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Great work on this!  MLVViewSharp.exe will work on Mac/Linux through mono. MLV2DNG/MLVdump do not sadly, but still nice to quickly see focus in the field if you have a macbook.  Message if you need a hand setting this up.

MLV works in continuos at full frame.  At cropped, I get crazy jumping write speeds.  Sometimes drops from low 80s to 50s to 40s in just a second.  Compared to raw_rec on the same build, MLV is jumping all over the place.  When in RAW, I get a few mbs/sec jumps, not the 30mb/s jumps in MLV.

Formatted my card in camera, removing ML, and reinstalled to the card from scratch.  Cleared out everything, and using all speed squeezing techniques, but I can't get it to stabilize.  Tried a few of the buffer settings in MLV, found 4 (or maybe 3) might be best for me.  Any tips?

In the meantime, RAW recording is stable at 1920x1080 for me hanging around a nice looking 82mb/s on this build.  Can't wait to see MLV become my daily driver.  With all that metadata at the bottom of MLV Viewer, I'm pretty excited!

50D user here, no MKII, but shutter speed display was messed up on TL 50D builds recently.

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http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5586.msg87092#msg87092

Thank you so much Check focus from files off the card before dng conversion is such a time/space saver!

Got it running on my desktop workhorse running in parallels, and through mono on my 'in the field' laptop (a few years old and noticeably slower playback than my new Hackintosh desktop) but both are an amazing new tool to help optimize workflow.  Laptop on 1/4 with other features off is still good enough when scrubbing through to check for focus.  Desktop on 1/2 and messing with some colour features still plays back at a reasonable pace to give the thumbs up/down to a take.

Could be a placebo effect (or mentioned earlier)
When I update any setting in ML on my 50D, the first time I shoot in RAW my write speed hovers around 65MBs. However when I make a change and turn the camera on and off (or just the first time I turn the camera on) I get write speeds around 75MBs. Does anyone else experience anything similar?

Typical for cards to need to 'warm up'.  If you go to the Movie tab, down to Raw Video, it is now hidden under the advanced (on most recent build), you will find Warm Up Card.  You can select a mb size to write to the card at boot.

I usually don't bother.  I tend to get my settings right and shoot a 10-20sec test video, and that warms the card up for continuous shooting.

This app isn't perfect, but is pretty much what you are describing.  Change scene, shot, and take. And can export as .xml file for syncing to FCP or Premiere.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.aimproductions.app.filmbuddy

Do it propagate to all the subsequent frames automagically ? Or do you need to do this frame-by-frame for every frame ?

Not sure for AE, but for Adobe Camera RAW, just use the clone tool on one frame, and synchronize all frames (making sure clone is checked in the popup).  Hit Apply, and wait a bit for it to process.  Fixed a panning wide shot with a small sensor dust in the sky using this.  VERY hard to notice unless you are really looking for it, and with panning motion in the shot, you are not focusing on the sky so much.  For a still shot it would be almost impossible to tell.

Of course, you can get unlucky and get a spot of changing colours or lighting that you may have to go back and fix a span of a few seconds worth of frames, but just go back to that section and reclone a different area.

The vignette is from the anamorphic for sure, but when I darkened the image in post it made it a little more present.

Do you use Resolve?  Could probably tone down the vignette with a softened outside node.  Glad it wasn't a post choice, a bit strong in a few shots.  Loved the mix of photo/video and the way it was edited.  I don't have an anamorphic lens, but I would love to know, how does it behave when you go into crop sensor mode?

A short film I made shot with the Canon 50D RAW Hack. Thanks so much to the people on here for making RAW on the 50D a reality.

http://vimeo.com/77430368

Nice editing.  Vignette from the anamorphic, or in post?

Is there any way to get the 50D to sync beep?   

Was discussed earlier in this thread somewhere.  Quite a few looked into it, but the 50D is missing the hardware on board to produce a similar beep that newer cameras give off.

The "fish-eye" name is what photos look like at that focal length / aspect ratio.   A 10mm would be considered fish-eye, but when in crop mode (45mm) does not look that way.  Here is some footage I shot yesterday in 2.35:1 with the EOS-M.  Straight to Cineform.  (sorry this is a 50d thread, but if you like this you'd LOVE it on the 50D).

As you can see, doesn't look fishy at all   I can't see that the 4.5 would be any different, except that it would look 21mm. 

Thanks for the fisheye crop videos and talk.  Was just chatting with D.L. Watson about the 8mm Rokinon in crop mode.  Seems like a good buy, and that these fisheye lenses are turning out ok for crop shooting.  Also noticed you are around Porter Square area.  I'm right across the river in Brighton. 

I don't see why not.  Not the wireless route for me, but I have a rig where I built a wired cable release into one of the handles for easy capture.  Set to start recording on 1/2shutter hold for 2 seconds and you won't be bumping it all the time.

The other Duncan

Love the work on this.  Some really incredible results.  I had a thought while testing Auto Exposure for a few minutes during a wedding I shot this past Saturday.

Would it be possible to program one of the 'lesser used' buttons (by my day to day use at least) like the DoF preview button, to quickly set 1 out of 3 (Shutter, Fstop, ISO) and have the other two variables 'auto expose' using the same projected graph, based off the 1 constant you set?

I'm sorry if that is confusing.  Best in camera scenario;

Settings are 1/125th shutter, 2.8-11 fstop, 100-800 ISO

Great for outdoors shadow to highlights.  Say for one shot I want to quickly take, I want to shoot as close as I can to f2.8.  My above convoluted question quickly summed up is, would it be possible to press the DoF preview button after you set fstop to 2.8 and have the auto exposure module recognize this and expose with a shallow DoF?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the updates regarding the new filter.

On another update note, DaVinci Resolve 10 Public Beta is live on the BlackMagic site.

http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

As always, the Lite version is free.  Haven't tested new features yet, but from the preview a month or so ago, it looks nice!

On a different note, loving the old pc flash cable on the 50d. My 550d is unreliable firing slave cells because of the preflash.

In the world of flash photography, this is the first time I've seen someone say they love PC sync.  Hahah most outdated system in digital photography.   Then, even though I curse it every photo shoot, I don't know what I'd do without it for wireless slave.

Anyone test MLV format for USB LiveView output?  About to test.  Yeah, I'm that guy still resisting buying a HDMI monitor to try to use his Android tablet over USB, since I never figured out why raw_rec stopped the output.

Edit:  No go. Was hopeful mlv_rec would solve this strange outlier for the 50D, but sadly it acts the same as raw_rec.  MLV format is pretty great though with take#s and all, takes too big a hit for 1080 recording right now, but is fine for full frame even with a few LV overlays on.

Well I started testing my cam and the komputerbay 32gb CF card got corrupted. It's on its way back for a refund..
I wasn't expecting these cards to be so fragile..  What card readers do you use?

I'm still using the same card for awhile now.  Using Transcend USB 3.0 Card Reader (TS-RDF8K)  Moves my ~30GB footage from Card to SSD over USB 3.0 in about 4 minutes tops.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056TYRMW/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i04?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Sidenote; Loving DualISO http://flic.kr/p/fE6KrJ
And Auto Exposure http://flic.kr/p/fEjWBG

5x Zoom
Canon 24-70 2.8 II

As always, amazing work to the devs, but Andy, I've never seen someone stay so on top of fresh builds and uploads for the community as you.  A huge thanks to all.

I was a second shooter for a friend at a wedding recently.  Dual ISO worked like a champ later in the evening for low light party time, but I tried to shoot some 'Silent Pictures' which output to DNG files during Live View, and got some frames that were really weird.  I remember seeing some of this earlier in the thread, but no solution.  Any help on this?  Not all frames came out like this, but it would be nice to shoot like this with full confidence.

It went
3 good frames
1 bad frame (pink lines)
2 good frames
3 bad frames (2 pink lines, 1 green)
2 good frames
2 bad frames (1 green, 1 green & pink lines)
1 good frame
2 bad frames (1 pink lines, 1 green)

over the course of 15 seconds or so. Just uploaded the bad frames as .jpg 700px long egde for the forum.  Can upload the entire .DNG sequence if anyone can help resolve.




A few more frames following the link.

http://imgur.com/a/4Vx1T/#0

Sorry meant to modify, not quote.  Edited in red.

As always, amazing work to the devs, but Andy, I've never seen someone stay so on top of fresh builds and uploads for the community as you.  A huge thanks to all.

I was a second shooter for a friend at a wedding recently.  Dual ISO worked like a champ later in the evening for low light party time, but I tried to shoot some 'Silent Pictures' which output to DNG files during Live View, and got some frames that were really weird.  I remember seeing some of this earlier in the thread, but no solution.  Any help on this?  Not all frames came out like this, but it would be nice to shoot like this with full confidence.



A few more frames following the link.

http://imgur.com/a/4Vx1T/#0

Thank you so much for the cr2hdr Mac app.  Fresh Hackintosh here and didn't want to install the whole process to build, and the bash script was helpful as a 1 by 1 conversion, but this is amazing.  So much time saved!

[Digic Focus Peaking]

Latest Tragic Lantern 2.0 (Andy600 intermediate build)

https://bitbucket.org/andy600/tl50d/downloads

Features a1ex's NEW experimental Digic Focus Peaking which doesn't impact on raw video record time/performance.

3 options currently available: Increased sharpness, Edge and Chroma.

Find it in the display menu.

Plus other minor fixes.

Thanks for the build.  Aperture changes work during recording now.  The new focus peaking is nice, in that it doesn't take a hit to the speed, but it is going to take some getting used to.  Useful for 1920x1080 as it provides a nice bump in edges, but I can run Focus Peaking on 1584x892 with continuous, getting 55-65mb/s.

Thanks again! 

Thx for comment!
Exuse me for OT but what exactly is stupid?

Its my first experience in shooting, so i appreaciate any feedback.

Way to stay positive, but I wouldn't even preemptively appreciate feedback from someone who is going to toss that at you.  Such a shame, it has had such a good vibe on these boards for so long....

Colour looks good, it really fits the mood of the scene (especially in the beginning on the stairs).  I like your timing as well, good cuts timed well with the audio.

(compliment sandwich part) In my opinion, the second half of the video was TOO far from the first half.  I realize it is supposed to be a complete 180 from what is going on in the first half, but at some points I almost forgot about the intro with the car.  So this has nothing to do with your shooting or processing, just editing.  Perhaps halfway through the second half, sprinkle an element of the beginning in there.  As I said, more storyboard/editing than shooting.

Loved the cloud scene when he woke up in the field.  Very 'Breaking Bad' super wide, most of the frame is the sky type of shot. 

Hello everyone.
@dsManning Exp. Overide was on. Can you change it while recording at the same time when 'small hacks' is enabled ?
I'm using Canon 50mm and the Sigma 30mm 1.4

Right you are.  Sorry for the false info, I don't think anyone specified to test WHILE recording.  Does not work here either.  Don't mess with aperture while recording much personally, because it is so clunky on auto lenses, it usually gives me camera shake.  I wonder if the new cine lenses have a problem with this?  Since those are digital, but have a smooth aperture ring.  Was going to buy one of those, but just built a new hackintosh, so money is tight!

EDIT A quick upload of some harsh light/shadow shots from yesterday.  Editing on a new machine is a whole new experience

[[possible bug]]

[possible bug] I had a message from a user on Vimeo who has reported that he can't change aperture when 'small hacks' is enabled for raw video (latest Tragic Lantern build). Can anyone confirm this? Try to change aperture with small hacks enabled and disabled. I only have manual lenses so I can't test it myself.

No problem here either.  Tested on 3 lenses.  Do they have Exp. Overide on?

Thank you for testing. Now we know that the 5Diii has something the 5Dii and 50D does not have that enables RAW video output. All the same results on the 50D. Sudden stop/start of video on tablet as soon as RAW module is toggled. All buttons still work.

Don't think so.  Been looking for a tester for awhile.