For anyone wondering about the white rectangle and constant bitrate, these features are all enabled in the later release I posted with EttR and Crop in it, http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5582.msg40875#msg40875 I see the Raw rectangle as I record Raw, if this is the rectangle you mean, maybe you need to clear your ML config file, it is loaded and works. Let me know if this is the one your talking about.
I think a little bit of misunderstanding here between the three of us. :-)
The white rectangle in raw record is the feature in question, but when testing what to switch on and off during recording to get a continuous 960x408 I found 'Clear Overlays' when recording solved drop outs, so I'd use focus peaking, zebras, white rectangle and raw histogram to compose and expose then when hitting record overlays were cleared, but of coarse this removed the white rectangle. :-(
So to be able to switch off focus peaking, zebras and histogram when hitting record but leave white rectangle on might hopefully still prevent drop outs but give a framing target, currently I just drew a rectangle on a clear LCD protector with an indelible ink pen :-)
I also get 960x408 at 24fps regardless if I turn global draw and any other feature off, so you should be able to keep everything on that is enabled for the release. Hack mode does seem to stop the skipping with 960x408, it always skips after 72 frames 1st try but the 2nd and next tries till I reboot cam all are no skip. I use 45 MB/s sandisk extreme and yes, only get max 20-21 mb/s cause that is as fast as the cameras controller will record no matter how fast your card is.
I tried leaving overlays on and got dropped frames with a 95MB/s card (21.5MB/s controller max)
Regarding setting raw resolution in the menu it would be really good to set a default to 960x408 but it doesn't save in config, so every shot when turning cam back on we have to switch the resolution back from 1754x??? whatever it is, even though the 550D just isn't capable of that resolution anyway.
Obviously I'm not complaining, this is alpha experimental and I'm very grateful to you for the builds, we all are but would be great to smooth out some of the fiddling in camera.
On a positive, I too looking forward to trying out the tracking (panning) feature. :-)
I added to the confusion in an earlier post about photo mode vs video mode, CFP put me straight, bottom line no point using photo mode unless on a 5D MKIII.
http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=5494.375It doesn't make any difference in picture quality and it should make no difference in performance. But in photo mode you can't set ISO, aperture and shutter speed manually. Sure, you can change the numbers but the actual aperture doesn't move if you change the number on the display.
So: For manual exposure control, record in Movie Mode.