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Nevermind.  Found it.

I linked a compiled script somewhere back in this thread that i wrote to auto merge spanned raw files.

I dunno, good question. You should try with timers off (debug menu) and in photo mode, you can still do 1038 and full non zoom (room to spare).... but a couple of days ago I had 1920x1080 almost continuous in MOVIE mode.

This actually works and doesn't make your card 32gb?
hm... so you can... except it does 32KB clusters and cuts speed down a tiny bit

I've been doing in camera formats for awhile and pretty sure I've recorded 32gb+ at least a couple times.  I'll try it with timers off and a FAT 32 format tmr. 
Thx.

Here you can try it...

[50D] Still fast in photo mode.zip
https://mega.co.nz/#!x9JUUTaQ!crrTnHy6f7ziG9HUfKhhrFkbdx0cnmMykXCOLCjFJ5g

I'm suffering from a speed depression.  Last night installed gregory's june 25th build and was able to get about 8gbs of 1584x1058.  However after a couple clips, I couldn't seem to get more than 60.1mb/s with that build and today the same with the one you linked above.  Also just tried Gregory's June 26th build (just uploaded) and I can't get above 62.5 mb/s in 16:9.  Using the Komputerbay 1000x 64 formatted in camera and haven't changed anything (global draw off, etc).  What could be the problem?

  I'm going on a trip through morocco in a month and while I don't have a subject to organize a film around, I'd like to take my 50d on a trial run.  Sort of like video-notes or ethnography.

So I need some gear advice!   I want to keep it light and hand-held (unless someone knows a particularly inobtrusive frame-mount solution).  i'm thinking I need:


a (mountable) external sound solution
a battery case that could work with the above
batteries
maybe another Komputerbay 1000x 64gb
possibly a better general purpose IS lens (my current walking around lens is a sigma dg 28-70 2.8-4)


and I look forward to any additional advice you pros and semi-pros can give about outfitting for such a task. 
Thanks!

Great. Is there something like it for the OS X?

I just made and added a .command executable of the same name to the linked rar.  I tried on one archive on my mac, it made the merged file but I didn't verify further than that.  Should be fine.  You'll need to run the file with "sudo [dir path]/ML_RAW_cat.command" (or however you can activate administrator privileges from finder -- I couldn't figure it out.  ).

For those of you who are new to Magic Lantern and are not very adept at the command line, here's a tutorial on how to merge ML RAW files without having to use the command line. This tutorial was created for the Mac, but it will also work in Windows. You'll need a hex editor and of course, a DNG extractor Utility like raw2dng, RAWMagic or raw2cdng.

HEX EDITORS:
Hex Fiend Hex editor for Macintosh
http://ridiculousfish.com/hexfiend/
HxD Hex editor for Windows
http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

RAW UTILITY:
RAWMagic
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ht3ydb4s254ka5z/RAWMagic-beta7a.dmg
raw2dng
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5404.0

I just bundled a windows and os X executable of a python script I wrote to concatenate spanned raw files.  It takes all XXXXXX.RAW files in a directory for which there are also XXXXXX.R00 files and then looks for any .R01, .R02, etc with the same name and then cat's them together into a XXXXXXX_merged.RAW file in the same directory.  And provides minimal command line output so you know it's working. 

It's pretty simple and uses the OS specific copyfile command.  I havent' run into any problems but PM me if anyone does.

The mac file will need to be run with admin privileges ("~$sudo [directory-to-executable]/ML_RAW_cat.command") to work.


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22921777/ML_RAW_cat.rar

I used the following:  "cat XX.RAW XX.R00 XX.R01 > MergedXX.RAW" and got a merged RAW file that RAWMagic seems to be able to handle.  It does, however, have pink frames.    This may be due to my recording raw in photo mode (doh) or a spanning/conversion problem.  Think someone else mentioned it on here.

But anyway, Great work to all of you!  I'm so thrilled to be able to shoot raw on this 50d!

I'm in for $20.

(eagerly awaiting my 50d!)

Great, thanks for the replies!

Hi everyone,
  forgive the ignorance; i'm new to the forum and have been reading some of the 50D posts on the subject of raw video recording.

  I have a question:  in your esteemed opinions, for someone who wants to upgrade their Xsi and is interested super- high def video (but has little $$) the 50D is looks to be a better option than the t3i, yes?
Thanks for any opinions