I like Cake 2.3 very much for its look, fluidity, colours, resolution. What I don't understand is that the in-cam replays fail half of the time in the 80%-24H mode & once in a while in 24H - on all my cards (Lexar 400x, Lexar 600x, Sandisk 80Mb/s), even on my brand new, reformatted Sandisk 95Mb/s 32GB! Don't know what could help...

Wish I could say it's perfect, though: I really like its silky, bright results in all of its modes ; (

Indeed, turning off the camera dodges that small "hindrance" altogether. Nonetheless, your settings add a very special glow to my motion pictures and therefore are touching perfection in a way. A 1000 thks!

Hi guys, im new to Cake 2.3, but man, it's a very lovely hack, i've tested quite a few hacks, mostly Driftwood's, i liked the looks, but the file size are quite big, and also, reliability and stability issues made me not feel too comfortable using them. Then recently i started looking for decent hacks with smaller file size with stability and bam! i ran into Cake, so i tried it. I really like it, i added a lil film grain with film convert to make it even more filmic, and i recorded the clip with smooth -2-2-2-2.I'm however not a pro film maker neither do i really understamd the full technical details of this hacks, but i like Cake.

I'm not sure what your issue was, but I don't think it's anything about the ISO setting. I routinely shoot much higher than ISO 640.

Was there much motion in the frame just before the recording stopped? I mean big motion, like in a third of the frame or more. Motion is really the only thing that could cause the encoder to fail, and even then it shouldn't the way I designed Cake.

If it wasn't an encoder failure, then it's almost certainly a failure related to recording throughput, i.e. a card failure. You say it isn't the card, but it's basically impossible to know that unless you get problems consistently with one card and not with others. One failure isn't enough information to judge by. All it takes is slightly reduced write throughput one time in one spot on the card coincident with a little bump in the video bit rate, and the buffer will overflow and the recording will stop. So with a bit of bad luck, a card that's been working fine for a long time can cause a rare failure. And a card that's been performing well can develop problems later.

The best thing would be to just stop using that card. Once a card has given you trouble, it should be considered suspect and not used for any important recordings. The type of card really matters. Sandisk Extreme and Extreme Pro are the only cards I trust. If you are determined to keep using the same card, then I recommend performing several full overwrite formattings with the SD Card Association's formatter utility. The card can determine if there are bad blocks and map around them, and you want that to happen while you're formatting, not while you're recording. It's good periodic maintenance for all of your cards.