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#1
Hi guys,
This is the CGI artwork I've done couple of days ago. I used Magic Lantern to integrate and match the real scene with 3d rendering.
You can see the breakdown and making of here: http://renderstory.com/creepy-still-life/





Cheers!
#2
Hey guys,
Check out the modded Helios 44-2 lens. It matches a true anamorphic lens. I provide a diagram of the mod along with lens comparisons and yet another ML music cover video which was shot with the anamorphic lenses along with the modded Helios 44-2
http://renderstory.com/the-anamorphic-format/
#3
Share Your Videos / Another anamorphic music video
June 04, 2015, 01:03:46 PM
Hey guys,
Hope you are doing well. I've shot another anamorphic video, this time it is a cover music video. I've shot it on ML raw with anamorphic lenses and the modded anamoprhic style spherical lens, which I modded by my self.
here is the video
https://vimeo.com/126679682
If you are interested in how I modded the lens to make it match the true anamorphic lenses please check my post here. There you'll find a mod diagram and interesting lens comparisons of true Isco anamorphic vs Modded retro Helios 44-2 lens
http://renderstory.com/the-anamorphic-format/
Hope you'll like it. Feedback is welcome!
#4
Feature Requests / timecode in MLVDUMP
December 04, 2014, 09:24:58 AM
Hi! I know its not possible to add TC while recording. But what if generic TC could be added to dng files while converting Mlv files? TC would make possible offline editing and online conforming and grading. Are there any ideas?
#5
Share Your Videos / 4k anamorphic raw music video
November 29, 2014, 06:08:51 PM
Hi! Here is the no budget music video I shot for my sister. Even though it is no budget production it came out quite nice. She is very talented singer and music composer so check it out.
Regarding the production...The whole crew was me and my wife. She made a great makeup for the talents.
I used 5d mark III with 85mm 1.8 lens and compact  isco anamorphic adapter which gave me the true CinemaScope with all anamorphic aesthetics coming along.
The video was shot in two evenings on one lens. Due to no budget nature of the production there are many flaws that as the professional I would be ashamed of if I had necessary resources that I usually have when shooting TVCs. I used two 64gb SanDisk cards which can take 1920 4:3 ratio at 25 fps. I haven't had any lights so I shaped and manipulated natural light, that was a lot of pain...
The post production was flawless. I took the shot material at a studio I work, so I had all post production toys at my finger tips. Since it is not good to work on a personal projects during the work time I worked during late evenings and weekends.
MLV files were converted with custom in-house python app that at core uses ML's mlvdump. I wrote the app my self some time ago. The first draft version of the app can be found on this forum, it is available as a source code, since that time it consolidated quite a bit, but I haven't updated it on the forum.
The finishing was done in 4K in Resolve system on a professional cinema grade ref monitor. After unsqueezing the anamorphic material it naturally becomes 4k, and it doesn't loose any quality since all the range of details which was compressed horizontally now becomes normal. The unsqueezed 4k raw anamorphic video looked really amazing. Seen all kinds of footage from all kinds of pro digital film cameras on the reference monitor i can say that ML video holds up well. For the final output I sampled video to 1080p keeping the original CinemaScope style  ratio.
Comments and questions are welcome! If you like the music video please let Maydees know about it by putting the Like on Youtube.
So here is a final piece, I hope you'll  enjoy the song.

#6
General Chat / ML abandones Canon DSLRs?
September 30, 2014, 05:38:55 AM
Hi! I see there is much hustle around AXIOM camera development and there are few updates in ML changelog. It looks like ML will not have support and dynamics as before, which makes me fill sad (there is a slow down already). I understand that development of a new camera can turn into profit in the future,  but there is wonderful ML community here don't leave it alone!
#7
Duplicate Questions / User Presets
July 27, 2014, 09:01:31 PM
Hi, sometimes I have to switch between different frame rates,resolutions and aspect ratios and that involves a lot of back and forth inside menus. It would be great to have some presets or settings that the user can group on the separate layout (kinda the thing that native Canon menu has).
Moreover sometimes ML crashes and I have to pull out the battery, and some of the settings just get lost. There is never enough time on a shoot to double check all of the settings. A lot of times something is missed or set incorrectly. It would be great to have some user defined presets that can be activated in one click, even after the camera crashed.
#8
Hi everyone!
Since recently we've started to use ML on some production shoots this led us to develop ML convert a little open source python app that batch converts MLV files to DNGs. 
The app has been tested on Windows platform and works flawlessly. It should work on Mac too, but since I don't have a Mac around I can't test it.
ML convert is just a text file with open python code that you are free to modify and adopt for your own needs.
In order to run the ML convert all you have to do is to install the Python language from official python website, here is a download link https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-341/
Since the ML convert is based on Magic Lantern's MLV_DUMP you have to copy MLV_DUMP.exe to C:/Program Files/ or if you are a Mac user copy MLV_DUMP.osx to /usr/local/bin
That's it!
Check out some screenshots of the simple workflow with ML convert.


And here is the app itself! Just copy the provided code into the text file and save it as ML convert.py
That's it. I hope someone will find it useful. Cheers!


#title                :ML_convert
#version              :Beta
#description          :The program converts MLV files to DNG sequence. In order to use ML_convert, copy MLV_DUMP program to Win C:/Program Files/ or Mac /usr/local/bin
#date                 :July 22 2014
#python_version       :3.4
#notes                :Please use at your own risk.
import os
import shutil
from tkinter import *
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfilenames

class ml_converter:
    p = ''
    exe = ''
    winexe = 'C:/Program Files/mlv_dump.exe'
    macexe = '/usr/local/bin/mlv_dump.osx'
    testexe = 'C:/mlv_dump.exe'
    result = ''
   
    def find_mlv_dump(self):
        self.exe = self.winexe
        if not os.path.isfile(self.winexe):
            self.exe = self.macexe
        if os.path.isfile(self.exe):
            return True
        else:
            return False
       
    def convert(self,mlv_file):
        #dir = os.path.dirname(mlv_file)
        ext = os.path.splitext(mlv_file)[-1].lower()
        if ext==".mlv":
            direct,f = os.path.split(mlv_file)
            filename = f[:-4]
            newdir = (direct+("/"+filename))
            if not os.path.exists(newdir):
                os.mkdir(newdir)
                newdir = shutil.move(mlv_file,newdir)
            else:
                print ("Directory already exists,the file moved into already existing folder")
                newdir = shutil.move(mlv_file,newdir)
            os.system("\""+"\""+ self.exe+"\"" + ' --dng' + " \""+ newdir +"\""+"\"")
            shutil.move(newdir,mlv_file)
            self.result = 1
            return self.result
        else:
            print (" not supported file format")
            self.result = 0
            return self.result
       

class ml_ui(Frame, ml_converter):
    def __init__(self,mlc):
        Frame.__init__(self)
        self.mlv_files = []
        self.mlv_file = ''
        self.str = ''
        self.exe = 1
        self.result = ''
        self.i = 0
        self.master.title("MLV convert")
        self.pack()
        self.browse_btn = Button(self, text="Browse MLV", command=self.load_file, width=20)
        self.browse_btn.pack(side = "top")
        self.convert_btn = Button(self,text="Convert to DNG",command=lambda: self.conv(), width=20)
        self.convert_btn.pack(side = "top")
        self.log = Text(self)
        self.log.pack(side="top")

    def load_file(self):
        self.mlv_files = askopenfilenames()
    def conv(self):
        self.exedir = self.find_mlv_dump()
        if self.exedir ==True:
            self.i = 0
            size = len(self.mlv_files)
            print (size)
            self.log.delete('1.0',END)
            for self.mlv_file in self.mlv_files:
                self.result = self.convert(self.mlv_file)
                self.i+=1
                if (self.result != 0):
                    self.log.insert(INSERT,str(self.mlv_file)+"    Done!"+"\n") #### fix needed, UI shows non MLV files processed
                    self.str = '%i out of %i \n'%(self.i,size)
                    self.log.insert(INSERT,self.str)
                else:
                    self.log.insert(INSERT,str(self.mlv_file)+" is not MLV file!"+"\n")
                    self.str = '%i out of %i \n'%(self.i,size)
                    self.log.insert(INSERT,self.str)
                    ml_ui.update(self)
        else:
            self.log.insert(INSERT," MLV_DUMP program is not found \n Copy the MLV_DUMP into C:/Program Files/ or /usr/local/bin \n" )
            print('not found')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    mlc = ml_converter()
    ui = ml_ui(mlc)
    ui.mainloop()
#9
Raw Video / 5d mark III freeze with zoom button in raw
November 09, 2013, 08:46:45 PM
Hi, just installed ML! And right away I ran in to a problem. If I press "Loupe" (zoom) button while recording, camera freezes and I can't even turn it off. Is that a bug? Or may be I have some wrong settings? Please help me!