At 12:01 a.m. E.S.T. Thursday 10/2 (Tonight) - the raw “Reverie” clips from the prototype Canon 5D MKII will be taken down from the Canon DLC site…
Apparently the volume of downloads has been a bit staggering… I’m not allowed to let you know what the Canon numbers are - but I can tell you that I’m closing in on 1,000,000 visitors on this (my personal) blog since the initial “Reverie” announcement a little over a week ago….
With that said: If (hypothetically) half of you downloaded those 3 clips (216.64 MB) x 500,000 downloads - we’re talking about 103.30 TERABYTES of data being served in 6 days (17 Terabytes each day… or 208.95 MegaBytes per second over the past 6 days by the Canon servers.) These are rough estimates to be sure. But don’t forget that there are two other clips out there as well - the actual “Reverie” clip on the Canon DLC site - as well as the behind the scenes video on the SmugMug site… and those are not being included in these numbers…
During the initial release of the short film - there were close to four visitors hitting the site per second… 4 hours after the video’s release. Needless to say - they have to “turn the spigot off” and I can’t say I blame them… So you have a little over 6 hours left to download them off of their site…
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Hi,
its just 6:14 p.m. on October 1st, E.S.T., but the clips already seem to be down (Link says “file not found” or the server are still overloaded)
cheers, Alex
Hey Vincent, you have been making big waves with the review of this camera, my congratulations for being a technological beacon for us and an excellent person-photographer. Canon is making great equipment. I hope I can have my EOS5D MII soon.
Comment by Fernando Torres 10.01.08 @ 6:28 pmThis is why torrents exist. Why Canon did not setup a tracker and release a torrent is beyond me. It could have saved them a massive amount of bandwidth. That being said, the clips could still be offered up on a public tracker.
Comment by Arwulf 10.01.08 @ 6:38 pmVincent explain please the focusing when in video mode,I’m just a bit confused,do you not focus automatically or do you use manual focus?
Thanks again for your great enthusiasm and spirit of sharing. Steve B.
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Pingback by Download The raw “Reverie” bClips/b from the Canon Site before b…/b 10.01.08 @ 7:17 pmPffff…. Torrent is your friend. I still don’t understand why websites doesn’t use this solution for something like this… It’s so easy and it could be the solution to this problem…
Comment by Eric 10.01.08 @ 7:34 pmYes. Bittorrent is the perfect solution for this. Nothing else makes sense!
Comment by Victor Vorski 10.01.08 @ 8:10 pmVincent, Chris at SmugMug here. We can host the torrent if you’d like.
Comment by Chris MacAskill 10.01.08 @ 8:37 pmI was really wishing to get the RAW files so I could mess around with them. Anyways the footage looks incredible! This camera makes me want to sell my soul. Haha. If anyone knows where I can get the RAW files let me know.
Comment by Matt 10.01.08 @ 10:47 pm“DUE TO HIGH DEMAND OF VIDEO CLIPS WE HAVE EXCEEDED OUR DOWNLOAD CAPACITY. WE ARE NOW INVESTIGATING ALTERNATIVE HOSTING METHODS.”
Guess I wil be waiting
Comment by Steven Campbell 10.01.08 @ 11:56 pmThat video was amazing… I’ve been reading a lot speculation on the video mode of this camera but I had no idea it would look that great!
Craig
http://www.lusterstudios.com
Guys - I’m currently seeding a torrent of the publicly posted videos. I quickly downloaded all of them when they went up, expecting something like this would happen (not that I can blame Canon - it was gracious to host it in the first place). Anyway, point your torrent clients to here:
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4424012/5D_MK_II_Videos
It contains Vincent’s video (and out-takes), plus the Luminous Landscape video about the 5D.
Comment by Seinberg 10.02.08 @ 12:39 amVincent, I’d like to know if you can enlarge the view (5x, 10X) to check manual focus accuracy while filming, like you can in Live View…
Also, is there any counter when filming, to know when the card will be full or the 4GB limit will be reached ?
Sorry, removed the prior link and added a new one with copyright info just in case people freak out and think I’m somehow pirating this stuff based on the URL name. Here’s the new link with added copyright info for Vincent and Luminous Landscape etc.
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4424012/5D_MK_II_Videos.4424012.TPB.torrent
Anonymous Reply:
July 29th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
The torrent link is down. Any chance of reposting it?
I would to exhibit “Reverie” in a non comercial screening in theater next 12th sunday.
Colud I do that?
Thanks in advence
Vincent Laforet Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
Jorge - pls contact me directly - at studio (at) vincentlaforet.com
This is what bittorent was invented for. Really. Canon doesn’t loose any control by releasing a torrent, it’s a win for everyone.
Comment by Kalle 10.02.08 @ 4:41 amHere are the direct links to the RAW files on Rapidshare for everyone who missed them:
http://rapidshare.com/files/150189587/MVI_0492.MOV
http://rapidshare.com/files/150192097/MVI_0706.MOV
http://rapidshare.com/files/150197418/MVI_0795.MOV
Download and ENJOY!
Comment by Eugene 10.02.08 @ 5:11 am[...] por la noche a las 12:01 se van a poder descargar los RAWs del video de Vincent Laforet de la web de Canon. Si la cámara ya ha demostrado que puede hacer unos [...]
Pingback by RAWS de Reverie de la Canon Eos 5D Mark II « Blind Lynx 10.02.08 @ 10:08 amSaw this article a few hours too late. I hadn’t gotten around to downloading the files, and it tix me off that Canon apparently didn’t realize that the demand would be so huge.
Downloading the BitTorrent now @ 480kB/sec…probably faster than I would have gotten it from Canon directly. BitTorrent is the best way to distribute big files like this. I guess the folks at Canon are realizing that now.
Comment by Jason 10.02.08 @ 12:48 pmHey Vincent (or anyone else), do you know if you can transmit the video wirelessly with the mark II using the WFT-E4?
Thanks…
Vaguely related to Justin’s question:
Does anyone know if the HDMI output in LiveView mode can be set up full-screen, ready for capture? I.e., without any camera status graphics overlays? And is the LiveView HDMI output true, smooth 1080p?
(All I’m getting at is, can the camera be used as a capture head to feed a RAID recorder?)
Comment by Daniel 10.02.08 @ 5:21 pmDaniel’s question is the latest and I’ve seen several similar - but Vincent, do you or someone from Canon know about the hdmi output signal and if this is the uncompressed 1920 x 1080 video at 30fps? Or is it merely for other monitoring options and includes the graphic overlays, etc?
Thanks for sharing your great work! I aspire to such creativity.
Mark
Comment by Mark 10.03.08 @ 12:20 amThe video was amazing…but isn’t that going to require a very large flashcard? Never the less, I look foward to getting one.
Comment by Tope 10.03.08 @ 2:22 pm[...] Part II, Behind the Scenes of “Reverie” We will be reading, writing, and interacting with this new video techonolgy for quite a while. I think I know where to invest my next photographic equipment purchase…view it while you still can, as Canon has already served an estimated 103 terabytes over the course of 6 days. [...]
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marcelo Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm
this is not the reverie raw file, is the mid resolution, 84.9 mb
and the three cilps
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Seinberg Reply:
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
To my knowledge, reverie was never made available in its raw format. It’s only ever been released in mid resolution on the Canon website.
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