Can somebody explain the crop recording to me?

[Kyle Kearns]

I'm very familiar with the old way of raw recording, but the new crop rec on steroids is like trying to understand rocket science to me.


I have firmware 1.2.3 installed (because I read that is what you need to do HDMI out with live preview) I'm using the experiment build feb55d123.


I'm trying to record 1080 60fps.

I set the crop mode to "1920 50/60 3x3"

I hit the 5x button and record for 8 seconds. I'm only getting 240 frames instead of 480.


I also have tried the other  higher resolutions and could get that to record the proper frame size, but my preview is nothing like what is actually being recorded. Certain settings is just a pink noise screen. I even get the noise screen with my  monitor plugged in. I thought an external monitor was supposed to solve that problem?


Any help is appreciated! I had no idea how complicated this would actually be.