Messages

I can say with confidence that to get a nice and sharp image out of MLV you need to do this: (it works for me)

WHILE SHOOTING:

1st. f or T stop MUST be above 4. (anything below, you need to have a REALLY good lens and REMEBER: REALLY GOOD does not measn costing in the thousands! )
2nd you MUST have the main light source BEHIND your camera
3rd Lens hood or matte box will prevent flares and help sharpen the image a bit by keeping your front element in "the darkness"
4th Stay as still as you can / need to be.
5th MAKE SURE lenses and sensor are clean.
6th Make sure what you actually want sharp as a razor is focused correctly
7th Record the image with a flat profile, in the canon menu picture style (sharpness 0, image contrast -4, image tone -2)

WHILE POST-PROCESSING:

The clarity parameter in lightroom does miracles
Look for sharpen image, unsharp mask or stuff like that but BEWARE ofartifacts! (I personally don't use them very often, The clarity paramete in Lightroom does the job well for me)

And that's it pretty much! If you still get not really sharp images, i think is either one of this three options:

1) you are using very low quality lenses
2) you are not setting up your exposure settings properly
3) there is something wrong with the MLV files o_O??

Why does using a flat profile matter when shooting MLV?

It also appears the conversion may not actually be finishing.  It goes right from eighty something percent to one hundred, and then stops, making a seemingly inoperable .mov file

Hello, I have been using ML for a couple months now on my 5d3, but this is my first time posting in this forum.  I have been trying to use MLRawviewer v1.3.3 to turn all of my MLV files into prores say that I may edit them.  The problem is, the .mov files have become damaged after the conversion, and I cannot open them.  Any suggestions?