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Ok got it working, I'm running on a single SD and everytime that i switch off the camera i have to load back the firmware again.
Is it the same with the two cards method?

yes, as stated earlier, autoboot is disabled for now.

sure. i went ahead and did it in movie mode, assuming you meant that?

alex:

sorry for the shaky video, it's a pita to hold the ipad steady   

it tops out a bit over card specification.

it would seem so, yes.

ah, yes, that's true. not being able to do it with the thumb is indeed annoying. great to know that you can move it back

you are referencing the 5d2 as the zoom buttons old place? from where to where would that move the zoom button on the 5d3? i can't quite imagine it as i don't have a 5d2 to compare with.

thanks, i'll post results in a few hours

What CF cards are you guys using?
Using a 8GB class 6 SDHC with 64GB PRETEC 567X CF card

Pretec PCF516G - PRETEC CompactFlash Card 567x - 16GB - transfer speed 85MB/s read 40MB/s write Metal Housing

It seems your card isn't the fastest one around as it is only specified with 40mb/s write speed. you can try rebooting the camera directly prior to running the benchmark to get it into a defined state to run the benchmark from.

I'm also thinking to expose H.264 parameters so you can play with them.

Yay!

what features are you planning on trying out next, once you are satisfied with the amount of people giving feedback and stability so far?

bulb ramping / timelapse functions in general would most welcome to have, also the zoom in functions while recording would be great.

would be interesting to see what a 1000x lexar professional cf does. they are specified with 150mb/s read. from what searching just found me they do around 140mb/s write, so maybe if you can somehow dump a uncompressed stream it would indeed be possible.

then again i would gladly take compressed 4k over uncompressed 180p/2k

Maybe you should increase the file size for the bigger buffer sizes, it seems it's rather optimistic with 128MB/s as the card is only specified at 86MB/s i think

works fine here as well

woohoo! will give it a try once i'm home

is it becoming stable enough for you to release the alpha for 1.1.3 or are we headed for sunday 23:59 which still is this week?

exploded? 

maybe the wishes were a bit too late. 

*wishing you luck*

Do you intend to release the alpha version for 1.1.2 or 1.1.3? Just saw you were preparing to get it going with 1.1.3 and am wondering if one should try and get a hold of firmware 1.1.2 for the camera to downgrade, if already at 1.1.3.

we are indeed waiting

hehe, nice

it's like waiting for christmas as a little child all over again

Sounds great, you are awesome! Looking forward to giving it a try.

SD cards are much cheaper than CF cards while the camera does not utilise the full advantage of CF cards anyway.

That's untrue. The SD card implementation in the cam is way sllower than the CF slot. If you care about getting data out of the buffer and onto the card fast, the SD card slot will bite you hard.

I'm thinking to start public testing pretty soon, maybe next week. First with a minimal version, then enable new features when the old ones are confirmed to be rock solid.

That is awesome news!

A beta with only a few features once you are satisfied with their stability sounds like a sane way to proceed.

Since my proposal of limiting it to CF cards was not welcome, I think we'll have to wait until these things are solved.

Personally I like the idea of using the SD slot as ~permanent residence for ML since as above stated it is slower than the CF slot when used and hence is absolutely uninteresting to me. That approach would also likely get rid of any issues resulting from a format of the CF card.

Depending on what cam you previously had there are obviously reasons for wanting to use the SD slot as primary slot, due to e.g. a already purchased SD card army, but CF cards aren't that steep an investment compared to the price of the 5d3. You can get a reasonable fast 32GB 600x CF card for under 80€ these days and that's one with 90mb/s read and write.

Heading for the CF slot as pic/video dump might also make more sense simply due to it's speed and possibly higher bitrate video output due to that fact?