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I just shot a commercial on the Mar 30 nightly build. Stupid idea, and never again. I keep trying and trying MLV builds, and I keep having problems. OCT26th A.D. build for 5D is rock solid, but the HDMI crash bug on that one drives my camera op nuts.

All my footage came out pink as well. Use exiftool to fix the dngs with this command: Exiftool –BlackLevel=1791. No need to re-shoot.

Second, every shot that had any kind of motion has atrocious tearing of the image. This occurs when the HDMI monitor is plugged in. Fortunately, due to the aesthetic of the commercial, I can use Twitch to cover up the tearing, so our huge dolly rig wasn't completely to waste. One or two shots cannot be used this way and are ruined.

I founded a very stable build from the nightly that I trust for paid work with out question !  Feb16th link below: http://builds.magiclantern.fm/jenkins/job/5D2.212/206/artifact/platform/5D2.212/magiclantern-v2.3.NEXT.2014Feb16.5D2212.zip
Changeset: 536fbadfcc312939ba6af7d812c8cf1025ca1050
Its rock solid with HDMI and still has the 1872 option(continuous too) , as I sad I trust this for work, I never try new build for work as there is also issues  & the chance of failure
is too great. I torture test the raw builds for at lest a day, if it can handle being recorded 5 time in a row (full 64GB card) it a keeper.

I would say a bad card, on my 5D2 I see temp. when recording long take(64GB) in the range of
58-67 degrees C . On Lexar 1000x 

Hi there
Just a little question, to confirm what i have read here and there on the web...
Is it right that ML on 5DII can't increase frame rate to 60fps ?
or 50fps, or 65fps ?

Thank you

Yes, your limited to 30fps, as per canon menu. You can over crank it a little I think to about 35 fps
with Frame over ride enable.

Not sure I understand the question (what do you mean by drop off?), but that's the lowest ISO I could get on 5D2.

Note: I used the DxO definition for ISO, that is, the clipping point, and I assumed Canon's ISO 100 200 400 and so on are exact.

Canon's ISO 50 has the same clipping point as ISO 100, so it is actually ISO 100.

I was referring to the graph, I notice on the 5d3 at ISO 115 the DR was at it's maximum then DR started decreasing when the ISO reach 66, where as the 5d2
kept a steady increase in DR to ISO 81. A very nice increase over factor DR well worth the effect.   

Yes your hardware can't handle it. Do you have a spindle drive for the OS or a SSD ? You should have all your working file on the fastest drive (not you OS drive) if you have a external SSD on Thunderbolt/USB3.0 that would help. You may need to work with proxies then render out with original files. If it's in your budget I would look at a external raid"0" box with thunderbolt.
Lacie have some good info, link:  http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10573%5D 
Or a Fusion Drive.

I have being using Film Convert pro in FCPX, with CDNG's native.
These are my settings: Source Camera = Red One, film stock= FJ 8553 ET
Size= 35mm Full Ap , film color, 70-100% & Grain 30-70 % or what you like
And I normally white balance before I apply the effect, but sometimes I I do it after.

a1ex  just had a look at the link, and seem that the 5D2 has a little more DR at ISO 81. Dose it drop off like the 5D3 , or it stops there?

Hello, I'm having trouble unzipping the ML file for the mkii upon download. I tried downloading and unzipping on other computers and it seems to be having the same problem. I've been looking around for another solution online or if anyone else has been having the same problem with no luck. I've unzipped files before on my Mac and have never had a problem before. I even downloaded a 3rd party unzip app but it still doesn't work. Does anyone have any suggestions/solutions? Thanks.

What third party are you using I use WinRAR on PC and its fine & just tried My MacPro with Maverick 10.9.1
All Clear there, it automatically unzip for me on the Mac in my download folder.

Have you look at Manfrotto, I have 2, (055XB) New, with 501HDV video head & (455) $175.0 used, with Ball head (352RC) $39.95 Used.
Of the 2 I like using Manfrotto 455 with ball head the best.

@ rainless, What your problem with "sRaw" I had it set since the beginning , plus it get far better write speeds & ML is very stable on this setting for the 5D2. I think your information my miss Lead people down the
Wrong path . Make sure your info is correct , that all . But nice effort.

I apologize if I appeared to be claiming to be "smarter." I'm not, just 25 years of a successful film career, the last decade as a successful producer. I was trying to share some real world advice. I've personally sold films by shooting super-16 but claiming 35mm.

The gate-keepers (mostly very young interns) at the distributors review the movie on an iMac. If your film is pre-catgorized as "low budget" and inferior," they give it to the kid everyone hates and does not listen to. The idea is to get in the door.

28 Days later - they lied. They revealed their trick after the USA opening weekend. I was shooting film spots when the news hit (American Cinematographer, Variety, and the other trades.) I and most of my friends immediately went out and bought Canon XL1's and started inter-cutting it with film. Which actually worked with SD.

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hey. Yes ! It is a "picture style" for h264 recording calld Crystal. It take more Saturation and contrast out and you have more dynamic range. I can find it AnYwHeRe.. gRRRR :-/

It must be a custom Picture Style, I did a net search on it could not find anything.
But here a list of site that's has Picture Style,
http://web.canon.jp/imaging/picturestyle/file/
http://www.technicolor.com/en/solutions-services/cinestyle
http://marvelsfilm.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/canon-7d-picture-style-with-cine-gamma-s-curve-free-download/

I use Technicolor or Video-X from Canon.
Hope that helps

Hi there.

I´m new here and i have actually a question.
I´m serching all over the Internet to find Crystal-Mod for my 5D Mark II. "Crystal" put more down the contrast and the saturation from -4. Did anybody know something about that? Thanks a lot.

Hello, are you talking about "picture style" for h264 recording ?

What is the cheapest CF card I can use for the highest RAW video resolutie?
I use 5d mkii

Scandisk Extreme Pro 90MB/s 32GB will get 1792x814 2.20:1 A.R. 23.976p 62.5MB/s buffer fill rate "0"
12,475 frames 8.6 minutes on full card.

Well First off You really need Think about UpGrading to Final Cut Pro X 10.1.1
I have AJA Kona LHi with my 10bit grading monitor since version 10.04 . So you should exactly get
Info right please. With FCP7 your option is going to be by either Tiff image sequence or make a ProRes 4444 thought apple compressor, After Effect ,etc...  But there is
MediaReactor MLV plugging for FCP7  that it.
Note: CDNG's are supported in FCPX but Not FCP7, so another reason to upgrade, its becoming very fast the NLE Choose for a lot a professionals . 

@Ted your numbers seem to be very low form your chart
My numbers are alot higher , it that with KB card only or
Other bands as well?

But I question the fact you tested at other then 23.976 or 30p
Frames per second , what's the use I think the chart should reflect
Standard Video frame rates only! Some peple may get confuse by this.

There is nothing wrong with raid0 , and in fact it is one of the
Recommend setup for video editing! And you never use it for
Storage it mainly a scratch drive. For rendering to or  you need a very fast
Read on Data like to view .raw or .mlv in real time .
Raid 1 is useless for editing , slow and only go for backup data.
Raid 5 is the over all winner here it safe & very fast with
4 drive array you get around 450/450 MB/s read write.
If one drive fails just replace it and keep on going.

Really Mac is the Best for Monitoring , My i7 overclock 4.7 Hackintosh    I have a 32 inch Sony LCDTV
connected by HDMI (Great with FCPX) and use the mac Color Calibration software that's included in  OSX 10.9.1  .
This Comes the closes to my 10bit panasonic plasma grading monitor via AJA capture card.
If you are looking for a cheap monitoring solution Blackmagic has a Cross platform USB 3.0 (now mac supports  USB 3.0)
"Ultra Studios SDI" external mobile device, so you can now monitor with 10bit HDMI or 3G SDI & capture only with SDI.
Works with just about all NLE , just connect your HDMI LCDTV or Plasma there you go. I have one on my i7 PC Laptop Works great.
Just a thought     

It all about VRam & Cuda Cores and of course Adobe loves Cuda,
My Old AMD FX 8350 8 core has (2) NVidia GTX 580 with total of 3GB Of VRam
When rendering in A.E. or Premiere Pro from dng's to prores4444 I get about 19-22 frames per second so nearly Realtime
Without Cuda its about 8-12 Frames per second. Gpu I think is the second most importance think next to CPU.

1) SSD-M500 Crucial are very fast
2) Fast dual channel ram and as much as you can install (32GB) DDR 3
3) The biggest GPU you can afford ,NVidia with cuda(adobe products) 7xx or 8xx series lots of VRAM
4) i7 intel 4770K or 3770k (unlocked) for over clocking
5) At least a 1200 watt power supply
6) Fast storage, raid 0 or raid 5 (most mother board support this)
     or look in to a raid box setup with host adapter
7) CPU Water Cooler
Below is my setup for PC.
i7-3770k overclock to 4.7 Ghz
Corsair H60 water cool
16 GB duel channel ram
SSD 256 GB M500 Crucial OS drive
Gigabyte Mother Board - Z77X-UD5H
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 760 2GB VRam
ATTO R380 Raid Card with 8TB Raid 5 box

 What Build are you using (date)?
Make sure you have FPS Over Ride enabled to 23.976 or 25 in pal land
If not it will default back to 30p FPS no matter what you set in the canon menu.
Oct 24th A.D. Raw record module is the best! And fastest for Crop mode 2k video
On the 5d2. FYI I get 2048x930 23.976p continuous on Lexar 1000x &
At 2048x1024 23.976p for about 1500-2000 frames.

No not at 16x9 but 1:85.1 @ 75MB/s ,16x9 I get about 3500 frames
The point is they could easily support the max resolution by there own words.
I don't think any camera should be limited because of short comings of
another.

1880 is continous BTW, so that didn't wash.

There is really no diffrenance between Mac OS & PC system
They do the same job, I mainly work in Mac OSX (MP 1.1 & Mid 2010 MP) for post
work with raw and Use my pc laptop to extact mlv->dng and some a.e. & photoshop work.
SSD's is the best investment you can make on your system. Specially for windows base machine
As there is a swap disk so you need that speed.
CPU speed is not a factor as much any more.
1)fast SSD
2)fast ram & as much as you can install
3)biggest GPU you can get
4)fast external storage raid 0, 5 (USB 3.0, thunderbolt) note Mac support USB 3.0 native
5)CPU i7 good or i5
I listed thing in order, CPU is not that important as it used to be.
So go ahead & buy a Mac book Pro it will last you a long time .
Note* Mac OSX 10.9.1 & FCPX 10.1.1 needs a strong GPU 

I'm new to Magic Lantern, I'm using it to shoot RAW on a 5dII. This results in a spectaculair quality, very exciting.
I can shoot continously RAW 1880*940 2:1. This can result in multiple large files of 4 Gb which have to be concatenated on a PC using a script like
cd C:\Users\my_destination_folder
copy /B xyz.RAW+xyz.R00+xyz.R01 xyz.RAW
I'm about to create a bat file for PC that does some of the typing for me: like concatenating all RAW files in a directory, use raw2dng and clean up all files except the dng files. Since it's 15 years ago since my last bat file programming does anybody already have a bat file I could use?
Another question: I'm using After Effects to import the DNG files, which is a great way of importing, using camera RAW. I render a losless AVI file to be able to process further in Premiere Pro. It takes over one hour to create a losless AVI from 7549 frames. Is this a normal duration you think on new hardware? Are there any alternatives using Adobe software?

Use the MLV Viewer to view .mlv & .raw files on windows and to extract DNG's,there is no need to use command line download link below
http://upload.g3gg0.de/pub_files/09852505c6c352fdaf7fe4eddec48788/MLVViewSharp.zip
If you go to the first page of this thread I have a posted video tutorial with MLV View Sharp in action.
Try the A.E. Premiere Pro work around, I did a short video tutorial, this way you work with the raw dng's directly in Premiere Pro without pink HI-lights.  link-->  http://vimeo.com/79705806
I also think you my have to upgrade your computer performance, Being A.E. love Ram and Lots of GPU.
With about 8000 frame 1872x936 23.976 It takes about 15-20 min to make a video file on my mac to ProRes4444 with my PC the time is about the same but there
I Use QT Blackmagic RGB codec with trillion's + color.--> download link http://software.blackmagicdesign.com/DesktopVideo/Blackmagic_Desktop_Video_Windows_10.0.zip
If you like using AVI's try the AJA pc windows Codec there are about the best out there for a digital intermediate.
A speed Tip for A.E. , before you render press the Cap Lock key, that disables the viewer in A.E. and give a lot more speed !
PC I run a 8 core AMD overclock to 4.7Ghz cpu, 16GB dual channel ram ssd OS drive, raid0 , 2x-gtx580 1.5 ram each = 3GB Vram
On the MAC side I run a Mid2010 MacPro with a PC GTX 760 graphics card etc..