Andrew Reid has a solution for Premiere Pro when working with AVCHD footage that allows the full dynamic range to be worked with.
Tag: quicktime
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5DToRGB for improved HDSLR footage ingest
It seems that the good ‘ol QuickTime is not cutting the mustard when it reads the “h264” from HDSLR cameras like the Canon EOS range and Panasonic GH range. General grunge is added when the footage is converted from the YUV (YCbCr) to RGB colour space i.e. ProRes etc.
A python script for batching GH2 conversions is available from the comments in the Vimeo video Bay to Breakers 2011 or direct link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8712060/GH2-5dtorgb-batch-v1.4.command.zip
Update: Kevin Jardin’s settings for GH2 footage conversion: ProRes 422HQ, decoding matrix 709, gamma 1.8.
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Accessing QuickTime “legacy” codecs
For those following, and who are using Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and are wondering where the QuickTime System Preferences panel has gone (to turn on the legacy codecs option to get the MJPEG format as an option) enter the following command in a terminal window:
qtdefaults write LegacyCodecsEnabled yes