johnhafner
Active member
I did an exhaustive comparison of 20 different export formats and settings, and found that the fine detail and image 'Solidness' is decreased significantly for Color Renders using quicktime uncompress 10 bit compared to FCP export uncompressed 10 bit. There is a lot of 'wiggle' and jitter in the fine detail, like 4 pixel long stitching that exporting via fcp does not show. The result is a less solid image, (but color corrected nice!) This is using both prores, and native h.264 for the source footage for color. (The 7d native H.264 retains much more fine detail than compressing it to prores 422 FYI.)
I've searched for settings, and tried to make sure I have everything maxed. I used 32 bit floating point, high quality everywhere. Render full res etc. Maybe I am missing something, but the end result is I lose a large deal of detail that gets turned into blurry splotches.
I tried render via Cineon and DPX but had no idea what to do with the files.
Any color export help is appreciated! I may just use magic bullet, is there any way to get magic bullet to do 32 bit color?
Btw if you used 5d or 7d, export either from Native h.264 or Cineform neoscene. I recommend neoscene as it allows 10 bit super white color which gives the footage extra pop when corrected to go up to 110 IRE. All other export types I've compared on a perpixel basis over several day. Even prores 422hq and 4444 reduce fine detail and fine contrast significantly. HQ is better than normal 422 though. Still not as much detail as native h.264
I've searched for settings, and tried to make sure I have everything maxed. I used 32 bit floating point, high quality everywhere. Render full res etc. Maybe I am missing something, but the end result is I lose a large deal of detail that gets turned into blurry splotches.
I tried render via Cineon and DPX but had no idea what to do with the files.
Any color export help is appreciated! I may just use magic bullet, is there any way to get magic bullet to do 32 bit color?
Btw if you used 5d or 7d, export either from Native h.264 or Cineform neoscene. I recommend neoscene as it allows 10 bit super white color which gives the footage extra pop when corrected to go up to 110 IRE. All other export types I've compared on a perpixel basis over several day. Even prores 422hq and 4444 reduce fine detail and fine contrast significantly. HQ is better than normal 422 though. Still not as much detail as native h.264