5DtoRGB – why?

[Joe Orange]

Thanks guys but my concern is not only color shift but lack of shadow detail and the overall feel of the converted footage and whilst of course it would be best viewed and more accurately judged on a video monitor, I’m sure my calibrated 23″ Apple Cinema Display is not displaying differences in quality between these conversion methods purely because it is not a video monitor.

thanks again

[Jim Medcraft]

Just to add to this post to bring it up to date for anyone that come across this post this.

The major advantage of using 5DtoRGB now is that you can automatically apply the technicolor cinestyle lut, while transcoding, eliminating another step in your workflow if your shooting in cinestyle.

But I am finding an issue with files its rendering of of 422(HQ) files in that FCP7 gives a warning on import that media is not optimised for Final Cut Pro

[Stephen De vere]

Yes, the ProRes files have some minor quirk that means Cinema Tools (I am on v5.5.1 and FCP7) can’t conform them either. I have v1.5.10 (64 bit)

5DtoRGB can do the conform to the frame rate you want but it is still a bit worrying.

Rafael Amador pointed this out in March 2012 on these forums.

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It would be nice to have another option in the Luminance Range – to match footage from more cameras – eg. XDCAM EX EX3 footage which records super-whites 16-255 range. Using ‘Full Range’ preserves highlight info but the blacks get lifted which is OK but not ideal.

I believe an update for the FS700 camera files is imminent – which might a good match for EX1/EX3 files too.

[Warren Eig]

It’s a great program 5DtoRGB Batch. The only thing I’m not sure about is when you shoot with the Technicolor Cinestyle Lut, are you supposed to post process it “on” in 5DtoRGB or is it supposed to be set to post process “none”? When you set it to Post Process “Cinestyle” everything looks considerably darker. When it is “none” it looks more as shot.

Does anyone know the answer? I read the 2 page manual and it is unclear as is the Rarevision website.

Warren

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