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The difference between "nothing is overexposed" vs for example lightsource clipping, or metallic reflection clipping can be about 1-1,5 stops. Dynamic range vs noise, always a good fight.
In low contrast situations like indoor artifical light you can easily overexpose by 2 stops without clipping (if there is no light source in the picture). Even if it's necessary to rise the ISO to get properly exposed image, do it.

Keep in mind, Davinci Resolve (Lite) dont apply any noise reduction to the DNG files. Out of box After Effects (Adobe Camera RAW) can give you cleaner result with 1/10 post processing speed compared to Resolve.

Properly exposed ISO100 can give you clean image.

Most of the time if your camera is set to auto exposure (raw, 5D, professionality, AutoExpo... WHAT?) just set the exposure compensation to +1EV and most of your shots will be fine

RAW is uncompressed, "bitrate" is not a valid value here.
Because it's raw there is no in camera processing such as sharpening or noise reduction.

If you want clean footage you have to expose properly. Turn on zebras, and increase exposure till zebras appears on "important" parts of the picture. Now dial back 1/3 step. Now you exposed properly (which means +1, +1,5 EV exp compensation)

Beautiful landscapes, nice colors, and you matched the gopro very well. I love the long lens shots!

Unfortunately all of the gopro shots are warping. I recommend you to use ND8 filter while flying, it reduces the rolling deformation effect
As i can see post stabilisation softened up the image, plus the shots which has shallow DOF are warping like hell.

However it is a joy to watch, good job!

@Deadcode , Ok I'll go thought my 5D2 Cam Setup
1) CF Card - 1066X Lexar , but any CF card 1000x or better. (FYI 10bit 1044p 30fps needs 68MB/s sustained write speed where as 24p only needs 55MB/s)
2) Canon Menu , Set FPS to 30p and video system to NTSC (because it works for me)
3) Set camera to Manual Mode  "M"
4) Load only modules you need ,  "5D2_212.sym , file_man.mo , raw_rec.mo ,  mlv_play.mo , mlv_snd.mo.
5) Either Load Raw or MLV not both at the same time
6) Frame Over Ride , set to 29.97 Exact.
7) Raw Video Tab , 1856x1044 , 10bit , 16x9 A.R. , Small Hacks - enabled , SRM Job - disabled
*Edit*
Sorry made a mistake , too many test 
8 ) Preview ML B/W with overlays killed when recording
      Should be Canon Preview , Very Sorry

That it , and I used  "magiclanertan-Nightly.2016Oct09.5D2212" 10 & 12 bit experimental build from here  .

I made a video about the process. What am i missing?

https://youtu.be/VI1u8Ouk_r8

@Deadcode , Ok I'll go thought my 5D2 Cam Setup
1) CF Card - 1066X Lexar , but any CF card 1000x or better. (FYI 10bit 1044p 30fps needs 68MB/s sustained write speed where as 24p only needs 55MB/s)
2) Canon Menu , Set FPS to 30p and video system to NTSC (because it works for me)
3) Set camera to Manual Mode  "M"
4) Load only modules you need ,  "5D2_212.sym , file_man.mo , raw_rec.mo ,  mlv_play.mo , mlv_snd.mo.
5) Either Load Raw or MLV not both at the same time
6) Frame Over Ride , set to 29.97 Exact.
7) Raw Video Tab , 1856x1044 , 10bit , 16x9 A.R. , Small Hacks - enabled , SRM Job - disabled
*Edit*
Sorry made a mistake , too many test 
8 ) Preview ML B/W with overlays killed when recording
      Should be Canon Preview , Very Sorry

That it , and I used  "magiclanertan-Nightly.2016Oct09.5D2212" 10 & 12 bit experimental build from here  .

Still not working with these settings. I will make a video around 8pm (GMT+1 ) about it from installing ML till opening the dng's in Davinci, maybe you can spot the wrong settings.

Check my post at top of this page I gave my setting
That only works with 10bit right now . Try that if it dosn't work I can post more details.

I tried exactly what you wrote on that post and still corrupted frames
29,970 exact, 1856x1044 10bit, Ml Grey, Clear when recording, SRM disabled, Small Hacks enabled.
I tried 12 bit setup too for 23,976p, i get the 40pixel corruption + the bottom half of the image is "wobbing".

Any suggestion?

*i used magiclantern-raw_video_10bit_12bit.2016Nov07.5D2212.zip

5D2, Crop mode, 1920x1076 25p 10/12 bit continous. First frame broken, others have strong magenta cast (MLVFS, Davinci)

Any ideas?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9d46mzo8guUQkN1YTRCRnhsdTA/view?usp=sharing

reddeercity: would you please share the proper 5D2 settings for non crop mode? i tried what you posted days ago (10bit 1856x1044, ML Grey, Clear overlay) but it didnt worked, every 2nd frame corrupted

Couple posts above...

https://bitbucket.org/daniel_fort/magic-lantern/downloads

there is raw video 10 12 bit zip, you have 5d3 113 inside the zip...

I cannot find module for 5D Mark 2. That means there is not a proper settings available for 5D2 yet where every 2nd frame is not pink?

I was able to test few lenses with my 5D Mark II on the PhotoExpo2016 in Hungary

I used 1728x972 25p 14bit with a Lexar 64GB 1066x card with GlobalDraw On.

This is a dirty and shaky lens test be prepared to get dizzy

https://youtu.be/j0qjPi1EYGE

20, 24, 35, 45, 50, 70, 85, 135, 200mm lens are used from different manufacturers

35mm F1.8 Tamron is the winner for me, that lens stabilisation is awesome

Hyalinejim wrote it correctly.

If you shoot raw you should shoot ETTR. With RAW histogram you can clearly see where you clip the highlights or any of the color channels. The best case is when you expose to 0,4 EV before clipping, or turn on Zebras and burn out "unnecessary" objects such as light sources for clearer shadows.
That means if you are shooting in P/A/TV mode, you can dial up the exposure about 1EV easily, and about 2 EV (or even more) in regular low contrast conditions.

In post Davinci only gives you proper exposure out of box if you shoot ETTR with the camera.
With ACR (After Effects) exposure is correct if you shoot with 0 EV compensation. It also gives better highlight recovery and cleaner shadows. But it's much slower than Resolve, and you have to sync sound in post, while Davinci do it automatically

Ohh sorry, i did not remember the BMDFilm profile is not free. So that's why i cannot find it anywhere

Here you go:

http://www.filedropper.com/visionlog-for-adobe-camera-raw

Does anyone have BMDFilm ACR profile? Visioncolor page is down for a long time

Please help me!

I tried the dual ISO module above. It worked but once the camera freezed and i couldn't do anything. So i removed the battery. I know it's possibile to cause permanent damage on the camera or CF card, maybe that happened this time.

After restoring the camera to the original firmware, i still get unusable raw files and unusable .mov-s.
Check it out: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bwoum3ZKc_jNR3lLbmV3S1RodUk?usp=sharing

The strange thing is: ML Raw video is not affected! only still picture raw and compressed video. (jpg's are not perfect, but OK)
What can i do? If i have to send the camera to repair what module should be changed?

Thank you for your help!


edit: 5D markII, Lexar 64GB 1066x

You catched lot of emotional shots, which is priceless. As is can see this would be an enormous amount of work in post.
Maybe YOU can tell it if it was worth it to shoot raw instead of compressed Technicolor Cinestyle

Im also courios about your charges, 10 hours of work at the wedding, and weeks in post

Are you using Wipster? It's an awesome tool for receiving feedbacks. (https://wipster.io/)
Several ideas and crticism came in to my mind while i watched your short film and this would be an easy way to share it with you


In short: the use of the lights and the colorgradeing was beautiful, the sound was great, the background music was good. Some of the camera angles was clever. Obviously you have the technical knowledge how to shoot film.
The first time were i was not looking the technical solutions is were the murderer is looking for the owner of the drone, and we are spying on him from behind of the curtain. The tension was building up.

But there were several unnecessary cuts, unnecessary scenes which are not forwarded the story to it's goal. Obviously you didnt have enough space in the house to get most of the camera angles. Also several question was not answered, and several problems were not solved in the storyline.

Summary: great job, we are waiting for more!

Congratulation's Ilia this short film is lovely.
I have read under the video, that you used an SD to CF adapter.
How much recording time did you have in one take (my tip 7-8 sec @ 1728x972), and what resolution did you used while SD card was on duty?

I only found very few sites which tested these adapters, and their conclusion was all of them are UDMA I with 22MB/s speed limit.
What is your experience?

The GH4/G7 (dont forget the new king the GX80/GX85 with awesome 5 axis sensor stabilisation) have nice 4K image in small files sizes, nice codec, easily gradeble really flexible if your final resolution is 1080p
And it has nothing to compare with 5D raw. It's two different worlds.

For run and gun shooting you can bring the Panasonic cameras and you can get nice cinematic image if you grade them right.
If you have planned shooting, 5D raw can give you much more flexibility and more cinematic feeling.
The shallow depth of field makes the difference.

RAW is fun for the first couple of month, then you realise how much time and storage space consuming it can be.
Then you lower your standards ( ) and get a Panny

Maybe someone else noticed earlier in this thread but i get different colors from MLVProducer than MLVRawViewer. I would really use producer but the colors are dull and missing some red's from the image. Yes i tried "calibrated color" tried all of the log profiles, saturation boost, correct exposure, but there is some problem with the colormanagement.

The RawViewer gives me the colors i want but it has less options and its slower

What am i doing wrong?

(5D2 both raw_rec and mlv gives me the same results)

Could anyone try recording a short footage in 1280x720 @ 15 fps --> 30 fps with Twixtor? Im really interested in motion smoothness.