Comments on: Cineform for 7D

By: Gummi

Gummi — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:40:06 +0000

I’m sorry mate, but it looks like you just simply exported in a wrong color space. RGB color space (the H264 files from your 7D is RGB) assumes that black = 0 and white = 255…when you export in 601/709 black = 16 and white = 235. This is why it looks like you loose a little contrast. Your blacks are slightly greyish same for your whites.
So…just to be 100% clear…your NOT gaining any details. You are simply loosing a little contrast.

By: Tj

Tj — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:59:31 +0000

Great post….

Im testing with ReMaster from Canon (60d )
are you using the checkboxes for

Limit YUV ( 5D ) ( not sure if this applies to other canons )
or
Filter 420 to 422 ?

( also not sure if this is same in NeoScene )

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:04:12 +0000

I’m pretty sure that the conversion is just a gamma shift. It’s not solving the problem of the crap color sub-sampling on your still photo camera that just so happens to shoot HD.. Sorry gents.

By: Paul jay

Paul jay — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:48:52 +0000

would be cool if you also showed the frames when converting directly to ProRes.

By: mataikan

mataikan — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:11:02 +0000

i think you can now edit directly on cineform in Final Cut.
Works really nicely with FirstLight. Ho yes I upgraded my neoscene to neo HD. you can grade the footage even while with final cut open, from first light, and it instantly updates it.
Here’s my test. note I was shooting with a sign ray gold blue filter.
http://www.vimeo.com/10920247

By: David Taylor

David Taylor — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:28:17 +0000

Good blog post, but I’ll add one update. The reason you stated for transcoding from CineForm to ProRes (performance) was valid at the time of the blog post. But about 6 weeks ago CineForm released its RT engine for FCP which now provides multi-stream RT performance in FCP including through transitions and effects. Following is CineForm’s Tech Blog post on the subject: http://techblog.cineform.com/?p=2747.

By: Christoph Tilley

Christoph Tilley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:57:32 +0000

I am using MPEG Streamclip exporting Apple ProRes LT.

By: al

al — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:56:02 +0000

what do you use to go back from cineform to prores?
mpegstreamclip exporting as prores422 or hd?

By: James Vreeken

James Vreeken — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:58:13 +0000

I just reread my last post…. not codecs…. sorry I had a long day that day.

The newest beta of neoHD/Remaster you can enable the FCP preference and not have to render color corrections done in firstlight and still have all transitions/effects play realtime without the need to prerender!

It is such a nice feature! I can’t believe more people are not jumping on this

By: James Vreeken

James Vreeken — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:08:08 +0000

Have you tried the new beta of neoHD? you can use first light and have your color graded files show up in final cut with full support for transitions and codecs without the need to render! SOOOO NICE!