Next time you start to work with Canon 5D video footage you have a new tool in your arsenal in ‘5DtoRGB’.
5DtoRGB is an awesome tool that extracts every last drop of video quality from cameras that record to the AVC/H.264 video format. Cameras like the Canon EOS series of HDSLRs record video in this format with subsampled YCbCr color. Because of this compression, the video is at risk of massive quality loss during the post production pipeline. 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. In short, it’ll make your footage look just plain amazing!
It seems to work via transcoding to ‘camera master’ format in Quicktime ProRes or DPX, retaining maximum image quality and working in RGB colorspace like most compositing programs.
