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Just a quick bug report and fix (maybe this has already been fixed). 

I need to constantly scale up 111% to fit 1920x1080 (I have a 7D).  X would scale but Y would always stay 100%.  I found out why.

Line 577 is :

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if (uiContainer.etScaleX.text !== '') smartImport.getOptions().compositionOptions.transform.scale.x = parseFloat(uiContainer.etScaleX.text);


But should be:

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if (uiContainer.etScaleY.text !== '') smartImport.getOptions().compositionOptions.transform.scale.y = parseFloat(uiContainer.etScaleY.text);



Again, please ignore if this has already been fixed.  Love the script BTW, saved me a lot of monotony on a commercial edit.

Osca, you might be more specific or post a screenshot of the "fuzzy spots." 

If you are underexposing the image then more than likely those fuzzy spots are noise.  Magic Lantern raw does not handle underexposure well but then again neither does H.264.

Not sure what your workflow is but it might help to share that too. I think everybody has their own method.  Personally I'm still shooting .raw, not .mlv   I'm on a Mac so I'm using RawMagic to convert to CDNG.  Then I render the CDNGs as 10 bit ProRes 422 .mov files in After Effects (after making slight adjustments in the Adobe Camera Raw tool).   

When I've had to cut on a Windows machine, I used the "raw2cdng" app from phreekz.de to convert to CDNG and in AE I chose Avid DNxHD codec instead of ProRes.

Re: moire and aliasing... also keep in mind, in raw, the picture has the capacity to be much sharper than it ever was in H.264.  And if you never saw how ugly the moire got in H.264, consider yourself lucky. 

I once shot commercial on my 7D that had a couple of shots of this couch.  The fine texture of the fabric was like a perfect storm for moire.  Most of the shots were unusable.  That was the day I bought a VAF.  I agree with a1ex, in non crop mode, aliasing and moire is bad but no worse in raw than in H.264.  How sharp you render the raw will make a difference, but a VAF is essential for the 7D in video period (IMHO).  Unless you just do shallow focus face shots.  Anything with detailed patterns is horrible without the VAF.

I haven't encountered any moire in 7d raw with my mosaic filter installed.  And I shot a local commercial on it so I think professionals can definitely make use of it.