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  canon xf300, color profile

  Posted by Byron Caplan on October 15, 2013 at 2:17 pm

  hello all,

  i recently bought a canon xf300. it is my first high def tapeless camera… and it is my first time working with the 4:2:2 colorspace. first off, let me say that i edit using FCP 6.0.6 and that this is the first time i’ve used the color-corrector with 4:2:2 video and what a dream!!! it works so much better than with SD.

  so i shot some video using the “CineV” setting. and i noticed it was a very flat picture as compared to the “standard” setting. i shot with that setting anyway, but when i went to edit, i wound up using color corrector to bring out the contrast because the picture was too flat.

  so my question is… what is the point of using a “Cine” color profile setting if i’m going to process it with the color corrector to pull out the full range of contrast? is this “lossy” video”? and if so, doesn’t processing it make it lose information? and if i use a setting that includes the whole contrast range and doesn’t require processing, wouldn’t that be better?

  or am i missing something here? any and all answers and explanations welcomed

  -byro

  Byron Caplan replied 12 years, 10 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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