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I love the cropmarks function on ML.  I shed a tear, though, as I crop away more than 200 lines of image when processing the 2.35:1 image.  Since these DSLRs have plenty of pixels in their sensors, could there be a way to make a 2538x1080 movie that wouldn't require a widescreen crop and wouldn't be wasting pixels?  It seems, to my simple non-tech savvy mind, that if bitrates of 90MB/s or higher are possible with a 1920x1080 sized image, that it could be possible to do a larger image.

I'm new to using ML and I am running ML unified on a 5DmkII.  I was more interested in some of the other features, like cropmarks and focus peaking, but finally wanted to play with higher bitrates.  I tried 1.4x bitrate, after looking at the wiki table for what my cards should be able to handle.  I am using the Sandisk Extreme UDMA 60MB/s 16GB cards.  The video recorded fine, never going above one white square in the buffer.  However, in playback, it would only play for a few seconds and stop.  I could press play again and it would do a few more seconds.  When I dumped the card onto my computer, it played back fine.  But, I can't see doing a shoot like that, not being able to immediately watch the video back.  Is anyone else experiencing this?  Is this normal?  Thanks!

I shot this using ML Unified on the 5D2.  I used the Focus Peaking feature as well as the cinemascope cropmarks.  Other than a couple user errors, ML worked really well and was pretty stable.  Though, one of my CF cards(sandisk extreme 60MB/s UDMA 16GB) wouldn't load ML.  I put the firmware on there like the other cards, which all worked fine.