Wouter Bouwens wrote:I may be out of place here by saying this, and believe me I am a nerd that would love to use raw formats and all, but I think its important to realise that a good movie does not depend on resolutions and bitrates. If you take care of the filming, proper exposure etc, you mostly dont need 10 bit 422 and stuff to make a good movie. I'd rather watch a 720p good movieclip than a 4K HDR uninteresting piece of s#@$.
I hope I dont sound condesending, its not meant like that. I am just looking at myself, always chasing gear without first properly learning how to get the most out of the gear I already have.
That is a valid argument. I have to say that the run to acquire new and better gears is sometimes very tiring and not as satisfying when the system is finally bought.
But I think I need to clarify why I came to the point of wanting to try out ProRes RAW in the first place. So after purchasing the Gh5s camera and trying out both photo and video, I was very disappointed with how the photos turned out. I shot them in Jpeg and the output was very bad in my opinion- lots of artificial sharpening (I had put camera sharpening to the minimum!) and the textures felt overly polished, I was very very disappointed. Then recently I shot some photos in 14bit RAW and put them through Luminar software and I was utterly AMAZED by the difference between the jpeg and RAW version! The difference was waaayyy apart. The RAW photos maintained lots of details, the artificial sharpening I mentioned earlier was completely gone and it had a rather more natural sharpening effect. Needless to say, the highlights and shadows were very much preserved and overall the photo just had a complete new feel to it! I was amazed by the Gh5s sensor to capture so much detail and I wanted to see if the same difference happened when I switched to RAW in video.
I have only shot 8bit FHD videos in my camera, mainly because I can't process 10bit in free Resolve and (I have to admit I am quite very new to video color correction) I feel the artificial sharpening I mentioned before seems to be prevalent in the videos as well and I was wondering if there's a way to get rid of it and bring out the details like in RAW photos in videos too.
And just very recently Panasonic announced support of ProRes RAW in my camera so I wanted to instantly jump in the bandwagon and see the difference. But reading replies from you all, I have come to feel there's a lot to learn in this area. But I have to say I am truly very thankful for all the replies until now. They have been invaluable to make my decisions and is so much better than just going through and listening to the Google searches