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Nope, the 6D.

The camera has already got the right firmware on it, it's just this one card that got corrupted, so I need to get the boot flag etc back on it so I can use ML on this one card again. Just copying the files ML from one of my other SD cards doesn't work.

I'm currently traveling and have very slow limited internet so I can't get MacBoot, as it requires java, I don't have it on my Mac, and I can't use EOScard as I don't have my external card reader with me, as VMware doesn't seem to want to work with the internal SD reader.

So I've found make_bootable.sh script which at one point worked on Mac, but this was years ago and no longer does, and certianly not with a 64GB XCSD card.

So my question is, has someone updated the script recently? Or is there some other tool out there now that will mark my SD card to be bootable from a Mac?

I can't belive no work has been done since 2011/2012

Hi pointbob,

What's your end goal here?
I have a feeling just changing the h.264 bitrate isn't going to be enough. While it will give less compressed footage, I don't think it will get any shaper, like the Canon raw footage does. (and you'll also need a fast SD card, like with RAW).
The downside of recoding raw (with the 6D) is that you can get quite bad aliasing and the shot length and resolution is limited (read about it in the blog post below).  But that aside the footage you get with raw is truly amazing to work.

Check out this blog post - http://djisupertramp.com/journal/canon-6d-video-raw-vs-h264/ (It's in French, but if you're in Chrome it will translate it for you)


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As for the "no h264.ini file to load", that is because you need to create the file on the SD card, there are some examples floating around this forum, do a search. (I have never done this, so I can't really comment any further)

2, I believe you can change the bitrate in the h264.ini file that you can load in Magic Lantern.
Also take a look at this page: http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Bit_rate

3, Yes, if you record normal h.264 it will record audio too, unless disabled in the Canon or ML menu.

4, Not by default, I belieave thats what the mlv_snd.mo file is for. Sound gets recorded in a seperate file as to video.
Remember that if you do shoot raw, your post work will take longer as there are a few extra steps you have to take before you can start editing the raw footage.

@hes gone, I just recently upgraded to the latest version of ML (2015-08-18) on my 6D, and used to do a bit of raw cropped video recording, but haven't come accross this feature with static shots. But I've not looked for the feature so it might be there.

hmm, true. That could work. Guess I just miss the old way of doing it.

Does anyone know where the seperate wav sound recoding feature has gone to?

I just updated to the latest nightly. The last update I done was a few months ago so guess a few things have changed, but sad to see some features disappearing.