Av8Chuck
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Yes, that drone takes off and lands in water. If your going to study whales you'd better be able to do that...
You don't need RAW, if you know what your doing RAW can look really good, but most people have no clue how to work in 10bit log/32 bit float so they totally screw it up anyway.
Your correct, you can grade mpeg but its really limited. Its better if your working on a Mac to convert the mp4/H264 to an intermediate ProRes codec, if your on a PC you can use Cineform or DnXHD. Your converting a Long-GOP 4:2:0 to a frame based 4:2:2. You can't get more information that isn't there, however you packing those bytes into a 16bit word so you can pull and push colors and not introduce any noise or compression artifacts. Where you'll really notice the difference is in any sort of sharpening or noise reduction.
Your putting lipstick on a pig. Not all pixels are created equal and these little camera's are not very good. But you can make them look better. The really cool thing is that Resolve is free and there are a lot of tutorials on YouTube.
You don't need RAW, if you know what your doing RAW can look really good, but most people have no clue how to work in 10bit log/32 bit float so they totally screw it up anyway.
Your correct, you can grade mpeg but its really limited. Its better if your working on a Mac to convert the mp4/H264 to an intermediate ProRes codec, if your on a PC you can use Cineform or DnXHD. Your converting a Long-GOP 4:2:0 to a frame based 4:2:2. You can't get more information that isn't there, however you packing those bytes into a 16bit word so you can pull and push colors and not introduce any noise or compression artifacts. Where you'll really notice the difference is in any sort of sharpening or noise reduction.
Your putting lipstick on a pig. Not all pixels are created equal and these little camera's are not very good. But you can make them look better. The really cool thing is that Resolve is free and there are a lot of tutorials on YouTube.
