https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicursaminipro/blackmagicraw Looks like BMD have developed their own version of ProRes Raw (no wonder they seemed a bit pissed off when Apple announced

Hi, I see many people seeking detains on the Blackmagic RAW codec, so here are mine: I have looked to the SDK as well - from those DLL files perspective. There are three files, a main library, contain

Hi all Somewhat silly question. I have an upcoming job where the DP might want to monitor HDR. I have read up on it on the last year, but some aspects are still not clear to me. Both Alexa LF and DXL2

I’ve uploaded a bunch of raw files as people have asked of these tests. Tungsten V LED I haven’t cleaned these up at all and they are for us “as is” They’re linked from www.cmltests.net and once again

I’ve linked all the zipped folders to my Dropbox account. Just follow the links from cmltests.net as usual. Everything is now working fine 😊 Cheers Geoff Boyle NSC FBKS Cinematographer Netherlands www

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This is a public service announcement 😊 I’ve just had an update to me TV and it’s added another option to the menus which is automatically switched on. Having turned off all the auto or enhanced contr

After having responded to Jeff, one side note: Whatever we are talking here about is only 1/3 the story. We can try finding the codecs that hold up great against uncompressed recording in-camera, to a

It’s not helpful talking about compression for delivery. We’re talking about camera originals where we want the best we can get before it gets destroyed down the line. When it comes to delivery format

OK, I'm quiet now so have time to shoot tests. What kind of things do you want to see in a tests? please bear in mind that I will be uploading 6 different versions of every test in BRAW so they will b

Hi Daniel I don’t have a definitive answer for you but there are a couple of suggestions I can make, one is that I do know that FCPX uses colour sync or rather is colour sync enabled which means that

While working on some codec stuff, I am curious how does the color science actually work in FCPX. I know this tool is not suited for grading, but I miss some base consistency there. I have noticed, th

Hello All, I am trying to track down a phenomena. There are two video files of similar situation, one was shot with a FS7 MK1 the other with the MK2. They appear to be very different in noise level an

Geoff Boyle wrote on 10/23/18 9:42 PM: ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Apologies, I forgot about the lighting list. Thanks to those that replied. Y'all take care, Robert Robert A. Ober IT Consultant,

I’m not going to publish any results until this firmware comes out of beta, or a couple of days before Cameraimage. I’ve found a setup that seems to work well at showing changes. I’m shooting in full

Apparently Codex have removed the awful registrations required to use their readers. If confirmed this is great news. I always hated all the background stuff required and the need to open your firewal

The Academy event at the Linwood Dunn Theatre which was part of the International Cinematographers Summit organised by the ASC is now online. https://acescentral.com/t/international-cinematography-sum

I’ve just added a new page of comparisons on www.cmltests.net As the subject says it’s a comparison of video, film & braw shot with an Ursa Mini Pro. The page has the details of how it was shot, in a

In case no one seen this: Nikon are to add raw to the Z7 https://nikonrumors.com/2019/01/07/breaking-nikon-to-add-cfexpress-eye-af-and-raw-video-support-to-the-z-mirrorless-cameras.aspx/amp/?__twitter