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Hacking a camera with Magic Lantern
- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington. - And I'm Robbie Carman. - And welcome to this week's episode of Video Gear Weekly. Rob, we're talking about, this week, something that a lot of people ask me all the time, which is, "What about Magic Lantern?" Which, sounds kind of cool but, what is Magic Lantern? - Well, if you've been around Canon DSLRs for, any period of time, you've probably heard the phrase "Magic Lantern." And what Magic Lantern is, is it's essentially a hack for your camera. Now that sounds a little scary Rich, hacking your camera. But the point is, is that, you know a big company like Canon has to sort of, appease the wide swath of customers that they have, so they can't put in every single little feature that an independent film maker wants, or a DP wants, so a couple years ago, the guys as Magic Lantern which, they're essentially a very talented programming team, said, "Hey look, we might be able to "write firmware to the camera "that enables some extra features." Because…
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Canon camera5m 34s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Panasonic Lumix GH43m 7s
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Evaluating the keying footage from a Sony a7S5m 29s
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Blending a key with the background with Light Wrap by Red Giant5m 58s
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Blending a key with the background with Lighwrap by Digital Anarcht3m 39s
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