Losing focus on 5D footage when full screening/blowing up

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ninja8618

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Hi everyone,
I'm having an issue that i feel like i'm not alone with: the footage, very especially the focus from 5D looks great on location monitor, then fcp's small viewer and then on say, vimeo's small screen. But when I get it to full screen a lot of the focus is noticably hazier. For example; here's some test stuff i shot for a short film I plan to shoot soon :

http://vimeo.com/23249792
watch it small scren once , then full screen it and you'll know what I mean.
Now I AM applying the widescreen filter on fcp and Magic bullet mojo. The footage was shot on a 24-70 on iso 400 pretty much throughout, the aperture around 11. How much these have to do with the problem. So what's the solution? How can I ensure before/as I'm shooting that when I expand it the focus will hold?
Sorry for bad english, sorry if this has been asked before.
 
The solution is to zoom in 5 or 10x in liveview mode (press the + and - buttons on the camera), then achieve sharp focus while zoomed in. Then record your shot.
 
Except for the obvious shots where focus was missed, much of the montage looked to be in focus to me. When you go to larger than a desktop screen you may be running into the practical resolution limits of the camera in video mode. DSLR's have always looked rather soft to me, about like 480p at best.
 
Derek explained it. You didn't upload a 2 gig file now did you? You uploaded a 68 mb file.
 
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