fastcinemadng

[katrikura]

Hello:
          Any member of the magic lantern community has used Fast CinemaDNG?

http://www.fastcinemadng.com/

On the website of the manufacturer says: The software is also compatible with Canon 5D Mark III camera with Magic Lantern firmware after MLV to CinemaDNG transform.

[viikossi]

Working well with canon 7d using cDNG

Sent from my Xperia SP using Tapatalk

[Walter Schulz]

Means it can read CinemaDNG. So what?

[reddeercity]

Fast CinemaDNG Processor application allows to view DNG image series recorded with video and photo cameras.
The software can do standard image processing of RAW DNG and CinemaDNG files on NVIDIA GPU in realtime.
We currently support the following DNG (RAW) formats and compression options:
 Uncompressed DNG.
 DNG with lossless compression. It has zero loss of detail, but quite small compression, just around
35% file size reduction for very blurry / underexposed / overexposed images ranging to around 25%
file size reduction for well focused, well exposed, detailed images.
 BMD RAW 3:1 compressed lossy DNG. Some image detail are lost, but not much. The compression is
usually rate controlled to 3:1, so recording capacities of media are very predictable.
 BMD RAW 4:1 compressed lossy DNG. This is the same as 3:1, but with better compression. The
quality is still good, but not as good as 3:1.

The following 3 modes (three DNG formats) are currently offered with BlackMagic URSA:
 Losslessly Compressed RAW
 Visually Lossless 3:1 RAW (lossy)
 Visually Lossless 4:1 RAW (lossy)

Very interesting App , Wins only looks like and in beta so free , Like Beer 
It's basically a Grading app for dallies or what ever on Raw Cdng Uses Cuda real time noise reduction !
Very nice     you can grade your MLV Raw and export as Cdng's !!

DNG export tab contains parameter, used to render project into DNG. Currently only compression and crop are supported.
Supported compression algorythms are:program directory.
Use original. In this mode project files are simply copyed despite of crop settings
Lossless JPEG. In this mode raw data are compressed with losseless jpeg algorythm.
BMD RAW 3:1. In this mode raw data are compressed with lossy BMD RAW 3:1 algorythm, designed byBlackmagic Design.
BMD RAW 4:1. In this mode raw data are compressed with lossy BMD RAW 4:1 algorythm, designed byBlackmagic Design
BMD RAW 5:1. In this mode raw data are compressed with lossy BMD RAW 5:1 algorythm, designed byBlackmagic Design

I did a quick test with 12 bit mlv+audio from MLVFS quick mount with fuse . Seem to work OK and debayed correctly.
Lots of camera raw adjusts to work with , Does take a fairly beefy machine to run
Tested on my over clock FX8350 (4.9 ghz) on dual GTX 580 cards 3GB Vram with 8TB Raid "0" OS on SSD
It seems to labour a little thou my Vid card are really out dated , there recommend at least "GTX 980TI, 1080 or Tesla K40 GPU memory 4-12 GB"
You also have a option for Working Color Space , e.g. sRGB , Adobe , etc... lots of professional stuff
So it seems it's was intended for Blackmagic Camera up to 8K , I highly recommend trying this out even if it's to convert your ML Cdng's to BDM raw3:1 to save space
plus you can have a grade applied or just leave in film log space , exports with FFmpeg , Cdng's , Tiff  . I Can see this app costing big $$$$ later down the road .
So don't loose out .

Edit:
I tested the compressed .dng export , original cdng from mlvfs was 1856x1044 3.75MB & the compressed dng is 1.29MB used the lossless jpeg compression
I can't tell the difference , here a link to each dng frame from my dropbox .
lossless_jpeg.dng    original ml dng
Also tried 3:1 which gave me a frame size of 133KB
The only thing I see there's no frame rate tag but all other tag are pass though ,
exiftool tell me the 3:1 is 12bit with jpeg compression and the lossless is 16bits with jpeg compression and there again no frame rate tag .

[megapolis]

So it seems it's was intended for Blackmagic Camera up to 8K, I highly recommend trying this out even if it's to convert your ML Cdng's to BDM raw 3:1 to save space

We don't have any 8K source CinemaDNG images yet, currently it's working well with 4.6K BMD. The software is intended to work not only with image series from Blackmagic cameras but also with any CinemaDNG images. If something goes wrong with your CinemaDNG, please send these images to me.
It's not correct that the software is always converting your ML CDNG images to BMD RAW 3:1. You can choose lossless compression for any data source, even if it was originally BMD RAW 3:1 or 4:1.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 is ok for image resolutions up to Full HD. For higher resolutions you will need more powerful GPU. If the player is working smoothly, it means that your CPU, GPU and SSD are ok.

There are some important issues which you have not mentioned:
1. One can play your CinemaDNG series from Windows Explorer. Just click right button on the folder and choose Fast CinemaDNG in the list. By pressing Tab you can run viewer at full screen mode.
2. Project culling by choosing starting and finishing points at the timeline.
3. One can crop and save DNG to reduce image size of RAW data.

Also tried 3:1 which gave me a frame size of 133KB

I agree that the image could be too much compressed and it could be a good idea to add a function for arbitrary compression ratio instead.

The only thing I see there's no frame rate tag

Yes, we've missed that, thanks for pointing out. This is our mistake and we will fix that soon. We are also going to add some more CDNG editing to the software. Our users are mostly asking us to add 1D LUT and denoising preprocessing features (both before debayering) with intention to save DNG for further processing.

Please have a look at Debayer options. Our latest debayer with MG algorithm is a recent improvement and we would be interested to get your feedback concerning debayer quality. You can zoom still image or video to see all details.

P.S. This year we are going to add support of MLV format to work directly with MLV files, without doing any preliminary MLV-CDNG conversion. Thanks to g3gg0, we've got necessary info.

[katrikura]

Thank you for sharing this information, proceed to test the software.


Katrikura

[andy kh]

P.S. This year we are going to add support of MLV format to work directly with MLV files, without doing any preliminary MLV-CDNG conversion. Thanks to g3gg0, we've got necessary info.
[/quote]

Wow!! Sounds great

[DeafEyeJedi]

...This year we are going to add support of MLV format to work directly with MLV files, without doing any preliminary MLV-CDNG conversion. Thanks to g3gg0, we've got necessary info.

+10 and big thanks to @g3gg0!

[Lars Steenhoff]

Cool stuff!  Mac version possible?

[megapolis]

Mac version possible?

In the core of Fast CinemaDNG software we have our own image processing SDK which is working on NVIDIA CUDA. Apart from DNG/CinemaDNG decoding we do almost everything on GPU. We believe that GPU could offer the fastest way of image processing and we do need that to insure realtime performance for 4K and higher resolutions. You can check the content of that SDK and have a look at performance benchmarks: http://www.fastcompression.com/products/sdk/sdk.htm

So we are working with NVIDIA GPUs only and unfortunately at the moment Apple doesn't manufacture any PC/laptop with NVIDIA GPUs, they install AMD/Intel only. This is the main obstacle. Our image processing SDK can work with Windows and Linux, and we can port it to MacOS as well, but our users don't have right hardware to work with. So we are waiting for good news from Apple.

[Lars Steenhoff]

My mac is quite capable and with CUDA
but yea I understand apple has left nvida behind. 
that the main reason I don't want to upgrade to a newer mac.

I could install windows and try out the app. it seems really nice.

[DeafEyeJedi]

Tried running this on OS X 10.12.3 under Wine and got up to the point where it's 80% installed this error pops up...



Here are some logs in case they give out hints? Maybe I need to install one more tweak within Wine under Tools advance settings?

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fixme:module:load_library unsupported flag(s) used (flags: 0x00000800)
fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (0x33f934 0x0): stub
fixme:toolhelp:CreateToolhelp32Snapshot Unimplemented: heap list snapshot
fixme:toolhelp:Heap32ListFirst : stub
fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x8 0x33f9c0 0x33f9e4 0x33f9b8) returning a dummy value (current locale)
fixme:file:FindFirstFileExW flags not implemented 0x00000002
fixme:explorerframe:taskbar_list_SetProgressValue iface 0x1802cf8, hwnd 0x1006e, ullCompleted 64, ullTotal 64 stub!
fixme:explorerframe:taskbar_list_SetProgressState iface 0x1802cf8, hwnd 0x1006e, flags 0 stub!
fixme:explorerframe:taskbar_list_SetOverlayIcon iface 0x1802cf8, hwnd 0x1006e, hIcon 0x0, pszDescription (null) stub!
fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x8 0x33c80c 0x33c830 0x33c804) returning a dummy value (current locale)
fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x8 0x33c80c 0x33c830 0x33c804) returning a dummy value (current locale)
fixme:file:FindFirstFileExW flags not implemented 0x00000002
fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x8 0x33c988 0x33c9ac 0x33c980) returning a dummy value (current locale)
fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x8 0x33c948 0x33c96c 0x33c940) returning a dummy value (current locale)
fixme:commdlg:IServiceProvider_fnQueryService Interface {e07010ec-bc17-44c0-97b0-46c7c95b9edc} requested from unknown service {e07010ec-bc17-44c0-97b0-46c7c95b9edc}
fixme:shell:ViewModeToListStyle ViewMode 0 not implemented
fixme:shell:IShellBrowser_fnSendControlMsg stub, 0x193e2a0 (2, 1026, a003, 0, 0x33ba4c)
fixme:shell:IShellBrowser_fnSendControlMsg stub, 0x193e2a0 (2, 1026, a004, 0, 0x33ba4c)
fixme:shell:IShellBrowser_fnSendControlMsg stub, 0x193e2a0 (2, 1025, a003, 1, 0x33ba4c)
fixme:shell:IShellBrowser_fnSendControlMsg stub, 0x193e2a0 (2, 1025, a004, 1, 0x33ba4c)
fixme:nstc:NSTC2_fnSetControlStyle2 mask & style (0x00000004) contains unsupported style(s): 0x00000004
fixme:win:FlashWindowEx 0x33b6bc - semi-stub
fixme:win:FlashWindowEx 0x33c05c - semi-stub
fixme:explorerframe:taskbar_list_SetOverlayIcon iface 0x1823068, hwnd 0x1006e, hIcon 0x0, pszDescription (null) stub!
err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised
err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised
err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised
err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised
err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised
err:ole:CoCreateInstanceEx apartment not initialised
fixme:wscript:set_host_properties ignored L"nologo" switch
fixme:vbscript:VBScript_SetScriptState unimplemented SCRIPTSTATE_INITIALIZED
fixme:scrrun:filesys_MoveFile 0x45f33cb0 L"C:\\Program Files\\FastCinemaDNG\\maintenancetool.dat.new" L"C:\\Program Files\\FastCinemaDNG\\maintenancetool.dat"
fixme:wscript:set_host_properties ignored L"nologo" switch
fixme:vbscript:VBScript_SetScriptState unimplemented SCRIPTSTATE_INITIALIZED
fixme:scrrun:filesys_MoveFile 0x455d4cb0 L"C:\\Program Files\\FastCinemaDNG\\maintenancetool.exe.new" L"C:\\Program Files\\FastCinemaDNG\\maintenancetool.exe"
winedevice.exe(3731,0x401fb000) malloc: *** error for object 0x79be8dff: pointer being freed was not allocated
*** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug


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WineskinX11: main(): argc=12
Waiting for startup parameters via Mach IPC.
WineskinX11: do_start_x11_server(): argc=12
Attempting to use pixel depth of 24
[1853071.006] WineskinX11 starting:
[1853071.006] X.Org X Server 1.13.0
[1853071.006] Build Date: 20120921
[1853071.006] _XSERVTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.X11-unix will not be created.
[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension XTEST
[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
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[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
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[1853071.008] Initializing built-in extension GLX
[1853071.008] x: 0, y: 0, w: 2560, h: 1417
[1853071.021] (II) GLX: Initialized Core OpenGL GL provider for screen 0
[1853071.021] [dix] Could not init font path element /opt/X11/share/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
[1853071.021] [dix] Could not init font path element /opt/X11/share/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!
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[1853071.123] noPseudoramiXExtension=0, pseudoramiXNumScreens=1
Engine Used: WS9Wine2.2
Hardware:

    Hardware Overview:

      Model Name: Mac mini
      Model Identifier: Macmini6,2
      Processor Name: Intel Core i7
      Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz
      Number of Processors: 1
      Total Number of Cores: 4
      L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
      L3 Cache: 6 MB
      Memory: 16 GB
      Boot ROM Version: MM61.0106.B0B
      SMC Version (system): 2.8f1

Graphics/Displays:

    Intel HD Graphics 4000:

      Chipset Model: Intel HD Graphics 4000
      Type: GPU
      Bus: Built-In
      VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 1536 MB
      Vendor: Intel (0x8086)
      Device ID: 0x0166
      Revision ID: 0x0009
      Metal: Supported
      Displays:
        DELL U2713HM:
          Resolution: 2560 x 1440 @ 59 Hz
          Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)
          Display Serial Number: 7JNY5396175L
          Main Display: Yes
          Mirror: Off
          Online: Yes
          Rotation: Supported
          Automatically Adjust Brightness: No
          Connection Type: DisplayPort
          Television: Yes



[reddeercity]

You need 

NVIDIA GPU (Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell or Pascal) installed to run the software on GPU.

[megapolis]

Tried running this on OS X 10.12.3 under Wine and got up to the point where it's 80% installed this error pops up...

Unfortunately we haven't tested the setup on OS X under Wine yet. We will definitely check that soon. The message says that one can't register dll which is responsible for context menu in Windows Explorer. We've already seen such a situation and in all cases Windows was corrupted.

Haven't seen any NVIDIA GPU in your hardware. The software can't work with Intel built-in GPU (Intel HD Graphics 4000).

[masc]

@DeafEyeJedi: I also tried to run it on Wine. When did the message came up? On install? Or on run? Since the new Wine 2.0 64bit on OSX is supported (with some bugs).
I got it installed 100%. But on run I got an error which tells me about a 64bit problem... maybe some settings were wrong?!

[DeafEyeJedi]

@masc -- I ran Wineskin-2.6.2 (WS9Wine2.2) and the only tweak I added was vb6run under Winetrick within Advance settings.

The error (screenshot above) showed up as I was about 80% installed (then I clicked on ignore error) which then finished the installation but then it won't run for some reason. Did I miss a step for this particular app to work under Wine besides the 64-bit bug?

[reddeercity]

 @megapolis can Fast CinemaDng use multiply GPU's ,  2 or more (I have 2 gtx580 installed)
It seem I can choice either but not both .
Also do you or will you have support for a Capture/Playback card/device for monitoring on a external calibrated Grading HDMI & or HDSDI monitor ?
Since to have already integrated some blackmagic stuff maybe have support for there USB 3.0 device "UltraStudio SDI" has HDMI & HDSDI playback/output
and or any of the  blackmagic PCIe capture cards
I use my USB 3.0 device cross platform PC/MAC would be icing on top of the cake 

[megapolis]

@reddeercity

@megapolis can Fast CinemaDng use multiply GPU's, 2 or more (I have 2 gtx580 installed)

Current version of Fast CinemaDNG is working with just one GPU, though our core SDK can work with multiple NVIDIA GPUs as well. We think that for resolutions like 2K and 2.5K, one GPU should be enough for full image processing in realtime. 4K and 4.6K resolutions could be processed on just one GPU GeForce GTX 1070 or 1080. We are still working on optimization issues for CPU/GPU, and final solution should be faster.

We plan to use the second GPU for more complicated denoising or for JPEG2000 encoding and decoding (instead of ProRes or DNxHD/HR). These algorithms need a lot of computations and GPU memory, and it's difficult to incorporate them into existing pipeline on the first GPU in realtime.

Also do you or will you have support for a Capture/Playback card/device for monitoring on a external calibrated Grading HDMI & or HDSDI monitor?

At the moment we support just one monitor which is connected to the same GPU. We take into account ICC-profile of the monitor and you can define corresponding profile in the software settings. We do that color correction on CUDA and send processed data to the monitor.
You can work with multiple monitors, which are connected to the same GPU, but the software will take into account just one ICC profile.
We are also considering a task of 10-bit monitor support, but at the moment NVIDIA is offering that feature only for the latest Quadro GPUs, which are quite expensive.

Since to have already integrated some blackmagic stuff maybe have support for there USB 3.0 device "UltraStudio SDI" has HDMI & HDSDI playback/output and or any of the blackmagic PCIe capture cards

In order to support any external USB3 device, we need developer kit and API to work with such a device. At the moment we don't have that.
As far as concerns Blackmagic PCIe capture cards, we have such an experience and we can use them as input to offer realtime image acquisition and processing. That feature is not yet released and if you need it, please specify the task in more detail.

[masc]

@DeafEyeJedi: Ok, I used exactly the same. I only did not try the vb6run. But I had no error durring installation.
Bug maybe the wrong word:
https://www.winehq.org/wwn/364#Wine64%20on%20Mac%20OS%20X
and
https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ, point 2.6

[megapolis]

@reddeercity: We've fixed the issue with framerate tag, now it's working. Please check that once more.

In the latest release we've added two significant improvements for CinemaDNG processing:

1. For all demosaicing algorithms we've added "Enhance level" option and this improvement removed many debayer artifacts that we used to have. To compare with our previous debayer versions, you can set "Enhance level" = 1. That value is individual for each image and it's up to you what to choose. Actually we've added some more image processing stages before and after debayering to get the result.

Please test that software and share your experience with us. We would be interested to find out your results of comparison with demosaicing algorithms from ML, Davinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, ACR, Lightroom, etc.

2. We've improved Lossless JPEG decoder on CPU. This is one of the most important bottlenecks to overcome, before we could get smooth output in Player window. As soon as we don't use proxies and do all image processing for full-frame images, this is not simple, especially for 4K and 4.6K resolutions.

With new decoder on PC with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and CPU Intel Core i7 5930 we can process CinemaDNG footage with 4.6К resolution smoothly, with full image processing pipeline, including MG debayer, denoiser and unsharp mask.

[reddeercity]

@megapolis thanks for the update , Yes I can confirm the frame rate tag is back
I did notice the compressed Cdng from fastcdng changed the exposure tag , from 1/53  to 1/50
plus the light value was changed from 7.1 to 7.0 , I don't think that would cause any problems .
I haven't had time to fully check out all the changes yet , will do a.s.a.p.
below is the orginal Cdng from MLVFS and the exiftool info
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqmgd2sif8vwyw4/M18-0120_000000_O.dng?dl=0

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ExifTool Version Number         : 10.33
File Name                       : M18-0120_000000.dng
Directory                       : D:/Window7_Downloads Saves/exiftool-10.33/New
folder
File Size                       : 3.8 MB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2017:02:18 01:19:46-07:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2017:03:02 17:13:26-07:00
File Creation Date/Time         : 2017:03:02 17:13:26-07:00
File Permissions                : rw-rw-rw-
File Type                       : DNG
File Type Extension             : dng
MIME Type                       : image/x-adobe-dng
Exif Byte Order                 : Little-endian (Intel, II)
Subfile Type                    : Full-resolution Image
Image Width                     : 1856
Image Height                    : 1044
Bits Per Sample                 : 16
Compression                     : Uncompressed
Photometric Interpretation      : Color Filter Array
Fill Order                      : Normal
Make                            : Canon
Camera Model Name               : Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Strip Offsets                   : 65536
Orientation                     : Horizontal (normal)
Samples Per Pixel               : 1
Rows Per Strip                  : 1044
Strip Byte Counts               : 3875328
Planar Configuration            : Chunky
Software                        : MLVFS
Modify Date                     : 2017:01:18 01:19:46
CFA Repeat Pattern Dim          : 2 2
CFA Pattern 2                   : 0 1 1 2
Exposure Time                   : 1/53
F Number                        : 4.5
ISO                             : 800
Sensitivity Type                : ISO Speed
Exif Version                    : 0230
Subject Distance                : 107 m
Focal Length                    : 57.0 mm
Lens Model                      : EF24-70mm f/2.8L USM
DNG Version                     : 1.4.0.0
Unique Camera Model             : Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Linearization Table             : (Binary data 19364 bytes, use -b option to ext
ract)
Black Level                     : 448
White Level                     : 3750
Default Crop Origin             : 0 0
Default Crop Size               : 1856 1044
Color Matrix 1                  : 0.4716 0.0603 -0.083 -0.7798 1.5474 0.248 -0.1
496 0.1937 0.6651
As Shot Neutral                 : 0.4642547087 1 0.5671705788
Baseline Exposure               : 0
Calibration Illuminant 1        : D65
Active Area                     : 0 0 1044 1856
Frame Rate                      : 23.976
Baseline Exposure Offset        : 0
Aperture                        : 4.5
CFA Pattern                     : [Red,Green][Green,Blue]
Image Size                      : 1856x1044
Megapixels                      : 1.9
Shutter Speed                   : 1/53
Focal Length                    : 57.0 mm
Light Value                     : 7.1

Compressed Cdng from FastCdng with exiftool info

https://www.dropbox.com/s/25p5oshysad5cwj/M18-0120_000000%20%282%29.dng?dl=0

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ExifTool Version Number         : 10.33
File Name                       : M18-0120_000000 (2).dng
Directory                       : D:/Window7_Downloads Saves/exiftool-10.33/New
folder
File Size                       : 1328 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2017:03:02 17:24:16-07:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2017:03:02 17:26:18-07:00
File Creation Date/Time         : 2017:03:02 17:26:18-07:00
File Permissions                : rw-rw-rw-
File Type                       : DNG
File Type Extension             : dng
MIME Type                       : image/x-adobe-dng
Exif Byte Order                 : Little-endian (Intel, II)
Subfile Type                    : Full-resolution Image
Image Width                     : 1856
Image Height                    : 1044
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[megapolis]

@reddeercity: We've checked the issue with Exposure Time and have found that it's changed by a function from Adobe DNG SDK. Actually the software has found right value for Exposure Time in the original DNG and then compared it with predefined list of values. The closest one to 53 is 50, so 1/53 was switched to 1/50. Sure, we can fix that function, but there is a question. Does exist Exposure Time 1/53 s at your camera?

P.S. Please have a look at debayer quality for MG algorithm with enhance option.

[hyalinejim]

It seems good from what I briefly saw of it, "enhance" seems to reduce aliasing, but not as good as ACR with Cinelog, nor is the highlight reconstruction as good:



Sharpening and noise reduction is not working for me in the new version. I cannot change the sliders, even with the demo project. And I cannot find the export window.

[megapolis]

@hyalinejim: In order to be able to work with weak GPUs with 1-1.5 GB memory, we've implemented image processing pipeline manager. This is the way to exclude some image processing stages from the pipeline. You need to run the software without loading any project (or you can close current project) and click on Options button, then go to "Output and Extensions" tab. You will see there denoising, sharpening and other options for image processing which are excluded from the pipeline. Check necessary modules and try to open new project. If you have enough GPU memory, it should work. To get the same colors as ACR, please try both RGB and HSV LUTs as well. Manual in PDF you can find at the same folder as the software.
Usually we set "Enhance level" around 2.5-3.0 or even less. I think that 5 is often too much.
Could you please supply a link to DNG source image?

[hyalinejim]

Thanks megapolis for your quick reply! Your suggestions worked to re-enable parts of the interface. Here is a link to the DNG file:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1exEpCRAfgFQ1VOV1BCazBrVVk

It was shot in anamorphic, so it is laterally distorted. It's an interesting image as the candle flame will show aliasing artifacts typical of the 5D as sharpness is increased. Otherwise, the sharpening is very good indeed.

However, panel docking is not working well.