What do you take video with?

I pri­mar­ily shoot video with my Canon EOS Rebel T2i. It takes stun­ning 1080p video and is made even more use­ful by some hacks called Magic Lantern, and a 3rd party Pic­ture Style pre­set called Extraflat. Vir­tu­ally all of my footage is post-processed in either Adobe After Effects or Pre­miere Pro. I highly rec­om­mend the RebelCC script for After Effects; it makes color cor­rec­tion a lot easier.

There are advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages to using a dSLR like the Canon T2i for tak­ing video. Stu Maschwitz has done a great job of doc­u­ment­ing some of the dis­ad­van­tages like alias­ing and rolling shut­ter (which he sug­gests a fix for here). The advan­tage, of course, is the high qual­ity video you get for a very low cost. Since I’m a col­lege stu­dent, it makes sense that a low cost solu­tion would be attrac­tive to me. You can find some rec­om­men­da­tions from Stu Maschwitz on what to buy here or check out my per­sonal list of lenses.