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First, I am no tech expert in any form, therefore my apologies in advance if my questions are just too simple or even pointless...

I've read many many threads on thisd topic but still have sooooo many doubts. As for anyone my objectives with MLV post processing are 2, quality and speed.

My workflow now is as follows:

1. Convert .mlv (shot with 5d Mark II) to raw + wav with MLV browser
2. Convert raw to cinema dng with raw2cdng
3. Open image sequence in After Effects, adjusted and coloured with Camera Raw, and create comps straight from those sequences
4. Open PPro and import comps from After Effects through Dynamic Link
5. Edit in PPro and export

Doubts and questions:

1. I am using CDNG instead of directly DNG because I've realised that if I need to render in Premiere for easier editing, CDNG sequences are 2-3x faster (10x length of clip vs 20-25x with DNG). Is this because Premiere natively supports CDNG?
2. Do I lose any quality while importing the AE comps into PPro thru the dynamic link the way I do it?
3. Editing in Premiere without rendering is a bit of a pain, but at 1/4 resolution and with no added effects, I can sort of do very simple stuff (my PC has an 8 core  4770K overclocked at 4.6Mhz + 32Gb RAM and a decent Nvidia Geforce GTX 770). But if I need to do any fancier edit or add any effect, then rendering is required, and it takes what in my opinion is way too long (at least 10x the length of the sequence). Anything I am missing to speed this up? Anything similar to those proxies that I have read that can be created with Resolve (which I have never used)?
4. For coloouring and other adjustments I just use ACR....am I missing some big quality improvement by not trying to use SpeedGrade or Resolve? What improvements over ACR?
5. In summary, am I doing anything right or should I just change all my workflow? Is it real that plug-in I have read in one thread that will allow to natively import and edit and export MLVs into Ppro for $100?

Thanks for your help!!!!

When I use FPS override for 5d Mark II (at low fps, 2 or lower), it does not work properly with MLV video as frame number 2 is repetated every other time during the recording. I've searched in the forums and found two answers: a) do not use 10x zoom (which I do not), b) reinstall ML.

Should I just reinstall? I'm using nightly build from January 14, 2014. Which nightly build is working pretty much stable? Thanks

Still getting used to ML and questions/doubts keep coming...fortunately, the answer is almost always available in this forum... :-)

But one thing I have not found the answer to is the following:

I like to have ETTR always easily available (but not always on or auto snap) and therefore have set ETTR to "press set" (HalfShutter DC is either too "difficult for me" or not very smooth!!!)

However, when in Live View movie mode, set button is also used (at least in the 5D mark II) to start/stop video recording.  Therefore when set is pressed, ETTR does its magic but there is no way to record video.

So I figured that I could use the REC key feature to start/stop video. When I tried that configuration (rec key "ON" and ETTR "Set Button"), and half pressed  the shutter in Live View, instead of starting video, ettr sort of started to launch, then camera sort of freezes for miliseconds, then live view goes off and normal photo mode turns on...

Anything i'm doing wrong? any other way to have ettr "available" (not always on or autosnap) but at the same time being able to record video???

Hi,

I'm pretty new to Magic Lantern but gotta say I really love it. Outstanding work by all developers, and so grateful you decided to do this open source!

I have a 5D Mark II with ML v2.3 and nightly builds from a week ago.

When I try to record raw video,  I just enable the raw video from the raw_rec module and turn it on on the Video tab. No other video feature on. Go to Live View press set and then Canon's H264 launches. If I press set again raw video starts but H264 keeps recording simultaneously. When pressed set once more, raw video stops but h264 still on. Only way to stop H264 is to get out of live view.

I'm pretty sure there is some simple answer to this as I must be doing something wrong. Anyone can help? Thanks

PS: I've seen many threads regarding MLV (gotta recognise have not read them all...sorry). In short: any significant quality difference (advantage to use) vs the raw video from the raw_rec module? thanks again!