Technicolor Cinestyle for t3i?

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Been trying to do this kind of setting on the t3i. I have even had a few of the gang email me about setting this up but still no luck. This is what I tried:

I install Canon EOS Utility and put the camera to "M" but the Utility doesn't give me any Technicolor Cinestyle choices. When I open up the Utilities I went to 'Camera Setting/Remote Shooting' and from there I went to 'Register User Defined Style'. This gave me a pop up 'Register Picture Style File' giving me three choices:

1. User Def. 1
2. User Def. 2
3. User Def. 3

In all three it would only show me Auto, Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome but no other choices.

I even tried Video mode. Am I doing something wrong or does the t3i not have these kind of options?

Thanks,
 
I designed Flaat with two primary objectives: easy to grade (because I'm not very good at color grading and I was getting clay-looking skin tones with Marvels Cine and similar profiles), and cleaner final images than CineStyle (it only uses a small portion of the codec's color space, and after color grading lots of ugly noise appears: posterization of the codec's macroblocking issues looks horrible to me)
 
(of course it also had to be versatile, not designed for a specific scenario but for day-to-day use, that's why I made it near-log; and I also wanted to control dynamic range depending on the subject, that's why it's a whole suite with varying latitude)
 
Samuel H said:
I designed Flaat with two primary objectives: easy to grade (because I'm not very good at color grading and I was getting clay-looking skin tones with Marvels Cine and similar profiles), and cleaner final images than CineStyle (it only uses a small portion of the codec's color space, and after color grading lots of ugly noise appears: posterization of the codec's macroblocking issues looks horrible to me)
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Hi Samuel,
Sorry to hijack this thread, you say you designed Flaat to make it easier to color grade because you're not that great at it. What about for someone with extensive experience in color grading, say with davinci reslove. Would you still suggest your ps over say Cinestyle or Marvel?

I guess what I'm asking is which style does in fact give the most range with the least noise/posterization issues if one could properly grade it.

Thanks for your time.
 
Well, not being one of those guys, I really shouldn't speak for them. But I can say this: let's call Stu Maschwitz one of those guys; in fact, let's call him an absolute color genious who can get amazing grades with exactly the image he wants pushing the footage from his camera.

I tried (somewhat hard) to convince him to use Flaat. He prefers his Prolost Flat: Neutral with minimum contrast. If I shoot with that, my skin tones end up looking dead (clay-like, grey, plasticky...), and Flaat allows me to break out and get rid of that problem. He won't touch it. You can read my pushing and his evasive moves in the comments here:
http://prolost.com/blog/2012/4/10/prolost-flat.html
 
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