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You can go the "Help" tab in the ML menu, and there should be lines at the bottom that will give you build information.

I don't have ML installed at the moment. On TL the Headers are: Expo; Overlay; Movie; Shoot; Focus; Display; Prefs; Modules; Debug; Modified.

I don't see any help which shows the TL version.

I assumed there would be a way to write/print all the current camera setting to a log file for transfer to a computer. If it's not available at the moment would it be easy to introduce? It might save some time when people are looking for help on the forums. Maybe it's worth adding? I was going backwards and forwards between the two cards and I thought I'd like a paper print out and I could do a "spot the difference" and find the setting which was causing the problem.

I have a TV box which has native and extra firmware a bit like the ML canon cameras. They have software which can produce a readout of all the settings and it's very useful. http://forum.toppy.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17888&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

This was driving me crazy last week. I still don't think I'm fully on top of it. I have two cards. I think I have the same version of Tragic Lantern on both - the most up-to-date version. On the Komputerbay 1000x 32GB card I couldn't get the exposure to work properly until I set Expo>Expo. Override to: ON. Then I can change the shutter and it displays in a different colour with Global Draw on.
The other card a Kingston 266x 16GB seemed to behave differently. I'm sure there will be an easy way to get each card to print out all the settings so I can compare them but it wasn't obvious to me.
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9852.0 The Kingston card seems to let me adjust the exposure differently. What's the best way to check which version is on the camera? It seems like a Noob question. On the canon menu the Firmware is "Firmware Ver. 1.0.9-ml-Tragic.An" which doesn't tell me.

I think my Komputerbay card has some setting with automatic exposure active but I can't track it down. It's not ETTR module which is off. Is it the same kind of problem you were experiencing?

ADJ can you tell me what you use for video editing.

Thanks for taking the time to post your replies.

What I have been using for SD or HD has been very basic editing with Avisynth, Virtualdub, and sometimes Cuttermarran before encoding for DVD or AVCHD. I haven't needed to pay for a fancy NLE application since I don't do editing on a daily or a weekly basis.

For ML video I'd like to get something free but which can do the job if that's possible. Because of the learning curve with new software I'd prefer to find one I like and stick to it. I downloaded Lightworks and ivsEdits LE last week and had a look at some video tutorials.  As with the dng processing I'm finding it hard to find a solution with good tutorial support that isn't payware. Lightworks naturally seems to have the most support. ivsEdits looked good too but they've only added a Tiff importer recently (via Targa) and I haven't seen anyone on here mentioning it. Ideally I'd like a workflow which works on freeware so I can spend any money on cameras, lenses or computer hardware. I was on holiday last week but now I have less time to read. As always I appreciate the help people give on here which can save hours of trying to figure stuff out by myself. Have you used a lot of different editors yourself or do you stick to one in particular?

http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=184 lightworks
http://www.ivsedits.com/default/compare.aspx ivsEdits

Perhaps I should mention my PC is W7 x64 8GB Ram about 4.3GHz OC in case that makes a difference.

[RAW Therapee]

Sorry ADJ, I missed your post first time around - here's a link to the RAW Therapee documentation page:

http://rawtherapee.com/blog/documentation

I'm making some notes from the manual and then I'll install it and find out what it's like. The website also has a forum which should be able to answer any specific questions you might have. I'd like to know how well it handles batch processing large numbers of images (for video).

Hi True Indigo

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I saw the documentation before your post. I searched for "sequence" and "dng" in their 105 page document but it didn't return anything useful. I've just looked again and realise "batch" and "command" would have been a better searches.  I thought I'd be more likely to get a sensible answer on here rather than on their forums since everyone shooting raw video is doing much the same thing albeit with different software. I didn't think many people shooting stills would be trying to do what we're doing. Anyway for the record their documentation is better than I first thought so I'll have a read at p91 on batch processing and p95 on the command line. I think I read somewhere that the batch operations are more stable.

Anyway I'm not in a rush. I have dng files but won't do anything serious until my adapters arrive. I'm going to take a leaf out of goldenchild9to5's book and use some old pentax prime lenses I have which are much faster than my canon zooms. One's an M42 and the other is a PK mount.  I took my first real pictures on a pentax s1a many years ago and that didn't even have a light meter of any kind on it. I had to use and old Weston handheld meter. I never thought I'd be using the lenses again but I found them in an old kit bag the other day while I was looking for something else.

One of the great benefits of raw footage is in the post-production; I am currently using ACR but my next area of exploration will be trying Raw Therapee as an alternative.

I just got my D50 last week and am trying to catch up with all the new stuff. I tried to find some tutorials on Raw Therapee, either on the command line or otherwise but couldn't find much. I rarely buy software for anything but I'm sensing that many people on these forums has spent a fair bit of money on something from Adobe. The only other free alternative I've heard of is UFRaw but again finding good tutorials is something that's eluding me. Please let us know if you find anything useful.