[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Nicole, you can always create proxies. Use Lightroom or ACR or RAW Therapee to batch process (transcode) your footage

1. Downconvert to 1920×1080 (or even 1280×720) JPEG
2. Change to 8-bit
3. Color space Rec. 709
4. Low quality setting (you’ll be surprised how good this is)

Edit using proxies. Once you’ve locked your edit you can apply the edit to the DNG files and you’ll have a locked DNG image sequence ready when you are to color grade it.

If your final video is only a few minutes long, there’s no reason why you can’t color grade it with Lightroom or Raw therapee – I have a feeling they will give better results than Resolve.

I used this exact process to work with the free DNG files supplied by John yesterday on the BM forum. There’s nothing stopping you from working on it with your current setup.

By the way – RAID is not a storage or backup solution. It’s a ‘storage and backup while you work solution’. For storage just use regular disks – internal or external.

Hope this helps.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

With PCI(e) adapters – isn’t that feasible?

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

You could use USB 3.0 or eSATA – I think for most of your work these are great anyway.

You can always software RAID two SATA III 6 Gbps drives (internal or external) for files with higher data rates but for 5D footage it’s overkill.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

“And if I can’t use Resolve because of my computer, what other options would I have for a good workflow that harnesses the power of this camera?”

SpeedGrade CS6 accepts CinemaDNG. The other workflow is to use Lightroom or RAW therapee in batch mode – if you have stored your footage as a DNG image sequence rather than MXF.

If you’re migrating to CS6 you’ll probably need a computer upgrade anyway.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

It doesn’t say in the specs that it can accept SDXC cards. However, even though technically SDXC cards are designed for more data, are there any cards that are being sold at higher rates than SDHC?

AFAIK, the professional grade cards from Sandisk top at 128 GB.

Here’s some info from Wikipedia:

Compatibility with SDHC

SDXC host devices accept all previous families of SD memory cards.[26] Conversely, SDHC host devices will accept SDXC cards that follow Version 3.0, since the interface is identical,[3] but the following issues may affect usability:

SDXC cards are pre-formatted with Microsoft’s proprietary and patented exFAT file system, which the host device might not support. Since Microsoft does not publish the specifications of exFAT and its use requires a non-free license, many alternative or older operating systems do not support exFAT for technical or legal reasons.

SDHC host devices will not test the new capability bits defined for SDXC 4.0 cards. It will therefore not be able to use the new features of SDXC, such as transfer speeds above UHS104 (104 MB/s).

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Assuming all the ‘levels’ are the same and you’ve reset each camera to its defaults and tried again –

You need to get it repaired.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Try H.264 Constant bit rate at 24 Mbps.

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Rent a Nikon D800 or FS100 instead – that has a clean HDMI out, but it’s uncompressed. What are you transcoding to?

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[Sareesh Sudhakaran]

Thank you Jeff.
I guess it is an overscan issue, but it doesn’t cut off the image equally on all sides. Anyway, the footage and menus are all in 16:9.

The question is, if every set does overscan, how do we see the 2.35:1 DVDs from Hollywood? Do they crop as well, just that we don’t notice it?

Thanks for you reply!