DanMayers wrote:I do have a Z6II and understand it's integration to the monitors capabilities. the Z8 with all it can do heats up in about 30 minutes with the best approved cards making shooting longer interviews tenuous. I can shoot 4k on the Z8 to the Atamos and have longer takes.
Was hoping for encouraging news from Black Magic on this as many factors of their monitor are nice to consider.
Thanks for your input
Firstly, it would be extremely unlikely that Blackmagic Design would answer a question like this on a forum. Secondly, today's announcement that Nikon have acquired Red would seem to me to make it even less likely that BRAW will join NRAW and ProRes Raw as internally recorded codecs in current or future Nikon cameras. It will be interesting to see if the Nikon Z6III, due sometime this year, continues to have an option for external raw recording to Atomos Ninja and BMD Video Assist. I wouldn't bank on it but who knows?
As far as overheating is concerned, I think the simple answer to that is don't record interviews with 8K NRAW which is presumably what is causing the problems. Or perhaps that should be phrased as a question - why record long form interviews with 8K NRAW. I would think 4K H.265 should be more than adequate.
Have you seen the Ricci Talks video (link below) on his tests with various cards and the Z8? One basic conclusions is that recording H.265 does not cause overheating before the battery runs out. A second conclusions was that setting the camera heat warning to high rather than standard does not cause the camera to shut down at all even with NRAW 8K 60fps. As you mention, you have the option of recording 4K ProRes to the Ninja (with ot without internal H.265 recording). That also works for the BMDVA. That is what I would do if recording longform interviews
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