Jack Fairley wrote:It's a non-linear 12-bit that works out to be equivalent to 16-bit linear. As you said, at the end of the day, ProRes LT is still a beautiful quality image compared to something compressed like h264. If you're not going to manipulate the footage in post, I would just save yourself the headache and shoot in a format FCPX can understand.
Did some tests today.. shot a few of the same scenes with both prores lt and q5... with the q5 I tried two different workflows.. one where I did nothing with the file in resolve and exported as prores hq and the imported and graded in fcp x.. the other I just stayed in resolve for both the edit and the grade.. and the delivered as a h264 master..
Looking at the footage.. really cannot see anyt difference between any of the files
Tbh.. at this stage I wasn’t doing extensive grading as I nail exposure in shot.. for these tests I just stuck the buttery lut on top (which is the lut also installed in cam
I use for monitoring ).
I am sure if I pixel peeped and zoomed in I would see a difference but with the naked eye I can’t..
This leaves me thinking I can stick with prores lt and my fcp workflow. The files are small enough within reason to stick on sd cards.. and surprising even some of my old Sandisk pro 95mb/s worked fine with this codec.. at both 24p and 60p..
Feel like in some way I am not using the camera to its full
Potential by staying away from braw.. but then I have to go with what’s easy for me and what I think looks good. I think part of the draw with raw is more about the small
File size/quality ratio, but doesn’t necessary make it better than prores for that fact alone in my opinion. I can see the flexibility of having total control of wb, iso after a shot in braw.. but again.. I always try to shoot right first time in cam.. to leave myself with minimal grading. Prores also is also a sturdy codec and holds up well to some pretty extensive grading.
One last thought.. love the image that comes out of this camera..but having played with my og bmpcc just last weekend, the new 4K defo doesn’t have that organic filmic quality the og has.