MLV > RAW > DNG For Windows

[MattNoMagnolia]

Hi all

Just experimenting for the first time with shooting RAW video via ML on my Canon 5D III.

Have shot some test footage, in .MLV mode... and I'm now investigating how to convert this so I can import to Premier Pro / Da Vinci Resolve etc.

Essentially, I'm looking for a way of converting my .MLV files into .dng files (presumably via RAW).... I have a couple of tools for this - mlv_dump.exe and RAw2dng.exe, but neither seems to work,

Any suggestions as to the workflow / tools I should be using?

Please bear in mind I'm a photographer / film-maker rather than a computer boffin - I don't speak binary I'm afraid :-/

Thanks in advance...

[g3gg0]

why MLV -> RAW -> DNG and not MLV -> DNG ?

[MattNoMagnolia]

As I say, "Presumably via RAW".... as I'm assuming that is how it would normally be done....

If there's a way of converting MLV directly into dng, then that would obviously be perfect.

[Stedda]

Why not try it?

Then you'll see it sure can be done...

or start reading at the first post.... http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=7122.0

[MattNoMagnolia]

Sorry guys, As I've already said - MLV_DUMP.EXE doesn't appear to be working - Picture attached.

I'm simply trying to find out if there is a *simple* way of converting .mlv files into other formats - preferably .dng but RAW would work too. I'm not a techie, and don't need to read pages of parameter spec - an awful lot of the information in these forums is very technical, and difficult to understand for someone with a non-technical background.

Appreciate your patience.

Thanks

[Stedda]

It's all in the link I posted....   

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-o output_file      set the filename to write into
-v                  verbose output

-- DNG output --
--dng               output frames into separate .dng files. set prefix with -o
--no-cs             no chroma smoothing
--cs2x2             2x2 chroma smoothing
--cs3x3             3x3 chroma smoothing
--cs5x5             5x5 chroma smoothing

-- RAW output --
-r                  output into a legacy raw file for e.g. raw2dng

-- MLV output --
-b bits             convert image data to given bit depth per channel (1-16)
-z bits             zero the lowest bits, so we have only specified number of bits containing data (1-16) (improves compression rate)
-f frames           stop after that number of frames
-x                  build xref file (indexing)
-m                  write only metadata, no audio or video frames
-n                  write no metadata, only audio and video frames
-a                  average all frames in <inputfile> and output a single-frame MLV from it
-s mlv_file         subtract the reference frame in given file from every single frame during processing
-e                  delta-encode frames to improve compression, but lose random access capabilities
-c                  (re-)compress video and audio frames using LZMA (set bpp to 16 to improve compression rate)
-d                  decompress compressed video and audio frames using LZMA
-l level            set compression level from 0=fastest to 9=best compression



[tonybeccar]

I built a program: http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=10198.new#new