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[RAW Therapee]

Sorry ADJ, I missed your post first time around - here's a link to the RAW Therapee documentation page:

http://rawtherapee.com/blog/documentation

I'm making some notes from the manual and then I'll install it and find out what it's like. The website also has a forum which should be able to answer any specific questions you might have. I'd like to know how well it handles batch processing large numbers of images (for video).

When I have time, I've been shooting my own tests to get more experience of using the raw hack (though nothing worth posting here yet), and I've just got back on top of the posts to learn as much as I can! I was on an old version for a while but currently using GregoryOfManhattan's 27 June Unified build. It's great to have your settings still there when you turn it back on again! Things just keep getting better. There's no other word for it, for the first time in ages I feel excited shooting raw 2.39:1 with the 50D. It's like filming with a compact little Eyemo 35mm camera, though that camera's internal 100 ft reel of stock lasted just over a minute (at 24 fps), and the clock winding gave you just 20 seconds per take, so I feel quite spoilt even using a fairly modest 64 GB CF card. What more are we waiting for these days?

Got a replica battery grip today, which has overcome the problem of battery drain that I was experiencing with raw shooting on the 50D.

Briefly tested the joys of focus peaking, but when I started to use it for a longer test later, I found my takes were being aborted early. Yes, the constant real time focus peaking was pushing the resources too far; I turned it off and my usual performance was back again. I can always use the usual Canon magnifying buttons to focus before I record.

Moire can sometimes be prominent, though when I shot a test side-by-side with my 60D shooting H.264 video, I can see the particular areas of moire are very similar with both cameras, it's just softer with the 60D -- well, the whole H.264 video image is a bit softer than raw, even when raw processing sharpness is turned down.

One of the great benefits of raw footage is in the post-production; I am currently using ACR but my next area of exploration will be trying Raw Therapy as an alternative.

I always have the live raw histogram on (there is no performance hit) to estimate exposure, but what do the coloured dots actually mean, sometimes with numbers forming inside them? 

Many thanks for the big effort of the coders and the support of the frequent forum contributors on here. Very inspirational.

Menoc: Use EOSCard tool -- does that mean starting from scratch: make the card scriptable and then copy ML across again?
Many thanks for your help.

As a matter of interest in the Debug menu I checked the shutter count, which says: "ok = 379+66". Can you tell me what that actually means as a shutter count (there are two figures). The seller said the camera was hardly used...

Thanks for the quick replies.

Menoc: was the camera in M mode -- yes. In live view -- yes. Added the modules to the ML folder -- yes (the Smeangol modules). Did I make the card scriptable -- no. Please tell me how to do that.

JulianH: Use the 28may build by Gregory -- yes, that is the one I'm using (50-2013May28build.zip). Scroll down the movie tab to enable raw shooting -- yes, because I can't load the modules, they are not yet listed in the movie tab.

I made an empty "scripts" folder within the ML folder as it was mentioned this stops the warning about no scripts. Would that make a difference?

Finally I have my CF card (KomputerBay 64 GB 1000x). I loaded ML for the first time ("Success! BOOTDISK flag is enabled" etc). Going into the M menu I highlight "Load modules now..." but I can't load anything. Pressing the Set button doesn't do anything, so I can't load the Smeangol module. Any ideas what's gone wrong? Thanks.

[50D]

I really feel a shared experience with this thread - I've recently bought a second hand 50D, and still waiting for a KomputerBay 64 GB card to arrive!

[50D]

Thanks for the welcome. If I can get raw working on a 50D with your help, I think that would usefully prove that anyone can do it! Cheers.

[Nikon D5200]

I've been meaning to start using the ML hack for some time but never got around to it. Then I read about the ML HDR video feature, and this really got my attention, because I thought it was potentially a very noticeable way to change the apparent DR of Canon video compared to stock H.264. But now raw video has appeared and I've decided I can't stay out of this thing any longer! After recently reading nice things about the Nikon D5200 I thought I would get one of those next for video, but a few days ago I bought a second hand 50D instead, purely for raw shooting. I already have a 550D and 60D, so didn't plan on getting another crop Canon this year, but the price (at the moment at least) is almost disposable - I paid £330 for a body described by the seller as almost like new. It should arrive some time next week and I also ordered a KomputerBay 64 GB 1000x CF card. Hopefully, you guys can help me start experimenting with this exciting new development. Many thanks for your inspiring work here.