Then remove card.įirmware downgrade: Tricky with 1.3.6! User Apollo7 came up with a solution. Safest card handling option: Shutdown camera by power switch. 5D Mark II is notorious for reacting the worst way. ![]() If you don't show some patience you may interrupt card access and mess up card system and - worst case - camera. There are less than 5 (if I got it right) incidents where it couldn't be excluded ML permanently broke the camera.īasic card handling tip: An ML enabled camera will look for a bootable card and access it on occasions like startup, shutdown, wake from powersave and - surprise - after opening card compartment. Did it happen often? No, it almost never happens. ML loads from card, runs along Canon's original firmware and works pretty much like a program/app on a PC or smartphone.īecause of the very nature on dev work - everything is done by reverse engineering without any documentation by Canon - there is an inherent risk of breaking things and breaking them badly. There is a reversible change done to camera by enabling a "boot flag" which will force the camera to check for a bootable card and a file called autoexec.bin on card root. Magic Lantern doesn't replace original firmware. ![]() Downgrading your Canon firmware would be the least of my worries. If you want to store the original MLV and exported DNG, then you need to triple your storage requirement, so 64GB * 3 = 192 GB for 32 minutes of footage, or 6GB/minute. And the export to DNG about doubles that size. 64GB is about good for 32 minutes of MLV. You will also need a ton of hard drive space on your computer. I just record in Full HD (1080p), since it's a stanard size. ![]() You will also need a fast CompactFlash card like the SanDisk Extreme Pro (costs $$$), and about 2200px wide is about as high as it'll record continously (forget about 4K). It'll take some extra time to edit though, as you'd have to export from MLV (RAW video file that Magic Lantern produces) into DNG, then you import that into After Affects, and then into Premiere Pro, render proxies (which you can use as final renders as well), then do your cuts and edits in Premiere Pro, and render everything out. It will also give you Adobe Camera Raw editting controls in post, which you can't get with any other offical "Canon RAW". If you want to significantly improve video quality out of a 5DIII, then Magic Lantern is what you want.
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