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The 7 hour delay failed again to start the intervalometer (half pressed shutter button at start to activate red light).
Intervalometer on and no touching ML after that I don`t think
Settings global draw on, all modes
histogram rgb
ETTR hint
auto ettr always on
link to canon shutter off
post deflicker xmp
canon image review 2 secs
Raw

Testing at home is no problem Alex. I`ll do that tomorrow, with the 7 hour delay. I`ll make a note of the steps.

I was overambitious I suppose. Knowing that the emotimo tb3 pan/tilt head had no means of firing ML I kept it and the camera unconnected, starting each (with a 7-hour programmed delay) simultaneously.

http://forum.timescapes.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=11952&sid=c45aad821021bf81dc2699d10b0c661cps?

Is the bug fixeable perhaps?

I left my camera up in the mountains on Saturday, planning to come back the next day after a multi-hour time lapse through the night. As I was leaving it at 4pm I programmed a 7 hour delay to the start. Pressing the shutter button half way gave me the blinking red light on the back of my 6D , telling me the countdown to the start at 11pm had begun.
But when I returned next day the time lapse had failed to start and the red light was still bllinking. Very frustrating. Is this a bug or did I do something wrong?
I retested it at much shorter intervals and it all worked fine, even with a 45 minute delay.
Thanks

I want to update ML on my card to the November update but am wary about proceeding without asking this basic question:
I read that an ML update simply involves copy/pasting the files from the November update onto the card.
But some of the folder names are different - eg some with capital letters, some not (eg cropmks versus CROPMKS). Aren`t these folders simply going to sit alongside each other on the card?
And the folder names are not all the same:

In the update: cropmks, data, doc, fonts, logs, modules, scripts, settings
On the card now: CROPMKS, DCIM, DOC, MISC

This doesn`t seem like a clean copy/paste/replace to me. I`d be grateful to know whether I am ok to go ahead and do this without causing myself problems.

Thanks. I can`t wait to point my camera at the sun with dual iso and see what I get!

Yes Tony. Which for a keen time lapse photographer like me is not really optimal. No doubting the quality of the video image with the filter. But I found myself taking fewer still images and time lapses because of it. I don`t like exposing the sensor to dust by repeated removal and reinsertion of the filter but there`s no way around it. I console myself by remembering that on paper at least the 6D has a slightly better still  image quality than the 5d3 (with the latter`s built-in anti-aliasing filter), although I think they call that rationalizing one`s purchase.

Well after all the help from noisyboy and co, I finally have something to show for it. I hope you like it:

Shot during a 4-week car tour of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and eastern New Brunswick (Bay of Fundy). A Canon 6D camera was used in movie mode and with Magic Lantern`s new Raw Video capability. On this camera Magic Lantern cannot record full raw HD continuously. So the music piece "Time" by Hans Zimmer was chosen to fit the 5 second or so movie clips. You will probably have heard this music before, so not very imaginative on my part, but the piece is still wonderful, and does justice to the Maritimes.

Thanks guys.
I`ve put this on hold for a bit and will happily bear with you. I`m sure it wil be worth the slight wait.

There is no mention of being able to work with other data on a card!!!!!

I didn't expect it to work with a previous version of ML for a different camera. It just alarmed me that the camera wouldn`t react at all to being turned on, with that card in, and at random other times with other cards. I`ve since discovered there`s a Camera Emergency forum here where there are similar stories of dead cameras or cameras that needed workarounds to boot up on turning on.

So I put a San Disk Extreme 8gb 30mb/s card in*. No reaction. No menu. Nothing. Removed battery and replaced. Nothing. My 32gb card works but only after I`ve removed the battery. I didn`t need to do that before today.

* This card has ML from the Canon 600D on it. I don`t know if that is what stops the 6D reacting.

Anyway I discovered that by reformatting the card (and keeping rather than removing ML) I can call up ML again from the trash button. But the above error message is still there at the top and sooner or later ML freezes and I have to power down and take the battery out. I got a bit scared of damaging the original Canon firmware and reformatted, this time removing ML permanently. I`ll try another card. 

I got it working to start with (following Random`s list) but then ML disappeared and I cannot call it up using the trash button. Instead I get a message above the Menus: "Scripts dir missing".

Just as an aside, your no 5 action ("run EOScard.exe, activate "EOS_develop" and "bootdisk" and click "safe") is not in noisyboy`s list on page one.
Your list`s step 9 is also not in Noisyboy`s list. "Files in folder "to run on 1.1.3"" are only put once to the card in his list.

Hi Noisyboy,

I tried the install and got the green success message at stage 7, but no ML on pressing the trash button after stage 15

I did notice that formatting the card in pc in stage 8 wiped all the files off the card. Was it supposed to do that?

In stage 11 you wrote "once again extract EOScard.exe" but that`s the first time I did that as it appears to be the first time it`s mentioned in the proceedure.

The second two paragraphs are only mentioned to give you possible pointers about where I might have gone wrong.

I`m using a San Disk Extreme Pro 16gb 45mb/sec.

Many thanks

Having chosen the 6D over the 5D mark3 I must say I inwardly groaned when I heard about the new raw video capability. But all these 6d videos have cheered me a lot!

1792 x 1008  for 5 seconds is just enough for most situations I might need. It`s a shame that Canon disabled the remote control facility for video in the 6D though. After physically  pressing the record button the camera needs a second or so for the vibration to dampen, making it only 3 or 4 seconds perhaps. Does Magic Lantern have a remote control video function in the pipeline for the 6D (or even a self-timer function) or is that just wishful thinking?