Wed Aug 22, 2012 11:58 pm
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The tech specs for the Cinema Camera indicate "Thunderbolt port for capture of RAW video and audio," which I would assume means 2.5k RAW. I have received conflicting information that indicates the Thunderbolt port outputs the same format as the SDI port, which is 1920x1080 10-bit 4:2:2.
I am purchasing this camera strictly to convert (or render) the RAW footage to ProRes 4444. Footage subsampled at 4:2:2 does not work well with the chroma keying I'm doing.
Assuming the Thunderbolt capture is indeed RAW and not chroma subsampled to 4:2:2, I'd rather use the Thunderbolt stream and capture it as ProRes 4444 (using Media Express) than work with SSD cards. Does this workflow sound plausible?