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@Itias: What is the advantage of shooting MLV over RAW.rec on the 50D? My understanding was that the big advantage of MLV.rec is that it can record sound, which the 50D can't do anyway...

Also, I would love to try DaVinci Resolve, but until I upgrade my computer, I am unable to run it. Hence Adobe Camera Raw and After Effects for DNG processing...

What workflow do you all use?

I just wrote a post outlining mine, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right/the best.

https://altcinema.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/post-production-workflow-when-shooting-raw-on-the-50d-and-other-canon-cameras/

I override it to 23.976 and exact. Is there some limitation on fps override in crop mode? I googled and find people saying in crop mode I shouldn't be using exact. I tried the low jello and 180d option, it gives me 44s of 1920X1080 video in crop mode (Lexar 64GB, 1066X). I did it again and find out it stops when it starts the 2nd file span. So the first file is 4GB and the next 3xxMB and stops. I think may be it's just the card is too slow. Is it?
Many thanks!

Edit: I followed this blog: http://altcinema.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/magic-lantern-setup-settings-and-shooting-raw-hd-on-the-50d-2/ , which in itself is following by a suggestion in MagicLantern, to format the card in a specific way. I can now get about 2 MB/s more. But sustainable 1920X1080 is still not possible. After the first spanned files it stops at 65s (in using the low jello option). But I can get sustainable video in crop at 1920 width with 1.85:1 aspect ratio with 23.976fps and low jello. This allows me to record until card full.

Hey Koren,

I wrote the above blog, but hadn't yet updated some of the recommended settings, including to use RAW + no jpeg. I finally just did so.

I think you already figured this out, but for everyone else, supposedly these are the recommended Canon menu settings (please advise anyone if this is out of date):

Image Quality = Raw
Auto Lighting Optimizer = OFF
Long exp. noise reduction = OFF
High ISO speed NR = OFF
Highlight tone priority = OFF
Multiple Exposure = Disable
HDR Mode = Disable HDR

About the recent Ram solution which in it 7D was shining how does it apply to our shooting?

Sorry to have to ask (I tried searching), but what is the RAM solution? Seems like there have been a lot of awesome new developments in the nightlies this month, but I'm not quite following exactly what they are, except for the crucial addition of FPS override (thank goodness!!)

Oh, and if it is helpful, I got this errant frame in my H.264 test recording in the link above. Everything looked fine, except for this one frame flash:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwrHbMZUU5Rqb2Q0MEQ3VnFvZTQ

Hi all,

I've been lurking in the forums, and finally got my 50D installed and working. I'm not proficient in computer coding so I can't contribute by helping with the builds, but I did go ahead a document my install and set up process, as I found I had to search a lot far and wide to figure out how to get everything working.

There are two posts, one on installing, and the other on setting up and recording.

http://altcinema.com/2014/05/10/diy-filmmaking-and-the-canon-50d/
http://altcinema.com/2014/05/10/magic-lantern-setup-settings-and-shooting-raw-hd-on-the-50d/

I hope people find it helpful!

Oh, and here is my test footage. I was only able to get up to about 1400 frames in 1920x1080 with the Transcend 64GB 1000x card, which maxed out at 81MB/s, so I am sending it back in favor of the Komputerbay, which I found out after the fact seems to be getting faster results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWCRt6Dn1Q