Ulysses Paiva wrote:Antoine, I dont mean to disrespect you or whatever experience you might have but I think it is unwise to try to correct someone so experienced and so close to Braw development as JB. The discussion is not going anywhere fruitful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authorityIt's really not about who's right or who's wrong. I don't care, I continue to participate in this topic because I really think something useful for everyone could come up. Let's not fall into the internet forums trap thinking everyone is defending at all costs its own view. I am ready to change my view if given the facts.
I am not correcting JB, he is the one correcting us for using YUV 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 while I think they are useful analogies.
To continue with Cinematographer vs. software developer comparison, the developer will tell you "you'll loose 10% accuracy using this technique versus this other technique" and the cinematographer will tell you "it doesn't matter there are 5x others factors more important at play, I will continue using BRAW it's great". So they are both useful here.
And don't take me wrong, I would love to be able to tell everyone Blackmagic RAW is awesome and provides perfect accuracy, I develop and sell plugins for people like you to use Blackmagic RAW every day
. What I can see for now is that BRAW is not "fully RAW". Even if research about BRAW shows it is not "fully RAW" as I expect my opinion so far is that it's still a great tradeoff between RAW formats that need more space and processing power to develop and others formats like H264 that have too much color processing baked in and not well suited for video editing. The most interesting comparison I'm interested in is .BRAW versus ProRes 4444
John Brawley wrote:Like RED do with their SDK ? It’s not going to happen I don’t think. They want to protect this IP....
Fr BRAW I'm sure it will get reversed at some point, providing useful answers for this topic. And yes you're right there are tons of stuff they are doing in between that is very relevant so knowing about the codec isn't the end and I'm not sure anyone will reverse engineer what's happening inside their cameras it's too much work.
In all cases I'm thinking of writing a technical article about if Blackmagic RAW is really RAW / Why it would matter or not etc. So your opinion about BRAW is most welcome here