#5dtorgb windows professional#
#5dtorgb windows series#

Each one of them uses QuickTime to decompress H.264. You're stuck with it if you've converted your footage with Final Cut Pro, Compressor, MPEG Streamclip or Canon's E1 'Log and Transfer' plugin for Final Cut Pro. And guess what? There's no way to disable this. To add insult to injury, QuickTime adds noise to its H.264 output (and so does any program that uses QuickTime to decompress H.264) in what appears to be an attempt to cover up H.264 compression artifacts.

#5dtorgb windows professional#

While this may be just fine for general activities like watching videos, it is unsuitable for professional post-production tasks. Many programs use QuickTime internally to decode H.264 and perform the necessary YCbCr to RGB conversion, but its decoder is intended for general purpose use and not critical post-production use. The big problem is that you have to trust your NLE or compositing app to do a good job of performing this YCbCr to RGB conversion. Furthermore, visual effects compositing programs like After Effects or Nuke work with RGB color (not YCbCr, which is common in HDSLRs), and so a YCbCr to RGB conversion must be performed by either QuickTime or your compositing program before anything useful can be done. Uncompressed formats like DPX are useful for visual effects creation (like pulling mattes from green screen footage), as uncompressed files retain the most image quality. Transcoding to formats like Apple ProRes or Avid DNxHD offer performance improvements during editing and keep compatibility with other editing systems in a collaborative environment. In short, it'll make your footage look just plain amazing!ĥDtoRGB is designed to transcode your footage to a format suitable for editing or visual effects purposes. By using a very high quality conversion process, 5DtoRGB gets you as close as possible to the original data off the camera's sensor while putting the brakes on any additional quality loss. Because of this compression, the picture is at risk of massive quality loss during the post production pipeline.

#5dtorgb windows series#

Cameras like the Canon EOS series of HDSLRs record video in this format with subsampled color. Professional Transcoding with Consistent ColorĥDtoRGB is an awesome tool that extracts every last drop of video quality from cameras that record to the AVC/H.264 video format.

Raw YCbCr output option for unprocessed luma channel extraction.

Output at different frame rates (good for overcranking effects).

Near perfect color compatibility with the Adobe CS5.5 Suite.

DPX, ProRes and DNxHD output (DPX & ProRes Mac only, DNxHD Windows only).

Ability to recover missing highlight detail with many cameras.

Higher quality output than Canon's E1 plugin.

Now uses Apple AVFoundation for ProRes encoding (1.5.12).