Justin,

It's interesting that you can see a difference using ProRes4444. My own tests showed no difference apart from a much larger file size. The difference in the two tests is that you are using 5DtoRGB to transcode your footage.

When I get five minutes I'll test your workflow - every little helps...

I was at CineGear this weekend, Technicolor was there with one of their scientists showing and explaining their picture style. The Genesis of it was this as I recall . Many DP's are grabbing shots with the 5D and dropping them in Technicolors lap and telling them to match the other film footage. Knowing this wasn't going to change anytime soon, they approached Canon, got on their good side, which allowed TC to get a glimpse inside the processing of the camera, such that they were able to rearrange the way the data was written so that the curve is flat, giving equal data space to the whole range. All for the purpose of making their job easier as mentioned before. So if you want the most possible latitude in post, this PS is what you want, especially when matching other cameras footage.

So the bottom line is that we totally benefit from TC's self serving ( I mean that in a totally a win-win way) engineering so that DP's can give them 5D footage that has a hope of integration into the larger projects.

FWIW:

Did some testing today with the Cinestyle preset, or rather, our intern did. Didn't want to clog the forum so thought I'd post here as it's just another TEST video. Check out the Vimeo description for some more details on the LUTs used.

Cinestyle Test on Vimeo