Capturing at higher-than-stock bit rates and colour spaces...

[Dave Draper]

Apologies if this is in the wrong section, but is there a way to capture footage at higher-than-stock bit rates and colour spaces with Magic Lantern on the 5D Mark III, or is it RAW or nothing?

For example, if I wanted to capture footage at 100Mbps / 4:2:2, is this possible? And if so, would someone let me know how I could achieve this?

[Frank7D]

Are you talking about some kind of compressed format?
The stock video is H.264 which is 4:2:0. AFAIK, that color sampling can't be changed.
RAW (available through magic lantern) has no color sampling. It's just all the sensor data.

[Dave Draper]

In retrospect, I guess that would require converting to a different codec, which, of course, isn't something Magic Lantern does at this time.

How about capturing footage at a higher bit rate, but with h.264?

I remember running a version of ML on my 5D2 -- way back when -- which allowed you to capture footage at a multiplied amount of the stock bit rate.

Is this feature still available?

I love the RAW capabilities of ML, but need something more managable at this time.