today we're talking about the r5c in which codak you should be using now if you're renting this camera or if you bought one and you're still getting familiar with it there's lots of different options to choose from when it comes to codex which box or package that your camera will record in and so let's talk about that today in this [Music] video hey there my name is Tony and I'm a filmmaker and photographer in the St Louis area and I am just loving the r5c I bought a couple of these now and I've installed them in multiple Studios and I just think that this r5c is an amazing camera and Canon continues to make it better they just released a new firmware update that uses the new E6 batteries that unlocks even more of the features that you needed some uh plug-in power and so they just keep getting better and better they are uh still updating the autofocus system which is more like the cinema system than is the the mirrorless system like the R5 and the R5 Mark II but today we're talking about codex which is just a little bit different than a mirrorless camera a little bit more like uh a C70 or C300 and so if you're familiar with the cinema system there's lots of Versatility but that comes with a cost if you don't understand that learning curve So today we're going to be talking about that there's a whole bunch of different options that you can choose from and they're all really great so let's talk about what are some some of those options that you need to be looking at when it comes to this r5c now as you can see there are just tons of versions and so uh basically we're going to start at the top when it comes to the main recording format if you're shooting a video for Netflix you're shooting in a raw you already know that so St is a little bit heavier LT is a little bit lighter you can play around with those there's some extra features with raw that uh enable you to change your white balance to change some uh different settings in the footage actually which is really nice but if you don't need those those files are gigantic now the way that you can see how big the files are if you select raw and then you go down here you can see it says 1580 megabits per second that's huge that is huge so we're probably not going to shoot in that for most of the time unless you're shooting for Netflix let's get on to it now if you're not going to shoot in raw there's a couple different options there's xf-avc and there's hevc both of those still shooting 10bit 422 which is really nice beautiful footage with lots of room to manipulate in post production when I mean manipulate I'm talking about color grading and things like that 10 bit is the color depth which means you get 10 bit opposed to 8 bit which is what we saw earlier in like the 5D markv and I think even the USR once you get into the R5 you started to see some 10 bit I think you can even get 10 bit on the R50 now now so it's really nice to have that color depth and then uh then you've got the XF ABC and then the HC and that's really what I want to talk about because there's lots of different options with those two different codecs now we're not going to get too nerdy I'm going to get into the specifics I'm not going to show you which pixel is better than the other because at the end of the day like I personally when I'm editing these these uh Clips I'm not seeing the difference my client isn't seeing the difference and then it comes down to usability and it comes down to the features that each one have that might be better or worse for you so let's talk about xf-avc if we were to click on that one there's all sorts of options when you go into the main resolution and bit rate now uh there's there's basically two different kinds there's long up and there's all I what that means is all I is it is actually taking a photo literally every uh frame so if you're shooting 24 frames per second that's 24 frames 24 photos that it's putting into that resolution which is really really nice the problem though is as you can see when you click on those let's go to um 3840 by 2160 all I uh that's 4110 megabits per second so if we go to Long up that same thing is is 160 so if your computer can't handle those really big files that's one reason why you might want to consider long goop what long goop is is it basically creates long pictures so if the subject isn't moving or or whatever it it basically just doesn't capture those pixels moving differently and transfers them from the first picture making that file a little bit smaller so where you're going to see this really significantly is if you sh a lot of shoot a lot of sports or you shoot things that are fast moving but if you're doing like a talking head like this honestly long up that's what we're shooting in right now is just fine uh oh we might be shooting an HC I'm playing around with both of them so uh I'll look and put it in the uh corner right here to let you know what this one is once again I almost always shoot in Long goop unless I'm doing some sort of sports or fast action you know if I'm On A Boat Moving really fast things like that for the most part if I'm shooting a wedding I'm shooting a long up if I'm shooting event coverage where there's somebody talking I'm doing longa I don't I don't need those all ey um features and that's just a lot of extra data okay so that's one of the advantages now let's continue to talk about xf-avc and some of the other things that are really nice you may or may not know this but you can actually select your clips and in the metadata put ones you want to use which are good and which ones you want to reject you can do that we're not going to talk about that in this video but that's another big advantage that you can use xf-avc so if you've got lots and lots and lots of data and you've got time in camera you can add in extra metadata the other thing is the audio is slightly different with XF ABC you get four channels of audio that's it with this camera there's no choice which good or bad so that means you can have the task cam um the unit on top and that will go into your camera that gives you two channels and then you still have two more channels you can use that for the side or you can use that for the built-in scratch audio you're never going to want to use that audio for actually like real real footage but you can use the the scratch audio to line up and sync other cameras like I've got a camera right here sitting here that's capturing the screen we can sync it with just a clap so that's why you would need that scratch audio it's also another backup if you want to use a lapel mic and you want to use a boom mic like we're using right now then you can put the um you know there's just all sorts of great things that you can do with m mple channels so four channels of audio across the board all right so let's talk about HC now and what are the advantages you'll notice that that same file 24 frames per second 3840 X 2160 is now 135 so it's a little bit smaller so it's a little bit more compressed and you don't have the option ofy versus uh long up but it does a couple different things that are really interesting there's a couple advantages that actually make this footage significantly better from a usability standpoint once again if you want to check out the specs and pixel Peep and all the things it's just not me I can't tell the difference in in the footage unless it's significant my clients aren't telling the difference if I'm using hvc versus um you know xf-avc and so for me it really comes down to which features are the best for me now with HC there's a couple ones that are really really good one the file size is a little bit smaller that's not a big deal to me the other thing is in my computer you can actually see a preview in finder on my Mac now I don't know about PCS but uh with Macs you can actually see the preview in finder so for me somebody who digs through footage that I use in previous jobs let's say I'm making a YouTube video and I want to find a clip of me out in Africa or a clip me doing a a wedding whatever I can just hit the space bar preview that without throwing it into my editor which I have to do with XF a see that's a little bit of a pain so uh if you're going to reuse this footage and have it on hard drives and frequently review it opposed to building out a Premiere profile and importing that footage you just want to see it quick and easy HC is the option that you want to go with another feature that hvc has is if you shoot a lot of vertical video now we're not talking about vertical versus horizontal for me vertical video is still professional and that's why cameras like this one can shoot vertical video and if you're shooting an hvvc you rotate your view then you can actually have the camera export out in vertical mode now if you're shooting an XF ABC you can still rotate the screen so that you can see what it looks like vertically and you can still read all of your menus vertically but that file is still going to come out horizontally when you throw it into your editor that's a big deal for somebody like me I'll go into these um these off-road shops and I'll create a whole bunch of vertical video reels for them and they they want them to to be pumped out that next day and so I don't want to go in and rotate all of that footage now with Premiere Pro which is what I use what you can do is you can kind of create one that's flipped but it just does really weird things when you put when you put a flipped in there so uh for me if I'm going to be shooting vertical videos I'm shooting an hvvc rotating the screen on this thing and then it exports those out vertical which is very nice feature another difference with xf-avc and HC with HC your audio you have two different options you can either record in two channel 16bit or 4 channel 24-bit once again we're talking about really high quality audio the two channel audio is actually just fine for me for this camera I've never heard any bad things coming out of the 16bit and the other thing is that a lot of times I will record 32bit float on a different source so like right now I'm just recording the scratch audio on this camera so that I can line it up with this boom microphone that's recording to an H1 XLR that does 32bit float that way I don't have to worry about if I'm too loud or too soft if I would to go directly into the camera one it doesn't do XLR so I'd have to use that Taz cam thing which works it's not bad uh but then I lose 32 it float so then I have to make sure that I'm not peeking and talking too loud or or laughing or whatever it is so uh that's just one of the advantages when I'm using lapels I actually use Road Road Wireless Pros right now which are 32-bit float as well now I'll still put that little transmitter on top of or receiver on top of the camera so that I can have audio come in but I always then for the most part use that 32-bit float unless it's a quick turnaround and I know that that audio is good I'm monitoring in the camera still works just fine but you're going to get better quality if you recording 32-bit float outside of the camera then I don't have to worry about cheap preamps and things like that that are built into this camera you still want good audio so that you can make sure that you sync it and post but that's just another difference between those two okay so you got raw we talked about that if if you're shooting a raw if you're shooting Netflix you're yeah you're shooting a raw and you know what that is if you want a higher grade quality you could shoot in xf-avc say you're doing a sports event that's really important and you're okay with those extra um file sizes shoot an XF ABC at all ey that's going to give you the best quality for things that are moving very fast if you want just a little bit less quality but you don't need that fastaction moving shots shooting long go that's going to give you a really good quality and then if you are high turnaround you frequently revisit the footage you want the best bang for your buck but still really good quality I would shoot an hevc it's actually a really good uh it's actually a really good codec to use um especially if you're running gun and you shoot a whole bunch of footage that's my thoughts I'd love to know what you think if you're still exploring the cameras I've got all sorts of different videos on the the r5c uh this one particularly that I'm going to reference talks about the difference between the r5c and the R5 Mark II and how I decided to go with the r5c if you shoot primarily video I am still a big fan of this r5c I actually picked up an R5 Mark I to replace one of my r5s that was starting to wear out uh but I found that even with all of the updates that they've done including codex I still love this r5c for video and that's the one that I use when it comes to video I still can use the R5 Mark I4 video but watch the video to explain why I like this video this camera is so much better than the R5 Mark II [Music]