Michael McCaffrey wrote:Somebody at NAB needs to corner the Atomos CEO or Grant Petty and get some answers about exclusivity and wide availability of ProRes RAW and plans for future implementation on the Ursa Mini line.
Beyond curiosity sake, why bother hassling them about it? Any future workflow benefits to ProResRAW are going to take years be realized as we’ll need to wait for the codec to be supported equally well across a large range of post production applications. Might as well let Canon, Sony and Panasonic camera owners deal with all the early adoptor bugs and headaches.
If what you seek is image quality, just shoot 12 bit ProRes4444 or 4:1 raw on your Ursa Mini. Either codec will give you just as much color depth and dynamic range as you’d ever get out of ProResRAW.
I’m definitely guilty of wanting to have the latest shiny new thing, but if I slow down and think about it logically, the fact is that ProResRAW (as currently implemented by Apple) isn’t really going to provide anything for the Ursa Mini cameras that the current available codecs don’t already offer.