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Alex,

cr2hdr-histmatch3.exe is Perfectly O.K. and all-around amazing! )

Hi Alex,

latest cr2hdr-histmatch2.exe gives me interpolation lines in dark areas, while prev cr2hdr-histmatch.exe did not.

I've altered luma curve to push the effect: histmatch | histmatch2

Yay! Recent Resolve 10 beta 3, Cineform support is back! Works as intended.

RAW2GPCF converted clips appear uncorrectly within newly-released Resolve 10. They are "all shades of pink" , and unusable for now. (

I see now... Thanks for the link. It's truly dissapointing.

For the mods: can I post the link to the liveview monitoring program here? It's a software solution, or should I go to the Hardware/Accessories itstead?

a.d. , maybe you can help me somehow? Can't get usb stream while RAW Video is ON.
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=8081.0

Thanks!

For 5DMk2
LV Display : [Photo, ExpSim] and [Photo, no ExpSim] is fine, I receive live stream.
LV Display : [Movie] , I have no data received.

Well, LV Display: [Movie] is fine )
Its actually RAW video : ON cuts the stream. Once you turn it off, stream alive again. Tried all options inside RAW video for no effect (
But...monitoring with RAW video enabled _is_ the whole point of our tool.

Hi, don't know where to post this, so its here for now )

LiveView monitoring tool (alpha .002)

You'll need Windows PC/notebook with USB. Read !readme.txt
Plug-in your camera and run EOSView.exe.

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Unfortunately, since there is (almost) no usable in-camera review for the recorded raw clips,
me and my friend made a little program to monitor (and record to file) canon liveview via usb cable.

Its fast , fullscreen etc...
But, when you set RAW Video to ON, usb stream cuts. There's just no more data sending.
Is it by design (of forcing raw registers?), or made for the perfrormance reasons?

Would love to hear from devs, can we allow the usb stream to proceed in LiveView?
Thanks!

P.S. Tried and tested on 5DMk2

Oh wow, apparently Magic A1ex digged Dual ISO for our beloved 5D2.

So, we will get new build soon, a.d. ? ))

Sure, 1.2.0
Got it. its lovely windows UAC. Once disabled, Drag & Drop works. But  ... I dont want it to be off permanently )

Windows 7 Pro x64 / NET 4 standalone directly from Microsoft installed.
Drag & Drop doesn't work for me. It just refuses to eat  my 5D2 raw. Is there other way to supply the files? Simple [Open] maybe?

Thnx for your work.

P.S. WinXP SP3 works just fine.

I've tried bl balancing on 5d2 footage, and it looks abit off (?).
Seems like it adds balancing noise to it, not subtracts somehow.

Here is the link to before/after image. The crop has overbright/greytone/shadows data:
http://i.fotto.ru/ysjv.jpeg

So, it raises blacks + adds that 'nice' magenta cast to the shadows.
What do you think, Dave? Dunno maybe it is ok behavior.

Hello a.d.,
After Effects CS4, nor Photoshop CS5 can't parse dng's created with raw2dng from June,14 (yours latest build for WIN).
But, I still have yours older June,8 build and it works perfectly fine.
Thnx for your work.

Hi,
version 1.04 works perfectly fine, thanks!
However, I can't seem to understand how black and white levels controls work. What's default setting for 5DMkII raw?
Is it normalized to [0...1023] instead of [1024...15000] ?

In Cineform Studio (EDIT):
When I set -wl1024 it looks fine.
When I set -wl1280 it looks contrasty with green cast.
When I set -wl900 it looks uncontrasty with magenta cast. (why shadows raised while i've altered white level?)

As for -blX , it just doesn't do anything for me. -bl0 looks the same as -bl1024.

Can you clarify, thanks!

Hello David,

RAW2GPCF v1.03 gives me an error on start: The application has failed to start because the side by side configuration is incorrect please see the application event log or use the command line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

While previous versions still working perfectly fine. I'm at Win7 Pro x64 this time )
What I tried is to uninstall and reinstall all VC++ packages in chronological order, but for no effect.

Thank you, Cineform RAW in Resolve (mov container) is pure gold.

Hello David,
First of all, thank you for the Cineform workflow, it makes things much more faster and easier.

However, I have several troubles on that way (WinXP SP3 / Canon 5d Mark II / GoPro Premium):

1. I can't load dng's into GoPro Studio Premium. While importing it immidiately shows me "Entry point not found" box that says:
"The procedure entry point gzdirect could not be located in the dynamic link library zlib1.dll." Then just grey preview box and nothing more.
  It's not a prob though, since I successfully use DPX2CF.exe to process dng's.

2. RAW2GPCF.exe (v1.01 + latest "fixed" encoder) works fine, if dng's width is multiple of 16.
Since MarkII is recording at 1720 (or 1880), its multiples of 8. If you encode it like that, any player will crash. (Mplayer / VirtualDub / Adobe etc).
Therefore, I have to cut it with -(0,0,1711,968) command. Just a bit of annoyance.

3. >>> ... I'm looking for new demosaic algorithms we can add...
As I understand, current demosaicing options were developed with performance reasons in the first place, so it should be playable at real-time. And they do their job perfectly.
However, none of listed algorithms can be used for production output, because of artifacts and resolution loss.
On the other hand, the main problem of "quality" demosaicing is that it is processor-hungry and, well, slow.
May I ask you to think of adding production-quality options, that can be activated at the final stage of output rendering?

Suggested earlier demosaicing algorithms are pretty good imo, especially VCD ( variance of color difference) and mix of AHD and VCD interpolations.
I'm using Paul Lee's dcraw implementation for a long time, and these approaches give perfect image in 99% cases in regards of pixel accuracy, color artifacts and moire handling.

https://sites.google.com/site/demosaicalgorithms/modified-dcraw


Sincerely, Yaros Law.