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Hello guys!

I was wondering if I could give a Custum name to my files IN camera, in order to get my projects organized. (instead of the standard "M29-2032" I could get my own "naming/numbering" convention to better suit my projects and to be able not to waste so many time just dealling with files and folders and sub folders....

I have this huge problem when I am shooting RAW because the file name dont appear in the top of the EV! (in h264 I have this information but in RAW I dont)

So, afterwards, when I am working in my projects, It gets a lot confusing and I spend hours figure things out. I am a 1 man band so, it is pretty heavy.


My camera is the 50D, so, you can Imagine how things get really hard in Post. The Sync of image to sound its, on its own, a time consuming process in our days.

Please, help me with this huge issue!


Thanks a lot guys.

I havê a 50D and I wanted to monitor from the nexus 7. Is it possible?

So, I use this workflow too, but, I believe there are two points where you went wrong in your flow: application of grain and color space.
Every type of texture is applied after the color grade, otherwise it will have a negative effect on texture.
What about the color space, you must work with the same color space throughout the flow. Note that you will initially use sRGB (set by defaut on AE), which is a very small space, and is subsequently you convert this to a larger profile. This way you are not taking advantage of all the information, on the contrary, after the first render you ruled out all this information.
Try to work the entire process from the BM space or work in ProPhoto RGB since the beginning...

In your opinion I should go straight from the original DNGs to the DaVinci resolve and work in the Blackmagic film gamma and colour space, correct? Apply the denoise in the davinci resolve.  Than, do the proxies and edit, and than, come back to resolve for the last export, And only in the last export I should bring the grain, correct?

Hi guys,

So, I am trying to set a good RAW workflow, and it seems to be endless possibilities of doing everything before even start, I would like to give a wrap up of my understanding, just to make a review on what should be the "perfect workflow" 

1- Use rawanizer to convert .RAW into .DNG

2- Use AfterEffects to make the "videos"  (use the AdobeCameraRaw and choose VisionColor camera profile) - Open the neatvideo noise reduction and reduce the noise - Use a grain image (like rGrain stocks) and apply to the composition  -  Export in uncompressed mode (is this correct?!)

3- Inport this videos to Davinci resolve and, because you are working in the BMDFilm Color space - apply the BMDFilm-Visioncolor LOG lut  - than do the colour work and transform things like you want to.

4- Export in DNxHD 185mbit    And Voilá,   You have the video with the best possible Quality.


Am I completely wrong? Just because I never seem to get the quality I watch in some videos of the Magic Lantern community! It is really a bad feeling...  Hope we can talk about the "best universal way to get things done"


Thanks a lot guys!!

I AM having issues with the credit card, so I didn't bought cinelog. But I think it is about the log. Still, it isn't quite as well exposed as I have seen while shooting. Maybe have to change the parameters of the EFV...

Have to try it out

hi guys,

there are so many ways of convert from RAW to Dng , I am testing all the ways, even MLV (that take to long to convert to be usable in a tight workflow).  RawTherapee and Batchelor seems to be the most efficient, but, I could never achive to match the andy600 quality, and thats my goal. To get images with that quality!

One other thing, when I shot, the VF in the 50d was looking nice, with light as I intended to be, and the ETTR meter was telling me that it was the right exposure (the one I wanted), when I got home, and put the images in davinci (after converting the mlv files to DNG in the MLV converter), they turned allmost black, and I dont know what happend here... But is really annoying!

And for the last, I was shooting MLV and the last 3 clips where recorded in h.264! =(      really bad situation!    I know that the camera is not that "young" and I am not complaining, the only thing I would like to know, is if there are some tips or tricks to work around this problems...



I love the way 50D look. It as a really cinematic feel to it (when you are able to process images like Andy600 does)  - Andy600, I would pay for a "50D record, workflow and tips" book.
I am serious!

I am experiencing a really huge problem.

I used the MLVRAW on my 50D, and I came home to transcode to DNG and used the MLV converter 1.6  -  The problem now is, the Affter Effects(CS6) CRASHES when it is importing. What is going on? Never happened to me before.  And I have a deadline and I am desperate with this...

Really dont know what I can do to fix this issue!

You are doing a great job! It is really a nice workflow to get the Digital Negatives. I will have a look into the 1.7.1fix.

One thing that bothers me, and I think it is my fault, is that, in between the transcoding from MLV to DNG it appears a POPUP that freezes the processe until I it "Continue". This is bad because I put my footage to transcode while I am out, and I would expect it to be done when I get home, so, with this, I have a huge break in the workflow... Some Idea how to stop this POPUP from windows OS?

It is a shame that it cant be faster... It would be lovelly to get this process quickly! There must be a way... =)

Thanks a lot guys. You have been life savers!

Are you SURE? Checked the folder you selected? Has at least one setting? Can you tell us a bit more? :S OS version? It should work well really...

I am running a win 7 64Bit  with i7processor and 1tbHDD.

I put everything as it should be. The Conversion of MLV to DNG takes some time (i still do not know how can I improve this time, because it is a killer in the workflow   )

and it does not make any proxies at all!

Hello guys,

Just installed the latest TragicLantern and I was messing around with the MLV.  I made 3 clips, using my 50D, its +/- 10gb each. 

Got to the MLV CONVERTER 1.6 and it took about 2hours to process the data. Is this normal to take this much time? Can I do anything to accelerate this process? Ah, and another issue, it didnt made the PROXYs.

Anyone experienced this issues? Can I do something to make this work better?

Thank you guys

Andy, later when you have the camera with you, share the specs for me to try out...

In the crop mode, I can only record like, 20secs or so... It used to be working flawlessly with the other "build". Any ideas?
Although, it is pretty nice to be able to see the video on spot! =)

And I dont know, but in the MLV menu - Tag:Text, I cant manage to work with this, I input a name and I go out of this rotation menu an it is always "none" .   Tag:Take turns always "off" to... Dunno =S

Ah, and in the "Magic Lantern RAW converter 1.6" I ran the app for 20minutes and the progress was 0%.
Not sure what I am doing wrong, but I clearly need some advise to adapt to this MLV workflow...

Oh... MLV is now working? NICE!! Im going to experiment on it.

The workflow changed with the MLV module? Or can I go straight from the RAW workflow?

really nice this news!

Hello guys,

After a period of shooting H264, because couldnt handle data management of RAW, I now upgraded my PC Rig and can manage to work with RAW.

I have been away from the forum for a considerable amount of time, so, I have one question about the new TLbuild:

Can I manage to give names, IN camera, to the shots that I will be doing?   
I used the shane hurlbuts method for h264:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF8SnMWGYD0&list=TLQ9JYOjl0n5YubmSjHvnYnCp9izv-A04u)


Its there a way to do this IN camera with the new build?

It is very usefull.. It would be very nice to add this to a future build, if it is not yet in the most recent one!

Think you all very much

It would be really great to have a guide, with the .flv workflow and the latest build in your manual... I would pay good money for that! It would get me and whoever I work with a real fast and deep knowlodge about the camera and how to turn them to videos and grade before finally edit... et voi la


=) 

Hi guys... First of all, I have to pardon me because I am in a workflow that I need to deliver footage tomorow.

Worked on a 50D raw, and now I am with a difficulty that I cant find the tuturial to merge all the .rar files and turn them to a single .RAW file
Working on a PC Win7 64Bit
Please help me!

And again, sorry for my question but I am really in a bad situation!

I always shoot with RAW picture turned on in the menu and I've never had a dropped frame. Your card is probably a dodgy one, the komputerbay's seem to be a bit hit and miss.

Really? This was told to me by a ML developer. So what are you saying is that is possible to shoot RAW video with the RAW picture mode ON? Everyone told me that for the RAW video to work continually, it would be necessary to turn the "RAW" mode OFF in CANON menu and get "JPEG" ON.

So, Im not getting the best quallity? Is that it?

Hi to all !
I had one time my 50D block after a skipped frame... 25fps 400 iso 1/50 Manual Olympus lens with adapter 1584/892.
So I decided to benchmark my 1000x UDMA7 Komputerbay.
The buffer benchmark gave me results around 40mb/sec.
I've resent it for exchange and now I'm around 30mb/sec.........but it works.
Can someone explain the speed thing 'cause I don't understand how can it works @ 40 or even @ 30...

@ what step the dev of the 40D is ?
THX
.V

You have the RAW picture turned off in the CANON menu? It only works if its JPEG in the CANON menu.

Hope it helps...

hello guys,

I am using the 50D, and because of the FAT32 it makes a ".RAW" file and than various ".RAR" file of the same ".RAW" . 
Is there any program that unites (puts together) all this ".RAR" files into one and final ".RAW" file?

It is getting really messy to work with this. Please, help me in this issue.

PS-My OS is Windows 7

Thank you very much

I'm guessing you're seeing zebra or raw_rec cropmarks as "white outlines" but maybe a shot in the dark.

Scroll wheel, not sure, I know there is a lock switch but mine is still working.

Thanks for the recomendation. I've shut off the zebras and it still makes the outlines all white. It is like the white is flickering and I get to see in 1ms the specs and than it turns all white again... In a little bit it turns again 1ms the specs "normally" and than white again... Really dont know what is the problem.

White bars?

Yep... I get the "picture" normaly but the outlines of the image turn all white, making the histogram and waveform and f/number ISO not "seeable"

dont know why, but it runs like this as soon as I've installed this last version. Hum, and another thing that happened, the scrolling weel in the back of the camera stoped working. Now I have to do everything with the "joystick". 
Something went wrong...

I have a question about the ".RAW" file:

It is any program or version that automaticly extracts all ".RAR" into one and only ".RAW" file? Just because I am really trying to get organized and in this terms, and because of the "FAT32" data issue, the ".RAW" files break up into 1 ".RAW" and then several ".RAR" files.

How can I manage to "Paste" them in one ".RAW" file and than delete every ".RAR"? I am working in a Windows7 OS...

Thank you very much!

Hi guys,

Tried this new version of tragiclanter, didnt really worked for me. The screen gets white bars in the "off picture" settings... Got back to the older version.
I've tried to read about "bolt mode" but didnt found many information about that. Although I dont work with this version, got me curious!

By the way, I would love to have the  adobe CC just to "pump up" the workflow!!
I thought by working with CinemaDNG in ResolveLite would be fast, but I was really wrong (5/6FPS...)

Only one more thing, it is possible to change the name of the RAW files in camera? If I could do this, it would be a lot easier to get organized all the Post-Prod workflow...

Thank you very much

http://texassoundguy.blogspot.com/2013/04/creating-thunderbolt-compact-flash-card.html


Not really what you're looking for, but a good start.

Very nice indeed! I am admired that no DataManagementCompany is with their eyes open to this new market! I really think they are loosing lots of money!!

I have to build one of these. Looks nice!

Picture style has no effect on Raw video, forget about it, you only need it for compressed normal 8bit h264 video which looks horrible on the 50d anyway.

True story!!   

It does not make any difference to the RAW recording, but there is one thing that I want to achive, and it is to get a less saturated image in the LV screen, just to feel that I am recording in that Flat Raw Environment.

Can I achive that somehow?

Hello...

So, it looks like Canon says that if the CFcards evolve, than, more features and granted continuity will be granted in new versions of MagicLantern. Is that correct?

So, and to just make a point on the "correct" workflow, if the CFcards get to higher speeds, the resolutions will go up and that the 128GB card will be the 64GB card of nowadays. Correct?

In order to get a good workflow we need to dump this data somewhere to be able to work for 1 entire day with (virtually) no stops. So, is there any Portable device that can dump 128GB in say... 8minutes?

That way, with two cards, it would be great to work and no time lost. Could do a Documentary just to test this workflow!!

Is there any device able to do this? Like a completely portable device, with batteries and interchangable SSD with a transfer rate like SATA/USB3.0/Thunderbolt?

Thank you very much. Hope to get you oppinions on this!
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Hi,

I've spent a lot of time reading into the 50d and this is what is know so far that might help you.
RAW options for 50d are limited and most of them can already be achieved with a Komputerbay 64GB 1000x.

RAW limitations for 50d

FPS
The camera offers only 1080@30p which means framerate can NOT go faster than 29,97fps. Even with a 150000x CF

RESOLUTION
- normal shooting mode 1584x1058. This is an absolute limit and horizontally roughly 1/3rd of the photo resolution
- cropmode: uses the center of the sensor and is limited to 2000x1080

One very important setting is: [Global draw off while recording]
This is found in the RAW video submenu and the "off" setting makes it work

This setting disables all overlay functions at once (zebra, peaking, histogram etc)  to put all resources  to writing proper frames to the CF card.

So most RAW functionality is already possible except for framerates between 23.976 and 29,97.

I would advice to accept these limitations and make the best of them. Andy600 clearly showed a while back in this topic that you can shoot gorgeous footage with this camera at both 1584x and 1920x resolutions.

So good luck

Thank you very much for the advice. I think it will help a lot of users! I had already a LV "screen preset" on the 4th screen to have the global drawn off... I have the "first" LV screen to see the ETTR values (histogram) and the spotmeter (raw, afbox), the "second" LV is for Waveform and Vectorscope, the "third" LV is for focus and exposure with zebras (RAW) focus peak (0.6, Local, strong edges, low res, alpha blend) and MagicZoom (+mode) - I am having some issues with this last option. Need to close and open the LVmode in order for this to work...

I cant get continuos video if i am in 3:2 AR and 1584X1058 Res... This would be a nice little bit higher res to work with continusly, thats why I have talked about the speed of the new cards and if they could unlock the camera just a little bit further!

Do you use the Flaat Picture style modes that are referenced in the MagicLantern Manual? I will give them a try. Not sure what they do but I will test them out.


And one more thing, I find it dificult to have  a organized shooting plan.  Is there any feature to change the name of the clips, IN camera? That would be a really nice feature to have a better workflow.

I get lost with all the clips. I have a pen and a paper, but in a more "professional" workflow, it would be really nice to add this feature. A little thing to do... (I say a little thing but I imagine the work behind it. To achive this) I have the most respect for those who can speak the "CODE" language. Really admire what they are able to do.

Thank you very much.