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Okay, exactly as I thought.  I'm using Raw2Dng then bringing that into AfterEffects. It works great with lots of controls for grading.    Thanks for the help.

With the  test's that I'm doing, I'm not showing that Picture Style or White Balance has anything to do with shooting RAW with ML.  They appear to not effect the RAW signal at all.  Can anyone else confirm this?   Thanks

I am now shooting RAW on my 5D Mark III and everything I've ever learned was to always format the CF card in the camera.  Well, when shooting RAW I've been reading that to get the best performance is to format the CF card as ExFat which can only be done on a computer, not in camera.  Is this correct?  Is this format still needed nowdays?   Thanks for the help.    

I believe I know the answer to this but I can't seem to find a definitive answer so here goes.  I just loaded the ML RAW firmware on my 5D Mark III and was wondering about white balance and picture style.  I understand that the signal is being pulled straight from the sensor and then copied onto the CF, but, does manual White Balance and Picture Style have anything at all to do with what is being recorded onto the CF card?  If not, then I understand all of the color correction needs to be done later in the "color correction" phase of working with the footage.   I read an article from someone that said when you are color correcting to just pick something that is white in the picture and use that for white balance.  What if there is nothing white in the screen?  When I hit record should I throw a white piece of paper in the shot very quickly to use for reference then pull it out?  How is everyone else handling this?   Are there any aspects of picture style (sharpening, contrast or saturation) that do get recorded into the RAW file?   Ok, thanks for the help.   Oh by the way, I did purchase your RAW shooting guide and read the whole thing without putting it down. Very good info.   Thanks.