Posts made by Deleted74295

@scottalanmiller It's probably my brain but the shimmer the camera gives off when you judder it up or down ever so slightly is really distracting. Even at standard def.

https://vimeo.com/81987349

I'll borrow a black magic and do some test footage so you can compare.

@scottalanmiller Wellll....does it?

Just for fun, I took the same great footage, made one a standard def DVD and one a h264 30 meg per second video.

Then using a switcher, did A/B test with both playing at the same time and asked people to "Spot the difference" between them. Apparently they were both the same.

I would say that the quality of the playback device (TV/IPad/PC) will have a bigger impact on it.

@scottalanmiller said:

We are doing travel videos so the wide field limitation is not as bad as it could be.

I was worried you were attempting corporate talking heads or interview style, for travel I guess it's alright.

@scottalanmiller Even at 1080P

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What I'm trying to say is, I can record a .wav file at the highest meg per second if I wanted to, but that won't make my music amazing.

My thing is that it needs to look good, is the shot framed nicely? The audio capture clear and stellar? Additional lights in place?

With a single go-pro I would worry about whether content, shot placement, lighting & audio is stellar before worrying about resolution.

@scottalanmiller said:

Have you SEEN the images coming off of these? It's not a Red by any stretch, but they look absolutely amazing.

Youtube Video

I'm guessing you have the Hero? Might be wrong.

Certainly in the past 2 years a lot of cameras from different manufactures are all fairly similar now, We just finished a project in East Africa using Blackmagic Pocket Cinema cameras, with Pro-Res 4:4:2:2 we kept storage costs down but still had a massive amount of data for the edit, It also looks incredible, being able to use fantastic lenses does help.

Without knowing what you are planning to make, my worry is that going through the expense of storing and having someone edit that 4K raw, will it make the content better? Especially if the editor insists on using raw.

I'm just thinking that's a really expensive project in terms of time/storage and editing costs, what are you guys producing where you genuinely need 4K RAW footage.

Apple Pro-res 4:4:2:2 should give the editor a huge amount of grading scope without breaking the storage bank.

I have to say, 4K raw is an ambitious idea considering the amount of footage you are looking to capture, especially given all the other factors on those Go-Pro cameras, sensor size, quality of the glass, you'll run into that as the quality barrier quicker than file format will.

Why in the name of soup do you need 4K footage?

Are you going to be colour grading the footage? Or just correcting brightness levels.

RAW footage is expensive to store and is huge, what are you doing where you will genuinely get the benefit of it?

Considering most footage that you see is .h284 compressed at 6-12 meg per second for most consumption on the internet, should you re-consider the 4K RAW idea?