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Only transcode if your machine is not up to editing comfortably with the MOV's, absolutely no point wasting time transcoding otherwise, no quality gain, just losses.

And if you want to have access to the overbrights in the native h264 in that 32bit float at greater than 1 and underbrights at lower than 0 then you'll need to switch off the full range flag in the original MOVs otherwise PP & AE scale the luma levels into 0-1 RGB. And of coarse use linear space in AE for best results.

Hi I used Prolost flat on 2 paid job, a wedding and a documentary. I've had real problems with the skin tone and highlights with this picture profile. There is a green overcast on the skin and the highlights were very hard to judge if the exposure is proper. Underexposing basically gives an unnatural skin tone plus the greenish overcast, which is a real pain to grade/correct in post.

I strongly discourage using prolost (at least on a 5DMIII and 60D) based on my experiences. But perhaps I'm doing something wrong?

I'ts just Neutral curve with dialed down saturation, contrast and sharpening. It is intended as a flat profile to be graded rather than a finished 'look'.

Stu Maschwitz only recently named this set up 'Prolost Flat', as I think a tongue in cheek quip at the general 'flat' picture styles that generate so much interest, fanboyism, debate and sometimes exaggerated claims.

Stu's settings are well known for many years, with the release of the 5D mkII he suggested the dialled down settings, in fact he suggests shooting flat right back when he released his book 'The DV Rebels Guide' shooting DV back then with a DVX100 and probably before that.

It's nothing more than reduced settings on the dials, no fancy curve or anything and makes a plain fact that there is no install, a random group can just start shooting together with the settings, no laptop needed for install out in the field and that no picture style suits all situations or shooting preferences.

So rather than discourage a perfectly reasonable and well established simple dialing down used by thousands without issue perhaps the better route is for each to their own and encourage testing for one's self what suits.

Not only does the final imagery we see on our computer monitors and TV screens depend on the camera settings it also depends on proper codec handling, color management and proper handling by the media player we view on. Best to check those too. :-)