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I'm guessing there's no way to monitor my shots with either A/V or HDMI plugged into a TV AND see the shots on the LCD at the same time.   Seems that the act of plugging in either A/V or HDMI cables into my T2i automatically shuts off the LCD--something built into the Canon hardware.   Probably the Canon doesn't have enough processing power to send signals to an external TV and the Canon LCD at the same time.  And of course it would be even more difficult while recording.  Am I right?

 Canon T2i (550D).  No preset WBs when I press Q.  Can change format, file size, picture style, etc.
There's nothing on the Canon menus, except custom WB, as long as I'm in movie mode.
I just wanted to be able to select Tungsten, or Shade, or things like that.

How do I access the regular Canon presets for White Balance in ML movie mode?
Right now it's great for kelvin, and of course I can just remember that tungsten is 3200, daylight 5600, etc.
But I'd still like to press a button and get them, and also what if I need to do a custom white balance?
This is probably explained already somewhere, but I can't find it.

So you figured out the sign by disassembling a Canon .FIR file, and then put that in your code?
GREAT PROGRAM, BTW.  Runs like a top on my T2i.
Is there a way to change the audio levels while recording and still see your video in LiveView?
Can't find that feature in the audio section.

Putting this question here.  Did not get a response from one of the main developers====
How does ML get around the fact that .FIR files need a digital signature (something only Canon should have?) in order to change the Boot From Card bit in firmware?
Does ML "forge" this signature?

Can't afford the $1K price tag for Cinema Tools.  It would be cheaper just to buy 2Ti or even a 3Ti instead of the 3T I was considering.  Then I'd have 24p without any extra post work.\

Has anyone tried shooting 24p on a T3 using undercranking of a 720 30p format?  I'm assuming the file produced would play at 30p and would be imported into an editor like FCP at that rate.  So then you could tell FInal Cut to play it back at 80% and it would be normal speed.  And if you wanted to be really fancy, you could record separate sound, head AND tail slate it, mark the IN and OUT points on both the audio and video, and then do a "Fit to Fill" command with the audio and it would be in sync.  It this correct?

It says in the installation guide that you can uninstall ML on one card by running the uninstall feature from the camera menu.
That's fine.  I get it--this piece of code removes the info from the card's boot sector.
But what happens if I turn the camera off, put in a brand new unformatted card, and then turn the camera on.
Won't that work, too?

THanks.  I prefer using EOScard also, since we don't really know what happens when you run the ML firmware update and the boot bit in the rewritable ROM has already been set.  For example, does the update always write to the ROM, or does it check first and skip that part of the update.  In my experience, messing around with the rewritable ROM is the most dangerous part of using ML, because it has a chance to change other bits and really screw things up--although this is very, very unlikely, but still a possibility.

OK, I get it now.  One last thing---if I need several cards on a shoot, is there a way to make a new bootable SD disk by doing a card copy (byte by byte, or whatever you want to call it) from my ML card that will include the boot sectors?  (I'm assuming that a normal file copy won't do any good since the boot sectors are hidden from the normal directory structure.)

So do I have to copy all the unzipped files in the folder to my SD card, including the 2 PDFs and ALL the .BIN files?  Or can I skip the PDFs and all the .BINs except the one for my camera which is a 60D?

This may sound stupid, but when is ML in effect and when is it not?  I think it works like this: after the initial installation, in which you do a mock firmware update and set a bit so that the camera will read the memory card upon startup, then whenever a card with the ML files is in the camera you will have the ML features when you turn on the camera.  Otherwise, if you put in a blank card, you won't have ML.  Is that right?  And if true, then the ML files have to be copied to every card that I use?