RAW video from Canon 550D?

Mindmatter wrote on 9/24/2010, 2:43 AM

Hi all,
I've heard rumors that some people actually managed to shoot RAW video with their 550D. Now, I'd like to know how that is possible ( maybe recording on an external PC via HDMI?) and how you could handle such presumably huge files if not by converting them to a compressed codec - which in turn would make the whole thing useless , or would it?
I'd be grateful for any explanation..Thanks!

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farss wrote on 9/24/2010, 4:42 AM

I'm not familiar with the 550D but if it's anything like the other vDLSRs then what comes out the HDMI port is hardly worth recording. You can record very high quality and even RAW if you slow the frame rate down enough i.e. just record a sequence of stills. As you say this will generate a lot of data. There's a number of codecs that support RAW data, one being the high end Cineform codec.

Bob.

Mindmatter wrote on 9/24/2010, 5:11 AM

Thanks Bob!
I'm not sure how it's supposed to be done in the first place, maybe there's something like magic lantern that manipulates the Canon's OS into more recording modes.
I'll post whatever I can find out.