allupons

I recently spoke in great detail to the creators of clip wrap, and what we discovered is that quicktime is simply misinterpreting the data of superbrights and sub-blacks in the mts files. However, your solution of using full range on 5dtorgb is actually compressing the original full range of 0-109 IRE and compressing it down to 0-100, actually tossing out data just to compress down the superbrights and lows. What you should instead do is convert it with the origianl 0-109 IRE and inside your NLE, adjust the clips to proper clipping of 100 IRE, as to not just compress and toss out the data from the original file. This is somewhat difficult to put into words, so I hope I am getting my message across. The cliffnotes is that while "full range" in 5dtorgb looks better at a glance, it is achieving its results by throwing away data to compress down the IRE. You are better off translating over the entire IRE range and grading/correcting the values to the proper 0-100 IRE range for presentation.

People need to stop mis-using the word sharpness. The reason 48fps and higher looks awful is due to motion characteristics and blur. When you all but remove all motion blur, yet maintain highly fluid motion with more recorded frames you get the awful vhs "soap opera" effect. Very sharp, high resolution video @24 fps can look completely amazing and simultaneously cinematic. It is when you break the dreamlike fantastic appearances of 24fps, with the vhs-centric poorly reproduced smooth motion reality look of 48 fps that things look like crap. Leave sharpness out of this.

To everyone worried about how soft the samples are, realize they are 720p, that vimeo is upscaling. I imagine a few direct from camera files will hit the web sooner than later, and at that point we will know if it has the canon DSLR signature lack of detail, or if it actually pushes the envelope. I am mostly curious to learn about the sensor in general, as although I like Black Magic's products, sensor technology is a very expensive thing to have great R&D in. If the sensor is lousy, all the well thought out surrounding features will count for very little. But I am very excited to see some prores files straight out of the camera.