The next HUGE step in video acquisition has just been created by the genius team over at Magic Lantern. It's the ability to shoot RAW footage at high definition sizes with the (relatively) inexpensive Canon MKiii
RAW footage will give you a huge luminance range and an enormous ability to correct or create new color profiles and scene "looks".
Plus you'll now really be able to get some GREAT stills from your Video Footage (up to 5k still frames).
This is big - and it's the next big step for those of us who cannot afford 5 and 6 figure cameras.
Way back in December of 2009 I shot this short and presented some of the first footage to introduce large sensor capture (and the value of limited depth of field) to my Vegas buddies.
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iNGAs4EcpOQ/default.jpg)
Of course, today that is all old news - but THIS IS THE NEXT STEP.
Be sure to check it out.
http://www.eoshd.com/content/10324/big-news-hands-on-with-continuous-raw-recording-on-canon-5d-mark-iii
Apparently the firmware upgrade delivers a series of 4k to 5k stills in a contiguous stream.
Magic Lantern is suggesting importing this stream of stills into After Effects, but I'm thinking that Vegas may also be able to do the same. I have certainly imported dozens of still sequences into Vegas for time lapse studies - and it IS the BEST editing software available on earth.
So why not?
More to come next week, when I get a chance to try it all out!
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RAW footage will give you a huge luminance range and an enormous ability to correct or create new color profiles and scene "looks".
Plus you'll now really be able to get some GREAT stills from your Video Footage (up to 5k still frames).
This is big - and it's the next big step for those of us who cannot afford 5 and 6 figure cameras.
Way back in December of 2009 I shot this short and presented some of the first footage to introduce large sensor capture (and the value of limited depth of field) to my Vegas buddies.
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/iNGAs4EcpOQ/default.jpg)
Of course, today that is all old news - but THIS IS THE NEXT STEP.
Be sure to check it out.
http://www.eoshd.com/content/10324/big-news-hands-on-with-continuous-raw-recording-on-canon-5d-mark-iii
Apparently the firmware upgrade delivers a series of 4k to 5k stills in a contiguous stream.
Magic Lantern is suggesting importing this stream of stills into After Effects, but I'm thinking that Vegas may also be able to do the same. I have certainly imported dozens of still sequences into Vegas for time lapse studies - and it IS the BEST editing software available on earth.
So why not?
More to come next week, when I get a chance to try it all out!
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