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[turn on hacked mode!]

Finally, my KomputerBay 32GB card arrived! 

Just shot a few tests @1592x896. Buffer always stayed at one star, no big deal, camera and CF card bored as hell!

But important: turn on hacked mode! Otherwise, it won't work!

More experiments following...

While every camera/card is different, I'm able to get 29+ GB non-stop recording @ 1592x896 24p with my 32GB KomputerBay card without having hacked mode on.  I do, however, need hacked mode when shooting at 1920 resolution in 5X mode.

I believe under one of the ML menus there is a 'sticky DOF preview' button - so you can press the button and it holds it down until you press it again. I havent tried it on the 50D yet, but have just been re-reading the ML user guide.

I found the DOF sticky option.  It's located in the Misc key settings under Prefs.  It works great, but you can only activate it once recording has begun - if you activate it first, then you will be unable to record using the liveview button.  The problem I have in post is when I import the DNG sequence into After Effects, I only have the option to grade the first representative frame.  Unfortunately, the first frame is almost always incorrectly exposed since there's a delay from the time I hit record to the time the DOF sticky is engaged. 

Is there a way to engage the DOF sticky before the Raw recording?  If this isn't possible, then is there a way to specify a different representative frame in After Effects?  I know this can be done via Adobe Bridge, but I'd like to avoid the extra steps if at all possible.

Thanks.

I never saw a dof sticky option in the menus...  I'll give it another look once my battery charges.  Hopefully I can find it and that it works.  On another note, the Raw hack really chews up the batteries...  I've got another two and a battery grip on order. 

That's right.  I'm using the May 28th build right now.  What does the new build offer over the old build?  Will the electronic aperture on the ef lenses engage during the live view shooting?

Also, what adapters do you recommend for Nikon glass?  I need something that offers a secure fit (I use a follow focus and can't have any shifting going on).  I also don't want a permanent solution since I still use my Nikons for my family of GH2s.    Finally, will I need an adapter for each nikkor I own (for convenience), or will one adapter be enough?

Is there a way to have the depth of field preview selected automatically while shooting raw video?  Right now I'm pushing the live view button to start recording, then I press and hold the depth of field preview button until I'm done with the shot.  It's a pain, but that's what I have to do to if I don't want to shoot wide open.  Is there a work around, or do I just have to adapt my Nikon lenses and use their manual aperture?

Thanks.

any ideas on how to convert to ProRes 4444 After Affects done seem to have that option from Raw.

Assuming you have prores codecs installed on your computer, then it's just a matter of exporting your comp as a quicktime.  In the quicktime options, there's an option for you to select a format:  prores, animation, etc.  I prefer the Avid DNxHD codec personally. 

Might be a bit off-topic, but has a solution for the pink colorcast been found?

Thanks.

So Julian your saying not to use Gregory's lastest build yet.  Did you revert back to the build from the 1st page? it's more stable right, gonna try in a couple minutes letting my battery charge.  Tell you the truth I think I might need to invest on a battery grip, and whole bunch of batteries... think mines gave me around 30 - 35 minutes continuously staying on.  It's not bad but on a real shoot gonna need about 3 extras.  Thanks for the tip about Global draw.  One last question even when I put the 24fps override it still spits out 30fps not sure what I'm doing wrong here.  Every time I load it in After Affects it shows as 30fps

After Effects is showing 30fps because that's what the default After Effects preferences are when importing an image sequence.  You need to go into preferences under the "edit" tab to change this setting to your desired default.  On the other hand, you can always right click on the image sequence in the project window after you've imported it, and select "interpret".  A new window will open that allows you to change the fps.

Hope this helps.