Reel World: First 7D Footage with Motion Capture

No it wasn't Avatar.
However, I had the pleasure of meeting the super talented Eduard Schneider
while in Chicago for The Zacuto Shootout. He sent me,what I believe to be, the first motion-capture footage shot with the 7D.

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Reel World: Canon 5D Used to Shoot 2010 WRC in Jordan

This is a very cool short film by Amr Toukhy from Visual Laundry. Keep an eye out, in partcular, for an awesome and super crisp slow-mo shot mid-way thru.


Go here For some Behind the Scene Photos
Also checkout visuallaundry.com

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Reel World: Awesome Music Video Shot on Canon DSLR's

Jesse Dana was the Director of Photography on this awesome music video shot on Canon DSLR's.

http://www.jessedana.com/

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5d Resurrected

Last week I had a huge shoot and had my 5d and Jon's 7d with me. We were filming inside and I tried to go into live mode on my 5d and it wouldn't budge. Nothing. No click, No image, nothing. I tried to turn it off and on a few times but it wouldn't budge. I tried to change the battery and nothing. By this point I HAD TO start shooting so I just grabbed another camera. Probably no less than a minute later, my colleague was able to turn it on and go into video mode and record.

What gives? I've actually read on a few other sites that people have had similar issues but should we find it ironic that all of a sudden, after the much needed firmware was released, that there are rare occurrences of the 5d just freezing up?

Lesson learned. Bought the new Canon T2i as a backup.

Alright... the title was a little dramatic but I'm a little worried and curious if anyone else has experienced this.

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Adobe CS5 to Support Native Editing Of DSLR Footage

Adobe CS5 Native Editing of DSLR Footage
The Question is how does FCP respond? I really don't want to have to go back to Adobe just because of this. FCP in my opinion is far superior in many other apects. Thoughts?

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Our First Same Day Edit: All Canon DSLR's

This was our first Same Day Edit. It was shot entirely on Canon 5D's and Canon 7D's.
We had hoped to include more audio but we had to show this while the band was on break
and after color grading it, we just ran out of time. It was very cool to finally get some
live feedback on an edit. The crowds reactions made all the time spent in pre-production
well worth it.

For more info check out Society Hill Studios blog.

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