Eos Camera Movie Record For Mac

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Yes, it’s true! You can record videos on your EOS 450D / Rebel XSi, but only when tethered to your PC/Laptop via the USB cable. For me this is ideal, as it means I can get decent quality footage of the band using tripod and laptop. Some peope don’t know why you’d bother doing this, as you can get good quality footage off a webcam. Well here’s some reasons: you can use your decent lenses to get better low light footage, and you can use the tremendous power of a zoom lens plus 5x zoom mode to get some really nice closeups!

You need to download the latest version of “EOS Camera Movie Record” from http://valexvir.narod.ru. I’m using version 0.1.4

You’ll also find the installation file on this Sourceforge Page, and project details here.

You’ll also need to have installed the Canon USB drivers so that your camera can talk to your PC. I’d advise exiting Canon’s EOS Utility (in the preferences you can tell it not to run every time you connect the 450D) before running “EOS Camera Movie Record”, which should appear in your start menu.

Connect the USB cable to the Mac. Set the camera into Movie Mode if one is available. Enter the settings menu of your video conferencing app and select the EOS.

Now then, assuming your camera is on, and connected to USB, when you run “EOS Camera Movie Record” you should hear the familiar sound of the EOS 450D’s shutter popping up, just as it does during Live View mode. A few seconds later you should see the real time video feed in the program window, which ought to look something like this:

  • The resolution is 848 x 560, at somewhere around 20 frames per second, depending.
  • If you have a ‘cannot initialize’ error, take our your memory card
  • To change the default file location, click on the … icon
  • To alter the camera’s aperture, first click the ‘DOF’ button, then once its depressed you can selected your desired f-number
  • When ready to record, hit ‘Write!’
  • I’m not sure what the maximum file size is yet, but i suspect it can’t go beyond 8gb because of Windows
  • To ease the load on your CPU, deselect the ‘Show captured image’ button. Make sure your camera’s in focus though!

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Now, some folks will have you believe that you can’t access any of the camera’s functions once the program has started. NOT TRUE!

Assuming you have Live View enabled, once EOS Camera Movie Record is running, just hit your normal Live View button. You should see Live View on the camera screen, AND on the PC. Now you can adjust: exposure, aperture, WB, ISO, and you can even engage autofocus (depending on which Live View focus mode you have set in the camera’s custom options).

You can even engage the 5x zoom mode, and it transfers across to PC. For some reason 10X doesn’t work. With a telephoto lens, you can use this tip to get some seriously zoomed footage, and record it to video. This lets you use the full power of your sensor and lens.

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In this post I will run through a quick tutorial on how to shoot HD video on any non-video recording Canon SLR, such as the canon 40D, Canon 450D or any other Canon camera that features LiveView.

Motivation

I was thinking the other day how I could explore and expand my creativity as a photographer, and it popped into my head that I should shoot a short film of sorts. So I approached two friends of mine who are musicians, and asked them if they wanted to get involved. My idea was to create a short documentary/interview which explored the musical lives of unsigned music artists, and how they view music and its importance in their lives.

Being a photographer means you are already set up to shoot good videos. Use of lighting, composition etc all helped me here, and my pre-existing equipment I often use for indoor photography really helped me here.

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EOS Camera Movie Record

The only thing missing was a video camera. I do own a Canon 40D, but it is not capable of recording video. This is where EOS Camera Movie Record comes in. EOS_movrec (which stands for EOS Camera Movie Record) was a program I stumbled upon when I searched on youtube for Canon 40D video hacks, as I had heard of this being done before. I found this as a great little hack that allows me to shoot HD quality video without using a 5 or 7D, however your camera needs to have the liveview function built-in.

What this software does, is use the camera’s liveview mode to capture what the camera sees. In order to use it, the camera must be tethered to a computer (I used a mac in this case, but mov rec also supports windows), and you must have the EOS utility previously installed.

The program is fairly simple to use,when started it has one main window that has all the settings on the top. You can control some of the camera settings, like white balance and shooting mode. You can also control some video settings like FPS and if to show the captured movie while filming.

The program then records the live preview directly to the desktop . Tip: click the ‘O’ button on the right hand side to bring up the preferences, and change the buffer size from the default 1mb to something much larger (I chose 500mb, the max) otherwise you get very laggy video!

It’s really simple to use, once the camera has been recognized (this may take a few tries), you press write, and it will start recording.

For this video, my camera was tethered to my Macbook Pro using the standard USB cable that came with my Canon 40D, and placed on my tripod.

Reusing Still Equipment for Video

I used two 40X60cm PhotoSel softboxes with daylight bulbs as the sole lighting for the video, and the microphone was a behringer condenser microphone connected to another macbook pro, recording directly through music production program logic.

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Below you can see a photo of the setup (you can see the laptop on bottom right).

An obvious issue with recording video this way, is that you have no sound directly through the camera, so syncing had to be done in Final Cut Pro, which took a good while as I used trial and error to sync them up. What I should have done is use a marker, such as a clap, however ill try this next time round.

The clips are stored wherever you choose (generally the desktop) as uncompressed AVI files, and then I just cut it up on Final Cut Pro. The audio was recorded through a condenser mic via logic, and then everything matched up in Final Cut Pro.

Getting 720p HD video from a Canon 40D is fantastic! This program is a great money saver, and is open source.

Here is the movie once all the editing was completed (and a short behind the scenes that helps to understand the entire EOS HD concept right after).

About the Author: Peter Arboine is a photographer based in London, UK. He specializes in landscape, nature and portrait photography. You can learn more about him at his site or explore his flickr stream. you can follow him on Twitter here.

Special good Karma to the developers behind EOS mov rec: Chernov Aleksey, Uterr, Golubinsky Yury, Lukyanenko Vlad and Emel’yanov Denis