[Oliver Peters]

PS: How are you delivering to the colorist? Unless you have a ton of footage, the cleanest way is to roundtrip between Resolve (Is that what the colorist is using?) and Premiere. Send the original files with an XML for your timeline. The colorist will render graded, trimmed clips with a new corresponding XML. You would then conform the final master in Premiere. Therefore, no need to generate DPX files in the first place, since the colorist is grading original camera media.

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

Shoot ProRes4444. If you have the storage space and a powerful enough system, I believe the Mini LF can also shoot in ProRes 4444 XQ, which is even better. But 4444 is more than good enough.

Do your VFX from the ungraded footage so that the colorist can correctly balance everything out and match the shots. Send original camera clips to the VFX artist, unless those are really long takes. If you do need to export trimmed clips, export at the native resolution as PR4444. Use max bit depth (set to 16bpc) and maximum quality in your export setting.

It’s a short film. You’ll be fine.

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

[Bill Davis] “Because for me, the storyline is simply where the rest of the efficiency enabling technologies in X REPORT their data for assembly.”

I would suggest that this workflow – in the amount you talk about utilizing it – would be only be common to a minority of editors, particularly those who cut with X. ☺

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

I played around with a few of the 12K clips today. Resolve doesn’t see them at all. I suppose you have to go with the beta instead of the current version for now. I did install the beta of their BRAW support, so Premiere does see the files and the RAW controls do work. However, brutally slow. This was on a mid-tier iMac Pro and Promise RAID. So unusable at the moment unless you have a very beefy Mac Pro or PC. Maybe the Resolve beta is better.

OTOH – the BMD RAW Player app does play these files nicely even on my older MBP and a USB 3 drive. So that would lead me to believe performance will improve once it’s all tweaked.

– Oliver

[Oliver Peters]

[Pat Horridge] “It’s imperative that end of session manual copies to alternate storage devices is rigidly followed.”

It won’t help this situation, but one idea we follow in the shop is to back up Premiere project files to DropBox. At the end of each day, each editor copies his project over to the company DropBox folder for back-up purposes. This overwrites the previous day’s back-up (if you want to), so you always have the most recent version.

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

Overall, forget about the RAW. What’s really interesting is that BMD has deviated from the “off-the-shelf” Bayer-pattern sensor design. Most of the other cameras use a design with 50% green-filtered photosites and then 25% for each red and blue. BMD has opted to go equal numbers of photosites for RGB light. That’s pretty cool.

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

[Brad Hurley] “but you should add Blackmagic Design to the list of camera manufacturers that record ProRes internally”

Thanks. Will do.

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

[Michael Gissing] “ProResRAW isn’t free either and they have limited acquisition to Atomos”

I’ve sort of changed my thoughts on what Apple may be doing with ProRes RAW. I think their motivations for ProRes RAW is different than RED or BMD.

https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/time-to-rethink-prores-raw/

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

[Ricardo Marty] “There is no prores over 4k even prores raw.”

Huh? ProRes is resolution-independent. Do you mean no camera that records ProRes is recording the signal larger than 4K?

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

[Bret Williams] “True, but aren’t you’re asking a hypothetical question about a hypothetical product that doesn’t exist?”

I suppose that’s true. I guess I was coming at it from the point of why should Apple even bother to develop it for the iPad.

– Oliver

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