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When you guys are using the latest tragic lantern update, is greyscale preview running smoothly for you when shooting in crop mode? Mine has a severe lag when recording on my 1000x card, someone mentioned that they got it to work in real time.

Also, anyone else getting a black bar along the side of their crop-mode clips?  it even happens when I'm using greyscale preview.

I just found out that using USB 2.0 card readers could corrupt certain 1000x cf cards.  I'm using a 3.0 now, but i had been using the 2.0 for the past 3 months.  Are the cards I used with it permanently damaged? They both seem to be working fine, but are they more likely to fail since I used the wrong card reader on them for a little bit?

Thanks for all the advice everyone, and sorry I posted this in the wrong place! I haven't been able to do 1080p for over 30 seconds, so I'll probably be returning the cards.

Also, can it do over 80 without recording in MLV mode? That's incredible

I bought 2 Komputerbay CF cards, one 32 gb 1000x, one 64 gb 1000x.  When I record raw video on my 50d at 1920x1080 (crop mode) the camera says I'm doing about 65mb/s on both of the cards.  Is it worth sending them back or is that about the speed I should expect with these cards? That seems really slow to me.

(I would do an official benchmark but the tutorial I've been reading says that I'd have to format it via exfat, and I'm afraid that'll void my warranty.  Is this a valid concern?)

Thank you all for the suggestions, I'll give them a shot!

Thanks for the helpful reply.  I'm in the process of hooking up an external monitor, still trying to figure things out.  However, if I over saturate my monitor setup to compensate for the lack of color in my fcpx preview, wouldn't that screw up the preview for Lightroom and Davinci, which do not need additional saturation?

I'm importing a prores file into fcpx.  If I play it using quicktime the clip is desaturated.  Usually I can play it on a different media player to avoid the problem, but FCPX is probably playing the preview in Quicktime because that's also desaturated.  It makes it hard to color correct, anyone have any solutions?  Even after I've exported from fcpx the clip is fine, so it's just the quicktime player that's screwing up.

It's alright, but it's kind of basic.  Guess I'll just have to keep my iso really low.

Shoot.  Any suggestions for getting rid of noise if I'm color correcting in Lightroom?  I'm assuming Neat Video wouldn't be able to detect noise patterns as well on color corrected footage...

I'm trying to find a denoiser plugin that lets me edit my raw frames.  Most require me to make a tiff copy of the picture, so I'm not able to copy my changes to the other frames. Any suggestions?

For that, I guess turn on Kill flicker in advanced menu or disable dialog timer.

Am I blind or is the advanced menu not on the 50d? Sorry to be a bother but I can't find either of these options. Updated to nightly build a couple days ago.

To be clear, the problem is that when you turn on greyscale preview while shooting raw that the grayscale preview only shows up every other millisecond.  The camera is showing both the canon preview and the greyscale ML preview, making it extremely hard to use crop mode.

Hey does anyone know how to get the raw grayscale preview to stop flashing? It only works properly when I'm recording.

Alright thanks, i upgraded to a more recent nightly build.I got preview mode to work in black and white now, but the screen is flashing the whole time so it's impossible to use.  I've been reading that thread for a few days now but haven't found any solutions, you know what's going on? Thanks for the help

Ok, so I just got my 50d and I've been having a lot of success teaching myself some things, but there's one problem that I just can't seem to solve.  When I follow tutorials for shooting in crop mode my preview image is bright pink! The preview is also in a different resolution from what's actually being shot.  If anyone can clear this up for me I'll be eternally grateful.

Edit: I've upgraded since and now my raw preview is flashing between 2 different aspect ratios.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I've been asking other people and they've had similar issues

Ok dumb question here, but every time I shut my 50d down I have to reset the resolution, turn raw on, turn movie mode on, etc.  My camera says there's a directory missing when I start it up, could that be causing it? I just installed this today

Also is there a good crop mode tutorial anywhere? Whenever I follow the ML one my screen shows an extremely pink frame.  Thanks

Because I've heard about them failing, and I'm concerned that I'll be on a big shoot and I'll lose my footage.  Really wish I didn't have to, but they sound a lot more dangerous than other cards from what I've read.

So i got a komputerbay card today, but I'm chickening out and returning it because of rumors of the cards failing.  I really just need a tiny card to test the 50d raw video with.  I'd like to go with the 16 gb transcend 1000x card, but I've heard that they are slower than the 32gb.  Is this speed difference significant enough for me to spend an extra 50 right now for a 32 gb card?  Thanks in advance!

[The 50d isn't stable enough to record longer takes consistently because the buffer overloads. (I'm getting mixed messages on this one)You can't look at what you're shooting (even on an external monitor?)]

I can't stress enough how thankful I am for all this information! It's been very helpful.  What I'm hearing is:

The 50d isn't stable enough to record longer takes consistently because the buffer overloads. (I'm getting mixed messages on this one)

You can't look at what you're shooting (even on an external monitor?)

If this is true then I probably won't be getting the 50d.  Is this correct info or am I misunderstanding you guys?

I'm getting this camera just to practice for now, if I shoot anything serious on it it won't be for the next year.  I'm fine with the awful raw workflow, I've done things similar to it in the past for my non-raw videos. It's grueling but doable.  But if the facts above are true, then there's no way I can afford to experiment with this thing.

Again thanks for the info, after this I promise I'll stop hijacking this thread!

Thanks for the info on the other cameras, still researching my options. 50d grading is a dream though, so I'm really leaning towards that at the moment. 

While I'm here, what's the highest resolution you guys have managed to record at if you had to record for 1min-1.5 min?  I'm using this camera for narrative film and I'd like to have semi-long takes as an option. And could I possible change the aspect ratio from 16:9 to something like 2:39:1 so I could record longer, while still having it look like a film? Apologize if these are stupid questions, still making my way through the scattered documentation!

I know it's a great value.  I just wanted to compare it to raw on the BMPC, mII, etc.  Helps to know what you're getting before you spend 500 dollars!

This might not be the place to post this, but is there anywhere that I can download the dng files from the 50d so I can color grade them myself? It's hard to judge the quality by looking at other people's work.

(I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this,so if not, my apologies!)

I was thinking about trading in my t2i for a 50d to take advantage of the raw capabilities. If I wanted to film a long project, would a hacked 50d work better than what I've got? I've been researching specs but I'm still a bit fuzzy on how stable this thing is.