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  Difference between ‘normal’ 600D footage and that same footage exported as a apple prores 442 format

  Posted by Jordi Mol on January 23, 2014 at 9:53 pm

  Hi all,

  its my first time here and i am new to edditing. I have a question which is, what is the best way to color grade you footage and what is the difference? For example i have one piece of footage, one normal .mov straight out of my canon 600d, the second is the same clip only first i exported it to apple prores 442 (hq).
  Then i imported both in a sequence in premiere pro cs6. First off the ‘normal’ one, second the prores on. When i apply the same lut to both, the differences are realy big. The first 8 seconds is the normal footage, the second 8 seconds are the prores footage. You can see a big difference in both clips, color wise. Both with the same lut on them.
  Any help/explenations for me?
  Thanks in advance!

  link to the video:
  https://reels.creativecow.net/film/difference-between-normal-600d-footage-and-that-same-footage-exported-as-a-apple-prores-442-format

  Jordi

  Mike Smith replied 12 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Mike Smith

  January 24, 2014 at 3:50 pm

  Yes they are different. You don’t say what your original footage is, but I’m guessing it’s not a quicktime file, as your ProRes will (very likely) be. QT color management can produce issues.

  These might give you a bit more.

  https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2227/_index.html

  There’s more at https://lesterbanks.com/2012/08/circumvent-qts-color-management-by-creating-quicktime-from-image-sequences-using-ffmpeg/

  https://www.liftgammagain.com/forum/index.php?threads/crushed-blacks-in-qt-exports.987/

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