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I had a KB128 go dead on me after 8 months. Amazon refunded me straight away!

23 months is maybe less straightforward, I'll try tomorrow. Still bothers me a lot that komputerbay is not answering emails. They changed two cards already to me, which is a lot, but at least they answered...

They are not answering me, which is very annoying since the 128 GB that stopped working doesn't even have two years...

I'm a little bit lost If I want to use mlv lite with sound and compression should I use this one or crop rec from last year? Which one is less bug prone?

edit: ok I tested it and the answer seems to be the crop rec branch? I was just surprised to see that the last update is from last year and this one is more recent.

Hi I would have similiar question. What is the cheapest EOS camera that very well works with ML and is worth experimenting with?

Regards,
Jakub

5D mark2

I prefer the second one for colour but contrast is too high, anyway everything depends on the indended mood and scene flow, every colour can be good in general

don't you have some websites for local used products in the US? If you go to Vegas I'm sure you'll find another one for cheap!! Best of luck anyway, equipment breaking is so traumatazing, grrr.

Thanks for answering. I tried to search the forum for a few days, I could not find any answers. Decided to ask here.

I am aware of mlrawreview and fast cinemaDNG process, which is a demo. Are there any other cDNG players? I like the mlraw viewer a lot, and quite satisfied with. I am just a fraid some day it will become obsolete.

Thanks

Davinci Resolve is the best. If your computer can afford it!

Is there a way to play the cinemaDNG files/folders? I have been using the original mlrawviewer 1.4.3 to play the cinemaDNG files (folders) from the blackmagic pocket camera without any issue. I just drag-and-drop the folder over the mlrawviewer, and it will start to play. I would love to be able to do the same with this app.

thanks

Nope, was asked multiple times and it is very complex to realize. Not worth it, there're alternatives.

Done.

oh noooo, Canon cameras are so prone to bad pixels!! that default option is a life saver!!

How about inserting a black frame for every detected corrupted frame?
General question. Is a corrupted frame in one MLV file aborting the whole batch process in MLV app? If not I could live without the export of corrupted files although cool if it would work with black frames.

That is exactly it. It stops the whole batch process, needs a manual interaction. And yes black frames would be the perfect solution, especially because with magic lantern mlv one black frame at the end happens very often for a multitude of reasons.

Do you have any battery behaving different, i.e. as you would expect?

Do they have different serial numbers (to be checked in camera menu; it's somewhere in a battery management). If all are same, they are guaranteed counterfeits.
Can you be more precise what "way before reaching 0%" means? Is it 50, 20, 10 or 5%?
I've just checked reviews on Amazon and several users report unreliable behaviour of Patona LP-E6. Problems are similar as yours: indicator jumping up&down, evel rapidly to 0%. After shutting the camera off, removing and insterting the battery again jumping back to 40% and working further. So, it seems Patonas are just like that.

Yea, seems like my two original ones keep up until 0%... I hate myself so much for selling my original battery with my old 5dmark2
They usually shuts down around 40% with a yellow indicator. I didn't know about the serial number thing!! I've checked... they match :// Damn, such good counterfeits, only the blue colour is very slightly different from the originals. I'll ask for a complete refund, I guess I'll have to buy an expensive original, damnit.

Curious to see some debayer comparison if someone wants to do it!

For me one of the feature still missing is an automatically skip problematic frames. Yesterday I had another episode like that that stopped the export, a black frame at the end of one clip when the camera stopped because of a full CF. I had forgot about it and MLV stopped during export. Would be nice to have an option to have this skipped automatically, could be very usefull imho.

first download is mine! thanks

This is typically a sign of a high internal resistance: the battery has a pretty high voltage under low load but the voltage drops when current consumption of the load increases. There are three possibilities: either the battery is of a very poor quality (counterfeit), extremely exploited (several hundreds of charging cycles) or mistreated (e.g. stored empty over extended periods of time -- months, years). It's not normal, even for good 3rd party batteries.

It is so weird... I'm having this problem with both Patona premium batteries and two supposed original ones from ebay... I don't know how it is possible...

They look like originals sadly. My question is, do third party or original shuts down on you before 0%?

I'm struggling to find some good LP-e6 that don't break the bank. I tried pantona and now a couple supposed original from ebay and they shut down on me way before reaching 0%.

Am I doing something wrong? what is your solution?

For me the best results are starting with bmd film and have an output lut blackmagic cinema camera rec709 v2 It is good especially if your workflow doesn't roundtrip properly and you have to export prores444 masters.

But yea the resolve controls will react differently to different starting points, I didn't play much with linear but if it works why not

Thanks masc! I'll do it next time, sounds usefull. Does processing time take a big hit?

Ooh! I have to learn how to use darkframes then. Any tutorial?

I've uploaded two samples, if you bring the exposure of the dng up in resolve with a simple curve you'll see the vertical stripes inside the black shadow casted on his neck and in the sky.
I've tried 3 exports: no vertical stripes correction / normal / forced. The dng output (lossless) is identical in the three cases. I didn't test the hotpixels yet but I'm afraid it could be the same.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/r2h5j8ml51fed6t/M02-0127.MLV/file

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1x5cc0qfdrkq3ay/M06-0445.MLV/file

I have a 5D3 as well, will test.

Are we sure vertical stripe removal actually work? I'm consolidating the doubt that it doesn't, I have to test it more but looking at my clips doesn't seems like the parameter is kickin in, should check hot pixel as well mmm

Its simple, shoot in raw, import the DNG and open in your favourite software that supports LUTs, check what input your LUT expects to have:
for example if a LUT is made for sLog2 then you need to convert your raw to slog2 first and then apply the LUT.
And make sure you measure the correct white balance when shooting

a precision to this, the lut (which is a baked filter that will crush the image dinamic range) should be applied as a last node and any other correction should be done *before* that.

old topic but still worth replying to it for those that could read it. It is a bug in Resolve, you need to mess with the WB in the raw panel to get rid of it.

I have a final question before I give up on Magic Lantern and move on with my life. I want to make simple videos for YouTube—nothing special.

But despite trying so many different settings both in the camera, in my workflow and in exporting, I still am left with "poor quality" video playback at 480p and 720p on YouTube. I know YouTube isn't a site known for great compression algorithms, but when I view other videos also shot in 14 bit raw via Magic Lantern on 5D Mark III, they blow mine away, even at those low resolutions.

Could someone please take a look at this example video I just created. Just a simple thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6PEMzOEIuA

Here's a comparison video done by someone else 5 years ago on a Mark II.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6PEMzOEIuA

The difference is pronounced. I'm wondering if anyone might have any last thoughts on what I could be doing wrong.

Specs are below
Camera: 5D Mark III
Magic Lantern nightly build February 2018
1920x1080p
Recording 23.976fps clips and 29.97 clips modified down to 23.976fps
Using RAWMagic to create DNG sequences
Edit DNGs in ACR via Bridge
Pull DNGs and their metadata into After Effects and export ProRes 422HQ clips via Media Encoder
Assemble the ProRes clips in Premiere Pro
Export a 23.976fps .mp4 via h.264, encoded via Variable Bit Raw 2 pass / 15 bit target / 30 bit max

My suspicion for my latest test video (linked above) was that I had too much camera shake, but I'm not sure that can explain the severe pixelation going on, especially during stable shots.

My Magic Lantern experiment has been such a time-consuming let down that I'm about to move on to a different camera system and get on with my life (I've been tinkering with this for nearly two years). I appreciate any help. Thank you.

I can't open your video but I'll gladly recap the things to do to get more quality video online. In order of importance:

1) Use a proper workflow for color grading, yours is so weird I can't even judge it. The right way to do it is bring the dngs into Davinci Resolve (free), set the raw panel with BMD gamma, then use the Black Magic Cinema Camera to rec709v2 LUT as a last node or as an output 3D LUT. Grade inside this pipeline.   

2) If you can do not use youtube, compression is bad, Wistia is a good alternative. Vimeo is better than youtube but not as good as Wistia.

3) Don't upload on youtube or other a h264 version, compressing an already compressed video is always hard. If quality is important upload some kind of low bandwith prores. if you have to use h264 compress it with handbrake with SuperHQ profile.

That's it!