Osman Rafiq's Lounge Discussions

I would not use RAW on a real production as it pretty well complicates a proper post. If anything, with red ones renting for dirt cheap these days, if you need raw, I'd look into that. Else, the 5dMKIII is pretty remarkable out of the box as I just used it. Aside from the problems of filming in low light with focus on an Vistavistion ("IMAX") Sized sensor.

Now that DaVinci Resolve support .RAW natively, the post is not too involving anymore. What I would be concerned about is the reliability of the hack, since it is still in Alpha version eventhough there is an amazing community of brilliant developers and testers getting new versions out every day.

That's still a pretty expensive step between camera to edit. And at that point you're in the territory of Arri Raw and Redcode Raw, as well as Cineform Raw, all of which come out of cameras purpose built for recording it; and generally far more robust and less troublesome than working on vDSLRs. This may work if you're in your basement cutting yourself, but it's hard to justify using a 5D as an "a" cam when you've now upped the post budget substantially (as well as the cost for data management), when you can get a red which has a similar post, but is more well understood and gasp, probably more stable-- and most houses should have redrockets to aid in decoding. Hell one could get a full Epic package, with lenses ,in LA for around $600/day, which is a pretty insanely low price, and comparable to the price you'd pay for a 5dMKII rental with lenses.

Sure. But the OP was not asking about renting a package and optimizing a budget. He probably owns a 5Dmii and is maybe looking to 'get it to the other level' so to speak.

Even so, he should understand what it means on a real production to "get to the next level."

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Thanks Tommi. It's still a vague answer. My character traits can only go so far without opportunities discovered and given. But everyone's path can be different.

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