Wed Apr 03, 2019 5:49 pm
I'm sure there are a number of different uses, but for me:
I film for a TV production company. We edit and broadcast in 1080, but shoot everything 4K for archival reasons. Now, I can encode my footage after a shoot, but very often what I film needs to go on air that day, or the next. If I shoot 4K internal and record 1080 external, I have realtime transcoding. I can even have Braw/LOG/Film archive files and pregraded 1080 files by outputting my LUT on the external recording.
I have a shoot coming up that's going to require a fair amount of slowmo, so trying to work out the best way for that to fit into my system and workflow.
As a worst case, I'll have to shoot 4k ProRes Film, and throw a LUT on the slowmo files, while anything intended for 25p realtime playback has already been done for me on the VA. Unless my tests show that having a project FR of 50p and Off Speed FR of 25p will give me the results I'm hoping for.
I'll try testing tomorrow, and post back here with my findings either way. Could be an interesting workaround for a problem nobody else has issue with haha.