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It is probably reliable resolution with some particular 1000x cards, for instance my 16Gb Transcend 1000x at 1728x972 gives me only around 500 frames.

Sure.  There are plenty of threads about recommended cards.  With the 32G Lexar cards I'm using in my 5D Mark II, 1728x972 has been about 95% reliable up to around 2 minutes and I haven't tried recording much longer than that (no reason to try, really), but at 2 minutes it had spanned at least once and the buffer was still looking fine (hovering between 1-2 *) so I'd expect it to keep spanning OK.
Even if you can't push 1728x972, I'd imagine that you could still push 1600x900 which is still at least a bit better than 1280x720 - especially if you crank your stills quality down to jpeg.

The following is assuming you shoot in RAW, obviously. The chart says that aliasing is bad on the 5D2, but there is a VAF which corrects the situation. For continuous 24p shooting at 16:9 the best you can do is 1280x720. Since the filter was meant for shooting 1080p I had concerns with 720p having even less lines, one of the reasons for aliasing, and I am wondering if it will help with RAW if I shoot at 720p. I'm thinking it could possibly make it worse, different, but bottom line just being a waste of money. Can anyone shed some light on this/share their wisdom with me? Thank you!

You can shoot 1728x972 reliably with a 1000x card on the 5D Mark II.  The resolution at that size is much better than the built-in 1080p h.264.

5D Mark III: I´ve seen, at 1920 x 1080 is the size between black bars. I mean, in the white box. There is a crop in relation to the sensor proportion?
So 1920 x 1152 include the entire of the image, 1:1?

I need to know if FULL HD (1920 x 1080) video has the proportion of the image sensor of 5d MARK III.

1920x1280 (supported by ML) is the (scaled) full sensor.  To use it, set your resolution to 1920 and your aspect ratio to 3:2.  You may or may not be able to record it on a 1000x card reliably.  I've been able to get 1920x1152 to work reliably, but 1920x1280 is more like rolling dice.

I don't get how to deal with RAW in post. On a previous build the DNG's were right on my card, click and drag into PS and grade, export as tiff and image sequence into premiere. With this latest build - the files aren't on my card... where are they? how do i get to them?

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5654.0

[Modules]

I'm new to this, so bare with me. I have a Canon T3i (600D) with ML v3.2 installed fresh last night. I saw on a video from FXPHD background series (bkd228-class06) that theres a Modules menu that gets you to the raw-rec option. I know that the camera they did the demo on is a 5D, my T3i does not display the Modules menu - therefore I can't shot in RAW.

I'm interested in green screen work for VFX. Any tips regarding what memory card to use and such would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Miles

You're asking this in the wrong thread.  In addition, reading the forum before asking would be a good idea.  In particular, you may want to start with the thread titled "Uncompressed 600D raw video" here:  http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5494.0

If you want to edit on a more modest workstation and/or don't want to worry about the space/disk performance needs of raw video, it also works nicely to import your raw sequence into AE, adjust levels/color balance/etc as needed, and then export to 12-bit DNxHD/ProRes.  Once you've graded and done shadow/highlight recovery, the raw files become less necessary.

This existed??

http://www.geekstuff4u.com/four-slot-microsdhc-to-cf-converter.html?___store=en&___store=en#.UZ-Z6JywV7w

Yeah, but it's not all that fast.
http://www.dyxum.com/dforum/cfcard-64-gb-with-microsdhc-raid-0_topic44099.html

Newer/fast cards are likely doing something similar internally anyway.

1920x1080p on my 5D Mark III (and 24-105/4L) from a few days ago at the celebration for legal marriage equality in Minnesota.  The footage is pretty crude since I was just  goofing around handheld.  This was done with a build known for light frame skipping so I was getting about 8 skipped frames per 4G file on a Lexar 32G 1000x card.  After tweaking the footage in AE, the intermediate renders in 10-bit DNxHD look good enough to keep (and Premiere plays them back like a dream).
Incidentally, it was about 90 degrees and I was shooting off and on for a couple of hours.  No overheating problems evident.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zckSN5j5Cvo&feature=youtu.be

I just tried it myself and yes, it seems to work fine except for one. Did you notice oddity on frame overlay when shooting 1080p? It looks way off center. Although footage looks good.

I didn't notice anything weird at 1080p, but I set it down to 1920x720 and the overlay was way off center, yeah.

Has anyone tried this raw shooting with a hdmi monitor? I assume it won't affect anything, but want to confirm it if anyone tried.

I just shot a 4G clip with an external monitor plugged in.  ML reported 8 skipped frames at 1080p on my Lexar 1000x card which is the same as what it reports when I'm on the internal screen.  I haven't looked at the footage, but I'd expect it to be fine.

Ok, I figured it out...

But now, my SD card isn't working.
I tried shooting at 720 and it started but it was missing a bunch of frames so I wanted to cancel it. I did so by flipping the video switch to camera on my 5d3. Then I took my sd and put it in my laptop and it didn't read it. Placed it back into the camera and the camera read it so I did a format on my camera. Put it back into my laptop and it still isn't reading it. Restarted the computer and did a format of the card(in camera) still nothing. Any ideas?

I've been stopping recording by pulling up the ML menu and hitting "stop" in the same place where I hit "start."  You could try that.  I'd also strongly suggest using something other than an SD card on a 5D3.  A 400x-600x CF card is going to write a lot faster.  I'm not sure that the SD card slot in the 5D3 can keep up with 720x1280.

I opened up terminal, dragged and dropped the raw2dng file in and clicked enter.
it said "permission denied"

am I supposed to do something different?

You wouldn't drag it into the terminal.  Assuming that it's in your Downloads folder, you'd go into Terminal and run this:

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cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x ./raw2dng
./raw2dng


To use it on a file in another folder, go to terminal and do something like this:

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cd /Path/To/Folder
~/Downloads/raw2dng M00000000.RAW


I know this is going to ruffle some feathers but I promise I'm not posting out of ignorance.  I've been using ML for over a year on my 5D2 and swear by it.  I've been keeping up with reading the forums and decided to try the nightly build to use RAW Video on my 5D2 but don't see the option after replacing the autoexec.bin and ML folder on the root of the card with the nightly build...  I'm using a Sandisk Extreme Pro 16GB CF 90MB/s... not the 1000x.  Is the card speed the reason or am I missing a step?


Thank you.

Phil

It took me a minute to figure it out.  Assuming that the Mark II works like my Mark III, you'd go into the ML menus and go to the one on the far right labeled "M."  Click "load modules now" and at the bottom, it should say "raw_rec OK."  Now when you go to the movie menu, you should have the raw video menu item as expected.

That is great!
Any benchmark done with those cards on ML so we can compare to Lexar?
My Sandisk Extreme Pro 90MB/s cannot record 1920x1080 without skipping frames, 1920x720 works great.
Looking forward to get one of those Komputerbay 128GB, just wanted to be sure with other confirmation or benchmark.

Thanks!

I get some skipping on my Sandisk 90MB/s card at 1920x1080 as well so I have a couple of Lexar 32G 1000x cards showing up tomorrow.  For a while, I'll just have to bring a laptop to dump footage and swap cards a lot when I shoot raw.

Ah, answered my own question.  The CHDK wiki has a link.  I'll leave the topic around in case anybody else is searching the site for it too.

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Official_Canon_firmware_updates

I updated my firmware to 1.2.1 to mess with HDMI out and my Hyperdeck, but I'm really excited by the latest updates about raw video to CF!  I see from a previous thread that a downgrade is possible, but I'm having trouble finding a link to download 1.1.3 on any of Canon's sites.  Has anybody else had better luck (or is there a mirror of the older firmware somewhere)?  If anybody has a link to download 1.1.3, I'd greatly appreciate it!  Thanks!