Monthly Archives June 2009

5DmkII video – Playback on PS3, Editing in Premiere

The Canon 5D Mark II shoots beautiful video, but it is unfortunately encapsulated in the .mov container, which the Playstation 3 will not play natively. After much trial and error, I’ve found that H.264 encoded video and Dolby AC3 audio muxed into a .m2ts file works well.
If you simply want to watch your unedited [...]

Canon 5D Mark II’s “Auto Lighting Optimizer” example

I captured a pair of images yesterday that demonstrate the Canon 5D Mark II’s “Auto Lighting Optimizer” setting pretty effectively. The setting is supposed to “analyze image brightness and automatically adjust dark areas in images so that they appear brighter.” It seems to work pretty well for some high contrast images.
It does improve this picture [...]