I've been using DSLRs to create films for a while now and understand why so many people use 'flat' colour profiles such as Cinestyle. My question is, is it better to not use a flat profile in the hypothetical case where you want the final output to look like the Standard Picture Style (on a Canon DSLR)?
The rationale being that if you shoot flat, you then have to push pixels values around to get your film looking like the Standard profile - this introduces artifacts as you're dealing with compressed video.
If you shoot with the Standard Picture Style, these adjustments happen in camera before they're compressed to h264 - therefore significantly less artifacts due to compression. Or is this assumption wrong?
The rationale being that if you shoot flat, you then have to push pixels values around to get your film looking like the Standard profile - this introduces artifacts as you're dealing with compressed video.
If you shoot with the Standard Picture Style, these adjustments happen in camera before they're compressed to h264 - therefore significantly less artifacts due to compression. Or is this assumption wrong?