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Thanks Danne, i was writting the reply while you posted yours. will try it your suggestion, if i want to record 16:9 on 2.5k mode i need to select 16:9 on movie tab and what in the raw sub video menu? 16:9 as well?

If the maximal size is limited, crop the width.

Hi Masc, thanks for your suggestion, it would crop a lot. In the movie tab on ratio i left it at off and in the raw video submenu i selected 16:9 that resulted in 2520x1080 (2.35 aspect ratio), if i select 2.35 the end resolution is the same, but if i select 16:9 ratio in movie tab and 16:9 on raw video sub menu it will record in 1920x1080 but with a width crop (what you were suggesting), i was hoping i would get a wider field of view like the 2580x1080 FOV... its a crop of a zoomed crop. Will play with these settings and see what i can do. Thanks to everyone keeping Magic Lantern alive.

Hi everyone!
Is there a way to record in 16:9 aspect ratio when using the 2.5k mode, i selected 16:9 and my recordings had a 2.35 aspect ratio (2520x1080).

Thanks

Hi everyone! just trying out my "new" canon 15-45mm ef-m lens, stabilization on the lens helped a lot when using the 2.5k mode (2520x1080), Preset: Tonemaped, Tonemaping: None, Processing gamut: Rec709, sharpness 80 and small changes (highlights..shadows etc), exported to prores 422hq, edited in premiere (no color grading), exported to 4k (3840x1634), video quality could be tweaked further (noise reduction, color) but here it is... video recorded in northern (countryside) Portugal.

Hi again, just figured out what was wrong with the colours...i recorded the videos on a sunny day and used 5600k as whitebalance but i was getting the wrong colour/cast in mlvapp, converting to cdng was giving better results but something was off, after so many tests i decided to play with the WB value in mlvapp and after some tests i found out that using 5600k was the problem, the colours were back to normal if i use 4600k, dont know what happened since i read here and on other forums that 5600k is good for sunny days.

Thanks everyone.

Hi Masc, thanks for your help, Resolve/Premiere/hitfilm/kdenlive/shotcut are not complicated if you only use them to "lightly" edit the footage, for example: cut, stabilize,add title and small color edit, Resolve has indeed a lot of options in the color grading area but apart from that it looks and is used like any other regular NLE.

Will try your suggestions, thanks.

Hi everyone, one of my main dificulties/weaknesses with magic lanterm is color grading the raw videos, mlvapp has received lots of attention in the color grading "section" but for some like me there's to many options, i know its sacrilege to say "to many options", i find that when i export mlv to cdnglossless or use mlvfs and import the dng sequences in Resolve and Premiere they have a more pleasing color to me, i find it easier to finish the colorgrading from that starting point, the problem is that editing cdng sequences brings my pc to a halt, i dont have any problems editing prores...my question is...is there a way to export to prores "using the color profiles" that are used when converting to cdng?

Thanks

Hi Danne, thanks for the advice, the Samyang 12mm is too expensive here in Europe between 250 and 300 euros new and 2nd hand, the 7artisans is 150 new, the 15-45mm is between 70 and 130 euros 2nd hand, at the moment with the pandemic and lay-offs my budget can only go up to 150 maximum.

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Hi everyone!

I need some advice on some wide lens for my eos-m, i wanted to try the 2.5k mode but a wide lens is needed since it crops the image, i have 2 lens in mind, the CANON EF-M 15-45mm with IS and the 7artisans 12mm EF-M, Zeek has said good things about the 7artisans lens in his videos but i managed to find teh CANON EF-M 15-45mm with image stabilization in 2nd hand for half the price, from what i see online the 7artisans has a sharper image but no stabilization, the 15-45mm has IS although not as smooth as OIS. Whenever i try to use 2.5k mode (even in 1080prewire) i see a lot of micro jitters that warp stabilizer most of times cant handle, it kind of stabilizes it but looks like the video has been split into layers and those some layers kind of move while other parts dont...its hard to explay but those micro jitters are a pain and prevent me to use the EOS-M more often as i get frustrated.

On one hand the 7 artisans looks good but no IS and the 15-45 has IS but the sharpness/image quality is not as good at the 7artisans.

Can anyone give me some advice? Does anyone have the 15-45 efm lens and can comment on its quality?
Thanks.

i exported both to 1080 @50Mbps and 4k @100Mbps

the one i uploaded is the 1080p version, here's the 4k upscaled version:

some years ago when google bought on2 and developed vp8/vp9 i made some extensive tests but at the time vp8/vp9 where cpu intensive when playing, as far as i can see the youtube vp9 versions use half the video bitrate while maintaining the same quality as the h264 versions.

Hi everyone, can't remember the settings i used, it was converted to prores with mlvapp and used premiere pro to color correct the clips.

The website will be updated to list the EOS-M battery grip

https://www.custombatterygrips.com/

you're right so much writting variations with lower/uppercase "b", i completely forgot about that, i just saved 40 euros, the DJI Osmo records @100mbps (12.5MBps), i have a 95MBps 64GB on the Osmo when it only needs a 12.5MBps card, from now on that one goes to the EOS-M.

Thanks Walter.

I might have left out a SMALL detail, i have a DJI Osmo Pocket and it records video @100MB/s thats why i was looking for the extreme pro model since it supports those speeds, if i ever stop using the EOS-M i can use the card on the Osmo Pocket.

Thanks for all the advices, will wait for those results when you test uhs2 on uhs1 device.

hi, amazon DE is 33 euros but out of stock, free delivery not available for other countries plus delivery charges, over here for 40 euros and next day delivery is a good deal, thanks Walter i guess it must be an error on the website.

Thanks yokashin, i was looking for a shop in my country, i just called the shop but i seems they're as confused as i was, got to look elsewhere.
Once again thanks.

just read your (edited) answer, this is the card:
https://www.nanochip.pt/pt-pt/produto/sandisk-micro-sdxc-card-extreme-pro-uhs-ii-128gb-sansdsqxcy128ggn6m

when i search for partnumber "SDSQXCY-128G-GN6MA" i only get UHS 1 results, maybe its a typo or wrong image on website.

Sorry Walter but when reading your answers i got confused, thats why i asked, you say performance of uhs2 card is slower than uhs1 on a uhs1 interface but you finalize your sentence with saying the EOS-M doesnt have UHS2 interface...language barrier for me  i guess, i just wanted to know if this uhs2 card will handle the all the high resolution recording modes on the EOS-M or will the write speed drop below 50MB/s because of the uhs1 interface?
Thanks

Cards with faster designation (150, 170 MB/s) are a tad slower and UHS-II cards have to work in UHS-I mode when used in EOS M.

from another thread:

Performance of those 300 MB/s cards (UHS-II interface) is inferior to 95 MB/s cards (UHS-I). When used in cams with UHS-I interface ... and your M doesn't have UHS-II.

Hi Walter, found a good deal on a 128gb uhs-II sandisk extreme pro sdcard, will it work with the EOS-M or do i need to get a UHS-1?
Thanks for any info

Hi everyone, i know i'm going to get "crucified" by asking this but here it goes... i got on the magic lantern bandwagon recently but i have yet to understand something that might be simple to understand to older people here in the community, in video mode i find the ratio option and when selecting the submenu raw video there's also aspect ratio option.

Why similar options in different menus? if i select 16:9 in movie tab what should i choose in the raw video submenu? i normally select 16:9 on both.

@ Danne, IDA_ML, Kharak...thanks for the tips and info, i've tried to create some timelapses in the raw video mode using the intervalometer but all i get is continuous video, ive tried different settings using the 5k flv preset but no luck... the intervalometer in movie tab its confusing with so many options (to me at least), there's also a timelapse mode under raw video, does this work together with the intervalometer in movie tab? i only want to take a pic every 3 seconds...but i dont find any reference to that option,,,only fps. at the moment the intervalometer in the photo tab is the one that works perfectly.

Stunning! Your village looks like an amazing place to live! Great time lapse. Did you have to worry about your camera possibly overheating being out there in the sun like that?

thanks, i didnt have any overheating problem, it was sunny but cold, yes, its a great village in the countryside, unfortunally a wildfire in 2017 burnt almost every tree behind that hill in the midle of the timelapse, here's a low quality pic from 2017 full of trees.

I am of the opposite opinion.  Post processing MLV files in MLVApp gives me better results than processing CR2 files in ACR.  In fact, over the last few months, I have been processing my stills CR2 files entirely with MLVApp after converting them to MLV using the RAW2MLV.exe module.  The latest MLVApp version offers this functionality too.

I'll give it a few more tries, when i tried it it didnt have the quality i thought it would have, i tried it for a few days right after Danne implemented it, i might be wrong or done something wrong but the field of view using the magic lantern intervalometer is bigger compared to the 4k inbuilt timelapse movie mode, i like to do a subtle zoom effect on timelapses and having a wider view helps.

By the way, what do you need stabilization and denoising for?  You film your timelapses on a tripod anyway.  The one that you showed was filmed on a bright sunny day too.  So, you had plenty of light - no denoising was necessary.

that day i wasnt using a tripod, the camera was on an improvised tripod and the wind shook the camera a couple times, about the denoising...when converting to 1080p from 5184x3456 i didnt notice it but when converting to 3480x2160 i did see some grain/noise in the clouds.

Easiest and fastest way:
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The next time you film a timelapse using ML, pack it into a MLV file.  Both, the video mode and the silent FRSP mode provide this option.  Then just open the MLV file in MLVApp, do all your corrections there in the same way as you would color correct a photo with ACR and then just export your timelapse video in whatever format, size and fps you like.  A MLV file containing 1200 full size frames should take no more than 30 minutes to export even on a fairly weak laptop. 

Faster doesnt mean its better, i was doing stabilization /denoising/zoom, that is why it was taking so long,  if none of that was required it would be a lot faster aswell, in my opinion i have a lot more freedom when color grading cr2 than mlv, no contest there (in my opinion).

There is an even faster way:
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Install MLVFS on your computer.  This will allow you to mount your MLV file as a DNG sequence which you can open with Resolve directly.  Do your corrections and grading with the Camera RAW module of Resolve and export in whatever resolution you like.  Rendering speed at UHD (3840x2160) is about 4 frames/s (Quicktime, MPEG container) on my laptop, so it will take about 5 minutes to export your 1200 frames file.  If you make some very complex processing (noise reduction, stabilization, etc.), it will of course take longer but basic corrected files really render very fast.

i'll edit what i wrote in the first post. i was denoising/stabilizing as well.

Resolve can't handle CR2, you need to use Adobe DNG converter. CR2 to DNG

Resolve 16 free version that i have does support CR2.

...Then you have a real-time playback of your Timelapse.

dont need it, i just wait a 1s or 2 so that resolve updates the image.