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#1
I did the test and modules tab didn't disappear. Couldn't reproduce the bug.
Cam: 550D
ML: Nightly.2018.Jul03.550D109
SD: 64GB ExFAT formatted SD card.
#2
Camera-specific Development / Re: Canon R5
August 15, 2020, 12:23:22 AM
Tilta actually announced a cooling system for the R5 already, but the problem is that if the overheating is software based timers it will have no effect. https://tilta.com/2020/07/tiltaing-camera-cage-for-canon-r5/

EOSHD findings do correlate with many reviewers saying that the ambient temperature made no difference to the recording and cooldown times. That they were exactly the same in both hot and cool environments, and removing the battery and even adding ice etc had no effect. I think I even heard that it overheated in Antarctia or somewhere really cold, so the software based timers would actually explain this behavior.
#3
Camera-specific Development / Re: Canon R5
August 14, 2020, 11:13:26 PM
There's some interesting discoveries on the R5 to suggest that the overheating is actually a software limitation imposed by Canon. I wonder what it would take to develop ML to remove them.

https://www.eoshd.com/news/eoshd-testing-finds-canon-eos-r5-overheating-to-be-fake-with-artificial-timers-deployed-to-lock-out-video-mode/
#4
Very interesting finds on the R5 by Andrew Reid. Could mean that the overheating is added in software as a fake limitation. I wonder if there could be Magic Lantern developed to remove these limitations.

https://www.eoshd.com/news/eoshd-testing-finds-canon-eos-r5-overheating-to-be-fake-with-artificial-timers-deployed-to-lock-out-video-mode/
#5
Quote from: Kharak on July 12, 2014, 11:04:11 PM
To your second part, I am not sure if it is using preview files or Rendered files, I was assuming it was using the DNxHD files. How can I tell?

There's the option when exporting and you either have it checked or not.

#6
Quote from: Kharak on July 11, 2014, 08:50:31 PM
The DNxHD file is 1920x1080 cause thats the only resolution you can render out from the AVID DNxHD Codec (free one that is), the RAW footage is 1920x872 so it is stretched when looking at the DNxHD file and I have to put in 2:20.1 aspect ratio in order to watch it properly in my player. I wrote in an earlier post 1920x1080, that was not true I meant to write that it was not upscaled or anything, but the PP project is 1920x872 and is rendered out the same and is perfect in premiere. I suppose it is actually "upscaled" because it is stretched vertically.

So I am suspecting that PP has a problem with this 2:20.1 aspect ratio that is stretched to 1920x1080 and then re-squeezed ?

I think your right that the issue might be you squeezing the files when exporting from After Effects and then desqueezing in Premiere. What I would suggest for you to do is when exporting from After Effects make the comps size 1920x1080 and let the DNxHD files have the black bars. Then you are not stretching anything and it might solve your issue of aliasing. In Premiere the files should fit well into a 1920x1080 or a 1920x872 sequence.

Quote from: Filmmaking_Dude on July 11, 2014, 06:32:03 PM
You are not using the render files on export?

What I'm asking is if you are using preview files in the final export cause those aren't that good quality and I wouldn't recommend it.
Also when you do any scaling it's good to check the "Use Maximum Render Quality" option, as it is the setting that deals with any scaling in your project. It will take longer to export, but any scaling done on the project will look so many times better.

Hope this will fix your problem.
#7
It would seem like there's a pixel aspect ratio issue. But it's obviously not as your render settings state that.

You are not using the render files on export?

#8
General Chat / Re: XYlab Videomhacking Workshop
June 28, 2014, 10:59:23 AM
I would also like to know if it will be filmed and put online later?
#9
Forum and Website / Re: Chat is not working for me
September 03, 2013, 09:01:19 PM
Quote from: SDX on September 03, 2013, 08:44:14 PM
That's strange - it should only say #magiclantern, without the # at the end. It does work for me, so are you sure you didn't enter the last # by fault?
Well now it logged in fine.
That's strange though because I tried logging in several times in the past few days and it had that response.
Strange
#10
Forum and Website / Chat is not working for me (solved)
September 03, 2013, 08:19:35 PM
I enter to the chat like regular and then this happens.

#11
Quote from: ru31jan on September 02, 2013, 11:30:45 PM
I was just wondering: why would you go through all this trouble with cropping? Is it just the extra pixels? Because I've seen some stuff from the 50D without cropping that looked razorsharp too, definitly for YT and Vimeo use.
Well my dear friend mister director wanted to get the most out of this camera and insisted we shoot it this way. And truly this was a test project to the extent that we were testing out RAW and what's the most we can get out of the 50D.
And yes, we could have shot it without crop. In fact the last shot of the film (crane pull out from chalk drawing) is shot without crop, and it is pretty indistinguishable.
But we did it this way and it cost us 3x or more of the time it would've taken without crop.
Oh well.
#12
Quote from: dariSSight on September 02, 2013, 06:54:42 PM
Great Kick Ass Filmmaking , I'm very confuse how you were able to see you shots correctly. When you use 5x crop(ML 3x) does it zoom in so close that you would have to back up an extreme amount that it would be difficult to film your subject without distance?
I would have to review after each shot with that B&W 6fps distorted playback. And yes it does crop in considerably, so distance was required for each shot. You kind of get used to the faming and I did some test before the actual production to see where the framing would land. It was a lot of the time great guesswork and sometimes luck. In order to get the right framing I would guess where the frame should be, do a 2 second shot, play it back, move the camera, shoot a 2 sec shot, etc. until you get the good framing. Also I would switch the crop around, if he is on the right side of the frame I would keep the crop in the center so the right edge of what you're seeing is the right edge of the frame, if he is on the left side I would notch it to the right 1 notch so the left edge of what you're seeing is the left edge. Complicated stuff.  We would do many takes for each shot to get them right.
We shot most of the film with a Samyang 14mm T3.1 (which is pretty wide) and for some of the close ups we used Samyang 35mm T1.5. And for 35mm you had to back up quite a bit, well depends on the shot type.

Anyways it was a crazy process.
#13
Hey.
I was the DP/tech consultant/assistant editor on this production. We shot on the EOS 50D in 2000x920 RAW. 2.20:1 to be later cropped to 2.35:1.

Shooting cropped is a pain because you really can't see what you're framing. If you have the crop in the center it shoots a whole chunk to the left. It's about double the area you are seeing width wise so the center of the image would be the left edge of what you are seeing. If you move the crop one notch to the right it will shoot everything from the left edge to the right side 2x and the right edge is the center. And don't get me started on getting the right headroom. It's a constant trial and error. Crazy crop...

Took 7 days of shooting and we ended up with about 700GB+ of RAW files.
Made dng's with RAWMagic and converted all the footage to Prores Proxie in DaVinci Resolve to be edited in Premiere Pro CS6.
Then we tried coloring in After Effects with ACR but a lot of the shots were flickering so we decided to Encode the clips used in the timeline again with Resolve to Prores 422 and did the coloring in Premiere with RGB Curves and Tint.

Anyways. Here's the video.

Summer in the HolyLand


Behind the Scenes