How can I keep Live View active on a Canon 70D for long sessions?

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I want to use a Canon 70D for extended Live View use, including streaming. I disabled auto power-off, but after about 20 minutes Live View still exits in both stills and movie mode and shows a message to press the Start/Stop button to resume. Is there any way to keep Live View running continuously until I turn it off manually, with or without Magic Lantern?

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So I kind of have a solution?

Basically, with ML, you can set a setting called "Sticky half-shutter", where you press it right when you enable live view and it simulates the half shutter being held down.

Sadly on the 70D, this version of ML doesn't have that option. So I went ahead and rubber banded a small nut over the shutter button, which keeps it perfectly at half shutter.

So yup! Now I stream on Twitch with my 70D.

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On the 70D, disabling auto power-off does not necessarily stop Live View from timing out. Based on the shared workaround, the practical way to keep Live View active is to simulate a half-press of the shutter the whole time.

In Magic Lantern, a feature called “sticky half-shutter” can do this on some cameras, but the answer notes that the available 70D build does not include that option. Their workaround was to physically hold the shutter button at the half-press point, which kept Live View active for streaming.

So the short answer is: there does not appear to be a normal camera setting that fully disables the 70D’s Live View timeout, and on that ML version the workaround is maintaining half-shutter input.

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