Before, I used to shoot with cinestyle, with 0 in camera sharpening, then, in Adobe After Effects, I had to use the unsharp mask effect, but with values like 1-250 to get good enough sharpening, and it was pretty noisy on the footage afterwards, but I had a solution to that by using the H.264 encoder, it gets rid of most of the noise, but still, it was a less than satisfactory result in terms on noise. After shooting with +1 in camera sharpening, in After Effects I was required to use only values like 0.5-100 to get the same sharpening that I got before, but with way less noise, like -90%. So it's definitely the way to go.
You can still use 0 in camera sharpening on scenes that don't need to be too sharp, but use +1 if you are not sure.
CBR 3x, 0 in camera sharpening, AE unsharp mask (1-250), f/5.6:
CBR 3x, +1 in camera sharpening, AE unsharp mask (0.5-100), f/5.6:
They look the same, but the first one, had way more noise before being exported with AE and encoded again with H.264, as a result of the high values of the unsharpen mask.
And another tip, if you want to get rid of all the aliasing from the image, shoot it with f/10-22. I know that every lens has it's most sharp f number, for some is f4, for others is f5.6, 6.4, but above a certain f number, the aliasing and moire start to go away. At f/10 it starts do go away, at f/16 it really starts to go away, and at f/22 it's almost all gone.
CBR 1.5x, 0 in camera sharpening, AE unsharp mask (1-250), f/22
<--- way less aliasing compared to f/5.6:
ps: these videos were NOT made with tragic lantern with the advanced H.264 controls.
