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Boris, the blurring is caused by the use of the T/S-E (tilt-shift) lens, which allows you to alter the plane of focus, in this case I have it "swung" to the maximum, making the plane of focus nearly perpendicular to the sensor plane, and thus the sides look blurry. I'm currently still using the standard picture style, but plan to run a series of tests with the other presets, and picture style editor to see what will work best. I'm doubtful that this will be a solution for the crushed blacks. I've played with a few clips in apple's color, which does seem to bring back a tiny bit of detail in the shadows (more in the hightlights). The main problem really seems to be an issue of the image curve canon is using, which is overly flat in the shadows, and steep in the mid-tones, giving everything a slightly processed look, which I happen to like, but limits you somewhat in post processing.

I thought I replied to this already, but I'm learning with Vimeo, that things sometimes take time to show up...I wasn't paying too much attention to shutter speeds, mostly trying to control aperture, which wasn't that difficult considering the lighting was pretty dim. I'd guess that it was mostly at 1/30 or 1/60 as the motion is pretty smooth.

I normally wouldn't convert to 24p. 30p really looks just as filmlike in most situations, and you don't have to deal with pulldown issues in the u.s. However vimeo converts all hd content to 24p, and their conversion seems to make for a pretty jittery experience. Converting in compressor is simple, (and magic). There's a preset (h264 720p for dvdstudio pro) that you can alter to produce better motion characteristics. Check out dvinfo.net and their 5d for hd forum. Barlow Elton started a thread there about this, and there is some good info there.

I did the 720p24 conversion in Compressor. Took about a half-hour, which was about 3 times as long as the previous 720p30 encoding.

if you read up a few posts you'll see the basics on the procedure. Compressor has presets for Hd-DVD that will get you to 720p24 which is what you want, you'll just want to customize that in the settings for the highest quality motion conversion. Slow, but works great. I can barely tell it's been converted.

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