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Oliver, so far the beta Mac version of Resolve is designed to play the BRAW 2.0 files from the new camera.
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[Joe Marler] “Why can’t BMD write a similar plugin to enable BRAW support in FCPX like RED and Canon did for their raw formats?”
They have published their SDK from day one and so Pr can play BRAW. It’s not BM’s job to write a plugin for FCPX. The SDK is published and free. BM are not in the business of writing plugins for lazy NLE software companies. Either Apple do the job or it’s up to any third party who make a buck out of Apples laziness to develop their software properly. Do you expect BM to also write a plugin so Apple can export an AAF to DAWs?
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[Joe Marler] “I don’t think they have published any info about how to *encode* BRAW which means nobody but BMD can do that.”
I would be surprised if they gave encode away for free. Maybe BM are open to licensing it to other camera people but who would use it. RED have their own as does Arri. Maybe Canon now they are recording internal 8K. It might make their cameras run cooler and give longer record times.
ProResRAW isn’t free either and they have limited acquisition to Atomos. So same problem. What is baffling is that Apple won’t include the free BRAW decode in FCPX. Equally baffling is that BM won’t license ProResRAW for Resolve. So far I’ve not seen any ProResRAW in productions I’ve worked on. Plenty of BRAW however so that problem is yet to manifest itself for me.
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In relation to FCPX, the significant issue with this camera is also the performance of BRAW. I hope Apple are looking at how BRAW is developing and the petty (see what I did there) RAW wars will not continue. I want to see BRAW and ProResRAW available in FCPX and Resolve
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[Brad Hurley] “Native ISO is 800 according to John Brawley”
Yes I just read that from John B. Same as my old Mini 4.6. The camera will be very low noise and without patterning so I bet it can be pushed to ISO 3200 without issue.
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And Resolve 16.3 beta is now available. The BRAW developments are pretty amazing and the performance playback on Macs is also impressive. Grant says Metal has helped that.
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I’ve just ordered one. I know I will have to wait in line behind ‘high end DP’s’. The only info not given in Grant’s usual daggy dad demo was native ISO.
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Smooth cut is a morph effect. You have only a few options to set so if it does weird things, there’s not a lot to tweak. I used it recently to morph in things on a locked shot with props and people added and it worked very well but it was meant to be an obvious morph. Disguising edits is something i have used smooth cut for and I was able to match the look that the editor had done in Avid. That said, I don’t use Avid and can’t really compare other than Smooth Cut looked the same on the particular edit which was a talking head with a jump cut.
Like anything it is really difficult to give any assurance that what you want to do will work with either Smooth cut or Avid’s morph. I would definitely also shoot conventional cut away shots. That is the time proven way to edit to make a performance seem continuous.
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Given the Tokyo Olympics has been postponed, maybe BM are rushing to get this product out so they get a sniff at the delayed broadcast. 8K may seem premature but not to NHK.
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David, Bob Zelin’s point is that BM have just released two panels that are not designed for the area of increased usage you point out. The release of the ATEM mini range a few months ago was aimed squarely at that increased market.