Practice footage: My first video in a while, I was able to get out for a couple of hours this week.
I'm practicing a couple of things:
1: Using the fluid head arm on my tripod head for the first time hoping to get smoother movements than I used to get by holding the head with my hands. This means trusting my R5 AF more than before.
2: Using my new Rode Video Pro mic to capture ambient sound. Practicing using the mic settings to reduce the hissing sounds during recording. I turn the camera sound recording volume way down to reduce the camera's preamp noise and then boosting the recording volume on the mic. This make a HUGE difference greatly reducing the recording background noise because the preamp of the mic is much better quality that the preamp in the camera. I also did additional noise reduction on the audio file in an audio editor called Audacity which did a great job.
Video format:
I shot the entire video in 4K60p crop mode for a number of reasons:
1: I used to shoot the majority of my clips in 4K120p because it gave smoother results, but as you know it has some disadvantages - it is line-skipped and produces poor image quality, plus it does not allow audio recording. On the other hand 4K60p crop is down-sampled using 5.1 K from the center of sensor producing much higher image quality virtually indistinguishable from 4K30 Fine mode, and you can do audio recording too.
2: In crop mode the autofocus points cover a larger area of the sensor than in full frame modes making the overall AF performance better. I'm pretty happy with the results.
3: Overheating is not a problem in 4K60p so I can just let the recording run on and on and this acts essentially like having pre-capture on the R5, something I can't do on the R5 shooting 4K120p because it runs too hot and produces huge files. Also pretty happy about this.
Filming in Log - my conclusion about filming in Log on the Canon R5:
After 8 months of almost continuous filming in C-Log 3 on a wide variety of wildlife and landscape subjects in various weather and lighting conditions I have decided that for my use cases it's simply not worth the time, trouble or expense. The above video was not filmed in Log but in Canon's Standard Picture Profile.
Still lots of flaws in some of this footage (first clip is very jumpy), a work in progress...
Practice footage: My first video in a while, I was able to get out for a couple of hours this week.
I'm practicing a couple of things:
1: Using the fluid head arm on my tripod head for the first time hoping to get smoother movements than I used to get by holding the head with my hands. This means trusting my R5 AF more than before.
2: Using my new Rode Video Pro mic to capture ambient sound. Practicing using the mic settings to reduce the hissing sounds during recording. I turn the camera sound recording volume way down to reduce the camera's preamp noise and then boosting the recording volume on the mic. This make a HUGE difference greatly reducing the recording background noise because the preamp of the mic is much better quality that the preamp in the camera. I also did additional noise reduction on the audio file in an audio editor called Audacity which did a great job.
Video format:
I shot the entire video in 4K60p crop mode for a number of reasons:
1: I used to shoot the majority of my clips in 4K120p because it gave smoother results, but as you know it has some disadvantages - it is line-skipped and produces poor image quality, plus it does not allow audio recording. On the other hand 4K60p crop is down-sampled using 5.1 K from the center of sensor producing much higher image quality virtually indistinguishable from 4K30 Fine mode, and you can do audio recording too.
2: In crop mode the autofocus points cover a larger area of the sensor than in full frame modes making the overall AF performance better. I'm pretty happy with the results.
3: Overheating is not a problem in 4K60p so I can just let the recording run on and on and this acts essentially like having pre-capture on the R5, something I can't do on the R5 shooting 4K120p because it runs too hot and produces huge files. Also pretty happy about this.
Filming in Log - my conclusion about filming in Log on the Canon R5:
After 8 months of almost continuous filming in C-Log 3 on a wide variety of wildlife and landscape subjects in various weather and lighting conditions I have decided that for my use cases it's simply not worth the time, trouble or expense. The above video was not filmed in Log but in Canon's Standard Picture Profile.
Still lots of flaws in some of this footage (first clip is very jumpy), a work in progress...
Practice footage: My first video in a while, I was able to get out for a couple of hours this week.
I'm practicing a couple of things:
1: Using the fluid head arm on my tripod head for the first time hoping to get smoother movements than I used to get by holding the head with my hands. This means trusting my R5 AF more than before.
2: Using my new Rode Video Pro mic to capture ambient sound. Practicing using the mic settings to reduce the hissing sounds during recording. I turn the camera sound recording volume way down to reduce the camera's preamp noise and then boosting the recording volume on the mic. This make a HUGE difference. I also did additional noise reduction on the audio file in an audio editor called Audacity - it does a great job.
Video format:
I shot the entire video in 4K60p crop mode for a number of reasons:
1: I used to shoot the majority of my clips in 4K120p because it gave smoother results, but as you know it has some disadvantages - it is line-skipped and produces poor image quality, plus it does not allow audio recording. On the other hand 4K60p crop is down-sampled using 5.1 K from the center of sensor producing much higher image quality virtually indistinguishable from 4K30 Fine mode, and you can do audio recording too.
2: In crop mode the autofocus points cover a larger area of the sensor than in full frame modes making the overall AF performance better. I'm pretty happy with the results.
3: Overheating is not a problem in 4K60p so I can just let the recording run on and on and this acts essentially like having pre-capture on the R5, something I can't do on the R5 shooting 4K120p because it runs too hot and produces huge files. Also pretty happy about this.
Filming in Log - my conclusion about filming in Log on the Canon R5:
After 8 months of almost continuous filming in C-Log 3 on a wide variety of wildlife and landscape subjects in various weather and lighting conditions I have decided that for my use cases it's simply not worth the time, trouble or expense. The above video was not filmed in Log but in Canon's Standard Picture Profile.
Still lots of flaws in some of this footage (first clip is very jumpy), a work in progress...
Practice footage: My first video in a while, I was able to get out for a couple of hours this week.
I'm practicing a couple of things:
1: Using the fluid head arm on my tripod head for the first time hoping to get smoother movements than I used to get by holding the head with my hands. This means trusting my R5 AF more than before.
2: Using my new Rode Video Pro mic to capture ambient sound. Practicing using the mic settings to reduce the hissing sounds during recording. I turn the camera sound recording volume way down to reduce the camera's preamp noise and boosting the recording volume on the mic. This make a HUGE difference. I also did additional noise reduction on the audio file in an audio editor called Audacity - it does a great job.
Video format:
I shot the entire video in 4K60p crop mode for a number of reasons:
1: I used to shoot the majority of my clips in 4K120p because it gave smoother results, but as you know it has some disadvantages - it is line-skipped and produces poor image quality, plus it does not allow audio recording. On the other hand 4K60p crop is down-sampled using 5.1 K from the center of sensor producing much higher image quality virtually indistinguishable from 4K30 Fine mode, and you can do audio recording too.
2: In crop mode the autofocus points cover a larger area of the sensor than in full frame modes making the overall AF performance better. I'm pretty happy with the results.
3: Overheating is not a problem in 4K60p so I can just let the recording run on and on and this acts essentially like having pre-capture on the R5, something I can't do on the R5 shooting 4K120p because it runs too hot and produces huge files. Also pretty happy about this.
Filming in Log - my conclusion about filming in Log on the Canon R5:
After 8 months of almost continuous filming in C-Log 3 on a wide variety of wildlife and landscape subjects in various weather and lighting conditions I have decided that for my use cases it's simply not worth the time, trouble or expense. The above video was not filmed in Log but in Canon's Standard Picture Profile.
Still lots of flaws in some of this footage (first clip is very jumpy), a work in progress...
Practice footage: My first video in a while, I was able to get out for a couple of hours this week.
I'm practicing a couple of things:
1: Using the fluid head arm on my tripod head for the first time ever hoping to get smoother movements than I used to get by holding the head with my hands. This means trusting my R5 AF more than before.
2: Using my new Rode Video Pro mic to capture ambient sound. Practicing using the mic settings to reduce the hissing sounds during recording. I turn the camera sound recording volume way down to reduce the camera's preamp noise and boosting the recording volume on the mic. This make a HUGE difference. I also did additional noise reduction on the audio file in an audio editor called Audacity - it does a great job.
Video format:
I shot the entire video in 4K60p crop mode for a number of reasons:
1: I used to shoot the majority of my clips in 4K120p because it gave smoother results, but as you know it has some disadvantages - it is line-skipped and produces poor image quality, plus it does not allow audio recording. On the other hand 4K60p crop is down-sampled using 5.1 K from the center of sensor producing much higher image quality virtually indistinguishable from 4K30 Fine mode, and you can do audio recording too.
2: In crop mode the autofocus points cover a larger area of the sensor than in full frame modes making the overall AF performance better. I'm pretty happy with the results.
3: Overheating is not a problem in 4K60p so I can just let the recording run on and on and this acts essentially like having pre-capture on the R5, something I can't do on the R5 shooting 4K120p because it runs too hot and produces huge files. Also pretty happy about this.
Filming in Log - my conclusion about filming in Log on the Canon R5:
After 8 months of almost continuous filming in C-Log 3 on a wide variety of wildlife and landscape subjects in various weather and lighting conditions I have decided that for my use cases it's simply not worth the time, trouble or expense. The above video was not filmed in Log but in Canon's Standard Picture Profile.
Still lots of flaws in some of this footage (first clip is very jumpy), a work in progress...
Cheers,
Rudy
May 24, 2026 at 05:21 PM
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