andyharris ->Looks like Sydney to me:)

Beautiful footage BTW, that's unbelievable what ML guys turned mk3 into, pure madness.

leads me to believe that RAW is now officially the most desired feature on a "professional" camera. wonder why.....yes I'm being sarcastic.

Vitaliy... sorry to bug... but what is your logic behind this answer? Didn't this happen with the gf1 a long time ago, only the older models could be mod'ed. Yes eventually that was fixed, but there was a period of this. I'll shut up after this one.

There's plenty of them around, besides Canon aren't that smart.

andy pull the battery before you boot, there's a bug, and always wait for the light to flash before you pull the CF card. Internal sound won't stay in sync yet, an external recorder will.

See vimeo page for notes.

Seriously, you have to completely re-prep your camera and re-load ML after a warm or cold boot?

That likely sounds like a stupid question but I've only ever been an interested ML-observer over the years, never owned a Canon or had any use for ML.

So over the weekend I was doing a pile of testing on this raw stuff. Mainly to see if I could use for commercial work (which is mostly product demos).

Here are some bullet points:

Fragility

I've had a number of RAWs fail conversion with a 'not an lv_raw' message - I'm aware that you have to wait before taking the card out. I've tried twice to see what happens when you fill a card up -- both times I got a lv_raw failure.

Battery

On a side note I had a battery go complete flat overnight. My 5D3 is fairly new and has never had this before. I thought that ML might keep more of the camera running or something. The power switch was in the 'off' position overnight.

From last night the battery is OK. I assume that RAW mode takes a lot from the battery and a good Li-ION will have a cliff drop at the end of its discharge. Therefore I'm assuming no real problem.

Sound

Where is it? From the sequence of DNG files, at first I thought there was some sound in there because AfterEffects was generating AIF files -- these were all blank (please point me in the right direction if I'm wrong!)

Syncing

Using a simple clap at the beginning and end of clips I worked out that the frame rate is 23.976. This might help someone to avoid lip-sync drift

Camera 'Sleep'

As soon as the 5D3 sleeps you'll be needing to reload modules and set the video size again. I'll have to see if you can change the 'sleep' timer between composing a shot and starting the record.

RAW2DNG

I have 20GB on my iMac, and found that when I had a lot of memory hogging applications open (FCPx, Resolve, AE and Chrome) RAW2DNG would crash midway through a conversion. This would be followed by one of those annoying disk unmount - remount moments (MAC OSX 10.8 - known issue). Closing the big Apps solved the problem.

Also, pro-tip - VSCO for Camera RAW is really great for these images, just remember to turn the 'grain' setting off in ACR (because it creates a single static grain pattern over footage).

@radikalfilm, nice workflow breakdown, thanks. Wish CineForm Studio could read DNGs on the Mac side...

One thing I've found to be extremely handy for getting this footage into AE (in native raw format) is a script called Immigration ( http://aescripts.com/immigration/ ). It will load an entire folder of image sequences automatically and optionally maintain folder hierarchy if so desired. Normally with AE you have to import each sequence individually and it takes forever.

A minor annoyance - the Camera RAW plugin still pops up for every sequence you import, so if you do a batch of 50 shots, that's fifty clicks on the Camera RAW window before they're all loaded. Does anyone know if there's an AE preference to disable this behavior? I looked and didn't find anything.

is it just me or are the test videos getting more interesting and less flowers-in-my-garden? :)