5DIII Cinema DNG and After Effects grading, help needed

[kedbear]

Hi,

 

Is it possible for AE CS6 to work with 5DIII Cinema DNG files natively with it's own plugins, not ACR? So if i use ACR just to set my sharpening and colour profile, do i still have the full range of the RAW to use with After Effects plugins?

 

Why if i use a curves plugin within AE and blow out the highlights can i not bring the highlights back with a second curves plugin below the first?

 

Thanks very much for any help.

[jgharding]

If you clip in ACR I don't think you can recover outside of it. ACR is debayering, your AE effects come after that process in an RGB space.

 

For your other issue, try setting your comp settings to 32-bit. It may fix it if i understand you right.

 

Look at the bottom the project panel it says 8 bpc. Hold Alt and click this to change the bit-depth for the project.