PictureStyleCanon5dMarkIiCinemaCafeenspensp. Getting Great Colour From Canon Picture Styles 18 comments. Getting Great Colour From Canon Picture. Canon 5D Mark II for its full frame. Best picture style for video. Quite nice to shoot jpeg pictures in too. For portraits and a classic 1960s Italian cinema style. Canon LOG on the 1D C, the EOSHD Picture. Mark II or 5D Mark IV user, or any Canon DSLR. Prolost Flat Prolost. How did you come to these settings How do you know theyre right Theyre not right, theyre just good. Prolost Flat has been tested the only way I care aboutby shooting stuff and trying to make it look great. What about some other custom picture style Its probably great. PRODS/canon-5d-mkiii/ZSRLS.JPG' alt='Picture Style Canon 5D Mark Ii Cinema Cafe' title='Picture Style Canon 5D Mark Ii Cinema Cafe' />But it is possible to over think this stuff, and there is such a thing as too flat. All were trying to do here is bring back everything the camera has to offer in an easy to color correct package. To put it another way, what you want from a flat profile is to eliminate the contrast s curve that the most Picture Styles bake into the footage. Cinema EOS Cameras. An EOS 400D set on Standard Picture Style will produce images with the same image qualities as the EOS1D Mark III set on Standard. Some custom Picture Styles go so far beyond flat that they actually invert this curve. This not only makes the image harder to grade, it can cause quantizing and compression artifacts to show up right in the middle of your tonal range, where theyre most noticeable. What about log Isnt log the best transfer function for grading Yes. And in particular, Technicolor Cine. Style is very nice. If you like it too, please do use it. Adobe Photoshop Cs6 Effects Plugins Free Download. Its great. But without meaning any disrespect to the folks at Technicolor, theres one big reason why you might not want to use their Picture Style. When taking pictures in JPEG mode, the Canon 5D Mark III performs many. JPEG images by defining picture styles in. D Mark II users. Prolost Flat can be set up in seconds on any Canon HDSLR, in the field, without any cables, computers, or downloads. What if your camera dies on a remote shoot and you rent a replacement Or a friend shows up with her 7. D and offers it as a B cameraOr you need to work with footage from another crew Prolost Flat is always available and works on every Canon DSLR. Its easy to set up, and you can coach someone through the process over the phone, or even in a text message. Ive heard a lot of people use Prolost Flat, but bump up the sharpness a bit. Canon HDSLR video is so soft, isnt a little sharpening a good idea Yes. But not in camera. Never use in camera sharpening. It tends to be of a poorer quality than what you can do in post. Its very difficult to monitor and set up accurately in the field. What looks good on a portable LCD might look hideous back in the grading suite in your calibrated, 1. Different scenes can benefit from amounts of sharpening. What worked on the low contrast charts at your test bench might create horribly over sharpened results with a high contrast exterior shot. Baking sharpening into your footage is as permanent as a bad tattoo. On your face. Better to give yourself the option to dial it in later, under controlled circumstances, using the amazing array of powerful post production tools available. Different output media require different amounts of sharpening. The sharpening you use for a You. Tube upload will be different than what you want for a broadcast master, which will be different than a Blu ray master. Esn Dec Meid Converter For Straight here. In the slideshow below, you can see one example of sharpening using the After Effects Unsharp Mask effect, with an Amount of 1. Radius of 1. 1. You can download full res comparison frames here. But doesnt in camera sharpening happen before compression If Im sharpening in post, arent I also sharpening and enhancing compression and noise Yes. But in camera sharpening is such a blunt instrument that even its privileged position of operating prior to compression cant save it. A light pass of noise reduction from something like Magic bullet Denoiser II not only cleans up some compression artifacts, it also can promote your 8 bit footage to higher color fidelity by interpolating new, high bit depth pixels. So your HDSLR processing pipeline should look like this In a 1. Reduce noise. Visual effects, if any. Color correct. Sharpen. Add back some noisegrain to taste. Titles or graphics, if any. Sharpening is a perceptual exercise. You want to sharpen what the viewer sees. So its critical that sharpening be performed after color correction. Manipulation Card Game Rules there. Everyone says the 5. D Mark IIIs video is even softer than the Mark IIs. Maybe just a little in camera sharpening No. The Mark IIIs softness is simply the lack of artificial sharpness that came from the aliasing that plagued the 5. D Mark II. This means that the footage takes sharpening in post even better than 5. D Mark II footage, because there are fewer inherent artifacts to bring out. It would be nice if the 5. D Mark III resolved more detail than it does there is plenty of room for improvement there, but adding in camera sharpening wont make that dream a reality. It only adds permanent, ugly artifacts to your image. Cool. Im just going to bump up the sharpening by one tick. Sorry. Are you sure you wouldnt be better off with a hacked GH2 One last strike against in camera sharpening It limits your ability to add additional sharpening in post. You dont want to sharpen sharpening artifacts. You can see in the below comparison how even one notch of Sharpness adds ringing artifacts that will make sharpening in post problematic. These are 1 1 cropsyou can download an archive of the full res frames here.