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#1
Hi guys -

I am flying a 5d mk3 with ML on an octocopter and use a Nyrius Aries Pro (same as the Paralinx Arrow) via the HDMI out as a wireless video downlink. 
My problem is that every time I fly out of range (max. 300 feet) and the Nyrius loses its connection, the RAW recording stops and the whole clip is lost. For some reason ML does not save anything in this case.

To fix this problem I looped a SmallHD DP4 monitor inbetween - so even if the wireless signal is lost, the camera is still sending an HDMI out to the monitor and doesnt stop recording or loses the clip.

My question is - is there any way to fix this from the ML side of things? 

Thanks,
Tim

#2
Hi everybody,

I was using a 5d mk3 and ML (08/22/2013 version) for a shoot the other day. We were running ML to record RAW video. When the first card (a 64gb 1000x Komputerbay) was full, the camera operator unfortunately did not shut off the camera and just removed the CF card.

It bricked the camera for good. 

I tried pretty much everything - new battery, different cards - even a SD card, CF cards with and without ML, camera reset by removing the small button battery for a few hours etc.
The camera seems completely fried. The LED does not light up at any point and there is no
other sign of life.
Also since this incident the mirror is folded up and the shutter is closed.

I will probably have to send it in and see if Canon can fix anything - but if anybody has any ideas,
any advice would be much appreciated! :)

Cheers!
#3
Quote from: ShootingStars on July 21, 2013, 05:53:18 PM
There's a problem with your plugin.

I am trying to do 60FPS to 24FPS slow motion so I import my 60FPS footage into AE into a 24FPS composition then when I right click the raw to interpret footage it gets an error that crashes After Effects. I have to kill it with Task Manager. No menu shows up.

This works fine in Premiere Pro.

Is there any fix for this? I really prefer AE. :(

I had a similar problem. I imported 30fps clips into AE and set the interpretation to 24 fps - this usually works great and just slows down the footage a tiny bit. With the RAW clips imported through Ginger HDR I have the problem that the footage looks super jerky - its the same speed as the original 30fps clip, just missing those 6 frames every second - not a pleasing result :(
Needless to say, if I import the same clip as a DNG sequence and interpret it as 24p, it looks fine.

Is there any way to get around that? 
#4
Thanks for the response!

It seems the problem appears whenever I do the slightest change on even just one ACR setting (e.g. changing exposure by 0.1 stop). The only setting that won't cause is changing the whitebalance.
I've not been using any auto settings.

Guess I will have to give RawTherapee a try. Will let you know if that fixes it.

#5
Hi folks -

I am not sure if thats a known or common issue - but I shot some RAW footage with 5d mk3 and the latest ML firmware out of an airplane window. 

When applying a grading in Photoshop/Camera Raw (mostly crushing the black level), then exporting all the DNG's as TIF's and importing them into AE - there is something fairly weird happening.



The same thing happens if I import the DNG directly into AE and apply the Camera Raw grading that way.
The only way I can avoid this is to not change any settings in Camera Raw and apply a grading (e.g. levels or curves) in AE.

Does anybody have a solution for this?

Thanks!
#6
hi guys - first of all big thanks to the whole ML team. Pretty incredible what you guys pulled off!!

I shot some tests today with 5d mk3 and the Lexar 64GB 1000x and have a couple questions/things that I noticed.

First of all here are two benchmark tests:

ML v2.3.NEXT.2013May13.5d3113


ML v2.3.NEXT.2013May14.5d3113


They seem fairly similar.

Now - with the May13 version I can run 1920x1080 at 23.976fps without skipping any frames - it is recording at around 83mbps.
While the May14 version 1920x1080 is only recording at around 51mbps and skips a lot of frames. I need to go down to 1920x840 to actually get a clean recording. 
That seems a bit odd or? Not sure if thats already a common problem - but I  thought it would be good to mention.

Other problems are:
- Sometimes (very randomly) its not possible to stop the recording. In the moment that I want to end the "Recording..." and press SET, it changes to "Stopping..." but then freezes and keeps recording.
- Also randomly when I press record it seems to start recording, the "Buffer usage: <* >" shows up, but nothing is happening. In that case it always creates a very small file thats a - i think, need to confirm though - 192kb .RAW file.

Cheers!