Kaleb Seaton
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Please excuse if this is a very dumb question or obvious answer, but I'm not finding any information online anywhere.
I have always shot in .R3D, ever since I purchased this camera. Never had an issue. I've always found the monitor to look soft, and difficult for manually pulling focus. (Yes I'm aware of focus peaking) So under monitor advanced settings, there is a slider bar for "Output sharpness". My assumption when I saw this was that it was outputting sharpness to the monitor, not outputting to the footage. Because, for as long as I've used .R3D, I've always just had the output sharpness up, just to help with run and gun pulling. The footage has always been awesome, never had any issues. Never looked overly sharp. For a job recently, I switched over to ProRes. When I looked at the footage later, the output sharpness was baked into the footage, and is virtually unusable.
Why does output sharpness affect ProRes footage, but not RAW footage? And is there any way to salvage footage that has been over-sharpened?
I have always shot in .R3D, ever since I purchased this camera. Never had an issue. I've always found the monitor to look soft, and difficult for manually pulling focus. (Yes I'm aware of focus peaking) So under monitor advanced settings, there is a slider bar for "Output sharpness". My assumption when I saw this was that it was outputting sharpness to the monitor, not outputting to the footage. Because, for as long as I've used .R3D, I've always just had the output sharpness up, just to help with run and gun pulling. The footage has always been awesome, never had any issues. Never looked overly sharp. For a job recently, I switched over to ProRes. When I looked at the footage later, the output sharpness was baked into the footage, and is virtually unusable.
Why does output sharpness affect ProRes footage, but not RAW footage? And is there any way to salvage footage that has been over-sharpened?
