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Good job KB I believe in you guys!

Please explain the logic of this. Surely your footage won't become sharper, right?

Slightly! It does. I don't really know why. But when I was running my first raw tests I tried both  exporting 1600x800 tiff than opening in QuickTime 7 and exporting 1080p  with letterbox and exporting an 3k plus tiff and downscaling to 1080 p with letterbox. The latter gives me better results.
My guess is ACR handles upscaling  better than QuickTime, and any video conversion software will handle downscaling better than upscaling.
Does this make any sense to anyone else?

I get great results exporting to 3k+ an than downscaling to 1080 on my MKII. I'm actually quite frustrated that ACR 8.2 does not give you "suggestions" of up and downscale anymore. Before it would give you from 3 to 5 different default options. On an usual MKII cr2 file would be 21mp (default) 25mp (upscale) and 18mp and 12mp downscale. Now you have to do the math yourself. What the f... Is wrong with this adobe people anyway?

Ive just updated my ACR to 8.2 and visionlog profile has vanished from where it used to be .  Any thloughts on geting it back? Kindda hard to be without it once you had it. Good job btw, makes us feel like with mini Alexas  .
Cheers!

I see a lot of people using resolve, how do you handle your noise reduction? On ACR I get
Useful NR before exporting to tiff and rendering an image sequence to prores or whatever codec I wanna work.

Plus, has anybody experimented with ACR scaling in Photoshop? I usually find it best to export a 3k+ tiff and than downscale to 1080p.

I've Just used the latest Raw2Dng and it works on ACR...
Great profile BTW it helps quite a lot.

Hi everybody,

Sorry for my bad english but i m french.

Well i has a question about these versions of magic lantern for raw video.
I want to know if the risks to brick the camera are same than the nightly versions of ml ?

Thanks you

@Everybody

Can we get clear on this?

I don't believe any build can break your camera (except maybe for double ISO stuff). I do believe the camera may cease functioning due to some error which is normally corrected by dropping the battery with the camera still on (this actually happens sometimes with the nightlies ), and worst case scenario a clean card would do the trick.
That is, if the camera was "healthy" before the install, and with the appropriate firmware.
Anyone says different? really

@GutterPump

That being said, I tend to feel these builds from the 5DMKII raw topic tend to be more stable because we have a.d. "watching over us" and doing some extra testing while maximizing compatibility with the MkII before they come out. If something does go wrong, ML forum tends to be the best place to look for a solution. Take  look at the Troubleshooting threads and i think you will come up with the same conclusion.
Anyway the disclaimer still stands USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISKS, to which I would add, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

@devs & super dooper old-timer members

Although I'm new at the forum i've read a lot of it for a while now, so when I see a question i think i can answer I do (at the risk of sounding smug or pretentious). Just trying to help! If this is somehow a disservice please let me know.

Cheers All

PS: Shouldn't we open a tread to try and translate some of the documentation tho other languages? We could set up a peer review sistem and everything. I'd be Happy to help with Portugese.

@agour
I think there is also a "how to" about - ettr timelapse - that you will find very helpful. http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5705.0

How are you converting to 2K and are the final video file clean?

Photoshop Raw

Clean enough, some kinds is artifacts such as moire are more visible in raw, but I guess one would get those upscale or not.

So far the shadows recovery isn't fantastic and too much photoshop noise reduction works only until certain point. The same to anti-moire. Still it is possible to bring 1 mabe two stops of shadows back to visible spectrum and denoise it in post.

Highlight recovery is dreamlike, redlike! (ok mabe I'm overreacting).

People tend to mess up with accrual color on raw files an get weird results (in my opinion). It is best to get the most out of the contrast and exposure, WB and do the actual coloring on the prores 4444 file afterwards (using or not a log lut). Unless of course for chroma purposes.

I usually downscale the 2k+ tiff to 1080p (more realistic size for commercial productions of a small company) for all my testing. Although we're producing a short (expected for next year) where we intend to use the full might of 5D raw in which case I intend to do the whole thing in 2k (so far good results yei!).

hello all,
I look for a moment realized on the progress 5d ii and i have installed the latest build of October 04, I have a 32 gb card Komputerbay 1000 x n but I can not manage to make more than 500 dng in 1880 x 1058 dng or 1000 with optional interface X.
What are the optimal power dampers for continuous shooting? what options they have to activate and deactivate? 24fps? small hack? auto preview? warm up card 128 mb, 1gb? standard interface, X, + feature? global draw on or off?
many questions that could help all the people who ask the same questions as me.
Even simpler, you can share a configuration, if so, could you share yours? thank you very much

Sure

Aspect ratio 2:1 1880x940
1880 on
Small hacks on
23.97fps
32gb KB

I find these are the important ones in my case.

I get continuous Rec and export beautiful 2k+ tiff out of it.

I can even leave global draw on and don't have to mess with the picture format or anything

I just installed the latest build, upgraded from the basic alpha version. I'm very confused though, why is the max horizontal pixel length now 1872? It was 1880 on the last build. I understood why it was 1880 and not 1920 (canon just upscales to full HD from 1880). Either way, why did we lose those 8 pixels?

On previews builds 1880 was an option you had to toggle ON.

Are you guys getting bigger resolutions or only more speed?

I've got a komputerbay x1000 32gb for a couple months now. Has been working fine and fast  and doing everything it is supposed to. I read a lot of complains on the 64 and 128 Gb models though.

At night I do believe it makes sense to use 1/30. You wil get tracing lights and all...

No stray rocks - camera is inside the car.

I considered the ND filter, yeah. I'll have to do the tests and run the numbers to see how much I need one, unless you're speaking from experience, in which case I'll defer to you. I've read on the interwebs that 1/30 is decent for getting a bit of motion blur while driving; do you think that's right?

1/30 gets kindda weird for me. 1/40 is cool if you want a lot of motion blur.
BTW I shoot 23.97 so that mabe it.

You can de-click a lens (the manual ones anyway). But that would mean physically taking apart and operating if it's that important to you.

Most of the time it's used for smooth transition between stops so you could have any (in between stop) setting you want.

Example:

http://nofilmschool.com/2013/03/de-click-manual-still-lenses-budget-diy-tutorial/

Way to go! I use these already works fantastically with Nikkor lenses!

Expo override should help a bit.

It really does!

Cheers

Is it possible to change the aperture increments on canon lenses to smaller (than 1/3) increments?
I Don't know if this is a silly question (didin't see anyone else asking) but it would be really helpful. 

Yes, as long as they are 'natural' analog ISOs (100, 200 etc without digital gain)

Can anyone expand on that?

I'm under the impression that on the mk II the ISO 320 has the best noise/grain because it is acctually 400 ISO, with some sort of digital negative gain, supressing the noise in dark areas(on H264 that is). Am I mistaken?

Which are the Ideal ISOs for raw recording ? which ISO would be "0db" in your opinion?

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I ran some tests. I currently run the 2013/08/27 8cf76a551872 build by a.d. at both a KB 1000x 32GB, and a Sandisk Extreme 60 Mb/s.

I seem to have misinformed you guys, I don't get the 1856x1004 option anymore I get 1856x1016 and it expects continuous but only puts out 200-1000 frames depending on camera movement (KB x1000). I do get 1880x940 Continuous, unfortunately I still haven't got any footage to show for, but we are shooting a short entirely on ML raw that I'll be glad share @ the forum when ready, and credit ML. (will be ready next year)

At the Sandisk i get 1600x800 continuous. Again I like usig 2:1 Aspect.

Ive been using the workflow.

MLRAW> Son Of Batch> DNG> Adobe Camera RAW (upscale to 3072x1536)> TIFF> QUICKTIME7>PRORES 4444 (any size Usualy 1080P w/letterbox)> NLE (fcp7)> XML> Davinci Resolve Lite (Round trip to FCP) > XML> AE (for NR -Boris CC etc)> PRORES> NLE (for compositing grain or light leaks etc)> Final

It is a little complicated but gives out good images. And I don't mind the extra work really.

   

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I`just saw the beginning of the thread.
I`ve acctually been using a Komputerbay 32Gb X1000 CF for a couple months at least since (2013/08/16
31302bbc6461) and have outstanding results: 1856x1004 Continuous OK exept I like using 2.0 Aspect ratio.
If anybody wants me to run any tests I`ll be glad to help.