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@enny: This video compares the BMCC with 5D3 H.264 - not the Pocket with 5D3 RAW.

I understand your pain with the BMPCC. I decided a few months ago to go with the 5D after the Blackmagic price drop. That kinda did it in for me as the resale value of that gear has terrible depreciation. Love the image.....but that wasn't enough for me to bite. I already had alot of canon gear and didn't feel like changing over to a different camera system just yet. So I decided to try the 5D out and figured RAW would be an added bonus. So far I very impressed with it. The more I shoot with 5D Raw the more I like it and feel comfortable working with it. In fact, I shot a music video this past Saturday using it and the only problem I encountered was running out of space on the 64 gig card(I will be ordering more!). Here are some ungraded frames. I like the colors and details that RAW provides. Also, on this shoot I didn't know what the subject would be wearing and when I saw his jacket I knew I could be dealing with moiré problems. I struggled with moiré using the 7D until I got a Mosaic anti alias filter for it. After that I told myself I would never deal with a camera that had moiré issues and wasn't good in low light. I heard moiré affected the blackmagic cameras and that worried me. Fortunately, the 5D handles both situations it very well so I went with it and it has done well. YouTube compression butchered this video up until 1:14 sec in and after that you can see crop mode shooting on the ants. I will say that you can't record for very long using crop mode and it will drop a frame so I would not rely on that on a shoot.

I guys i been going through my huge collection of videos that i keep for inspiration came across this video shoot on 60d and 35mm and 100mm lens that always inspire me to be better. I know raw is cool right now but i believe no about of raw and cc can replace bad story line or video that was shoot bad you know cam movement and framing. I have my black magic 2.5k still in he box not open, wont open it until i do few more project with 60d,

Check out this guys stuff: It's quite beautiful. vimeo.com/kendyty Almost all of it done with the Canon 550D. Clearly he knows the real secret: good looking girls and moody lighting. :P

The video in the OP is lovely looking. But they went to a lot of effort with the locations, crew, rigging, camera movement, light, makeup, costumes, props, organisation, logistics, ideas, direction, cinematography, distribution...   Yet shot it in crap-o-vision with a 60D. It doesn't make any sense.   I must say they played to the strengths of the camera very well and avoided any nastiness and the low-fi grade does help but imagine the extra impact those frankly amazing visuals would have had with a better camera.

This video really shows what you can do if you apply yourself with the tools in hand. I recently shot a music video for a friend in RAW with my 60D & well, "Pain In The Arse" doesn't even come close to describing my feelings. Shooting a few RAW snaps of your cats, random [street] stuff, flowers or your kid etc... & then posting just doesn't get close to how much extra unnecessary hassle it really is for a proper project. As far as i'm concerned, if its for web delivery then i'm still going to grab my 60D first without any hesitation, as i know that i can get exactly what i want in-camera & then all i have to do is tweek it a tiny bit in post. IMHO if you are of the mentality that says "we'll just fix it in post", then you really should be spending that wasted time learning how not to get yourself into that position in the first place. Am going to film a short doc with the Pocket (ProRes - as RAW can go F**K ITSELF!), but i just know that it won't be as straight forward a process as using my 60D.

This started out as a favour for a friend & while on the day it was a complete nightmare, the results weren't as bad as i thought. This was almost entirely shot handheld (1 tripod wide shot), due to there not being enough room to swing a cat or should that be mouse!!? Anyways, stage was like a tiny bouncy castle & space was really tight - so no rig either! For the majority of shots I used the Helios 44-2+Iscorama 54+Voigtlander Focar A&B (+1/+2 diopters). There are a few shots were i used the Helios 40-2 & the shit wide shot was with the Mir-1b. This will be one of the last things I'll shoot on the 60D with H264, as i now have the Pocket in my hands...

moon 7 is probably the best hack I've used. I've had no worries matching it with gh3 footage, I think the picture style you choose would have more effect than what hack you choosem in terms of matching. One thing to keep in mind if you are travelling. The GH3 is much more rugged.

Just found this on youtube. Most useful footage I've seen so far (that's really not saying much though), but doesn't answer any low-light questions. http://youtu.be/C93diqMMmDw

I made some rear screw-on caps for Kiev-16U lenses. Price is $20 per cap. Non-anodized caps will be available for order till November 24th. Then I'll send rest of them to anodizing.

Pocket Raw sure does suck...

That clip (with its scantily clad women) reminds me of an interview I read of a producer of pornography. He said, the interesting thing about porn is if you go out and shoot the worse piece of porn ever recorded, with the ugliest person and worst production values SOMEONE WILL BUY IT. He said no matter how much porn is created, that doesn't change.

It makes 100% sense if that is all they could afford.

How to use raw...   Press record.   Swap card when full.   Record audio separately.   Edit in Resolve.   Sync with the audio.   It ain't that hard… alas devil is in the details… and that is why I wrote the book.

So agencies are standardising around just two cameras? Man… I'm glad I'm not working for them :)

for as long as I have been on these film/video forums.... The holy grail has been the "film look". first it was "we must have 24p", then "we must use 1/48th", then "we need large sensors", then "we need to add film looks to the grade", then "we need more dynamic range", then "we need raw". I'm sure next it will be something like "we need global shutter". All the above helps... but the fundamentals of the "film look" remain the same... The craft. Composition, lighting, camera movement and sound. Get those things right and you could use any camera from the last few years and it will look like a good production (of course, the acting and script need to back that up). Vincent Larofet (?) was mocked for saying the MoVI was the next big thing, but i'm 100% with him. It is a tool for the craft, not the pixel peepers.

I just ordered a BMPCC a couple of hours ago. BH has a special where you get Vegas 12 Pro for free. Wow! Like you Axel, I'm a bit nervous. However, a 5D3 is $2,300 more AND as far as I know you need expensive CF cards AND glass, etc. AND it's big. In photography I'd say bigger sensor wins every time. Yes, the 5D3 footage looks really nice. However, I don't see anything I don't like about the BMPCC. I've looked at tons of videos from all RAW cameras. The color and the dynamic range is simply beautiful. Totally unexpected, I think I finally went for it after seeing Andrew's photos from RAW. Not bad! When I want to take a photo maybe I'll take a few seconds and choose the best frame. I just looked at this BMPCC footage night. Not my kind of thing (I like people), but the detail in the shadows! https://vimeo.com/79478553 No H.264 camera comes close, not by a country mile. Finally, I don't trust ML, sorry. I'm going to keep working with it, but as Bioshop said, shooting ProRes out of the box will get me to the fun part again, shooting, editing and posting!

It could also give us 12-bit 4:4:4 8K (8,192 x 4,320) at up to 120 fps.

as of right now h265 doesnt make much sense to use for professional work. you use codecs like this one and like h264 to get the best quality/size ratio. this makes sense for your final version you want to share with people. well, sharing something that almost nobody can play isnt really helping is it? im really looking forward to x265 and when h265 enters the scene. but for now stick with h264 when sharing videos. its not rocketscience. on a mac use handbrake with the quality option enabled. most people still use bitrate. why? you should only use bitrate if you directly want to control the size of your video file, but most often you dont care about the exacty size. you want it to look good. i hate people saying that they just use a bitrate of 4000 for 720p. it always looks good. fact is, for a concert video or a sporting event 4000 might be not enough for reasonsable quality. for a locked shot or timelapse 4000 might be overkill. its not that easy to determine. just go with the quality option if thats what you care about. crf24 = youtube quality, crf22 = good quality, crf20 = very good quality, crf18 = to go all out. i wouldnt recommend using lower crf values than 18. you cant see the difference. i have a eye for detail and most often can see a difference between 20 and 18. so using crf18 already gives you a nice safety bump, if you might wanna use the file to create other formats out of it. on windows use staxrip. its one of the few reasons i still miss windows. its the best encoding software for h264 by a long shot. handbrake works well but the interface is illogocally structured.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZpj0vLtkAI   Panasonic Lumix GH3 with 45 - 200mm   Frame 300% Fast and 40% Slow, edited by Sony Vega 11   The wind at the airport is too strong and my camera is shake a bit.