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I've been a Resolve user for years and I couldn't live without it. With the release of the new Pocket Cinema Camera 4k this year, I'm thinking about moving to Blackmagic cameras as well.
I've been doing extensive testing with my post production workflow over the last couple of days. My biggest concern was throughput as I mainly edit off a high end laptop with external drives. I downloaded the John Brawley RAW files (105MB's) and am happy to report that I can stack 3 on a timeline under a heavy grade and the playback is still smooth as silk.
My only concern is that these files are only 2.5k with no compression. I need to know if that silky playback will change at 4k with 4:1 compression. I found some uncompressed 4.6k URSA footage but it won't play smoothly because it's over 500MB's a second. You need a RAID to edit on that kind of throughput and it's not practical for the mobility I need and the amount of footage that I store for my feature films. I'm pretty sure I can't go much over 150MB's before I will start running into problems on fairly standard external drives. The new Pocket 4K 4:1 compression is only 96MB's so throughput should work fine. The only question is if the CPU and the graphics card can deal with the 4K and the extra compression.
I can't seem to find any RAW compressed files anywhere. Does Blackmagic provide them and I just haven't found them yet? I'm specifically looking for 4K or 4.6K 60p 4:1 RAW files. I do a lot of ramping in my edits so I work with a lot of 60p footage on a 24 timeline.
I love the Blackmagic footage. It's beautiful and a joy to work with in post. I'll buy at least 2 of the new Pockets if I can figure out an efficient post workflow. Any links, advice, or recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks
Michael
I've been doing extensive testing with my post production workflow over the last couple of days. My biggest concern was throughput as I mainly edit off a high end laptop with external drives. I downloaded the John Brawley RAW files (105MB's) and am happy to report that I can stack 3 on a timeline under a heavy grade and the playback is still smooth as silk.
My only concern is that these files are only 2.5k with no compression. I need to know if that silky playback will change at 4k with 4:1 compression. I found some uncompressed 4.6k URSA footage but it won't play smoothly because it's over 500MB's a second. You need a RAID to edit on that kind of throughput and it's not practical for the mobility I need and the amount of footage that I store for my feature films. I'm pretty sure I can't go much over 150MB's before I will start running into problems on fairly standard external drives. The new Pocket 4K 4:1 compression is only 96MB's so throughput should work fine. The only question is if the CPU and the graphics card can deal with the 4K and the extra compression.
I can't seem to find any RAW compressed files anywhere. Does Blackmagic provide them and I just haven't found them yet? I'm specifically looking for 4K or 4.6K 60p 4:1 RAW files. I do a lot of ramping in my edits so I work with a lot of 60p footage on a 24 timeline.
I love the Blackmagic footage. It's beautiful and a joy to work with in post. I'll buy at least 2 of the new Pockets if I can figure out an efficient post workflow. Any links, advice, or recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks
Michael