@hyalinejim: Thanks again for your image and your question. I've checked your image and your solution once more and I can see the following:
You've solved the problem by applying Cinelog DCP profile for Canon 5D. Inside that profile one can see ToneCurve (log-like gamma) and HSV 3DLUT. It means that in Adobe ACR the task of Highlights Recovery was solved after debayering by applying gamma to RGB and 3D LUT to HSV. That solution makes sense and we see good result. We will be able to utilize that method, as soon as we add DCP support to our software in the near future. Anyway, there is also another possible solution.
One can do Highlights Recovery before debayering and it seems to be a better approach. If we remove highlights before debayer, then image quality after debayering will be better because this is the way to avoid interpolations with clipped pixels. We've added to Fast CinemaDNG software widget “Raw Curve” to be able to apply curves to RAW data before debayering. There is a master curve which is always applied to all three channels of RAW data, and individual curves for each color channel.
Here you can have a look at your image which is processed with curves before debayering:

What Fast CinemaDNG software is doing before demosaicing:
1. Multithreaded reading and parcing of all DNGs in the current folder
2. Multithreaded DNG decoding for compressed data
3. Data copy from CPU to GPU (host to device transfer)
4. DNG crop
5. Data linearization according to 1D LUT from DNG
6. Black and white points from DNG
7. WB coefficients for R, G, B
8. Exposure correction
9. Composite raw curve (the same curve for all three channels)
10. Individual curve for each raw channel
11. Raw bayer denoiser
12. Debayer HQLI, DFPD or MG with Enhance option
All these stages from image processing pipeline one can see at Benchmarks widget to check timing on GPU for each stage. To get fast result, we need to have powerful CPU, GPU and SSD.
Please let me know your opinion about suggested pipeline and about the results of our software for DNG image processing both in terms of quality and performance. You can download the latest release of Fast CinemaDNG software with “Raw Curve” module from
www.fastcinemadng.com