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Upload a new build that fixes ETTR, ISO and Exposure Override issues that I was experiencing with manual lenses (thanks a1ex ):

https://bitbucket.org/andy600/andy50d/downloads/Andy600ML_June18th_50D.109.a43e030494e4_fix_UNIFIED.zip

This works and is up to date

Awesome sauce. Just tested this build and the two crucial functions that I needed are now added. Having the SET button to record, just the same was as it would for h264 video, and now finally it saves the RAW enabled function without my having to turn it on every time the camera goes to sleep or gets shut off.

As it states in the known issues in original post (easy to miss, I understand): Does not work with spaces in the file names. I think this is your problem.

Ooooohh, I see. GOTCHA, and thanks, man. Pardon my ignorance on that O_o

I'm getting the same error as everyone else beforehand.

13:54:30 Start converting tiff from Cntrl Park North.001.dng
13:57:32 Finished
13:57:32 Start creating proxy from Cntrl Park North.001.dng
13:57:32 Failed:
ffmpeg version N-35966-g1d0ae92, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Dec 19 2011 13:01:15 with gcc 4.6.2
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-frei0r --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
  libavutil    51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
  libavcodec   53. 46. 1 / 53. 46. 1
  libavformat  53. 27. 0 / 53. 27. 0
  libavdevice  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
  libavfilter   2. 53. 0 /  2. 53. 0
  libswscale    2.  1. 0 /  2.  1. 0
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
R:\Central Park North 110st\Cntrl Park North.001.dng\proxytiff\Cntrl Park North.001-%06d.tiff: No such file or directory

13:57:32 All items Finished


What's happening here? How do I prevent this?

@ kahl
In my opinion your workflow is something like the basic "telecine" concept from commercials
Colorisation was done BEFORE editing...
For the  new generation of "digital cinematographers"  this concept "telecine" is maybe stupid but is used even today
However, 99 percentage of our work is in 8 bit teritory
The raw files from Canon DSRL raw are like kodak or Fuji frames in my analogy
If I'm wrong please correct me...

This is true. I could've used the the proxy round trip method from PPRO to AE, but it's much too tedious and over complicated to me. I find doing it this way is much simpler and straight forward for the most part and if I'm REALLY concerned w/ the bits rather than what I can see (using the JPEG workflow, for example), I can always render my DNGs to DNxHD RGB and then back out to DPX for color.

[FEATURE_LV_FOCUS_BOX_SNAP_TO_X5_RAW //compiles but not tested]

ml-2013Jun16.50D.109.go.unified.15694a53cfa3

In movie mode ETTR is not working correctly if Exposure Override is enabled. ISO is locked at 3200eq (Auto ETTR works OK in photo mode but raw must be selected)

re: raw_rec 'quick 'n' dirty' hack - Preview is fixed but now records pink frames (previously I had no pink frames)

1% has reported 'force left' (in raw_rec) is broken

I compiled a build to test this: In platform/50D.109/features.h I enabled 'FEATURE_LV_FOCUS_BOX_SNAP_TO_X5_RAW //compiles but not tested' It works OK on the 50d. Press joystick when in 5x zoom to correctly center the crop (no more off-center 1:1 shots 

I'm not sure how to push my commits to Bitbucket 

Seeing same ISO issues as well. It's locked at a high ISO regardless of how I change it.

Thanks for the workflow! The pic's look very good. Wend can we see the final work?

I have some questions,
-why export in DPX Log?
-what is this espcific Lut base?

Hope to see the final output. Good work =D

I normally export in DPX for color work because of the color density the frames provide. Even if doing this from a lower quality source (such as DSLR h.264 footage), it produces higher flexibility similar to that of RAW.

The oddity right now is that LR's JPEGs appear to be giving me similar density and flexibility as the .DNGs sources when coloring. RAW does however provide the absolute BEST source negative out-of-camera and unlike JPEG or DPX, none of the information is baked in (which is why you can recover highlight information). I may just be exporting in DPX out of habit at this point, but in DPX LOG, it allows me to utilize a proper LUT before color grading.

For a LUT base, I use a few that I've created in Resolve or a Kodak one.

So you are exporting to JPEG first? Surely you are losing all that nice color information 

You would think I would be, but from my tests in AE using 32bit channels, there is virtually zero difference.
Before I settled on JPEGs as a workable file, I tested the DNG files, TIFFs and JPEGs on the same timeline in AE  to see the color differences. I didn't notice any discernible difference  between the three whatsoever. Of course the TIFF and JPEG files become baked-in, so it's the DNG's flexibility that is a main advantage. Beyond that point, there were virtually similar. Though I'm sure there are some differences that I don't see so far.

Is it possible that Lightroom's JPG settings are of a higher quality? I'm going purely off of what my eye sees at this point, of course.

I know we've all gotten used to it by now but, I'm madly in love w/ the 50D's new-found digital cinema capabilities thanks to you guys here.
I alternately swap between RAWanizer DNxHD export and Lightroom export depending on how much latitude I want. Here's one workflow I've used for the commercial spot we're shooting:

1. DNG to Lightroom (specifically to save latitude)
2. export upscale to 1920px horizontally at 100% JPEG quality
3. edit in Premiere CS6 (JPG frame sequence)
4. export as DPX LOG frame
5. color in AE CS6 (combination of adding a specific LUT base, then grading in curves, sharpening and adding 35mm grain scan)

Sooooo I accidentally deleted the DNxHD option and now I cannot get it back. Is there any way of retrieving it (ver 0.5.4)? :-(

I bought a pack of 2x2000mAh batteries for my 50D they costed around ~15$ They last about 2.5h of CONSTANT recording and about 8h for photography work. Even after 6 months they haven't lost any of their "power" so to speak.
So you could get about 6 of those packs for the same amount of money you would spend on the external battery pack.

Could you refer us to a few models? I'm really interested in this and could definitely use the hardware upgrade ;-)

FROM BUILD 6/8/2013

So I went ahead to do a full shoot for a commercial spot using the 50D and came back with a few notes. Some of which I'm sure you guys are aware of already, but these are notes that came up under a pressured shoot situation.

1.   I definitely need a larger card. I originally purchased a 32GB card for testing, but it's obvious that test-shooting and real-shooting are very different. I tend to use longer record times when filming for real and also swapped between 24fps and 30fps (via fps override) to gain a few more frames for slow motion in post. I'd say that the card reached 1GB of space in about 15min, give or take.
2.   The storage indicator doesn't update after footage has been captured. It will continue to say that I have 29.7GBs left on the card, even after several minutes of filming. It wasn't until I changed batteries or turned it off that the indicator updated, informing me that I had run out of space at a really bad time.
3.   50D eats batteries like nobody's business. Seriously, I may have to purchase at least 10 of these puppies.

Seriously love the work you guys are putting into this! Gonna be shooting at a gym in LI this evening, so I'll upload a couple of clips once it's all wrapped (using the June 8th build).

Using the latest unified build from today myself. Very stable, even when filming the full 1:1 frame of the sensor. I'll definitely be using this feature for plate shooting now for a 2.35:1 re-frame

So I seem to have created a proper CC cocktail that works [for now] for a DNxHD transcode. I'm sure I'll change it more as time goes by, but so far this matches my custom settings in ACR.

6/6/2013
-b 1.0 -o 1 -H 9 -6 -g 2.2 20.0

Is it also possible to have proxy jpeg alongside the option for proxy tiffs?

There are a few issues though.

I always tend to adjust the highlights, whites and color correct from Adobe Camera Raw before I want to create a usable video file. I started messing with the custom DNG option, which doesn't use the parameters from ACR, but instead it's own UI. However, the UI is extremely confusing. I would adjust the highlight recovery option and sometimes the highlights would dip down and other times the entire gamma of the image is affected. You cannot adjust the blacks specifically, only the gamma and then sometimes the slider (to the right) increases the exposure and other times (to the left) it decreases. Then other times, it does the opposite effect.

It's very confusing overall. Is there a way to use ONLY the ACR settings (which I setup in Bridge) and not the custom DNG "Build" UI settings? It's incredibly imprecise and I won't be able to use the DNG files the way they're meant to be (unless we're just doing this to batch convert solely).

This is an INCREDIBLY useful software! Loving it so far and doing a test with today's footage

My latest test, guys.
This shows off the latest 50D build with the raw, untouched images and fully graded images. Also a small comparison between Canon h.264 video and RAW image frames.

BTW, I'm in to donate as well!

Not using ACR, but Raw Photo Processor seems to have done a decent job with it.

Green'ish blacks looks much like Kodak Portra film with that frame.

Back from my test shoot with yesterday's build on the 50D w/ some great results. I'll show some updated images in a few after processing the .RAW files shortly It's turning out better and better!

Set the camera to "Manual (M)" mode and set "Exposure Overwrite" to ON in ML menus.

D'oh!
Well'p that helped. Thanks man

I have a question regarding the h264 VIDEO of the 50D (not raw frames). In the Canon menu, I have "Exposure Simulation" clicked to "on" to eliminate the auto-exposure in Live View. However when I try to record the video, it automatically jumps BACK to auto exposure, which immediately ceases once I stop recording. I'm sure it's because I'm late to the 50D party but, how can I fix this issue?

Gorgeous progress on the 50D.
I'm getting continuous 1592x840 filming at 24fps, for a clean 1920 horiz px upscale. Needless to say, send me over the latest builds when they're all set :-D

Untouched.


Graded and Textured.

have merged a set of edits to enable 50D to record raw video with today's commits 7183:8ba641e4a5ef
hoping to get more stability than i experienced with the build in Post#2 of this thread.
with that autoexec.bin and modules, i can hit 4GB limit, but have frequent crashes.

with the latest code, there are now many more resolution options combined with aspect ratio selection.

in tests with the latest unified code, i can get hundreds of frames at the 1592x896 (57 MB/s) on komputerbay 64G card

adjusting resolution down to less than 50 MB/s , 40 or even 30 and i'm still not hitting the 4GB limit -
seems to stop a little past 1400 frames the tests i've made and ML crashes the resulting files yield Error: This ain't a lv_rec RAW file

stopping recording before 1400 frames works at the moment and the raw files can be processed.

fun to be able to edit and install software on your camera.

in terms of code modifications, in modules/raw_rec/raw_rec.c 
don't know the coding convention in magic lantern to handle the case of the 50D, where there is no audio, in module code - so just deleted the if (sound_rec == 1) sections since i was getting an undefined symbol on  WAV_StartRecord

How can we go about grabbing this?

I'm madly in love with VisionColor, Tech and Log, but it doesn't have an affect on RAW the way I would want. However if I'm recording video, I ONLY use their picture styles.

I just picked up a 50D from Adorama an hour ago and installing ML on it now as we speak. We'll see how the "upgrade" works out

That makes sense. So the picture profile is only for LiveView and has no impact on the RAW frames..

Makes sense then

Someone also mentioned being able to shoot in 1120x468 resolution, though I'm not seeing this on the 60D. Is this possible here, or is it a product of the 600D and 550D?