Magic Lantern enables 14-bit RAW CinemaDNG on 5D

Rolling shutter test for 5D2 in Raw video vs h264

Rolling shutter test for 5D2 in Raw video vs h264

For those curious to know about the rolling shutter "bendy thingy" in raw dng mode, I made this test with 2 cameras camparing raw video vs h264.

Since I only have one 5D2 and a 7D, I shot them first both at H264 to create a baseline behavior.
If both have similar behavior in h264, then I can use the 7D to do a side by side with the 5D recording raw while the 7D at h264.

You can draw your own conclusions. :)

 
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All, someone else did a rolling shutter test like this a while back (think it was for a GH2/GHh3 test) and I mentioned that mounting a camera on a hot shoe and then whipping it around was bound to add extra movement for the top camera. He was irritated with me at first but did reverse the cameras, and indeed, the top camera always had the worst rolling shutter. The hot shoe is just not solid enough a mount for this application.
 
Cosimo Bullo said:
All, someone else did a rolling shutter test like this a while back (think it was for a GH2/GHh3 test) and I mentioned that mounting a camera on a hot shoe and then whipping it around was bound to add extra movement for the top camera. He was irritated with me at first but did reverse the cameras, and indeed, the top camera always had the worst rolling shutter. The hot shoe is just not solid enough a mount for this application.
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The result I was after is not to see which camera was better but rather to have a basis to see if RS was any worse for just one camera (the 5D) between two formats, Raw DNG and H264.

The result I got for the first test, which was H264 on both, was what I used as basis to see in the second, which is raw and H264 if there is a difference between raw and h264 for the 5D alone.

That was my objective. Not as weather one cam had better RS effect than the other.
 
Understood, and thank you for the test!

Ted Ramasola said:
The result I was after is not to see which camera was better but rather to have a basis to see if RS was any worse for just one camera (the 5D) between two formats, Raw DNG and H264.

The result I got for the first test, which was H264 on both, was what I used as basis to see in the second, which is raw and H264 if there is a difference between raw and h264 for the 5D alone.

That was my objective. Not as weather one cam had better RS effect than the other.
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I'm with you 100% Ted. In fact your VAF test yesterday sealed the deal for me on the Mk3. I'll keep my Mkii around for stills (and poss some video... the darned thing keeps making me money!!).
 
@ Cosimo Bullo.
Thanks also for reminding me about that rolling shutter test awhile back, I remembered that. I've edited my posts in other threads and forums to indicate my objective on the test to make it clearer to other readers as well as to my purpose.
 
Anti-aliasing filters just blur the footage. The only solution is to process and scale all of the pixels. Line skipping is like trying to look through venetian blinds. No amount of raw or higher bit rates can fix this problem.
 
So I tried loading the DNGs into Capture One but it kept on being glitchy with image artifacts and I wasn't about to see the complete image (the same DNGs looked fine in ACR) Anyonr have any luck with Capture One yet?
 
I'm still trying to squash a bug in After Effects, I think I might have found a fix but I have to do some more tests tomorrow to confirm. I tried photoshop - quicktime but it was too painful.
 
I'm just going though some 1920x720 footage and it's so darn nice looking. I noticed that if you leave the ML card inside the 5D3 you'll drain the battery even when the camera is turned on. But if I put in a non ML card and turn the camera on and off the battery stays fully charged. Must be something running even when the camera is turned off with the ML software.
 
androbot2084 said:
Anti-aliasing filters just blur the footage. The only solution is to process and scale all of the pixels. Line skipping is like trying to look through venetian blinds. No amount of raw or higher bit rates can fix this problem.
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If you take out the sharpness filter to zero on the Adobe Camera Raw importer (the default is at 25), it will get rid of the aliasing artifacts. Not all but not nearly as pronounced. Nice.
 
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