This is a brief excerpt from F-Stop Academy
It’s a great day for Canon 5D Mark III owners …
If you do like to shoot with DSLR and this applies to some of my recent workshop attendees who often come with a wide array of different formats then this news is really important especially if you plan to do a lot of color grading and post work to your DSLR footage.
The new update from Canon means you can finally record a clean HDMI out and record to an Atomos Ninja 2 – this means you can shoot in ProRes 422 albeit 8 bit. The fact is when Canon released the 5D MArk III the new CODECS were a vast improvement on the old h.264 that we all had to deal with on teh 5D Mark II and 7d. This is something I dedicated a whole chapter to recording CODECS in my video guide to shooting video on the Canon 5D Mark III
The big plus is in the ability for you to record a more solid CODEC and this is a big deal when you are color grading with advanced software such as DaVinci Resolve
But as the attendees of my workshops will vouch for…I always advise not to jump …
By: Den
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