jaredhc wrote:Ok, I think it makes sense now. I already am in the film and photography industry though newer to film. In photography you choose wether you want to shoot in RAW or in JPG or TIFF, etc. I was thinking this was the same way.
umm... it is the same way. RAW is just one of the formats the camera can shoot in. Like RAW from a stills camera these need to be processed before they can be viewer by your audience.
The camera shoots in the follow formats:
12bit 2.5k RAW in CinemaDNG (2432 x 1366)
10bit 1080p in Apple ProRes 422 HQ (1920x1080)
10bit 1080p in Avid DNxHD (1920x1080)
jaredhc wrote:I'm understanding now that the RAW footage on the Black Magic is automatic and can be accessed through the Devinci software? Is that correct? And the RAW footage will be in ProRes/DNxHD/Uncompressed format?
Sorry I'm such a novice. I am used to being handed a camera and not having to worry about this stuff so all the video codecs are new to me as strange as that sounds.
It's not "automatic". You select to shoot in the format that is best for your deliver needs.
RAW is the best quality and has the most latitude in post but it comes at a price. RAW is 5MB/frame or 120MB/sec at 24p. Compare that to the ProRes option which 24.7MB/s at 24p.
RAW also takes more time to process in post. This is done with DaVinci Resolve (or other workflows) and is similar to processing RAW stills in that you can set the white balance, adjust the exposure, etc. You then export the footage in a format that suits your needs.
ProRes/DNxHD is like shooting still in TIFF mode. The colour balance and gamma curve is baked in but it is a 10bit file that has been losslessly compressed. It to can be colour corrected and graded in Resolve. It is vastly superior to shooting in a compressed format like most video DSLRs shoot in but does not have as much latitude as the RAW files.