Australian Image wrote:
Why do people keep quoting this same individual over and over again? Give me a list of 10 reputable people that dislike BRAW and can't work with it. And it's always test charts and static models. Pixel peeping at it best. I've never seen a movie yet where the story is about shooting test charts and table top models.
Its not that people dislike braw or think its unusable I think, its that according to these people its not as good as cdng for whatever reasons they are claiming. People are mostly arguing completely different things on this and are throwing up examples taken from different people running tests from two different cameras to argue about what codec is better based on mostly undefined points.
Whether or not a codec is good or bad is completely relative and generally, for most people, the best compromise of quality, durability, compression, cost, production speed, etc. separate "good" codecs from "bad" codecs and this is all project dependent as well. And believe it or not, compressed files like Redcode, prores, and now braw make a lot of sense for a wide variety of productions. Even H264/5 have a place in quality video products regardless of how much IQ purists cry foul.
The off-base claims here have been around braw or proes not being good enough for real work or higher end productions, which is utterly ridiculous. Its also not true that there is zero difference between the codecs. Whether or not cdng is producing false details or whatever I guess is up to whoever is looking at it, leaving "whats better IQ-wise" based in opinions which cant really be argued with. Somebody would need an engineer or scientist to prove it is or isnt false detail right?
And when was the last time you had a scientist tell you what was good or bad about art?
Now there is a new thing about people being mad because of false advertisement, which is fair.
Honestly the whole thing has got my popcorn stale at this point.
I'd say, BMD would be great to provide at least the lossless compressed format as cdng was originally promised on the Pocket 4K if possible to satisfy the iq purists and people who want what they thought they purchased. It would be a fair compromise to make, but the "unnamed patent troll" may have other words about that since competition from the BMD's newer cameras was evidently too strong to deal with.