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Here's some high ISO (2800) raw footage from 600D with the latest build.

1280x400 in 640x480 mode. Works like a charm now, no pink or skipped frames, only those weird blue/red/yellow pixelated areas at high ISO.

Raw 1280x400 in 640x480 mode.

ISO 2800
T-Stop 5.6
24 fps
1/24 Shutter
Rokinon 35 Cine

The noise came out pretty well with ACR editing, but the youtube compression smeared the details quite a bit.

Then there's the little red and blue "dots", pixels, something.... Only prominent at high iso.

On the 600d there is no Menu to set the resolution for me, yet people reported that was working before. I am a bit confused. Also, the buffer always fills first before writing the files to card, no co-recording while buffering.

I use the latest nightly build and the latest BeepsTwice.zip.

Is there more files required? I tried two different cards and the feature is not hidden in ML Menu either. Might be a bug.

Did you put raw_rec module into the modules folder of the sd card? Works great on my 600D.

What is your maximum recording time?
Very good, we are progressing here!

The colors are mind blowing compared to h264. Haven't tested maximum yet, Ive done a solid 20 secs of frames though.

Oh, wow. I literally pressed every single button except for the half-shutter. Thanks!

Looks like the footage is uprezzing quite nicely as well, starts to fall apart at 2.5k

Another 600D Raw video.

Rokinon Cine, Sandisk 95. Rendering the DNG's out of After Effects into ProRes 4444, loading them up into FCPX and doing the rest of the editing.

Compressed with Mpeg StreamClip from ProRes 4444 to mp4 for Youtube uploading.

Cool, got it. The new raw_rec module is nice, loving the playback function as well. Is there any way to stop it once it starts though?

New video, btw.

434, is that in the newest build?

I'm actually pretty fond of shooting 1280x400 in 640x480 mode. Only one corrupt frame and a nice CinemaScope look to boot.

Because they're not video cameras by default, they're photography cameras that happen to record video as well.

If they didn't do line skipping, we'd be stuck with sensor crop videos or pictures at a max resolution of 1920x1080.

Also, these cameras are aimed at average consumers, who probably aren't too keen on recording massively sized raw videos whenever they want a few video files of their kids playing soccer, their friends getting married, yada yada.

How are the 600D 32M buffers working? Raw speed with 32M went down for 6D, 600D originally had 31M buffers so maybe better or no change.

The 32M buffers definitely helped, 1280x480 runs longer until it skips frames, up from 5 seconds to 9 or 10 seconds. 1280x400 works just fine, a frame or two in the first couple seconds get corrupted then its smooth sailing from there. Still gotta test it out with running for a few minutes but as of now its much more stable than even a few days ago.

Its still stopping once it gets up to 21 MB/s continuous so even with a 95 MB/s card I'm thinking thats the limit.

Looks the same but I could be wrong, you'd have to ask one of the coders if it makes a difference.

Not sure how it works but shooting the raw mode in 720 vs 480 crops the dng's different, when I shoot raw in 720p mode with the resolution set to 1280x400 (the most this camera can handle continuously right now), I have to stretch it to 1280x720. But when shooting in 480 mode with raw resolution at 1280x400, no stretching is required, so the letterbox is needed to make the video 1280x720.

Yup, almost TOO crisp lol.

1280x400, didn't have to upscale it since I shot it in 640x480, only had to add the letterbox.

Rokinon 35 cine lens, btw.

The second shot to my eye had more detail and looked great. Was that the 480 setting?

If we can get a 550D build I'll engage in testing as well.

First was normal h264, second was 640x480 with raw resolution set to 1280x400.

I don't think its auto pan... I don't have these issues on 6D and had a lot of trouble with early edmac_memcpy on 600D.

Its either sync or something is messing with the edmac.

I only get the pink frames once or twice in the first second or two of footage, then the rest is just fine.

This is with the Sandisk 95, if that makes a shit.

Did this video with the newest 600D build, 1280x720 at 24fps for the h264, and 640x480 at 24 fps with raw resolution set at 1280x400.

Better to use raw in 720p or 480? Seems like the images are cropped differently in each setting, but scaling the 400 up to 720 barely has any effect on quality.

H264 vs Raw
1280x400 cropped to 720 for the Raw footage vs standard 720p with 24 fps override.

I know it's a moot point now but I noticed with slice 87/GOP 3 video on the TL1 build that I could push the in-camera sharpening up a few notches with no discernible effect on moire or aliasing, which I found much more pleasant looking than sharpening in post.

We can totally get raw on the EOS 650... just spin the film real fast... its the rawest raw that ever existed.

Fun fact. The 5d Mkiii was announced on the 25th anniversary of the Eos 650.

I smell a conspiracy theory coming in 3... 2....

Yeah if you guys can't even get raw video enabled on the Canon EOS 650, the whole thing's a bust.

Ran some tests on the 600D raw capabilities, definitely not going to get anywhere near the mkiii capabilities unless a miracle happens but 1280x360 is definitely usable and runs continuously, and 1280x480 records a solid 5-6 secs of great footage until frames skip or corrupt.

Going to try and post a video tomorrow. Hmm, may be time to retire the 600D and splurge on a mkiii?

The entire ML team is way ahead of their time, huge thank you to all of 'em. I think you guys just revolutionized the entire cinematography world.

Looks like raw can run continuously on the 600D at 960x540 (at work now so I can't double check) with a Sandisk 95. So how about 1280x480 or 360? Not sure if frames were corrupting yet, I'll run more tests in the morning.

Oh and from what I've seen, raw video has a nice film look to it color-wise, especially on landscape shots. The stock codec looks extremely "digital" next to it.  This makes me happy.



Looks like my question was just answered lol

Yeah, I've shot in broad daylight with very shallow dof, try an nd8 and stack if necessary. But I think your bigger problem will arise from trying to follow your subject with such a shallow dof.

Random thought for music videos... Play the song back at half the bpm, have the singer perform along while recording raw/yuv at 12fps, and play it back in post at 24p. Feasible? Or just a choppy fuckin mess?

If each frame could be truncated in-camera to ~1 MB, would still be better than h.264.

Easier said than done I suppose.