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Hi. I'm a little confused. I'm making the transition to a cineform workflow. I work on a 2014 Mac Pro, so I have paid for a copy of windows and VMware, and have installed RAW2GPCF and rawanizer on the windows side.

Where does Cineform Studio fit in? I've paid for it but I haven't got the activation code yet so I don't think I'm tied into what system I put it on. Does it need to be on the windows or mac side? AFAIK you need Studio Premium to get rawanizer to export Cineform raw (I assume it's giving you the licenses to encode to Cineform, which makes me think that it should be on the windows side), but I'd ideally want it on the Mac side because I have an apple laptop that could be used for another guy to remote grade during editing with the active meta data.

Anyway, I'm generally just a little confused with where Cineform Studio needs to be.

Cheers guys

I'm having the same problem as was mentioned by PressureFM. Whenever I try to import, I get the Ingesting box, and then the program goes unresponsive.

I seem to be able to record 100% fine at 1728x606 when shooting raw 50p

Can't find this "small hacks" though

I only seem to be able to record 4 seconds even with those tips

Bear in mind that I'm 100% new to raw video and I'm not sure about settings yet, I don't seem to be able to shoot 50p in 1920x672. I have the Canon menu set to 1280 50 ALL-I, and the ML menu set to 1920x672 raw with FPS override turned off along with global draw and everything else.

I'll post movie and playback benchmarks in a sec with global draw turned off. After I'll try the 50p video AlexRo.

Dumb question but how do i do it in playback mode? I'm new to all of this

Thought you guys might be interested to have this. I don't think it's been posted anywhere yet.

I think I may buy just the one Sandisk card, post the benchmark tests here, and depending on the results, either buy a second or get two Lexar cards in addition.

I think a benchmark for these cards would be useful for this forum to have.

That's what I get a little confused about. The same thing is said for the Lexar cards. vpg20 for sustained write speeds of 20mb/s... (and that's for the 1000x cards that is often recommended)

I'm not particularly trying to save money. I will defo buy Lexar at least because they are meant to be less touch-and-go when it comes to speed. I'll pay extra for the new Extreme Pro cards if there is an improvement in speed and stability, but equally I don't want to spend pointless money.

I'm interested in the difference (maybe theoretical for now, because I know these cards are new) between vpg20 and vpg65. Will this make a perticular difference?

Another quick question for you guys.

The card I see mentioned a lot on this forum for raw recording is the Lexar 1000 cards. Does anyone anticipate there being a noticeable performance increase with the new Sandisk Extreme Pro 160 mb/s cards?

They're quoted as being similar speed cards but with the Lexar supporting VPG-20 and the Sandisk supporting VPG-65. I ask because the Sandisk cards will cost double the Lexar cards (for £600 I can either get 4 Lexar 64 GB cards or just 2 Sandisk cards).

Actually ignore my question. I found the answers eventually. I'll try a few shoots and see how annoying it is to reload the firmware everytime I change a card (every 15 minutes I suppose).

[5D3-113-bootflag.fir]

Just a quick update and a question.

I eventually decided to just make the jump to raw properly. I've upgraded to the mark III, spent a depressing amount of money on cards, and spent an even more depressing amount of money on some LaCie 2big thunderbolt hard-drives.

I have some interesting projects coming up (an independent feature length film and a supplementary video that will be playing throughout the whole duration of a Jesus Christ Superstar musical - kind of a dual platform experience) so I wanted to have raw sorted before I started them. Hopefully I can start contributing a little feedback to this forum after a while.

On to my question. I was reading the EOSHD guide (by Andrew Reid). I've installed the basic 5D3 ML. The next step was to get the nightly build sorted. He wrote that you should get the 5D3-113-bootflag.fir file along with the "ML" folder and "autoexec.bin"file. I didn't get the boot flag file though in the nightly build download. Has this been removed for now (I know that currently, once you get the 5D3 bootable, it's not fully reversible(you have to keep the 2 sec boot time))....or something else?

Cheers guys

Hi guys,

I've been using ML for a long time now but haven't currently gone to RAW; mostly due to computer and HD constraints. The most annoying thing for me currently though is that the 5DII outputs through the HDMI at 480 resolution. I was told once that using the RAW ML makes the 5DII output at full 1080. I just wanted to confirm this... If it's true, I will probably make the switch over finally to RAW shooting. I'm fed up of pulling focus on my SmallHD AC7 in 480 res!

Also, for people used to the workflow, will I be OK using a current gen Mac Book Pro Retina (16GB RAM at 1600mhz, 2.3 quad core i7 and 1GB nvidia 650M graphics)? I appreciate it's not ideal but is it usable? I'm not sure how large the files still are after they've been converted after shooting.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

One last question. I assume the 5DII has 4:2:0 chroma subsampling. Was this ever improved? And does it look like the RAW developments might improve this?

Cheers everyone

Ahh good idea. I never thought of that. I'll give it a try when I get hold of the mini HDMI adapter

Anyone got any input?

Hi guys. I've been shooting with ML for quite a long time now but I've been so busy recently that I'm a little bit behind in where ML currently is.

I always shoot with a Cinevate Cyclops (fantastic btw) but I really need to sort a monitor out. I'm looking at the SmallHD AC7 monitor and have a few questions;

Firstly, as far as I am aware, when you hit record on the 5D2, output through the HDMI is 480p or similar. Has ML improved on this?

I'm sure plenty of people have shot with 5D2 on a larger monitor. Is the 480 output REALLY annoying...or just not ideal...?

When you plug the HDMI into the 5D2 I assume the LCD screen goes blank. Is this true and is that changeable through ML? (Im thinking along the lines of having a focus puller using the monitor on shots when I can't reasonably maintain focus and the operate camera)

Any other general wisdom anyone else has regarding 5D2s and field monitors would also be greatly appreciated.

Cheers everyone, Alex