Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

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Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSat Apr 14, 2018 2:47 am

I am sure I'm not the first to ask, but I didn't see a sticky and you can't search for "3:1" as a keyword here.

Is there sample comparisons between the different DNG codecs? Ideally on the 4.6K. I'm renting a UMP and need to estimate how many CFAST cards I need or determine whether I should just buy the SSD recorder.
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSat Apr 14, 2018 5:18 am

Chad, I’ll get back to you tomorrow.


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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSat Apr 14, 2018 1:11 pm

I have shot a few times on the BM 4.6k using 3:1 and there isn't any difference to me between RAW or 3:1 or 4:1 but i select 3:1 just to be on the safe side just in case
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSun Apr 15, 2018 1:39 am

Not a 4.6K but very nice test:
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSun Apr 15, 2018 11:20 am

Scrap my old info- I made mistake and my test were done for something like 5:1, not 3:1.

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Based on this test looks like DNG is not very efficent (neither very fast to decode). 3:1 should still be good enough.
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSun Apr 15, 2018 12:28 pm

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worth checking. if you have lots of detail only uncompressed-raw will give you clean results. plus slimraw 3:1 compression is better than Ursa in-Camera 3:1 Compression. Based on my tests. So if you need to have complete artefact-free recordings you need to record Lossless.
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSun Apr 15, 2018 1:22 pm

Scrap my old info- I made mistake and my test were done for something like 5:1, not 3:1.
At 3:1 cDNG is very decent, like it should be.

3:1 compression is close to lossless, so DNG has to be actually quite bad not delivering stellar results.
ProRes at 3:1 is practically lossless.
Here is a real life test.
Take uncompressed/lossless DNG and make 3 versions from it:
1- uncompressed 10bit 4:2:2
2- ProResHQ
3- 3:1 compressed DNG and then debayer to 10bit uncompressed v210
Make sure in all 3 cases you used same software, so debayering algorithm is the same.
Now check PSNR for 2 and 3 against 1. This will show you how good is 3:1 against ProResHQ (as final end video) from the compression point (of course having RAW assets has its own advantages, but we ignore this here).
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Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSun Apr 15, 2018 5:02 pm

rick.lang wrote:Chad, I’ll get back to you tomorrow.


Sorry, Chad. Looks like I didn’t keep the comparison on Vimeo. Echoing an earlier comment, I remember seeing differences among all flavours of raw in the identical scene shooting a very complex subject. For most scenes, likely 3:1 will be completely acceptable.

I’ve shot 4:1 when I needed the longer recording times and it’s good, but I generally avoid it if I have the option to shoot 3:1. Of course if you need the very best results, go with raw, however I believe John Brawley has said he shoots raw 3:1 usually when he isn’t shooting ProRes 444.

To estimate space requirements, compressed raw for me is 1.3x due to complexity of the frame; raw 3:1 is about half the compressed raw (or a third uncompressed) and 4:1 is a third the compressed raw or a quarter uncompressed raw.


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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostMon Apr 16, 2018 5:24 pm

Ok, another related question... Can the USB-C port be used to mount the CFast cards on a computer? Or do I also need to rent a CFast reader?
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostMon Apr 16, 2018 5:27 pm

rick.lang wrote:
rick.lang wrote:Chad, I’ll get back to you tomorrow.


Sorry, Chad. Looks like I didn’t keep the comparison on Vimeo. Echoing an earlier comment, I remember seeing differences among all flavours of raw in the identical scene shooting a very complex subject. For most scenes, likely 3:1 will be completely acceptable.


OK, I'll do a test shoot once the camera arrives and if there's an issue I'll overnight some more cards.
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostWed Apr 18, 2018 7:03 pm

Chad Capeland wrote:Ok, another related question... Can the USB-C port be used to mount the CFast cards on a computer? Or do I also need to rent a CFast reader?

never you can... with all bmd cameras actual on market you need a reader to read externally your shooting support.
Rent a good and fast Cfast reader, check it be cause there are a lots of slow reader also with usb 3, usb c cable.
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostSun Apr 22, 2018 7:55 pm

carlomacchiavello wrote:
Chad Capeland wrote:Ok, another related question... Can the USB-C port be used to mount the CFast cards on a computer? Or do I also need to rent a CFast reader?

never you can... with all bmd cameras actual on market you need a reader to read externally your shooting support.
Rent a good and fast Cfast reader, check it be cause there are a lots of slow reader also with usb 3, usb c cable.


So strange. There's a USB port a few mm from the CFast slot. Bummer.
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Re: Any comparisons for 4.6K RAW vs 3:1 vs 4:1?

PostMon Apr 23, 2018 9:15 am

Chad Capeland wrote:
carlomacchiavello wrote:
Chad Capeland wrote:Ok, another related question... Can the USB-C port be used to mount the CFast cards on a computer? Or do I also need to rent a CFast reader?

never you can... with all bmd cameras actual on market you need a reader to read externally your shooting support.
Rent a good and fast Cfast reader, check it be cause there are a lots of slow reader also with usb 3, usb c cable.


So strange. There's a USB port a few mm from the CFast slot. Bummer.


also near cfast/sd card clot of ursaMayor/ursaMini/UrsaMiniPro, also near ssd slot of bmcc, but no one is card reader, are cinema camera.

a good and fast card read cost less 50$, instead to use a expansive camera like card reader, instead to wear out in many different way camera to do a simple task like read card, instead to reduce battery and more...

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