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Thanks for your response I see. I do have dual ISO, but it was when it just came out. Has the picture quality improved any? Or any fixes for being able to record in specific picture modes instead of everything coming out in standard? From your experience.

Yes I am, haha. Any major upgrades I might've missed?

Hey Guys,

I haven't switched my build since August 21, 2013. The one I had seemed to work great with the exception of the heavy noise if the blacks are lifted. Has that been sorted out? Are there any new advantages to the later builds on the old firmware, and the new firmware?

I have 60fps and dual iso on the old build I'm currently using.

If anyone can update me in a nutshell, would greatly appreciate it

Nice images, the name of the author is Edgar ALLAN Poe, you wrote on the video ALLEN (by the way i made a comic based on The Fall of The House of Usher)

http://caidacasadeusher.blogspot.com.es/

Thanks Simulacro, great catch! Good thing this was a fun side vid and not a paid thing, lol

Nice comic too! I'm curious do you ever incorporate any comic stuff into your filming?

Hey here is a fashion short done with the 50D. The quality is really amazing on the camera. I think 800iso is the limit before the noise gets too bad, the quality kind of suffers towards the end because I didn't feed it enough light,  but between neat vid and raw I was able to make it usable.

I've been using the ACR--AE--PPro workflow, but I ran into some problems. If you view the video at the highest resolution (original or 1080p) there is some weird stuff going on around the model's face at the beginning (maybe aliasing?). It wasn't there when I transcoded from raw to 444 10 bit DNxHD out of AE, but it showed up with the compression when I exported from PPro to .H264.

I did some test and this doesn't seem to happen when I use the 16:9 resolution, but only when using the 4:3 1280x960 resolution for anamorphic shooting. Maybe the increased 2560x960 resolution has something to do with creating moire when compressed the second time (it does not show up if I go from raw to .H264 out of AE on the first compression).

Other than that, I'm thinking about switching to the Resolve workflow... will that create a cleaner video vs my previous workflow? And is there a source for any tutorials on Resolve, the interface looks like a jumbled mess to me.

I've been using Rawanizer and it's been working fine automatically stitching spanned files.

Thanks! Rawanizer is doing the trick perfectly for me on a PC.

[File Splitter & Joiner]

Nice video.

Try using Raw2CDNG. It does work with files longer than 4GB.

You first rename split files (so that they have extensions .001, .002, etc) and then use the free program File Splitter & Joiner to join them.

Then you feed the resulting files to Raw2CDNG -- it should work. It worked for me.

UPDATED: also I had been a fan of 28 May Build for long since it was stable and firm as a rock. Now I use Andy's new build and I would encourage you to try it -- you'll like it as well -- PINK frames are a history :

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5586.msg59779#msg59779

Hey Rommex, are you using Raw2CDNG on a PC? It doesn't seem to be working for me, ver.1.2.1. I joined a split file and now have 4.95GB file I load into RAW2CDNG, but I get an error "RAW2CDNG has stopped working" every time. RAW2CDNG also is showing under Resolution: 4385 and FPS: 555512.80. Basically weird numbers.

Do you or anyone else know of any other conversion methods on a PC that can handle files over 4GB?

*Also, how do you enable RAW recording on the above build you linked me to? Thanks

@Artiswar - Awesome. More reason for me to learn Resolve, ha.

@djfremen- It's a Kalart Victorcsope. I took a chance and bought one for $150 on ebay and it seems like it's just as good as the 2x Kowa's and Sankors that go for twice or three times as much, imo. It doesn't flare as well as those, but it has a much cleaner image. Kind of like the Panasonic LA7200 except it blurs the video lines nicely. I would recommend it if you can find one. If not, then a Kowa or Sankor is really good for vintage looks (they might be a little sharper too). ML was right on the money adding the 4:3 mode.

What anamorphic lens is that DJD? It makes a lot of sense to go this squeezed route.

Grades from today:

Looks beautiful! Literally, lol. If you don't mind, when you post the vid, could you describe your workflow? Your images look very smooth and detailed. I always have to de-noise in ACR. And it looks like you're starting with a Log image too?

My workflow I don't render out as DNxHD I always render ProRes files, so I'm not sure what would cause such problem.  I'll try and replicate your workflow and see if I get the same results.

Hey I just doubled checked and where the spots were it WAS clipping in ACR. It's strange though. I zoomed in on the ACR it reveled little red dots showing the clipping warning. This wasn't showing in the histogram though or on the normal view. And for some reason the dots didn't show up on that first DNxHD version I rendered from AE and I didn't get any hightlight clipping in any scopes in PPRO (even when zoomed in).

I went back and re-did everything, getting rid of the tiny clipping I could only see zoomed in on ACR. Imported RAW sequence into AE. Exported as DNxHD 444. Imported DNxHD into PPRO. Exported as 1080p H264. Dots gone!



Thanks for trying out the workflow if you got around to it. I'd be interested to see if you left any clipping in ACR if you'd end up seeing those dots on any renders. I would render out to Prores too, but I'm on a PC and can't write the files :/

@GoldenChild9to5 - Thanks!

@rommex and @Andy600 - Thanks for the tips!

*Actually the last video (page 95) was the June 11th build! Sry about the mix up.

I went and got a few test clips today and I ran into a new problem. Still using June 11th build.

Anamorphic shooting this time. 4:3 Mode. 1280x960. Used RAW2DNG. All the DNG images came out fine.

POST:

Color corrected in ACR. Imported RAW sequence into AE. Resized to 2560x960. Rendered out DNxHD 444 10 Bit. No problems there.

This is a VLC snapshot:




Then I imported DNXHD clip into PPRO to make a sequence. Rendered to 1080p H264, and got this:




I also tried rendering to 1080p MPEG2, Quicktime H264, and 2560x960 DNxHD. I still get a video with those weird white dots the second time I export. Nothing was clipping in the highlights in any of the versions. All scopes in PPRO show everything within a normal range too.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Hey guys, I just want to say thank you for working so hard on these builds and turning the Canon 50D into a baby Red One! I was thinking about getting a BMCC, but this changed my mind at the last minute (literally, I had just tested out the 50D footage and I got a call about my BMCC pre-order shipping the next day. I canceled it and now I'm not as broke as I would've been, haha).

I did my first video here using Gregory's May 28th build:

https://vimeo.com/69726896


*I lost some footage because I went over the 4GB mark and got those pink files and .R00 files.
*I'm still unclear if RAW2DNG (PC version) works on files over 3.99GB. It wouldn't transcode to .DNG files for me. So for now, I'm just making sure my clips don't hit 4GB.
*I read something about stitching files together, but I'm not sure if that's related to the above problem or not.

Other than those two minor hiccups, I'm loving RAW. Recorded on Komputrbay 64GB 1000x. POST: I used CS6 ACR and made JPEGS and imported the JPEGS into PPRO and nested them to make sequences. (I think this was probably the long method, and I will try making DNxHD files in AE next time.)