Premiere CC Canon 5D Workflow

[Warren Eig]

I like to convert to ProRes422 on a Mac with 5DtoRGB Batch. Then even though I started with 8bit footage, I am in the 10bit colorspace for color correction, transitions, effects, titles, etc.

With Premiere you can work with the h.264 natively but ultimately it has to be rendered. So that said, you can render at the beginning of the edit or render at the end of the edit, but you will have to render.

Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905

email: warren@babyboompictures.com
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[Ben Mullins]

Hi Warren,

Thanks for the response. How does that work though? I mean if the footage is recorded in 8-bit how can you suddenly add the extra information for it to become 10 bit once transcoded to ProRes?

Ben.

[Warren Eig]

You don’t get extra bits in the original 8 bit footage what you get is 10 bits in any transitions you add, graphics and color correction.

Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905

email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.com

REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/Reels.html

[Ben Mullins]

Ah OK, so I guess because the extra information is available in colour correction you are able to achieve ‘better looking’ results, or at least have more options in terms of the looks you can create.

[Warren Eig]

Most likely you avoid some of the banding and mathematical errors of 8 bit by working in 10 bit. Will it make the 8 bit footage look better, no, but everything that is created afterward, graphics, transitions, filters applied will look better.

Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905

email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.com

REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/Reels.html

[Ben Mullins]

Yeah that makes sense, thanks for your advice Warren. On another note – The footage I’m working with at the moment has a lot of noise in the shadows (there were a lot of night shoots), is there any process or filters you can recommend for minimizing this?

Thanks again for your advice, it’s much appreciated.

Ben.

[Warren Eig]

Ben,

You can try denoise, but this will soften the picture over all. The best thing to do when possible is to expose like slide film, light for the shadows and don’t clip the highlights. You can always make it look darker in color correction. A few more lights on set is always a good thing.

Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905

email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.com

REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/BabyBoomPictures/Reels.html

[Ben Mullins]

Hi Warren,

Unfortunately I don’t have any control over this production, I just have to deal with the footage I’ve been given. I agree completely though, lighting is the key to image quality pretty much.

Thanks,

Ben.

[Gary Alan]

I have tried almost every noise type filter and I decided to use Neat Video. I think it looks the best for cleaning up my Canon footage shot in H.264, if needed, and my raw footage from Magic Lantern, which will always require some sort of noise filter.

Gary