Applying Technicolor Cinestyle profile to RAW sequence

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Gene Sung

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Recently, I shot several night time photo lapse sequences with my Canon 60D using RAW.

I usually just do video, so I'm not super familiar with how to work with RAW sequences.

I noticed that RAW has it's own profile, as the Technicolor Cinestyle is not applied to it even though it's set in my stills preferences. The default RAW profile is very crushed and I wanted a more mid-tones / more gradeable profile like Cinestyle.

I see there is a section in the RAW menu where you can applying several standard profiles such as Neutral, Portrait, etc.... but I do not see an option or where to import the Cinestyle profile.

How do I apply the Technicolor Cinestyle profile to a RAW sequence. Or is this even possible? Or do I even have to? I know RAW is very flexible, so can I just get that neutral / uncrushed look just by using the RAW menus??

Thanks
 
I've never done what you describe, but my first thought was why you would want to apply Cinestyle to a raw format - the only reason for Cinestyle's existence is to flatten out the in-camera processing (s-curve?), but with raw files you have "untouched" data so you shouldn't have to go through the intermediate step of applying Cinestyle, then apply a more color-corrected picture style or final color correction/grading. I would just apply your final picture style or color correction/grading directly to the raw files.
Hopefully, more experienced folks will provide a better reasoned reply.
 
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After you import the RAW files to your computer, use a program to batch process them.
 
I've shot stills with the Technicolor profile and it showed up as that in the Canon image management utility. Since it's raw you can change the profile after the fact, it's just a mapping of the raw data and it's not baked in until you perform a transform into something like a 16 bit tif.
 
you definitely can load CineStyle on DPP and use it to batch-process a bunch of RAW stills (there's an "open" button just by the side of "Neutral", "Standard", or what have you) - but I think that's utterly silly: just tune the processing to your liking, for once you're actually shooting RAW!!
 
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