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I just finished a short horror film called "M is for Monstricide". It was shot on the 5d mark iii in raw.

It's in a competition to be in the new ABCs of Death movie, so please go to the link below and click the "like" button above the video to vote for it!

http://26th.abcsofdeathpart2.com/entry/m-is-for-monstricide/

I have to say, after shooting raw with the 5d mark iii, I will never shoot a personal project using the regular h.264 compression again. The image quality is so clean and sharp, and being able to adjust the white balance and exposure in post is just awesome.

I can't thank the magic lantern community enough for turning my camera into such a powerful cinema tool.

Hello,

I have been testing shooting raw on my 5d mark iii with magic lantern. So far I gotta say that I am blown away by the image quality. I'm preparing to shoot a short film in raw and had a few questions.

My workflow is as follows:

1. convert from .raw to .dng using rawtodng
2. import dng sequence into After Effects (cs5.5) (ACR settings: auto white balance, linear curve, adjustments set to 0 for brightness, contrast, exposure, etc, this way I avoid flickering)
3. export to ProRes to edit in Premiere

My questions have to do with the third step. I've tested exporting the same dng sequence to ProRes 442HQ and 4444. When I make adjustments in Premiere, such as boosting the saturation, adjusting highlight/shadows, using the color corrector, etc, the results are exactly the same for both the 442HQ and 4444 files. A matter of fact, if I push the saturation higher than 10 using the Color Balance (HLS) filter, the colors blow out. They blow out equally in both the 442HQ and 4444 files.

Correct me if I am wrong, but it was my understanding that ProRes4444 retains more colors than ProRess442HQ (12bit vs 10bit). So why are they reacting the exact same way? Where would I notice a difference between the two?

My second question is how to transcode to ProRes444 rather than 4444. I do not know how to disable the alpha channel. When exporting from After Effects, I made sure to use the lower bit depth when exporting. But when I put the clip in Premiere, it says that there is an alpha channel still.

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!

I have three questions when using the latest version of Magic Lantern on the 5d mark ii:

1) In the sub menu for bitrate, there is an option called Bitrate Display. When I turn it on, I don't see anything new being displayed on the screen in liveview mode. What does this do exactly?

2) In liveview mode, there is always a small box at the bottom right with white levels going up and down. It seems to indicate the amount of exposure. Is there a way to turn this off?

3) At the top of the screen is a line of information. I am unsure what some of this information means and was hoping someone could clarify it for me (I put question marks next to the ones I am unsure of):

12:44 (?)
DISP0 (?)
JPG-L (This is the size of the images being taken)
Alo Neut. (?)
T=150 (?)
BAT=5 (The percentage of battery left)
MVI-0774 (The file name of the video)