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The Magic Lantern (formerly 5D Mark Free) software gets zebra stripes to show overexposed portions of the video. They are not recorded to the quicktime file.

With the announcement from Canon that full manual control is coming, the Magic Lantern project can start focusing on these sort of enhancements, rather than just manual exposure control.

FAQ on the Magic Lantern project: cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2494

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  • John Saunders plus 6 months ago
    Awesome work. I noticed that there were no overlays on the video aside from the audio and zebras that you put in. Is it possible to just have the video and no overlay? the purpose being to record the video externally.
  • Trammell Hudson plus 6 months ago
    It is possible to build a firmware that does that. In this case I am overwriting the entire bitmap overlay region, which includes the zoom frame and AF points. It doesn't play well with the info display, which is why that is turned off in the demo.
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  • Sam 6 months ago
    Where do you get this software? This sound great!
  • Trammell Hudson plus 6 months ago
    I wrote it... It will be part of the 5D Mark Free software release, sometime in early June.
  • Sam 6 months ago
    Wow!! Now thats impressive...I can't wait for the release of this in June... Now I have to choose what lens I want.. Zeiss for Nikon with aperture ring and adapter for Canon, or get a Canon lens now that this software update is available. These are some crazy times with this Camera! Amazing work!
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  • PappasArts 6 months ago
    Wow.... What a great job your doing. When you couple your mods to the upcoming firmware; the 5D is going to be insane...... Thanks again for doing the hard work....
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  • P3Pictures plus 6 months ago
    John,

    The current HDMI output is scaled down (decimated, actually - they throw away pixels.) It's useless for recording, with or without the overlay. When you hit the record button, it's even worse. It drops from HD to SD. So, making a useful HDMI output is more than just removing the overlay.

    Anyway, zebras will be awesome! I'm looking forward to both releases - the manual controls, and the manual audio with meters and zebras!
  • Trammell Hudson plus 6 months ago
    I believe your assumption is correct about the downscaling on HDMI output -- it appears that the LiveView VRAM is only 960x540 pixels in HDMI output mode (and 720x480 pixels in LCD mode). This means that they have thrown away every other pixel per row and every other row from the already downscaled 1080p video frame.
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  • Vitali Ka 6 months ago
    U're best!!!
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  • CANON should give you a 1M$ job!!!
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  • MishaTW-Fotomir 6 months ago
    Hudson u rock!
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  • Campus Liquors plus 6 months ago
    I love you.
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  • Sebastian TR plus 6 months ago
    again, fantastic work - keep it up - cant wait to see how things come together with the new firmware!
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  • Richard Hunter plus 6 months ago
    This is really impressive! I just hope the new firmware from Canon will not block this type of modification.
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  • 3dlist2 6 months ago
    Awesome dude. World is loving you already.

    Not sure if you already said you were implementing it, but full "hard" crop (black borders, i.e.) of the image to 16:9 or even 1.85:1 could help some people with either the attainable compression Q(uality) or, at least, hopefully, with the file size (black bars compress really good ;)
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  • Victor Engel plus 6 months ago
    3dlist2, that would require updating the image that gets saved. If I'm reading this correctly, that image isn't altered.
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  • rauf 6 months ago
    i feel love....You are the man!
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  • colorchange 6 months ago
    Absolutely awesome! Please keep up the good work. Let us know when it's ready and we'll be happy to PayPal to cover some of your efforts.
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  • Denver Riddle plus 6 months ago
    I can only assume you know of canonhack.com/ (haven't followed all of the comments/posts) I've pledged money and if you can shift your focus to 24P and add that as part of the firmware I'm prepared to pony up the $$$. If there's a hardware limitation than that's understandable.

    Cheers,
    Denver Riddle
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  • Wayne Avanson plus 6 months ago
    fan flippin tastic.

    Avey
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  • Geoff Pedder 6 months ago
    sweet!
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  • Marco Solorio 6 months ago
    Just lovin' these updates! Go Hudson, go!!!
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  • Benjamin Reece 6 months ago
    Awesome! Keep it up man!!!!! Go hudson, go!!!!
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  • TRZMIEL 6 months ago
    dzięki = thx!

    let say: that is a little step for the technology, but gigant step for Cinema

    BTW is the is also possibile to make in focus overlay (for ex.: green like in JVC cam).
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  • Greenidge Lewis 6 months ago
    Firstly excellent work with the Magic Lantern project .. Secondly I would love to shoot in Cinemascope with the 5DMKII and here's one small enhancement i was thinking of to achieve the 2.35:1 look, is it possible to implement grey or black horizontal bars on the Live view screen while shooting to indicate the 2.35:1 aspect ratio, this will help immensely when framing, the footage can later be cropped to 1920 x 817 in MPEGstreamclip to get the Cinemascope look and once someone works out how to get 24fps with this camera it would be a killer combination.
  • Trammell Hudson plus 6 months ago
    Eventually the crop marks will be configurable for different aspect ratios. 16:9, 2.35:1, 4:3 and title safe are the first set that I plan to add once I figure out how to create new menu items. Currently the settings are hard-coded at compile time.
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  • Christopher Lovenguth 6 months ago
    This is awsome! Will you be able to implement a no detail black mask to show underexposed areas as well that is a different color mask?
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  • Brian Hoffer plus 6 months ago
    Your project is admirable. Thank you so much for developing the improved firmware. I'm looking forward to trying it out on my Canon 5D MarkII.
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  • hshmac 6 months ago
    Very Very Good!
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