When I have time, I've been shooting my own tests to get more experience of using the raw hack (though nothing worth posting here yet), and I've just got back on top of the posts to learn as much as I can! I was on an old version for a while but currently using GregoryOfManhattan's 27 June Unified build. It's great to have your settings still there when you turn it back on again! Things just keep getting better. There's no other word for it, for the first time in ages I feel excited shooting raw 2.39:1 with the 50D. It's like filming with a compact little Eyemo 35mm camera, though that camera's internal 100 ft reel of stock lasted just over a minute (at 24 fps), and the clock winding gave you just 20 seconds per take, so I feel quite spoilt even using a fairly modest 64 GB CF card. What more are we waiting for these days?
Got a replica battery grip today, which has overcome the problem of battery drain that I was experiencing with raw shooting on the 50D.
Briefly tested the joys of focus peaking, but when I started to use it for a longer test later, I found my takes were being aborted early. Yes, the constant real time focus peaking was pushing the resources too far; I turned it off and my usual performance was back again. I can always use the usual Canon magnifying buttons to focus before I record.
Moire can sometimes be prominent, though when I shot a test side-by-side with my 60D shooting H.264 video, I can see the particular areas of moire are very similar with both cameras, it's just softer with the 60D -- well, the whole H.264 video image is a bit softer than raw, even when raw processing sharpness is turned down.
One of the great benefits of raw footage is in the post-production; I am currently using ACR but my next area of exploration will be trying Raw Therapy as an alternative.
I always have the live raw histogram on (there is no performance hit) to estimate exposure, but what do the coloured dots actually mean, sometimes with numbers forming inside them?
Many thanks for the big effort of the coders and the support of the frequent forum contributors on here. Very inspirational.