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Thank you so much for sharing it. It was really engrossing and drew me into the world of "production." The opening montage reminded me a little bit of a video version of Edward Burtynsky, shocking with the scale of the industrial activities.

Very tasteful approach to coloring the film and the audio design was excellent.

I've used Magic Lantern as long as I've had the T3i. For taking static product pics I don't think it will do much. Maybe the automatic self-timer with liveview or exposure bracketing control will be useful. You can zoom in to focus in live view, which is more precise than peaking.

For video it's a much bigger deal and really transforms what this camera can do for usability (white balance, audio levels, focus box, smooth exposure jumps with autoISO make the camera much more versatile as a video camera).

That was dark. Crazy you pulled it off with that workflow in 48 hours. My respect to you.

No real technical comments but I'm curious why the first bat hit was silent (didn't look like it connected either), especially given the use of sound design slightly later (as with the table).

For APS-C I think the 600D is the last generation that ML fully works on. You get the magnified focus while shooting, audio meters, the 3x magic zoom, etc. I still use it and it's a fine camera, though not a true 1080p and it doesn't have a headphone jack.

If you have budget, a used C100 would be a great camera for true 1080p with built in ND filters, a headphone jack, etc. with no modifications needed.

Personally I decided to go to Sony for video and stick to Canon for stills. The a6500 is an amazing camera and can do things in video mode even the 5DIV can't.

The writing and sound design really makes this work, great job on it. I enjoyed it a lot, and it was great to see ML used so creatively.

I enjoyed the story and humor.

Perhaps have someone check over the subtitles as there are spelling and grammatical issues. If you posted it here someone might be generous enough to fix them for you ; )

Visually stunning and the textiles/string instrument concept really drew me into the piece. The ending packaging/logistics part were less interesting but you made a corporate promotion video look like an art film.

I just saw this reply. In case anyone comes across this thread, I was not using a battery grip with the T3i. I only use Canon brand batteries.

I do not think this is heat related as one failure I had was after several minutes shooting a mix of photos and videos in frigid Maine in winter. I never tested 128gb cards and don't own any.

That was creatively shot for a relatively simple set!

I wouldn't have guessed it was the 600D if you didn't say it.  I use that camera as well, though never on a project like this.

What resolution are you using exactly? Doesn't ML estimate the number of frames you'll get at different resolutions?

For me, I wasn't getting write speeds much over 20mb/s so do the math to see what resolution and bit depth will keep you under that.

Excellent, that's good to hear.

I'll be away from my camera for a few weeks but would be happy to test other features for the 600D when I return.
Overall ML for the 600D is stable and mature so maybe there's no need, but it is a standing offer as ML has helped me so much.

Hello,  tested the latest version and it worked fine with H.264 and RAW. I got meters before, during and after recordings with both.

Forgive my ignorance but as I didn't see how to comment on a pull request so I wasn't able to. A1ex is listed as the reviewer.
To date I've just been a ML user/forum commenter.

Thanks Walter. I think I must have accidentally had GD off the first time I tested the 10.4 build. With it on I have meters/full functionality in this build, too.

Re: sound, there are no meters in liveview on initial power on with MLV raw/MLV sound modules enabled. When you record a clip they wake up. When you stop recording the meters work in standby again (same behavior as H.264). I recorded 5 raw clips and upon return to standby mode each time the meters stayed live. They worked while recording.

I think the "turn on" fix fixes audio meters for both raw and H.264 with the 600D.

I attempted to help troubleshoot ML RAW but do not know enough about how it it supposed to work to be of much help.

So I used the last standard nightly build (not a dfort fixed file), loaded the raw and sound modules, enabled raw video in the menu, enabled sound. I set resolution to 960x540 16x9. I turned global draw on.

In live view there is a preview window in the center surrounded by a black box (because this is a crop mode?) While there are meters at the top they are not active while not recording.

I hit record, it says "busy ... please wait". A counter runs of seconds elapsed. The video cam icon is yellow. I'm recording at about 20mb/s. The audio meters are gone as are the histogram and everything else. If I try to change aperture, etc. it just says busy. After 2 minutes I give up, hit the record button to turn it off and now audio meters are registering. I realized 16x9 may not be continuous so I changed the aspect ratio, tried again and also only have meters after I exit recording. Aperture can't be changed using physical controls while recording though ISO can (after a delay). It says busy and is barely responsive.
Second test and again no meters after power on.

I swapped cards to the one with the "turn on" H.264 fix I reported on earlier. I did the same procedure to enable raw and MLV sound. Now there are meters before recording! Now when I record I have audio meters up top but also the full magic lantern display (histogram, settings at bottom). I can also change aperture while recording and the black mask stays active during recording. It no longer says "busy" and is responsive to starting and stopping movie recording now.

I have not tested the stop build as the turn on build seems to be what the camera needs?

Hi dfort, sorry to not clarify but yes I was just using the standard H.264 camera features. The last time I tried ML raw was before there was sound support ; )

So I downloaded an installed the fix file and am happy to report audio meters now work when you go into video mode. I switched into the mode from photo modes and from power off and it works fine. I recorded 5 clips in a row (few seconds each) and the meters stayed live. If I notice anything odd during my course of normal use I will report back but I think this fixes it. Is there anything else in H.264 mode I can test? (not sure what the other stubs are for- happy to do tests with a mic, etc. if it is useful).

Dear a1ex, sorry it took a few days but I finally had a chance to do a quick test video to show the issue with audio meters "falling asleep" on the T3i.

Here's a link to a video I made to demonsrate: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxmjruhdixcaerp/C0006.MP4?dl=0

  I think he/she is confused.

So I just put in a non ML card and unsurprisingly, no, there are no audio meters in live view mode on the 600D/T3i. You need to enable Magic Lantern for that. ML works very well on the T3i so I recommend keeping it.

Hi a1ex, I have no idea how to determine whether the meters are accurately recording volume so I don't think I can be of help there (I have no known reference). It may be fine.

I can easily demonstrate that the audio meters do not engage until you hit record or enter the ML menus and leave, playback a video, etc. I can repeat it each time I turn my camera off to on. After you do that you can see levels while non-recording which is what I want to do (want to nail settings before starting to record an interview for example).

The Canon audio menus are set to manual, levels 6 notches or so above 0, and ML menus have audio override on and levels +24. To keep things simple I'm just using the built-in mic. Latest 600D build of ML installed 2017-10-04.

Is that how the camera is supposed to work or a bug, and what sort of documentation is useful (a video of ML's behavior?)

The link to bug reporting is too general for me to do much with. Of course specificity is good and repeatability moves the burden from the programmer to the user.

Interesting travel love letter. Was this shot in ML Raw?

I don't see any reason to uninstall ML. If you don't want to see the ML menus, you can just hit the info button. Doesn't the Canon default to no audio meters while recording? That's worse. I really value the histogram and the focus box for shooting video.

The heating isn't related to ML- your camera heats up in liveview mode. I wouldn't worry about it at all. I've shot for fairly long days with no problems. If the camera overheats it will shut off, ML or not.

I find the levels often show up low I can't rely on them. If you jack it up to +24 or higher they may be clearer but the audio will be very noisy so I wouldn't record like that.

The meters also aren't active upon power on. You either need to record or open the ML menu (trashcan) and exit for them to wake up and start working.

Thanks for sharing it. It was creative and different than most wedding videos which I appreciated. The stop motion scene was funny and there was a good variety of shots of the ceremony. Personally I am more drawn into people's reactions to the wedding than just the ceremony itself so if you had more time or a second shooter, turn away from the couple and capture the atmosphere and feeling of the event as their families react to it.

Technically I'm not sure if raw is really useful here. There were odd color inconsistencies between sequential shots that I found distracting- why weren't they color corrected the same? Was that the issue of clouds? Multiple cameras? Maybe try to fake it a bit more in post by adding contrast to the cloudier shots.
Perhaps use a loupe to ensure focus- I find it essential for my T3i. I don't have a problem with the camera shake- it gives it a more "in the moment" feel. A gimbal would be helpful for walking shots.

Well that will teach people to ask questions of the ill-informed who have never used ML.

I don't think that operating temperature is high for a Canon camera, and the camera would shut itself off if it were actually overheating. A few dead pixels out of a matrix of millions doesn't matter for anything. Remap and move on.

I use a magnetic version of this from Kamerar and am very happy with it. It uses a Manfrotto 501PL style plate which I then fit the viewfinder into when I want to use it.