Robert A. Ober wrote:I own an FS7 so I will try it in 12. Odd that it would be broken in 12. As you may realize, the FS7 has sold very well and apparently is still selling pretty well.
That's true, and it's not a toy camera. The FS7 does have the ability to record natively to ProRes with the XDCA-FS7 adapter, and my advice would be to record to that format. The XAVC codecs are problematic because of their reliance on H.264 encoding, which is a lot of overhead in the OS.
Barring that, my workaround would be to shoot in XAVC and then transcode to ProRes 444 for editing, VFX, and color. The FS7 is at least 10-bit, though it's still technically recording 422.
I sympathize with BMD, because it seems like every six months, four new cameras come out with 2 new recording codecs that present new compatibility and performance problems. Keeping up with this is an absolutely nightmare for developers. I also don't envy people who have to put outtakes and re-edits back together 5 or 10 years after a project has wrapped. I'd bet there's a good chance none of these formats will be decodable a decade from now, not if it's one manufacturer's proprietary codec. It's a sobering problem for long-term archiving.