![]() Voila! Continue your workflow from there. Once you hit Enter, it should start processing and you'll get a RAW file. And replace mlvfilename.MLV with the name of the MLV file that your camera produced. Of course, replace outputfilename.RAW with whatever name you want to call the RAW file to be generated. mlv_dump -o outputfilename.RAW -r mlvfilename.MLV So now you should have something like the following in your Terminal window: Open a Terminal window and cd into the folder where you have your MLV files (and now mlv_dump).ĭrag the (unzipped) mlv_dump file from Finder into the Terminal window and add the following text: I copied this file into the same directory as my MLV files and unzipped it. So I want to share my findings, both for my future self, as well as anyone else out there using the new format with OSX.įirst off, download the pre-compiled binary that user marekk has generously posted on the Magic Lantern forum from his Dropbox: I didn't want to go through the trouble of installing windows again so I gave another stab at converting MLV files on OSX… and I got it to work! ![]() Well, somewhere a few weeks ago I deleted my VMWare Fusion partition and lost the notes I had on the windows box detailing how to do the conversion. I was successful in windows and was able to mass convert a bunch of footage into RAW files which was compatible with my workflow (currently using RAWMagic on OSX, etc.). I've had some difficulty converting files from the latest Magic Lantern raw video format (MLV) into something that I can post-process (like DNG or cDNG files) on my Mac.Īfter working on it a month or so ago, I gave up and eventually installed windows via VMWare Fusion so that I could get mlv_dump working. UDATE: Check out this solution for directly converting MLV to cDNG or DNG. then execute "./mlv_dump -dng " (ENTER THE FILENAME MANUALLY WITHOUT ANY PATH)Īnd whaddaya know, it works beautifully! Now I just need to find a way to batch everything so I can run the command on a folder with several MLV files in it.Įnjoy this tiger at the 2013 New York Marathon from a video I'm cutting. first cd into a directory ("cd " and note the SPACE after cd)ģ. ![]() Thanks to the generosity of Danne and g3gg0 over on the Magic Lantern forum, I got the correct syntax to convert MLV files directly into DNG sequences without making an intermediate RAW file.Ģ. I hope this process helps to spur the adoption of MLV amongst Mac users. Well, shortly thereafter I got a bit of help and was able to figure out how to convert directly from MLV to DNG or cDNG. I previously posted about my experience with converting MLV files to RAW for post processing on a Mac. Enjoy this running french bulldog while you read the post below. ![]()
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