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I just found out that using USB 2.0 card readers could corrupt certain 1000x cf cards.  I'm using a 3.0 now, but i had been using the 2.0 for the past 3 months.  Are the cards I used with it permanently damaged? They both seem to be working fine, but are they more likely to fail since I used the wrong card reader on them for a little bit?

I bought 2 Komputerbay CF cards, one 32 gb 1000x, one 64 gb 1000x.  When I record raw video on my 50d at 1920x1080 (crop mode) the camera says I'm doing about 65mb/s on both of the cards.  Is it worth sending them back or is that about the speed I should expect with these cards? That seems really slow to me.

(I would do an official benchmark but the tutorial I've been reading says that I'd have to format it via exfat, and I'm afraid that'll void my warranty.  Is this a valid concern?)

I'm importing a prores file into fcpx.  If I play it using quicktime the clip is desaturated.  Usually I can play it on a different media player to avoid the problem, but FCPX is probably playing the preview in Quicktime because that's also desaturated.  It makes it hard to color correct, anyone have any solutions?  Even after I've exported from fcpx the clip is fine, so it's just the quicktime player that's screwing up.

I'm trying to find a denoiser plugin that lets me edit my raw frames.  Most require me to make a tiff copy of the picture, so I'm not able to copy my changes to the other frames. Any suggestions?

Ok, so I just got my 50d and I've been having a lot of success teaching myself some things, but there's one problem that I just can't seem to solve.  When I follow tutorials for shooting in crop mode my preview image is bright pink! The preview is also in a different resolution from what's actually being shot.  If anyone can clear this up for me I'll be eternally grateful.

Edit: I've upgraded since and now my raw preview is flashing between 2 different aspect ratios.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I've been asking other people and they've had similar issues

So i got a komputerbay card today, but I'm chickening out and returning it because of rumors of the cards failing.  I really just need a tiny card to test the 50d raw video with.  I'd like to go with the 16 gb transcend 1000x card, but I've heard that they are slower than the 32gb.  Is this speed difference significant enough for me to spend an extra 50 right now for a 32 gb card?  Thanks in advance!