently published a white paper on Canon Log that is full of great info. It’s not exactly light reading, however, so I’ll try to outline some of the important information about Canon’s Log curve in this blog.

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Marco Solorio compares Blackmagic Cinema Camera with Canon 5D MKIII

Marco Solorio compares Blackmagic Cinema Camera with Canon 5D MKIII:

Blackmagic has said that they plan to send me an evaluation unit of their Cinema Camera for review. While I await it, Marco Solorio of One River Media has already received his unit and has a comparison video with the Canon 5D MKIII. Ahead is his video…

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Understanding Canon Log

Understanding Canon Log:
An exciting new gamma setting included in the Canon EOS C300 is Canon Log, and while not a RAW recording format, it delivers a number of the benefits of RAW recording to cinematographers and colorists looking for the most information to work with in color grading. Canon Log simplifies the production process, ensuring both single and multi-camera shoots produce consistent and predictable results. The Canon EOS C300 records images with Canon Log using the same reliable and tested on-board Canon XF Codec, but with approximately 12 stops of dynamic range, an overall flat image quality, low contrast and subdued sharpness. This allows for more image information to be retained for color correction and visual effects.

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Basic Guide to Avid Media Composer DSLR Workflow for Canon Users

Basic Guide to Avid Media Composer DSLR Workflow for Canon Users: If you are new to Avid's Media Composer DSLR workflow it is essential to look at the new good video footage prepared by Alex Walker, director of photography and editor. The presented in video method of maintenance work on all Canon DSLRs. Alex Walker briefly describes performed in the guide steps as follows: “We start with AMA native H.264 playback, then cut offline DNxHD36 files and relink to the originals, and then wrap up with encoding for the web using Sorenson Squeeze 8.5 and x264”.  Source: http://wideopencamera.com/ | http://alexwalkerstudios.com/

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Canon C300 Log LUTs and More Scene Files

Canon C300 Log LUTs and More Scene Files:

Canon provides several De-Log LUTs on their website that are meant to convert Canon Log back into REC709 or video gammas. These files can be found on Canon’s website but can be tough to use, because they are given in 1D LUT format as a simple CSV (comma seperate value) file.

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מסך 30 אינץ של קנון

Canon הודיעה בתערוכת NAB שהיא מפתחת מסך 30 אינץ באיכות של 4k לתעשיית הוידאו הקולנוע.

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Canon to announce 12bit 4K C500 to compete with RED Epic ($35,000)

Canon to announce 12bit 4K C500 to compete with RED Epic ($35,000):
Things are hectic as I am frantically editing “You and your Canon C300″ DVD which is why the blog has had a bit of a rest but thats the lull before the NAB 2012 storm. So far only Sony have announced their new camera line up and the NEX-FS700 is causing a storm with its...

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Canon announces a new digital cinema camera - supporting 4K video capture!

Canon announces a new digital cinema camera - supporting 4K video capture!: Canon is working on a new camera - but this time the company drops HD resolutions and decided to bring a 4K camera to the market! It will be compatible with PL and EF mounts and should be in many aspects similar to the popular and highly-acclaimed C300, but of course with one big advantage over it - 4096x2160 pixel resolution!

   

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Canon to unveil EOSRAW recording format? New high end camera specs | EOSHD.com

Canon to unveil EOSRAW recording format? New high end camera specs | EOSHD.com:
 "This is called EOSRAW and it will be efficient enough to be recorded to CF cards. It is capable of up to 12bit 4K (as the new AVC Ultra format from Panasonic is expected to do). "

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Canon C300 custom scene files from AbelCine - download for free!

Canon C300 custom scene files from AbelCine - download for free!:
If you want to get more from your Canon EOS C300 camera or of you want to get a different footage look, here's a useful solution that might be helpful. Andy Shipsides of AbelCine released custom scene files for Canon's camera and these files are available for free!



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The Canon 5D Mark III and grading the C300 at BOSCPUG

The Canon 5D Mark III and grading the C300 at BOSCPUG:

Last night's Boston Creative Pro User Group meeting at Rule Boston Camera featured pizza and beer, Carl Peer of Canon U.S.A. discussing the Canon 5D Mark III, and Rob Bessette, colorist at Finish Post discussing grading the short "Hustle" (shot on the Canon C300 and graded on DaVinci Resolve.)




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Importing Canon C300 and MKIII Footage into Avid MC6

Importing Canon C300 and MKIII Footage into Avid MC6:

Here are two quick tutorials by editor Dylan Reeve that will show you the simplicity of importing Canon C300 and Canon 5D MKIII footage into Media Composer 6.0. Watch below.

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Canon 5D Mark III Graded

Canon 5D Mark III Graded:
Dan Chung posted some camera-original clips from his new 5D Mark III. I grabbed one and did a quick color grade.

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DIGGING UP CANON DSLR METADATA - Little Frog in High Def

DIGGING UP CANON DSLR METADATA - Little Frog in High Def
Today I found out a neat trick…thanks to the Twitter-verse. That’s what I love about Twitter. I can post a quick thought, or some observation…OR…I can ask quick advice about a random topic and get an answer rather quickly. I don’t have to go looking for some specific forum and then post the question there, and hope someone knows the answer. I just throw the answer out there, and wait for someone to post the solution. Typically I get more than one answer, and I get the answer within minutes.

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Canon C300 LUTs

Canon C300 LUTs

Canon provide LUTs for the C300 in their Drivers & Software page.
Canon Log10 to Cineon, REC709 and Video.

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