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Looks great.
Love the backing track with the prominent shaker - works really well with the product.

Thanks, yes you are right, it can be done.
A real PITA as you say!

Ok, please explain what I am missing.

If I go into the intervalometer ramping module, and try to set a new keyframe, I only seem to be able to select the ML values with a max of 1/24.
Where do I set a shutter speed of 2.5 seconds?
e.g. I want to start a timelapse with 2.5 seconds and finish with 4 seconds.

Well I just came back from doing a sunset timelapse and can assure you that being able to ramp the shutter speed on my manual lens would have been very useful!

Just to confirm that this bug is still there - it means that the intervalometer is very limited on the 600d and intervalometer ramping module is pointless.

Thanks for the reply.

I still think that there is potential in the idea, because the ability to increase the CBR in Magic Lantern seems to be entirely scene-dependent.
For example: I can easily crank the CBR to 3.0x if I leave the lens cap on (entirely dark scene), I can go to 2.0x for some simple indoor scenes, but if I try to record a very detailed and dynamic outdoor scene, then it can struggle at 1.3x.

I'm surprised that I got no replies...

Can anyone answer if this would be feasible to do? Could overlays be inserted before the compression is done?
Also,  would the potential bit rate increase significantly improve the video quality?

I know from trial and error that the subject matter has a huge part to play in how high I can set the CBR rate on my camera, but I'm not sure about just how much of an increase in image quality the increased CBR rate will yield.

Lovely video - wish mine looked as good.

Unfortunately the audio has a few problems - is there some kind of compressor misbehaving or is AGC still switched on?

I realise that this suggestion may sound ludicrous, but bear with me...

If there was a way to permanently record black overlays at the top and bottom of the image in camera (since the aspect ratios cannot be modified), then the video files would be substantially smaller and therefore allow for an increase in quality and FPS.

I don't know if there would be a bottleneck at the compression stage, but I'm thinking that this could allow either the Bit rate/FPS to be jacked up and so, overcome the SD card buffer bottleneck on the 600d.

A simple test here showed that h264 files are 25% smaller with 2.4:1 black overlay embedded. If many users are throwing those extra pixels away in post anyway, then it could give a nice quality boost to those of us who can't record 1920x1080 in raw.