For some time I thought I had gotten a couple of bad Komputebay cards, but I sat around fiddling with the settings.
Now... I'm only writing this, because even though I thought I had understood what settings were best to use, I apparently didn't and I kinda only found out how it worked by chance.
So, start off by going to your Canon settings.
Go to the yellow wrench symbol, first section.
There you choose "Record func+card/folder sel."
Then choose "Record func."
Choose "Standard"
Then select "Record/play"
Choose "1"
Now go back to the red camera symbol first section
Select "Image quality"
For "Raw" choose SRAW (you can also choose the line symbol to the left... but I don't see a bandwidth increase.)
For "JPEG" choose the line symbol furthest to the left.
The reason I wasn't getting enough bandwidth out of my cards was because I had not chosen to record "standard"... I had both cards set to S3.
With this selection I'm getting a steady 94mb/s with both my cards, enabling me to shoot 1920:1080 contiously without dropping frames. I even have a steady 7% idling at the same time. (No global draw on...)
With global draw on in liveview, including small waveform, focus peak and crop marks, I'm getting continous 1920:1080 after 14 secs with no dropped frames. 86mb/s
Before you behead me for stupidity... please understand that I had misunderstood the proper settings for doing raw, and I have a suspicion that other people have as well since I'm seeing reports of people not getitng proper bandwidth from their cards.
So if you can't seem to get that full HD working, check your settings against the above and try again.
This test was carried out with the june 28th build, cards used were two 64gb Komputerbay 1000x CF cards formatted with Disk Utility to exFat and a 16gb Sandisk Class 10 SD card in the sd bay. (the latter containing ML)
FOR POST WORKFLOW on MAC.....
The latest RawMagic works like a charm in my opinion. Dropped my raw files into it and got out the DNGs.
If you download DaVinci Resolve Lite 9 from Black Magic website, it will see and edit those DNGs without a problem, allowing you to do pregrade before exporting the files to what ever format you wish (that is not so heavy in file size.)
From what I understand this is not too far from the workflow of the BMC?
Anyways... if you can deal with some transcoding time, then the workflow isn't too hard anymore in my opinion.
A test clip I made (19 seconds short), took around twice that to spit out to ProResHQ after doing some simple curves.
Also, you can download the Ginger HDR plugin for both Premiere and AE and that will allow you to work NATIVELY on the Canon raw files. Be warned though... they are tough to crunch through.
So a big huge thanks... again... to the ML team. The 5D really is fun now
