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Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders July 12th, 2015, 05:19 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 44,585
Posted By Declan Smith
Re: The Great Canon XL Series Revival Thread

@Owen, I too have really liked the Canon XL range of Cameras. I Started with the XM-2, then progressed to the XL-2. This camera was so versatile, solid audio, interchangeable lens etc. I decided...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders November 3rd, 2014, 04:05 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 14,198
Posted By Declan Smith
Re: Matching two XLH1's

I attach two screen shots of the color rite chart, and a grey wall and skin tones. Both are zoomed in post.
The shots on the left are raw from the two cameras. The top slice is what I am calling...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders November 3rd, 2014, 08:26 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 14,198
Posted By Declan Smith
Re: Matching two XLH1's

Interesting. They have both been back from a complete service over the last 4 months. The only material difference in terms of what was changed is that the 'correct' camera had new a new CCD Prism ...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders November 2nd, 2014, 01:46 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 14,198
Posted By Declan Smith
Matching two XLH1's

I have two XLH1's setup identically, same lens, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, gain, and no picture preset present. I have pointed them both at a grey card and captured a few frames of each...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders October 5th, 2014, 03:15 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 14,089
Posted By Declan Smith
Re: XLH1 stay with NTSC or switch to PAL ?

Thanks, I've decided to keep it PAL, primarily because everything else I have / cut it with, is PAL. I personally can't tell the difference between 24fps and 25fps, so the only thing I would...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders September 11th, 2014, 03:50 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 14,089
Posted By Declan Smith
XLH1 stay with NTSC or switch to PAL ?

I live in the UK and have just received my PAL XLH1 back from Canon after getting the CCD prism changed and all dead / hot pixels removed.

Picture look awesome. However, the camera is now...
Forum: Canon XL1S / XL1 Watchdog September 8th, 2014, 08:20 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 16,706
Posted By Declan Smith
Re: FU-1000 NTSC work on my PAL XL1?

Awesome resource, yet again!! So I bought myself a new FU-1000 which came from the states, connected it up and the screen is flickering. It then dawned on me that it would be NTSC and not PAL, and...
Forum: Atomos Ninja / Samurai / Shogun October 10th, 2013, 07:22 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 3,268
Posted By Declan Smith
Samurai & Lanc

Is there anyway that a lanc controller can be connected to the Samurai such that the start/stop function will trigger record and passthrough the other functions from the lanc controller to the camera...
Forum: Canon XL H Series HDV Camcorders October 4th, 2013, 07:53 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 16,598
Posted By Declan Smith
Focussing, FU-1000, and Peaking

I have just bought a canon XL-H1 (well back in July, but have only just started using it) and have tried out all my old XL2 accessories etc, including the FU1000 viewfinder. With the stock colour...
Forum: Atomos Ninja / Samurai / Shogun October 4th, 2013, 07:27 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,816
Posted By Declan Smith
DNxHD v ProRes

I have just purchased the Atomos Samurai and have done some very quick connect & test shots using a Canon XL-H1, just to explore the Samurai. I captured a shot on both codecs at each resolution,...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD August 13th, 2010, 02:14 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 15,340
Posted By Declan Smith
The clips will be imported (copied) verbatim from...

The clips will be imported (copied) verbatim from the CF card into apertures library with no loss of quality. You are best advised to transcode the clips from H.264 into an editing codec (like...
Forum: Stabilizers (Steadicam etc.) July 31st, 2010, 07:53 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,448
Posted By Declan Smith
SteadyStick for DSLR

Whilst having a bit of a clearout, I came across my tiffen steady stick that I bought for the XL-2 years ago. Thing is, this little piece of kit seems to be quite well suited to the 7D DSLR,...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD June 15th, 2010, 10:29 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 6,731
Posted By Declan Smith
I have done some very very quick and dirty tests...

I have done some very very quick and dirty tests (not very scientific as I am not an expert on this field), but basically pointed the camera at some clouds under various settings / picture styles. ...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD June 13th, 2010, 04:00 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,350
Posted By Declan Smith
I too like to backup my source clips in a similar...

I too like to backup my source clips in a similar way to a tape workflow, so I did a couple of tutorials which you may find useful for fcp. The second one makes use of the eos plugin for fcp to...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD June 12th, 2010, 05:04 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 6,731
Posted By Declan Smith
Posterization in post

I have followed the general advice to use a flat response (actually the superflat preset) to give more options later in post. However, what I have found is that a number of clips have caused alot of...
Forum: Canon EOS Full Frame for HD April 25th, 2010, 03:08 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,381
Posted By Declan Smith
Glad that was useful however, when you say 'no...

Glad that was useful however, when you say 'no need to make a disk image or copy back to CF card', that all depends on your backup strategy. Personally I prefer to make an entire copy of the SD card...
Forum: Canon EOS Full Frame for HD April 25th, 2010, 01:30 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,381
Posted By Declan Smith
You may find this thread over on the 7d forum of...

You may find this thread over on the 7d forum of use. In there is discussion about the directory layout and there is a sample thm file that you can use if you have lost the original. ...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD April 5th, 2010, 06:35 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,127
Posted By Declan Smith
I managed to reduce the blockiness by using magic...

I managed to reduce the blockiness by using magic bullet looks, however I now get banding where the colour changes ( which I can use the reduce banding filter to remove).

Is there something I can...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD March 21st, 2010, 05:12 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 15,340
Posted By Declan Smith
Make sure the directory structure mirrors the...

Make sure the directory structure mirrors the Canon 7D card. I seem to have problems when it doesn't.

i.e. when you copy them over to another disk, make sure it's like:
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD March 20th, 2010, 09:46 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 15,340
Posted By Declan Smith
You are quite right, you can load from any folder...

You are quite right, you can load from any folder if the .thm and .mov files are there. I describe a workflow that works for me and is simple to setup and use. I even copy over an empty dir, for no...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD March 20th, 2010, 02:21 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 15,340
Posted By Declan Smith
7d ingest workflow tutorial

Ok, after realising my mistake of deleting the .thm files, and after some trial and error, I thought I would put together, what I think , is a useful workflow for backing up ad card captures in a...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD March 19th, 2010, 05:22 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 15,340
Posted By Declan Smith
Some pitfalls ......

Initially I couldn't get this plugin to work as FCP kept telling me that there no files in the correct format or directory structure, even though there were. What I was trying to do was load in...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD March 19th, 2010, 02:12 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 15,340
Posted By Declan Smith
7D Plugin for final cut has been released

It's here

Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDetailTabAct&fcategoryid=314&modelid=19356)
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD February 28th, 2010, 03:53 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,127
Posted By Declan Smith
Blockiness and codec choice

I recently took a pick up shot across a river coming into sun set, sun in front and to left of frame with the 7D. As the shot is to be a composited in background, and I haven't seen the foreground...
Forum: Canon EOS Crop Sensor for HD December 16th, 2009, 05:46 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,550
Posted By Declan Smith
Apple RAW Support Available

Just took an update from Apple that supports the 7D RAW Format.

I can only get it to work with the Full RAW format, i.e. no support for M-RAW & S-RAW
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