5d mkiii on a big screen

[New_Zealand]

I shot a short film. It look great on the computer and ipad but when it got transferred to blue ray and put on a large screen it look really bad. More videoish than anything. I wonder if that is the norm or did they (the ones that did the transferred) do something wrong?

 

[starcentral]

A lot can go wrong in the transfer process. So the question is how did the blu-ray play on your own equipment or when tested on other equipment other than the large screen?

 

[ROCKMORE]

I shot a short film. It look great on the computer and ipad but when it got transferred to blue ray and put on a large screen it look really bad. More videoish than anything. I wonder if that is the norm or did they (the ones that did the transferred) do something wrong?

I'm not sure this a related issue, but I have seen Hollywood blockbuster films played on UHD TVs at electronic stores that looked like cheap behind the scenes videos shot in the 90s. That issue turned out to be a smoothing program that is designed to take the jitter out of running text playing back at 50fps that had to be turned off for playback .
not sure what you are seeing, but in 5 years working with the 5Ds the last thing I ever saw was videoish looking footage. You probably have something set wrong. Try youtube for answers. That's how I discovered the cure for the UHD videoish effect in about 2 minutes searching. Good luck.

 

[David Del Real]

It's that 120Hz (or even 240Hz) refresh rate. Makes even the best Hollywood films look like camcorder material. Watch on a 60Hz refresh screen.

 

[DLD]

The "soap opera" effect is easy to eliminate from the TV but, if it's present, it's present on all sources and channels.

 

[cpc]

It's that 120Hz (or even 240Hz) refresh rate. Makes even the best Hollywood films look like camcorder material. Watch on a 60Hz refresh screen.

144hz is common for cinemas nowadays. 120hz is actually an excellent eyes friendly refresh rate. The more, the better. The overly smooth soap opera look has nothing to do with refresh rate and everything to do with in-TV processing.

 

[David Del Real]

144hz is common for cinemas nowadays. 120hz is actually an excellent eyes friendly refresh rate. The more, the better. The overly smooth soap opera look has nothing to do with refresh rate and everything to do with in-TV processing.

Interesting. When I look side by side at TV's with the different refresh rates, I can clearly see the difference. I'm not the only one either. Many have said the same thing in stores where they sell TV's. My cousin has a high refresh rate Samsung, while I have a 60Hz version. The difference is huge. Smoothing may have other sources as well but I know that the refresh rate has a lot to do with it.

 

[cpc]

Interesting. When I look side by side at TV's with the different refresh rates, I can clearly see the difference. I'm not the only one either. Many have said the same thing in stores where they sell TV's. My cousin has a high refresh rate Samsung, while I have a 60Hz version. The difference is huge. Smoothing may have other sources as well but I know that the refresh rate has a lot to do with it.

Your cousin has a Samsung that does frame interpolation (motion smoothing; probably can be switched off in the settings), which TV happens to have high refresh rate (excellent feature). The myth of the evil high refresh rate was popularized by a few people on the internet with lots of followers and lack of understanding of how displays work. The source of this misunderstanding is the mixup of acquisition framerate (24fps in film) with projection/display framerate (48hz in old film projectors, 72hz in newer 2d projectors, 144hz in 3d projectors). A typical cinema projector flashes each frame 3 times. A 120 hz display scans each frame 5 times. 60hz is actually worse than 120hz for watching films, because 60 is not a multiple of 24 and you are either seeing pulldown or frame tearing.

 

[DLD]

Interesting. When I look side by side at TV's with the different refresh rates, I can clearly see the difference. I'm not the only one either. Many have said the same thing in stores where they sell TV's. My cousin has a high refresh rate Samsung, while I have a 60Hz version. The difference is huge. Smoothing may have other sources as well but I know that the refresh rate has a lot to do with it.

I was reading a CNet piece on "4K or not 4K" and the reviewer said that the non-4K TV's are the only ones with the 60 hz refresher rate while a majority of 4K TV's (budget brands excluded) are 120 or 240.

In human tests, the gap between 60 and 120 was noticed by most. The gap between 120 and 240 - though, the test was done before 4K came forth - was not as pronounced.