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I created them by following the steps in this tutorial: http://magiclantern.wikia.com/wiki/Cropmarks

It does work on my 550d.

I couldn't do the last step:

To have a usable RLE compressed .bmp (required only for 60D and 1100D, but good for saving memory on all camera) we need to use the Sztupy's tool (convertrle.rb ). NOTE: the compress RLE function in photoshop don't make an usable cropmark (it will hang your camera)

I created a few cropmarks for shooting hyperlapses.
It can help you with picking a reference point for each frame.

Thought I'd share:

When I turn on silent picture mode on my 550d, and activate the intervalometer.. Some pictures have purple distortions, and others are black.
By turning off Global_draw the purple distortion problem is fixed. However, I keep getting the black frames.

I'm not sure if there is a solution for the black frames? So I created one myself.

The following PHP script:
- finds all black jpg's
- finds for each black jpg the image that comes after in the sequence, and the one before
- merges these two images to a new image, where they are blended 50%/50% on top of eachother
- overwrites the black frame with the blended image

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<?phperror_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);?>

When taking silent pictures with magic lantern, often black frames occur, or frames with purple distortion in it.
It seems to fix the purple distortion, the easiest thing to do is to turn of Global draw.
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I haven't found a fix to get rid of the black frames. Therefore this script finds black frames, and merges the picture before and after the black frame to a new picture, to replace the black frame.<br>
Make sure the folder with the images are writeable(not read-only)!
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In what folder are the .jpg photos?<Br>
<form>
Folder path: <input name="folder" value="

<?phpif($_GET['folder']){ echo $_GET['folder'];} else { echo 'D:\550d\cusco';}?>

"><Br>
Black frames are smaller than: <input name="filesize" value="

<?phpif($_GET['filesize']){ echo $_GET['filesize'];} else { echo '100';}?>

" size=3>KB<Br>
<input type="hidden" name="submit" value="1">
<input type="checkbox" name="replace" value="1"> Replace black frames with merged before and after picture<br>
<input type="submit" name="scan" value="scan folder for black frames"><Br>
</form>

<?phpfunction replace_picture($path,$image){//	echo '<li>so you want to replace?';//	echo '<li>path: '.$path;//	echo '<li>image: '.$image;	// get the last number in the image:	preg_match('/^(.+?)([0-9]+)(\..+?)$/',$image,$m);//	echo '<li>number: '.$m[2];	$number_before = $m[2]-1;	$number_after = $m[2]+1;//	echo '<li>number_before: '.$m[1].$number_before.$m[3];//	echo '<li>number_after: '.$m[1].$number_after.$m[3];	// Create image instances	$dest = imagecreatefromjpeg($path.'\\'.$m[1].$number_before.$m[3]);	$src = imagecreatefromjpeg($path.'\\'.$m[1].$number_after.$m[3]);		// Copy and merge	imagecopymerge($dest, $src, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4000, 2000, 50);		if (is_writable($path.'\\'.$image)) {	    echo '';	} else {	    echo '<li><font color=red>Error, can\'t write the file. Make sure the folder is not read-only. Right mouse button on folder -> attributes -> uncheck read-only</font>';	}	imagejpeg($dest, $path.'\\'.$image, 80);		echo '<li>Image <u>'.$image.'</u> has been replaced with a merged version of image <u>'.$m[1].$number_before.$m[3].'</u> and <u>'.$m[1].$number_after.$m[3].'</u>';	imagedestroy($dest);	imagedestroy($src);	}if($_GET['submit']){	// does folder exist?	if (file_exists($_GET['folder'])) {	    echo "The folder ".$_GET['folder']." exists";			// get all the files		if ($handle = opendir($_GET['folder'])) {		    while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {		        if ($entry != "." && $entry != "..") {		            		            // is it a jpg file?		            if(strpos($entry,'.jpg') OR strpos($entry,'.JPG')){				$size = filesize($_GET['folder'].'\\'.$entry);				$size = round($size/1000);								if($size < $_GET['filesize']){					$small_files_detected = 1;					if(!$detected_black_frames){						echo '<br><br><b>The following images are smaller than '.$_GET['filesize'].'kb. And the first pixel of the image is BLACK</b><br><br>';						$detected_black_frames = 1;					}									$im = imagecreatefromjpeg($_GET['folder'].'\\'.$entry);					$rgb = imagecolorat($im, 1, 1);					$r = ($rgb >> 16) & 0xFF;					$g = ($rgb >> 8) & 0xFF;					$b = $rgb & 0xFF;										if($r+$g+$b == 0){				            	echo '<li><a href="'.$_GET['folder'].'\\'.$entry.'">'.$_GET['folder'].'\\'.$entry.'</a> '.$size.'kb';					}					if($_GET['replace']){						replace_picture($_GET['folder'],$entry);					}				}		            }		            		        }		    }		    closedir($handle);		    if(!$small_files_detected){		    	echo '<br><Br><font color=red>No files smaller than '.$_GET['filesize'].' where detected</font>';		    }		}	    	} else {	    echo "The folder ".$_GET['folder']." does not exist(?) Or this script can't access it:(";	}}

A better solution would be not to get any black frames at all. Though I don't know how. Tips welcome!