bhawks

Hi everyone, first time post. I've been visiting this site for a few months and find it very helpful. I come from stills shooting and am interested in moving into video. As I shoot with an older camera, I don't have video capability so I am trying to get a handle on what to do (buy) because I have much to learn. Just a thought about RAW. I shoot RAW, and have for years. RAW is a no-brainer for me. The creative control alone is what I love most. However, one benefit of RAW that I have been experiencing of late is revisiting old photos. I've been a user of Aperture since it came out in 2005 (currently Aperture 3), but this year I purchased Lightroom 4 and have been amazed at what the improvements in software have done with my old images. I assume this would be true with video? If so then capturing in RAW video today should mean you can go back into archives and recreate a new version or improve technical issues that you could not do before. My camera gear is Canon: 20D (you read right-still works great) and three L lenses and four Leica R lenses (Leica R7) that I use via novoflex adapter. Anyway, my video path is fairly wide open, but the Blackmagic sounds like a good way to go.