T2i freaky thing happening when converting T2i footage to prores!

[paulgandersman]

ok so this is weird. i'm bringing in clips from tonight's shoot and converting them into prores. when I do I am noticing a very distinct difference in the image! the original off the camera is darker and has less details in the dark areas. the prores clips seem more flat and actually have MORE detail than the original??? no joke, this is weird, check it out:

ORIGINAL:

PRORES:

you can REALLY see what I'm talking about in the lower left where you can see inside of the menu in the prores and just black in the original.

now the prores is definitely more "flat" but there's more definition there! more to play with in color. is the original quicktime like playing with some sort of picture setting ON and when its converted to prores the setting is stripped out? sort of like shooting RAW on RED? any ideas? this is freaky.

 

[paulgandersman]

oh wait... might be the "automatic gamma correction" when this batch finishes converting, i'm gonna try another clip without that and see what happens. and if it IS making the difference, which do I wanna use?

 

[Ben_B]

Use without gamma correction, you can fix that stuff yourself later.

 

[xdcdx]

What program did you use to do the ProRes encoding?

Was it the automatic Gamma correction thing? I am experiencing a similar issue when decoding/encoding ProRes with AfterEffects.